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Contendeo

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Multimodal video analysis MCP — transcription, vision, and OCR for any video URL.

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Install

Add this to your client's MCP configuration (Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json; Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json; VS Code and others use the same "mcpServers" shape).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code 
claude mcp add --transport http contendeo 'https://contendeo.app/mcp/'
JSON configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "contendeo": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://contendeo.app/mcp/"
        }
    }
}

Documentation

From the project's README on GitHub, refreshed weekly. Links open on GitHub.

Contents
  1. Contendeo
  2. What it is
  3. Why it exists
  4. Tools
  5. Installation
  6. Authentication
  7. Pricing
  8. Stack
  9. Links
  10. Support
  11. License

Contendeo

Give your agent eyes.

Contendeo is the multimodal layer that lets your AI actually see video — not just read its transcript.

What it is

Contendeo is a remote MCP server that gives LLMs frame-level context from video — transcription, keyframe vision analysis, OCR, and structured output, unified into a single response your agent can reason over.

Paste a YouTube, Instagram Reels, Vimeo, Twitter/X, TikTok, or direct video URL into Claude (or any MCP client). Contendeo downloads, transcribes, extracts keyframes, runs OCR, analyzes visuals, and returns a structured document.

Live at contendeo.app. MCP endpoint at contendeo.app/mcp/.

Why it exists

Transcripts capture what was said. They don't capture what was shown — chart values, UI states, overlays, code on screen, circled regions, dashboard numbers. For any video where the visual layer carries information (trading tutorials, product demos, technical walkthroughs, data dashboards, design reviews), transcript-only analysis misses half the signal.

Contendeo closes that gap.

See the side-by-side comparison at contendeo.app/demo.

Tools

Four tools exposed over MCP. Credit costs charged per successful call. Cache hits are free.

ToolCreditsWhat it does
quick_transcribe1Timestamped transcript with speaker identification. Audio-only. Fast.
deep_analyze5Full multimodal pipeline — transcript + keyframe vision + OCR, unified output.
clip_context1 (quick) / 3 (deep)Analyze a specific timestamp range without paying for the full video.
batch_analyzeper-video, −10% at 5+Process up to 10 videos in parallel with cross-video synthesis.

Full schemas and response formats: docs/tools.md.

Installation

Contendeo is a remote MCP server — no local install, no package download. Connect via URL from your MCP client.

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contendeo": {
      "url": "https://contendeo.app/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Claude will walk you through OAuth on first use.

Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http contendeo https://contendeo.app/mcp/
Other MCP clients (Cursor, Continue, Cline, etc.)

Any client that supports remote MCP servers over streamable HTTP. Point it at https://contendeo.app/mcp/.

Full walkthrough with screenshots: docs/installation.md.

Authentication

Contendeo uses OAuth 2.0. First use flow:

  1. Your MCP client initiates a connection
  2. Browser redirect to contendeo.app sign-in (Google OAuth or email)
  3. Approve the MCP client
  4. Bearer token issued, client reconnects, tools become available

New accounts get 10 free credits. No card required.

Details: docs/authentication.md.

Pricing

PlanPriceCreditsNotes
Free$010 on signupAll 4 tools, no card
Pro$12/mo (₹999)100/moPriority queue, rollover to 200
Power$39/mo (₹3,299)500/moBatch, webhooks, rollover to 1000
PAYG$0.15/crediton demandNo subscription

Cache hits are free. Failed analyses auto-refund.

Details: docs/pricing.md.

Stack

Under the hood:

  • yt-dlp — video download across 1000+ sites
  • Apify — Instagram Reels fetching
  • Webshare — residential proxy pool for YouTube anti-bot
  • ffmpeg — audio extraction + keyframe scene detection
  • Groq Whisper (large-v3) — transcription
  • Tesseract OCR — deterministic text extraction from frames
  • Claude Vision (Sonnet 4.6) — visual frame analysis
  • Supabase — auth + Postgres
  • Redis — URL-hash result cache
  • FastAPI + MCP Python SDK — server, streamable HTTP transport
  • Traefik — SSL termination + routing

Support

Questions, bug reports, feature requests: open an issue.

Commercial/partnership inquiries: @0xKaroshi on X.

License

MIT — covers this wrapper repo (documentation, examples, manifest). The production server source is not open-sourced.

See LICENSE.

Contendeo — every frame, every word, every edge.

Frequently asked questions

What is Contendeo?

Multimodal video analysis MCP — transcription, vision, and OCR for any video URL.

How do I install Contendeo?

It runs as a remote server. In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http contendeo 'https://contendeo.app/mcp/'. For other clients, paste the JSON configuration from this page into their MCP settings.

Does Contendeo need an API key?

Its registry entry lists no required key or secret. Some features may still need an account with the service it connects to.

Is Contendeo open source?

Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the MIT license.

Who maintains Contendeo?

It is published by 0xKaroshi. AI.tn lists it but does not maintain or endorse it.

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