Is the Contendeo MCP server free to use?

Yes. Contendeo is listed on AllMCPs as a free, open Model Context Protocol server you can install into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client.

Is the Contendeo MCP server free to use?

Yes. Contendeo is listed on AllMCPs as a free, open Model Context Protocol server you can install into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client.

Contendeo

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

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

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Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Install Config Generator

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claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contendeo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-Compatible-00FF41?style=flat-square"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows)

Capabilities & Tool Schemas (4)Self-reported

Inspect callable tools, capabilities, and parameters exposed to AI agents by Contendeo.

quick_transcribe

Timestamped transcript with speaker identification. Audio-only. Fast.

deep_analyze

Full multimodal pipeline — transcript + keyframe vision + OCR, unified output.

clip_context

Analyze a specific timestamp range without paying for the full video.

batch_analyze

Process up to 10 videos in parallel with cross-video synthesis.

Documentation Overview

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.

Tool	Credits	What it does
`quick_transcribe`	1	Timestamped transcript with speaker identification. Audio-only. Fast.
`deep_analyze`	5	Full multimodal pipeline — transcript + keyframe vision + OCR, unified output.
`clip_context`	1 (quick) / 3 (deep)	Analyze a specific timestamp range without paying for the full video.
`batch_analyze`	per-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:

config.json

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

Claude will walk you through OAuth on first use.

Claude Code

Terminal

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:

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

New accounts get 10 free credits. No card required.

Details: docs/authentication.md.

Pricing

Plan	Price	Credits	Notes
Free	$0	10 on signup	All 4 tools, no card
Pro	$12/mo (₹999)	100/mo	Priority queue, rollover to 200
Power	$39/mo (₹3,299)	500/mo	Batch, webhooks, rollover to 1000
PAYG	$0.15/credit	on demand	No 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.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Contendeo

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "contendeo": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "Contendeo"] } }

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Technical Specs & Signals

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Verified ownership10/20

Documentation & tools24/30

Adoption & activity1/15

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Contendeo

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

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Install Config Generator

Choose your client

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contendeo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-Compatible-00FF41?style=flat-square"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows)

Capabilities & Tool Schemas (4)Self-reported

Inspect callable tools, capabilities, and parameters exposed to AI agents by Contendeo.

quick_transcribe

Timestamped transcript with speaker identification. Audio-only. Fast.

deep_analyze

Full multimodal pipeline — transcript + keyframe vision + OCR, unified output.

clip_context

Analyze a specific timestamp range without paying for the full video.

batch_analyze

Process up to 10 videos in parallel with cross-video synthesis.

Documentation Overview

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

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

Why it exists

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.

Tool	Credits	What it does
`quick_transcribe`	1	Timestamped transcript with speaker identification. Audio-only. Fast.
`deep_analyze`	5	Full multimodal pipeline — transcript + keyframe vision + OCR, unified output.
`clip_context`	1 (quick) / 3 (deep)	Analyze a specific timestamp range without paying for the full video.
`batch_analyze`	per-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:

config.json

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

Claude will walk you through OAuth on first use.

Claude Code

Terminal

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:

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

New accounts get 10 free credits. No card required.

Details: docs/authentication.md.

Pricing

Plan	Price	Credits	Notes
Free	$0	10 on signup	All 4 tools, no card
Pro	$12/mo (₹999)	100/mo	Priority queue, rollover to 200
Power	$39/mo (₹3,299)	500/mo	Batch, webhooks, rollover to 1000
PAYG	$0.15/credit	on demand	No 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.

Related MCP Servers

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Frequently Asked Questions about Contendeo

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "contendeo": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "Contendeo"] } }

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Technical Specs & Signals

CategorySpeech-to-Text

47Quality signal: Fair · 47/100How this signal is calculated ▾

Server availabilityNot measured

Not scored for repo-hosted servers — we can't reach the running server, only its GitHub page. Hosted MCP endpoints are health-checked live.

Verified ownership10/20

Documentation & tools24/30

Adoption & activity1/15

Community engagement0/10

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Contendeo

Quick Install

Install Config Generator

Documentation Overview

Contendeo

What it is

Why it exists

Tools

Installation

Claude Desktop

Claude Code

Other MCP clients (Cursor, Continue, Cline, etc.)

Authentication

Pricing

Stack

Links

Support

License

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Contendeo

Quick Install

Install Config Generator

Documentation Overview

Contendeo

What it is

Why it exists

Tools

Installation

Claude Desktop

Claude Code

Other MCP clients (Cursor, Continue, Cline, etc.)

Authentication

Pricing

Stack

Links

Support

License

Related MCP Servers

Frequently Asked Questions about Contendeo

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Technical Specs & Signals

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