How do I install Contendeo?

Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Contendeo need an API key?

No required environment variable is listed on this record.

What transport does Contendeo use?

Contendeo is reached over HTTP.

When was Contendeo last checked?

Last checked 2026-10-20. Multimodal video analysis MCP — transcription, vision, and OCR for any video URL.

Contendeo MCP server

Power your agent

Add this server

The publisher's own URL. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.

Add to Cursor Add in Claude Add to VS Code Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Server URL

https://contendeo.app/mcp/

The Claude button above opens Claude with the name and URL filled in. You still confirm it there.

shClaude Code

1claude mcp add --transport http app.contendeo-contendeo https://contendeo.app/mcp/

Run in a terminal.

jsonClaude Desktop

1{2  "mcpServers": {3    "app.contendeo-contendeo": {4      "command": "npx",5      "args": [6        "-y",7        "mcp-remote",8        "https://contendeo.app/mcp/"9      ]10    }11  }12}

claude_desktop_config.json

Remote · HTTPPublisher installStep-by-step: add this in Claude

Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ

Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.

Launch

Server facts

Remote

Transport: http
Version: 0.1.0
Last checked

Tools

No tool list yet. Remote servers get one after the first health check.

FAQ

Questions

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:

{
  "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:

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.

Contendeo

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Tools

Questions

How do I install Contendeo?

Does Contendeo need an API key?

What transport does Contendeo use?

When was Contendeo last checked?

Documentation

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