Best AI Video Analysis Tools in 2026

from twelvelabs import TwelveLabs

client = TwelveLabs(api_key="YOUR_KEY")

index = client.index.create(
    name="media-archive",
    models=[{"model_name": "marengo3.0", "model_options": ["visual", "audio"]}]
)

task = client.task.create(index_id=index.id, video_file="clip.mp4")
task.wait_for_done()

results = client.search.query(
    index_id=index.id,
    query_text="person opening a laptop",
    search_options=["visual"]
)

from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key="YOUR_KEY")

# Point at a public YouTube URL, or upload a file first.
response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-3.8-flash",
    contents=[
        {"file_data": {"file_uri": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"}},
        "List every moment where the product is on screen, with timestamps, "
        "and say what claim is being made in each.",
    ],
)

print(response.text)

# About 100 tokens per second of video plus 32 for audio: budget before running an archive.

from google.cloud import videointelligence

client = videointelligence.VideoIntelligenceServiceClient()

features = [
    videointelligence.Feature.LABEL_DETECTION,
    videointelligence.Feature.SHOT_CHANGE_DETECTION,
    videointelligence.Feature.TEXT_DETECTION,
]

operation = client.annotate_video(
    request={"input_uri": "gs://bucket/video.mp4", "features": features}
)
result = operation.result(timeout=300)

for label in result.annotation_results[0].segment_label_annotations:
    print(f"{label.entity.description}: {label.segments[0].confidence:.2f}")

import requests

API_URL = "https://api.videoindexer.ai"
headers = {"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key": "YOUR_KEY"}

# Upload and index a video
upload = requests.post(
    f"{API_URL}/{location}/Accounts/{account_id}/Videos",
    params={"name": "meeting-recording", "videoUrl": "https://storage/video.mp4"},
    headers=headers
)
video_id = upload.json()["id"]

# Retrieve insights once processing completes
insights = requests.get(
    f"{API_URL}/{location}/Accounts/{account_id}/Videos/{video_id}/Index",
    headers=headers
).json()
print(insights["summarizedInsights"]["topics"])

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from pyspark.sql.functions import udf
from pyspark.sql.types import ArrayType, StringType

spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("VideoAnalysis").getOrCreate()

# Read video frames as a DataFrame
frames_df = spark.read.format("binaryFile") \
    .option("pathGlobFilter", "*.mp4") \
    .load("s3://video-archive/raw/")

@udf(returnType=ArrayType(StringType()))
def classify_frame(content):
    # Your custom model inference here
    return ["label_a", "label_b"]

results = frames_df.withColumn("labels", classify_frame("content"))
results.write.format("delta").save("s3://video-archive/labels/")

import boto3

bda = boto3.client("bedrock-data-automation-runtime")

job = bda.invoke_data_automation_async(
    inputConfiguration={"s3Uri": "s3://my-videos/clip.mp4"},
    outputConfiguration={"s3Uri": "s3://my-videos/bda-output/"},
    dataAutomationConfiguration={
        "dataAutomationProjectArn": "arn:aws:bedrock:us-east-1:123456789012:data-automation-project/PROJECT_ID",
        "stage": "LIVE",
    },
    dataAutomationProfileArn="arn:aws:bedrock:us-east-1:123456789012:data-automation-profile/us.data-automation-v1",
)

status = bda.get_data_automation_status(invocationArn=job["invocationArn"])
print(status["status"])  # results are written as JSON under the output S3 prefix

import boto3

rek = boto3.client("rekognition")

# Start async label detection on an S3 video
response = rek.start_label_detection(
    Video={"S3Object": {"Bucket": "my-videos", "Name": "clip.mp4"}},
    NotificationChannel={
        "SNSTopicArn": "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456:video-done",
        "RoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456:role/RekRole"
    }
)
job_id = response["JobId"]

# Retrieve results after SNS notification
labels = rek.get_label_detection(JobId=job_id)
for label in labels["Labels"]:
    print(f"{label['Timestamp']}ms - {label['Label']['Name']}: "
          f"{label['Label']['Confidence']:.1f}%")

from clarifai_grpc.channel.clarifai_channel import ClarifaiChannel
from clarifai_grpc.grpc.api import service_pb2_grpc, service_pb2, resources_pb2
from clarifai_grpc.grpc.api.status import status_code_pb2

channel = ClarifaiChannel.get_grpc_channel()
stub = service_pb2_grpc.V2Stub(channel)
metadata = (("authorization", "Key YOUR_KEY"),)

response = stub.PostModelOutputs(
    service_pb2.PostModelOutputsRequest(
        model_id="general-image-recognition",
        inputs=[resources_pb2.Input(
            data=resources_pb2.Data(video=resources_pb2.Video(
                url="https://storage/clip.mp4"
            ))
        )]
    ), metadata=metadata
)
for frame in response.outputs[0].data.frames:
    print(f"Time: {frame.frame_info.time}ms")
    for concept in frame.data.concepts[:5]:
        print(f"  {concept.name}: {concept.value:.3f}")