--- title: "Compare" canonical: https://primateintelligence.ai/compare site: Primate Intelligence --- # How Primate Vision compares Honest, spec-table-driven comparisons against every major video understanding API. Every claim links to vendor docs. Failure modes printed where they exist. ## Comparison pages - [Primate Vision vs. AWS Rekognition + Bedrock Nova (2026): The Door AWS Closed](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/aws-rekognition): AWS closed Rekognition streaming to new customers on April 30, 2026 — its own migration advice is to snapshot frames into the image API. Here's what remains, what Bedrock Nova actually offers, and the honest head-to-head against a real-time verdict API. - [Primate Vision vs. Azure Video Indexer (2026): An Insight Catalog vs. a Live Answer](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/azure-video-indexer): Azure Video Indexer is a genuinely good archive-enrichment product — thirty insight types, far cheaper per hour than us. But it's a catalog, not an answer: no live-stream API, no way to ask your own question of the pixels, no verdict. Here's the honest head-to-head. - [The Best Video Understanding APIs in 2026 (an Honest Roundup)](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/best-video-understanding-apis-2026): Six video understanding APIs — Google Video Intelligence, Twelve Labs, AWS Rekognition, Gemini, Mixpeek, and ours — scored on the six dimensions buyers actually ask about: accuracy approach, hallucination risk, pricing, streaming, free tier, and agent access. With receipts, and with our bias disclosed in the first sentence. - [Primate Vision vs. Gemini (API + Live) (2026): 1fps Stills vs. Native Frame Rate](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/gemini): Gemini is the strongest general-purpose video model you can rent — and at 1fps it's dramatically cheaper than us. But its live video input is spec-capped at 1fps JPEG stills with 2-minute sessions and a compounding token meter. Here's the honest head-to-head. - [Primate Vision vs. Google Video Intelligence (2026): Any Question You Can Type vs. a Label Menu Frozen in 2021](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/google-video-intelligence): Google Video Intelligence is the cheapest serious way to bulk-annotate stored video — with a real SLA and a generous free tier. It's also a pre-LLM product whose release notes end in 2021, with no prompt parameter anywhere in the API. Here's the honest head-to-head. - [Primate Vision vs. NVIDIA VSS (2026): A Managed API vs. a Build-It-Yourself Blueprint](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/nvidia-vss): NVIDIA VSS is the strongest self-hosted real-time video-analytics stack — and by NVIDIA's own docs, it's a reference architecture you must build and operate, not a product you can buy. Here's the honest head-to-head against a managed API. - [Primate Vision vs. Self-Hosted Open VLMs (2026): Buying Answers vs. Building a Video Pipeline](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/open-vlms): Qwen3-VL, InternVL, LLaVA, Moondream — open VLMs are excellent, improving quarterly, and free to download. But the weights are not the product. No open model ships streaming ingest, calibrated verdicts, evidence artifacts, or a published latency number. Here's the honest math. - [Primate Vision vs. OpenAI (2026): A Video API vs. a Frame-Extraction Workaround](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/openai): OpenAI ships the best general-purpose visual reasoning on the planet — for still images. There is no video input path in any OpenAI API, and the only video product they had shuts down September 2026. Here's the honest head-to-head between a video-native API and a frame stack. - [Primate Vision vs. Roboflow / Ultralytics (2026): Detections vs. Verdicts](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/roboflow-ultralytics): Roboflow + Ultralytics is the best per-frame object-detection stack in the world — 1.7ms YOLO inference, twenty edge formats, pennies per camera-hour at scale. But detections aren't answers. Here's the honest head-to-head between perception and judgment. - [Primate Vision vs. Sieve (2026): The Video API That Quietly Left the Market](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/sieve): If you're comparing us against Sieve's video-processing API in 2026, there's news you may have missed: that API no longer exists. Sieve pivoted to selling training data to frontier labs. Here's what happened, what they sell now, and what to use instead. - [Primate Vision vs. Twelve Labs (2026): Real-Time Verdicts vs. Archive Search](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/twelve-labs): Twelve Labs leads semantic search over stored video archives. Primate Vision watches video live and returns deterministic verdicts with evidence. These are genuinely different products — here's the honest head-to-head, with receipts. - [Primate Vision vs. the Video-AI Landscape (2026)](https://primateintelligence.ai/compare/video-ai-landscape-2026): In 2026 the managed real-time video-analysis lane emptied out. Here's the full map of what's left — batch indexers, 1fps token meters, and self-hosted stacks — with receipts, honest pricing math, and who should choose whom.