Twelve Labs vs Coactive AI

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Twelve Labs API that indexes video by what happens in it, not filenames Visit Coactive AI Makes image and video libraries searchable without metadata or tags Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.6 / 10 7.2 / 10
Capability 8 8.5
Value for money 7 6.5
Ease of use 7 7
ASEAN readiness 6 6
API quality 8.5 8
Pricing Freemium Custom
Free tier
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users
Founded 2021
Maker
Verdict

Twelve Labs is the sharpest dedicated video-understanding API on the market right now, and the money agrees: a $100M Series B closed July 1, 2026, co-led by NEA and Naver Ventures with Amazon, Radical Ventures and Korea...

Coactive is for organisations sitting on archives they cannot search. Indexing image, video and audio by content, plus the ability to define concepts specific to your own domain, solves a problem that retrospective taggi...

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