Sieve

Sieve is a developer-centric AI video platform designed to provide the essential infrastructure for processing, understanding, and generating video content. It offers a powerful suite of APIs that empower developers, creative platforms, and media companies to integrate sophisticated AI video features into their applications with ease. Sieve's mission is to accelerate the future of video by handling the complex backend processes, allowing teams to focus on building innovative user experiences. The platform is trusted by over 1,500 leading companies and is built to handle extreme scale, processing hundreds of millions of media files daily.

How to use Sieve

Sieve is an API-first platform, designed for seamless integration into developer workflows. Here’s a typical process for using it:

1. Sign Up & Get Credits: Create an account on the Sieve platform. New users receive a free credit to start experimenting.
2. Explore APIs: Browse the extensive library of pre-built "Solutions Apps" for common use cases like dubbing or transcription. You can test these directly in the Sieve playground to see results before writing any code.
3. Integrate with API Keys: Use your unique API key to call Sieve's endpoints from your application. The integration is designed to be straightforward, allowing you to send a video and receive the processed output in the desired format.
4. Deploy Custom Functions: For unique requirements, you can deploy your own custom code and models onto Sieve's infrastructure. This allows you to run proprietary algorithms on their scalable hardware.
5. Scale Your Application: As your usage grows, Sieve's infrastructure automatically scales to meet demand. For production applications, you can move to a custom plan with volume discounts and dedicated support.

Core Features of Sieve

• AI Dubbing & Translation: Translate video and audio content into multiple languages with state-of-the-art voice cloning and lip synchronization. It supports backends like ElevenLabs and OpenAI for high-quality, natural-sounding voices.
• Lipsync: Automatically synchronize the lip movements of a speaker in a video to a new audio track, perfect for dubbing and creating realistic talking head videos.
• Video Analysis & Understanding: A suite of APIs for analyzing video content, including Active Speaker Detection, Speech Transcription, and Visual Understanding with models like SAM 2 (Segment Anything Model).
• AI Video Editing: Perform complex editing tasks programmatically. Features include Autocrop, which intelligently reframes video for different aspect ratios, and Background Removal.
• Audio Enhancement: Automatically improve audio quality by removing background noise, balancing levels, and enhancing clarity.
• Custom Function Deployment: Host and run your own arbitrary code and machine learning models on Sieve's optimized GPU and CPU infrastructure.
• Extreme Scalability: The platform is architected to process millions of hours of video concurrently, ensuring reliability for large-scale applications.

Use Cases for Sieve

Sieve is versatile and powers a wide range of applications across different industries:

• Creative and Social Platforms: Companies like Kaiber use Sieve to power production AI video generation workloads, enabling them to ship world-class AI features faster.
• Media Companies: Analyze, repurpose, and reformat vast media libraries. This includes creating clips, generating subtitles, and dubbing content for international audiences.
• AI Model Developers: Process, filter, and annotate large-scale video datasets to train state-of-the-art generative and analytical AI models.
• Corporate Communications & E-Learning: Automatically dub training materials and corporate messages for a global workforce, or use Zight's example of powering all production AI capabilities under one roof.

Advantages of Sieve

Sieve offers a distinct competitive edge for teams working with video AI:

• Unified Platform: It provides a single, integrated platform for a wide variety of video AI tasks, reducing the complexity and overhead of managing multiple third-party APIs.
• Developer Experience: Sieve is built by developers, for developers. It offers a seamless experience, from easy integration and clear documentation to a responsive support team.
• Flexibility and Control: The APIs provide granular control over cost, quality, and speed, allowing developers to tailor the output to their specific use case.
• Enterprise-Ready: Sieve offers enterprise-grade features, including uptime SLAs, dedicated support channels (like Slack), volume discounts, and robust security with SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.

Pricing and Plans

Sieve offers a flexible, usage-based pricing model that scales with your needs.

• Starter Plan: $0/month. This plan is ideal for developers and small projects. It includes a $20 free credit to get started, access to public apps, and the ability to deploy custom functions.
• Production Plan: Custom pricing. Designed for teams shipping production applications, this plan offers volume discounts, dedicated 24/7 support, custom concurrency limits, and tailored integration assistance.
• Usage Pricing: Costs are calculated based on the specific API used and the duration of the media processed. Examples include:
  • Dubbing (OpenAI voice): $0.402 / minute processed
  • Lipsync: $0.60 / minute generated
  • Speech Transcription: $0.15 / hour processed
  • Background Removal: $0.95 - $2.00 / minute processed
  • Autocrop: $6.63 / hour processed
• Compute Pricing: For custom functions or other public apps, billing is based on the compute resources used (e.g., A100 GPU at $4.20/hr, CPU at $0.40/hr).