DISKO suits filmmakers and editing teams who need to organize video footage and share review materials.
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Best AI Video Search Tools 2026
Facts read 29 Sep 2026 – 21 Oct 2026
AI video search tools are intended to help locate content within video material. Compare audio search and visual search with multimodal search to understand which search approaches are listed for each option. Indexed video hours provide another point of comparison, while API access may matter when considering a tool alongside other software. Free plan and Paid from add information about access and cost. Twelve Labs, FrameQuery, and DISKO are among the named options. Use the listed criteria to weigh how each entry specifies its search capabilities and whether its stated scope and access details fit the video material you need to explore.
The standings: top 10
| Name | In a line | Record score | Price from | Try it free | Runs on | Facts read |
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| 01 DISKO | DISKO suits filmmakers and editing teams who need to organize video footage and share review materials. | 5.7 | $12 a month | Free plan | Web, Mac | 14 Oct 2026 |
| 02 FrameQuery | FrameQuery is aimed at production and post-production teams, documentary filmmakers, marketing teams, and corporate video, news, or broadcast users. | 5.6 | $19 a month | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, API | 14 Oct 2026 |
| 03 VGG Image Annotator | VIA may suit researchers, academic projects, and commercial applications that need manual annotation of images, audio, or video. | 5.6 | Free plan | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 21 Oct 2026 |
| 04 ViSearch | ViSearch may suit educators, course creators, content creators, teams, and media organizations that need to search or process video. | 5.5 | Free plan | Free plan | Web, Browser extension, API, Self-hosted | 20 Oct 2026 |
| 05 Deepgrip | 5.2 | $89 a month | — | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 15 Oct 2026 | |
| 06 Twelve Labs | It suits developers and teams building video search, analysis or machine-learning workflows. | 5.2 | $29 a month | Free plan | Web, API | 21 Oct 2026 |
| 07 Cinestar | Cinestar may suit people managing personal media, creating content, or working in media organizations. | 5.1 | Free plan | Free plan | Windows, Mac, Linux, API | 20 Oct 2026 |
| 08 QMedia | QMedia suits content creators who want to search across text, images, and short videos or run search and Q&A locally over private data. | 4.8 | Free plan | Free plan | Web, API, Self-hosted | 15 Oct 2026 |
| 09 ClipRadar | 4.6 | $249 a year | Free trial | Windows, Browser extension | 5 Oct 2026 | |
| 10 Danbi | Danbi is aimed at newsrooms, television channels, podcast and radio networks, documentary and film producers, and YouTubers or independent creators. | 4.6 | Free plan | Free plan | API | 8 Oct 2026 |
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FrameQuery
FrameQuery is aimed at production and post-production teams, documentary filmmakers, marketing teams, and corporate video, news, or broadcast users.
WebWindowsMac+1 Record5.6 Visit
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VGG Image Annotator
VIA may suit researchers, academic projects, and commercial applications that need manual annotation of images, audio, or video.
WebWindowsMac+2 Record5.6 Visit
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ViSearch
ViSearch may suit educators, course creators, content creators, teams, and media organizations that need to search or process video.
WebBrowser extensionAPI+1 Record5.5 Visit
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Deepgrip
WebWindowsMac+3 Record5.2 Visit
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Twelve Labs
WebAPI $29 a month Record5.2 Visit It suits developers and teams building video search, analysis or machine-learning workflows.
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Cinestar
WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record5.1 Visit Cinestar may suit people managing personal media, creating content, or working in media organizations.
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QMedia
WebAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.8 Visit QMedia suits content creators who want to search across text, images, and short videos or run search and Q&A locally over private data.
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Danbi
API Free plan Record4.6 Visit Danbi is aimed at newsrooms, television channels, podcast and radio networks, documentary and film producers, and YouTubers or independent creators.
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Moment Search
WindowsMac $249 one-time Record4.6 Visit Moment Search suits video creators who need visual and spoken-content searches across local footage libraries.
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SentrySearch
WindowsMacLinux+1 Free plan Record4.6 Visit SentrySearch may suit people who need to find scenes in local video collections using text or images.
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Vivu
WebAPI $30 a month Record4.5 Visit Vivu may suit teams in marketing, sales and enablement, training, events, AI and product, robotics or customer support that need to find moments in video libraries.
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Scout Suite
MacLinuxSelf-hosted Free plan Record4.4 Visit Scout Suite suits security consultants and auditors who need a point-in-time view of a cloud account.
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Nomad Media
WebWindowsMac+2 — Record4.2 Visit Nomad Media is aimed at broadcast teams, enterprises, government agencies, and workflows in corporate, news, public-sector, and worship settings.
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MomentSearch
WebWindowsMac+3 Free Record4.1 Visit MomentSearch suits people who need to find and cite specific moments in indexed videos, including teams comfortable with self-hosting.
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Coactive Content Discovery
WebAPI — Record3.6 Visit It suits content operations, data science, editorial, product and engineering teams working with large image and video libraries.
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