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Marengo 3.0 by TwelveLabs

Marengo 3.0 by TwelveLabs

The most powerful embedding model for video understanding

Overview

What it is

AI that truly understands video. Uses multimodal models (Marengo/Pegasus) to search, analyze & generate text from video content at scale.

Intent

I need it when

Ensure compliance and brand safety by detecting policy violations and sensitive content at scale

Marengo provides explainable AI-driven compliance scanning that identifies policy risks, sensitive content, and brand safety issues across video libraries. Teams can review flagged content with confidence in AI reasoning, reducing manual compliance review workload by 10x.

Search and locate specific moments in large video libraries using natural language queries

Marengo enables semantic search across entire video libraries by understanding visual content, dialogue, audio, and emotions without manual tagging. Users describe what they need (e.g., 'find all scenes with red cars') and retrieve timestamped clips instantly, reducing research time from days to seconds.

Automatically identify and extract highlights, key moments, and scene breaks from long-form video content

Marengo's Pegasus language model reasons continuously over full video temporal arcs to detect natural breaks, scene changes, and pacing shifts. Users can generate auto-assembled highlight reels, chapters, and rough cuts directly into editing workflows without manual review.

Build contextual advertising and personalized content recommendations based on video understanding

Marengo enables context-driven ad placement by understanding actual video content rather than metadata. Users can place ads only in brand-safe scenes, generate personalized content recommendations, and analyze footage to surface patterns for creative and editorial decisions.

Index and analyze massive video volumes efficiently for downstream AI applications

Marengo ingests multimodal data at ~60x real-time speed, indexing one hour of video in one minute. The platform generates spatiotemporal embeddings and time-based metadata that make video data AI-ready and queryable, supporting 10,000+ hours per day at enterprise scale.

Drop

Not a fit when

  • User needs real-time video processing with sub-second latency; Marengo is optimized for batch indexing and search, not live streaming analysis
  • Organization requires on-premises deployment without cloud infrastructure; TwelveLabs primarily operates as a cloud-based API platform
  • User has minimal video content (under 10 hours); free tier may be sufficient but Developer plan becomes cost-inefficient for very small workloads
  • Project requires custom model training without vendor support; fine-tuning is available but requires direct sales engagement and custom pricing
  • User needs simple frame-by-frame extraction only; Marengo is designed for semantic understanding and multimodal reasoning, not basic video splitting
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Pricing

Freemium with pay-as-you-go and enterprise options. Free tier includes 600 minutes of indexing. Developer tier charges per-minute for video indexing ($0.042/min), infrastructure ($0.0015/min), search queries ($4/1000), and embed/analyze APIs. Enterprise tier offers custom pricing. View pricing