Animal species engineinside your own app
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POST /v1/detectGet your key
curl https://api.animaldetect.com/v1/detect \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \ -F "image=@leopard_uganda.webp" \ -F "country=UGA"200 OK · 1.6 s
{ "annotations": [{ "label": "leopard", "score": 0.991, "bbox": [0.3159, 0.6084, 0.5166, 0.3552] }]}Featured API users
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“This API solves our headache with reliable animal predictions for our users. When it comes to accurate species guessing, Animal Detect is probably the best out there.”

Animal Detect vs open-source models

MegaDetector
AnimalNo species
SpeciesNet
MammalPartial detection
DeepFaune
UndefinedBelow threshold
Animal Detect
Raccoon dogCorrect species
Animal Detect is based on an improved approach combining the open-source models with proprietary algorithms. We respect the work done by the teams behind these open-source models and invite everyone to contribute to them.
Built for production
Servers, uptime, scaling, updates. All the fun stuff you would rather not own. That part is our job.
- Queue
- Send images, collect when ready.
- Scaling
- Capacity grows with your volume.
- Uptime
- Uninterrupted work with backup servers.
- Updates
- Models improve, your integration stays.
“We use Animal Detect API to classify all animal pictures coming to our platform from various camera trap brands.”

€2 per 1000 images
250 detections free every month. No card needed to start.