Built by one person who thinks agents deserve better than a shell.
KinoPipe is built and run by Nicolas Coutureau, an independent developer. It started from a simple observation: AI agents are good at deciding which edit a video needs, and terrible at safely running FFmpeg. So KinoPipe gives them a typed contract instead of a command line — hosted FFmpeg 9 workers behind bounded, validated operations.
What we believe
Agents deserve APIs designed for them.
Typed schemas on every tool, idempotency keys for safe retries, asynchronous jobs with observable status, and an MCP server that guides the agent loop. Machine callers are first-class here, not an afterthought.
Safety over surface.
KinoPipe never accepts shell commands. Twelve bounded operations cover the edits agents actually make, and every request is validated before it touches a worker. Less surface, fewer surprises.
Proof over promises.
The performance numbers on this site come from a 325-run benchmark with cold, warm and burst phases — and our comparison pages tell you when a competitor is the better choice. If we cannot show it, we do not claim it.
Your media is not our asset.
Direct uploads are deleted after 24 hours. Outputs are served through temporary signed URLs. API keys are stored hashed and shown to you exactly once.
Why trust a young product?
Honestly: KinoPipe is new and independent, and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. What you get in exchange is a product where nothing is outsourced — the person answering the support chat wrote the worker code — and guarantees that do not depend on our size:
Talk to a human
Questions, bug reports, or an edit KinoPipe should support? The in-app chat goes straight to the founder — typically same-day. You can also open the docs or follow the code on GitHub.