Jockey
Your entire video library: organized, searchable, understood.
About
Jockey is TwelveLabs' video intelligence agent, officially launched on October 15, 2026 after a research preview with major content producers. It is the orchestration layer connecting the company's Marengo and Pegasus models: Marengo finds footage, Pegasus understands it, and Jockey acts on it. Users search whole video libraries in natural language, rank clips by performance and engagement, and assemble mp4 rough cuts backed by playable video citations. It ingests footage directly from YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram Reels links, and runs inside the ChatGPT and Claude apps or through an API and MCP server.
What it can do
- Natural-language search across entire video and photo libraries (provider-claimed)
- Clip ranking by engagement and performance metrics, not just content (provider-claimed)
- mp4 rough-cut assembly from source footage with playable video citations (provider-claimed)
- Direct ingestion of YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram Reels links (provider-claimed)
- Runs inside ChatGPT/Claude apps, plus API and MCP server (provider-claimed)
- Outputs can be saved, shared, or revoked (provider-claimed)
Setup
- Create a TwelveLabs account and pick a plan (free tier includes 3 GB of storage).
- Upload footage or paste YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram Reels links.
- Connect Jockey inside the ChatGPT or Claude app, or use the API / MCP server at mcp.twelvelabs.io/jockey/mcp.
- Search in natural language, rank clips, and save, share, or revoke outputs including mp4 rough cuts.
Prerequisites
TwelveLabs account (free tier available); ChatGPT or Claude app for the in-app experience; API key for programmatic use.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 5/10
Scored 8/10 (METRICS tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: official GA launch Oct 15, 2026 (GlobeNewswire) following a research preview with major content producers; runs on TwelveLabs' Marengo 3.5 + Pegasus 1.6 stack; official URL verified live (200, Oct 2026); #1 on Product Hunt Oct 17, 2026. Strengths: real product with published pricing ($0 free tier to $99/mo), MCP + API surface, revocable outputs. Docked for: (1) video-understanding quality claims not independently verified; (2) benchmark and engagement-ranking metrics are provider-reported; (3) proprietary models and closed weights. License: proprietary (free tier + paid plans).
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 9.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · Official GA launch Oct 15, 2026 (GlobeNewswire) after research preview since July 2026 with major content producers
- · Runs on TwelveLabs' Marengo 3.5 + Pegasus 1.6 stack; #1 on Product Hunt Oct 17, 2026
- · Works inside ChatGPT and Claude apps, plus API and MCP server (mcp.twelvelabs.io/jockey/mcp)
- · Published pricing: $0 free tier (3 GB) to $99/mo (200 GB)
- · manual review: video-understanding quality claims not independently verified; benchmark and engagement-ranking metrics are provider-reported; proprietary models, closed weights
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.