Real-time video analytics: what it means in Echosaw
Results in minutes after footage arrives.
Record in the browser, upload, or send clips through the API. Every finding sits at its real timestamp, and continuous camera feeds are available on request.
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What real-time means here
Echosaw is multimodal AI real-time video analytics software for footage as it arrives: it analyzes each clip as soon as it is recorded or uploaded, places every finding at the real timestamp where it happens, and returns results in minutes. Echosaw is one engine: it ingests the footage, analyzes it, scores it against the event rubric or policy you enter, and summarizes what it found.
What you upload
A clip recorded in the browser with eCam, an uploaded video file (MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, or WebM, up to 5 GB), or a public YouTube, Vimeo, or Rumble link, through the web app or the REST API.
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- 1. Upload video, audio, images, or documents
- 2. Analyze transcripts, timelines, and key moments
- 3. Ask questions and get cited answers
What comes back
A report with timestamped findings, a Timeline of detected objects and scenes, a Transcript, on-screen text, and content warnings, plus a notification when it is ready. Results are available in the web app and through the REST API and MCP server, so you can push findings into your CRM, ticketing, or VMS.
How Echosaw fits your workflow
Echosaw analyzes footage as it arrives — record in the browser, upload, or send clips through the API — and returns findings as close to real time as recorded analysis gets. Each event is raised at its timestamp with the evidence attached; your team decides and acts. Need continuous camera-feed ingestion? Contact us.
Live analytics vs. Echosaw
| Live / streaming analytics | Echosaw | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | A continuous camera or stream feed | A browser recording, an upload, an API submission, or a public video link |
| When results arrive | While the event is happening | Minutes after the footage arrives |
| Timestamps | Wall-clock time of the alert | Position of each finding in the footage |
| What you get | An alert | A report with evidence: findings, Timeline, Transcript, Screen Text, content warnings |
| Best for | Intervening now | Acting on what happened, with evidence |
What “real-time” means when footage arrives
Most searches for real time video analytics come from two needs: an alert the moment something happens on camera, or knowing exactly when something happened, fast. Echosaw gets you the second as close to real time as recorded analysis allows: footage is analyzed as soon as it arrives, and every finding sits at its real position in the footage, so you go straight to the moment instead of scrubbing. Click any finding and the clip plays from that moment.
Footage arrives three ways: record a clip in the browser with eCam, upload a file in the web app, or send it through the REST API with POST /v1/analyze. Analysis starts right away and results come back in minutes, with a notification when the report is ready; processing time depends on the file rather than just its length. Need continuous camera-feed ingestion? Contact us.
Camera-side alerts vs. evidence-backed review
Camera-side analytics run in cameras, recorders, and streaming platforms and are built to raise an alert quickly. Echosaw is a real time analytics platform for video built for evidence-backed review: it works on each clip as it arrives, so it can transcribe speech, read on-screen text, and score the footage against a written list of events — the rubric is your list of events, and the evidence is the footage — and report in minutes. Results are available in the web app and through the REST API and MCP server, so you can push findings into your CRM, ticketing, or VMS.
Real time analytics use cases, and where Echosaw fits
Real time analytics use cases that start once footage exists — incident review, end-of-shift footage checks, checking a video before it is published, auditing a recording against a policy — fit Echosaw, with findings minutes after the footage arrives. For always-on camera feeds, continuous ingestion is available on request; contact us.
A real time vision AI model is one layer of what Echosaw runs: Echosaw’s vision models run on each clip as it arrives, alongside speech and text models, and a scoring step checks the footage against your criteria. See intelligent video analytics for how the layers fit, or the surveillance overview.
Real-time video analytics FAQ
- Is Echosaw a real time video analytics tool?
- Echosaw is as close to real time as recorded analysis gets. It analyzes footage as it arrives — record in the browser, upload, or send clips through the API — and returns results in minutes, with every finding placed at the timestamp where it happens in the footage. Need continuous camera-feed ingestion? Contact us.
- Does Echosaw use a real time vision AI model?
- Echosaw runs vision models for object, scene, text, and moderation detection on each clip as soon as it arrives, alongside speech and text models, so results come back in minutes. Continuous camera-feed ingestion is available on request.
- How do I know when results are ready?
- You get a notification when the report is ready. Processing time depends on the file — size, format, and media type all matter, and video takes longer than audio or images.
- How much does real-time video analytics cost?
- Plans are $9, $19, $29, and $49 per month plus usage pricing. Agency, at $49 per month, has the lowest rates: $0.43 per minute for audio plus video and $0.22 per minute for audio only, for videos up to 210 minutes. Example: on Agency, a 10-minute clip costs 10 × $0.43 = $4.30 in usage on top of the $49 monthly plan. Your first three uploads are free.
- Which real time analytics use cases does Echosaw cover?
- Anything that starts once footage exists: incident review, end-of-shift footage checks, checking a video before it is published, auditing a recording against a policy, or recording clips in the browser and getting findings in minutes. For always-on camera feeds, continuous ingestion is available on request — contact us.
Last updated: September 28, 2026
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