> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.segmentationapi.com/guides/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.segmentationapi.com/_mcp/server.

# Guides

## Docs

- [Documentation](https://docs.segmentationapi.com/guides/introduction.md): Complete SegmentationAPI reference for uploading media, creating jobs, and retrieving SAM 3 results.
- [Authentication](https://docs.segmentationapi.com/guides/authentication.md): API key authentication, required headers, and rate limits for SegmentationAPI endpoints.
- [Upload](https://docs.segmentationapi.com/guides/upload.md): Request presigned upload URLs, upload files to S3, and manage task IDs for segmentation jobs.
- [Jobs](https://docs.segmentationapi.com/guides/jobs.md): Create async image and video segmentation jobs, list job history, and retrieve per-item results.
- [Results](https://docs.segmentationapi.com/guides/results.md): Request a results archive, poll until it is ready, and read output_manifest.json to retrieve image and video segmentation masks.
- [SDKs](https://docs.segmentationapi.com/guides/sdks.md): Install the SegmentationAPI TypeScript SDK and run upload, job, and download.
- [CLI](https://docs.segmentationapi.com/guides/cli.md): Run SegmentationAPI from the terminal with the segment CLI.
- [Free API trial](https://docs.segmentationapi.com/guides/free-api-trial.md): Use 100 free image tokens through the production API without a credit card.