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Contextual AI

Model developer · Enterprise software · Developer platform · Mountain View, California

Contextual AI builds an enterprise platform for creating AI agents and retrieval applications that work over an organization's own documents and data. It also sells component APIs for document parsing, instruction-following reranking, grounded generation, and natural-language unit tests for evaluating model outputs, and it has released open-weight reranker models.3456Fact reviewed Oct 2, 2026

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Key facts

Legal name
Contextual AI, Inc.12
Ownership (separate from openness)
Unknown

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Legal form
Unknown
Headquarters
Mountain View, California21
Founded
Unknown
Sectors
Enterprise, Agents, Open models

What is and isn’t public

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Contextual AI's platform and component APIs are hosted services. It publishes some model weights on Hugging Face, including the Reranker v2 models under a noncommercial (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license; that license does not permit commercial use of the weights.457Fact reviewed Oct 2, 2026

Products

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Hosted model products

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Contextual AI: hosted model products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
Contextual AI component APIs (Parse, Rerank, Generate, LMUnit) (external site: contextual.ai)Hosted model APIToken-priced hosted APIs, used with an API key from the Contextual AI app and documented at docs.contextual.ai, for document parsing, instruction-following reranking, generation grounded in supplied sources with inline attributions, and evaluating outputs against natural-language unit tests.5Oct 2, 2026

Other products

Contextual AI: other products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
Contextual AI platform (Agent Composer) (external site: contextual.ai)Enterprise softwareWeb application at app.contextual.ai with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript SDKs and APIs for building agents and managing datastores; deployable as multi-tenant SaaS, a dedicated cloud instance, or a private VPC deployment.4Oct 2, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

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Model families (1)

Model releases (1)

Notable documented facts

  • In August 2025 Contextual AI released Contextual AI Reranker v2 in 1B, 2B, and 6B sizes, with quantized versions, as open weights on Hugging Face under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license; managed versions are offered through its API.67

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Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Contextual AI's privacy notice (last updated February 25, 2026) names Contextual AI, Inc. and gives its postal address as 150 W Evelyn Ave, Suite 200, Mountain View, California, USA. Its terms of use name Contextual AI, Inc., choose California law with arbitration in San Francisco, and direct notices to "our headquarters". The pages reviewed do not state the state of incorporation.21

Assessed Oct 2, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    Terms of Use | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)

    Contextual AI, Inc. · Official page · published Aug 26, 2025 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  2. 2.
    Privacy Policy | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)

    Contextual AI, Inc. · Official page · published Feb 25, 2026 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  3. 3.
    Company | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)

    Contextual AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  4. 4.
    Platform | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)

    Contextual AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  5. 5.
    Component APIs | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)

    Contextual AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  6. 6.
    Contextual AI Reranker v2 (blog post) (external site: contextual.ai)

    Contextual AI · Announcement · published Aug 27, 2025 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

  7. 7.
    ContextualAI/ctxl-rerank-v2-instruct-multilingual-2b model card (external site: huggingface.co)

    Contextual AI · Model card · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

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