Real-time video, audio, and data for developers
LiveKit is an open source Twilio Video or Agora alternative. Build live video and audio applications and features using a modern, end-to-end WebRTC stack.
Used by thousands of projects and companies including:
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LiveKit's community of developers, from large enterprises to next-gen startups, are building the multiplayer internet.
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Running WebRTC infrastructure used to require a dedicated team of experts. The @livekit folks made it so much simpler.
Martin Raison“
This is awesome!!! Solves exactly the set of problems that led us to build video infra in house at Gather.
Kumail Jaffer“
As someone who's done a lot of browser-based video, including Zoom, Twilio, and other big players, may I say - just use @livekit
Grant Forrest“
Starting to get really excited about the possibilities with @livekit for use in @passage3d.
Lex Avellino“
Ben. Dude. @livekit Cloud. We use this for @hyperfy_io and Decentraland uses the self hosted version. Get on it!
Ash Connell“
Excited for this addition to the open source video infrastructure stack! Looking forward to trying out @livekit.
Yondon FuPacked with features
Each one targeting real world use-cases and painstakingly designed around developer ergonomics and efficiency.
Speaker detection
Auto-detect when people are speaking and how loudly
Web hooks
Get backend notifications for room and participant events
Recordings
Record any room, participant, or individual media stream
Universal IO
Import and export streams from/to other services and formats
Data messages
Exchange arbitrary data messages between participants
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And more:
Integrated into your application's stack
Sample apps
to get you started
Integrations we've built to demonstrate LiveKit's capabilities.
WebRTC at CDN scale
LiveKit's global mesh network allows every user to resiliently connect to a server at the edge. Host a 1:1 meeting or an interactive 10:10000 live stream using the same APIs. There are no limits on the number of publishers or subscribers.
users per room
latency
Built on Open Source
LiveKit's stack—media server, client SDKs, auxiliary services—is forever-free and open source. You can switch between cloud-managed and self-hosted without changing a single line of code.