# Agora

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/agora-io/  
**Website:** https://www.agora.io  
**APIs profiled:** 11

Agora is a real-time engagement platform providing ultra-low latency voice, video, signaling, chat, interactive whiteboard, cloud recording, real-time speech-to-text, and conversational AI infrastructure for human-to-human and human-to-AI interactions. The platform powers approximately 80 billion communication minutes monthly across 3+ billion devices, serving 1,800+ organizations including Whatnot, The Sandbox, Education First, Talkspace, HTC Vive, and Unity Technologies.

## Kin Score — 28.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 57.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 13.7 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (11)

- **Agora Video Calling API** — The Agora Video Calling API enables real-time, interactive video communication with sub-200ms global latency. Supports one-to-one calls, group calls, and multi-host scenarios ac...
- **Agora Voice Calling API** — The Agora Voice Calling API embeds high-quality real-time voice chat into any application. Provides crystal-clear audio with AI noise suppression, echo cancellation, and adaptiv...
- **Agora Interactive Live Streaming API** — The Agora Interactive Live Streaming API powers ultra-low latency live streaming with interactive multi-host capabilities for audiences of any size. Supports live shopping, soci...
- **Agora Broadcast Streaming API** — The Agora Broadcast Streaming API supports one-way large-scale content distribution with optimized bandwidth for audience-only scenarios such as town halls, concerts, sports bro...
- **Agora Signaling API (RTM)** — The Agora Signaling API (formerly Real-Time Messaging / RTM) provides real-time low-latency synchronization of metadata, presence, channel events, point-to-point messages, and s...
- **Agora Conversational AI Engine API** — The Agora Conversational AI Engine enables building voice-enabled AI agents with sub-second response times by integrating any LLM, ASR, and TTS provider into Agora's real-time v...
- **Agora Chat API** — The Agora Chat API provides scalable in-app messaging with one-to-one chat, group chat, chat rooms, threads, reactions, attachments, push notifications, and moderation. Built fo...
- **Agora Interactive Whiteboard API** — The Agora Interactive Whiteboard API embeds collaborative real-time digital whiteboards for drawing, annotation, presentation, PPT/PDF rendering, and shared cursor experiences. ...
- **Agora Cloud Recording API** — The Agora Cloud Recording API records voice, video, and interactive live streaming sessions to cloud storage (AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, Alibaba OSS, Qiniu, Tence...
- **Agora Real-Time Speech-to-Text API** — The Agora Real-Time Speech-to-Text API provides streaming transcription and real-time translation across multiple languages, with captions delivered into Agora RTC channels. Use...
- **Agora Analytics API** — The Agora Analytics API surfaces quality, performance, and usage metrics for all RTC, signaling, chat, and recording sessions. Provides call inspector, real-time dashboards, geo...

## Security (2)

- **Agora Io Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Agora Io Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27017, ISO 27018

## Use cases (8)

- **Telehealth and Remote Care** — HIPAA-aligned video visits, secure messaging, and AI-assisted clinical workflows between patients and providers.
- **Live Shopping and Commerce** — Interactive live streams with co-host promotion, shoppable overlays, and real-time engagement for marketplaces like Whatnot.
- **Online Education and EdTech** — Virtual classrooms, breakout rooms, shared whiteboards, and recorded lessons used by Education First and global learning platforms.
- **Real-Time Gaming and Virtual Worlds** — Proximity voice, team chat, and 3D spatial audio for multiplayer games, metaverse platforms like The Sandbox, and VR experiences on HTC Vive.
- **Media, Entertainment, and Social Audio** — Drop-in audio rooms, fan engagement broadcasts, watch parties, and creator livestreams.
- **Customer Support and Contact Center** — Voice, video, and chat support channels with recording, transcription, and AI agent escalation.
- **Conversational AI Voice Agents** — LLM-powered phone and in-app voice agents with sub-second latency, used for sales, support, and companion applications.
- **IoT and Embedded Communications** — Low-bandwidth, low-power voice and video for doorbells, intercoms, robotics, and connected devices.

## Tags

Real-Time Engagement, Voice, Video, Signaling, Conversational AI, Streaming, Chat, Cloud Recording, WebRTC, Communications Platform

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/agora-io/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.