# Caffeine

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/caffeine/  
**Website:** https://www.caffeine.tv/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Caffeine was a social broadcasting and live-streaming platform founded in 2016 by former Apple designers Ben Keighran and Sam Roberts, and backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Greylock Partners. Built on a proprietary WebRTC-based real-time video distribution network, Caffeine positioned itself as a low-latency, social-first alternative to Twitch for gaming, entertainment, and — in its later years — live sports, partnering with roughly 200 sports organizations and reaching tens of millions of monthly users. The company published open-source broadcasting tooling under its caffeinetv GitHub organization (libcaffeine, caffeine-rtc, an OBS plugin, and the CaffQL GraphQL code generator) but never shipped a public, documented developer API program. Caffeine announced it was ceasing operations, and its web presence is now a shutdown notice; this profile is retained as an a16z portfolio lead and is archival rather than an active, integrable API provider.

## Kin Score — 5.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| 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).

## Security (1)

- **Caffeine Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Live Streaming, Social Broadcasting, Video, WebRTC, Sports, Gaming, Entertainment

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