Daily

Daily is a Y Combinator-backed developer platform providing real-time audio and video APIs and client SDKs for embedding WebRTC video calls, live streaming, cloud recording, transcription, and SIP/PSTN telephony into web, mobile, and server applications. Its REST API manages rooms, meeting tokens, recordings, transcripts, webhooks, phone numbers, and domain configuration, complemented by the daily-js, daily-react, and native iOS/Android/Python/Flutter SDKs plus the embeddable Daily Prebuilt UI. Authentication uses a domain-scoped API key sent as an HTTP Bearer token.

Daily publishes 13 APIs on the APIs.io network, including batch/rooms API, dialin API, domain API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include Video, Audio, WebRTC, Real-Time Communication, and Video Conferencing.

The Daily catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Daily’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 24 more developer resources.

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59.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 57/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

13 APIs 1 MCP Servers

VideoAudioWebRTCReal-Time CommunicationVideo ConferencingLive StreamingRecordingTranscriptionTelephonySIPPSTNCompany

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 59.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 17.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 15.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 10.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 57/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 13

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

MCPServer

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

Components

DataModel

Webhooks

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Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Postman

Packages

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: daily
name: Daily
description: Daily is a Y Combinator-backed developer platform providing real-time audio and video APIs and client SDKs for
  embedding WebRTC video calls, live streaming, cloud recording, transcription, and SIP/PSTN telephony into web, mobile, and
  server applications. Its REST API manages rooms, meeting tokens, recordings, transcripts, webhooks, phone numbers, and domain
  configuration, complemented by the daily-js, daily-react, and native iOS/Android/Python/Flutter SDKs plus the embeddable
  Daily Prebuilt UI. Authentication uses a domain-scoped API key sent as an HTTP Bearer token.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/daily/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-openapi
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.daily.co/favicon.ico
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Video
- Audio
- WebRTC
- Real-Time Communication
- Video Conferencing
- Live Streaming
- Recording
- Transcription
- Telephony
- SIP
- PSTN
- Company
apis:
- aid: daily:daily-batch-rooms-api
  name: Daily batch/rooms API
  description: The batch/rooms API from Daily — 1 operation(s) for batch/rooms.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - batch/rooms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-batch-rooms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-dialin-api
  name: Daily dialin API
  description: The dialin API from Daily — 1 operation(s) for dialin.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - dialin
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-dialin-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-domain-api
  name: Daily domain API
  description: The domain API from Daily — 1 operation(s) for domain.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - domain
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-domain-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-domain-dialin-config-api
  name: Daily domain-dialin-config API
  description: The domain-dialin-config API from Daily — 2 operation(s) for domain-dialin-config.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - domain-dialin-config
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-domain-dialin-config-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-logs-api
  name: Daily logs API
  description: The logs API from Daily — 2 operation(s) for logs.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - logs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-logs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-meeting-tokens-api
  name: Daily meeting-tokens API
  description: The meeting-tokens API from Daily — 2 operation(s) for meeting-tokens.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - meeting-tokens
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-meeting-tokens-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-meetings-api
  name: Daily meetings API
  description: The meetings API from Daily — 3 operation(s) for meetings.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - meetings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-meetings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-phone-numbers-api
  name: Daily phone-numbers API
  description: The phone-numbers API from Daily — 4 operation(s) for phone-numbers.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - phone-numbers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-phone-numbers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-presence-api
  name: Daily presence API
  description: The presence API from Daily — 1 operation(s) for presence.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - presence
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-presence-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-recordings-api
  name: Daily recordings API
  description: The recordings API from Daily — 3 operation(s) for recordings.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - recordings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-recordings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-rooms-api
  name: Daily rooms API
  description: The rooms API from Daily — 22 operation(s) for rooms.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - rooms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-rooms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-transcript-api
  name: Daily transcript API
  description: The transcript API from Daily — 3 operation(s) for transcript.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - transcript
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-transcript-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- aid: daily:daily-webhooks-api
  name: Daily webhooks API
  description: The webhooks API from Daily — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.
  humanURL: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.daily.co/v1
  tags:
  - webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/daily-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/daily-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/daily-authentication.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.daily.co/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/rest-api/index
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.daily.co/reference/rest-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/daily-js/quickstart
- type: Support
  url: https://www.daily.co/contact/support
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.daily.co/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/daily-co
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.daily.co/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://dashboard.daily.co/signup
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.daily.co/legal/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.daily.co/legal/privacy/
- type: Postman
  url: https://www.postman.com/daily-co
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.daily.co/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://docs.daily.co/docs/guides/privacy-and-security/hipaa
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/daily-llms.txt
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/daily-openapi-original.json
- type: Packages
  url: packages/daily-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/daily-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/daily-mcp.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/daily-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/daily-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/daily-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/daily-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/daily-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/daily-changelog.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/daily-components.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/daily-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/daily-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Daily

Kin Score

APIs 13

Daily batch/rooms API

Daily dialin API

Daily domain API

Daily domain-dialin-config API

Daily logs API

Daily meeting-tokens API

Daily meetings API

Daily phone-numbers API

Daily presence API

Daily recordings API

Daily rooms API

Daily transcript API

Daily webhooks API

MCP Servers 1

daily-mcp.yml

Event Specifications 1

Daily Webhooks

Security Posture 2

Daily Authentication

Daily Domain Security

Resources