# LiveKit

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/livekit/  
**Website:** https://livekit.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

LiveKit is an open-source WebRTC platform with a managed Cloud offering. APIs cover Rooms, Participants, Tracks, Egress (recording, RTMP), Ingress (RTMP/SRT), SIP (telephony), and Agents (LLM voice agents). The server APIs use Twirp (HTTP+Protobuf); SDKs are available for major languages and frameworks. Authentication via JWT room tokens.

## Kin Score — 32.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 48.9 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 19.7 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **LiveKit RoomService API** — Server-side Twirp API for managing rooms, participants, tracks, mute/unmute, and metadata.
- **LiveKit Egress API** — Record rooms or stream them to RTMP / HLS endpoints; output to S3, GCS, Azure Blob.
- **LiveKit Ingress API** — Pull RTMP, SRT, or WHIP streams into LiveKit rooms.
- **LiveKit SIP (Telephony) API** — SIP integration for inbound and outbound PSTN calls bridged into LiveKit rooms.
- **LiveKit Signaling Protocol (WebSocket)** — Bi-directional WebSocket signaling protocol used by LiveKit clients to coordinate WebRTC sessions with the SFU. Clients send `SignalRequest` protobuf messages and receive `Signa...
- **LiveKit Agents API** — Framework and runtime for voice / multimodal AI agents that join LiveKit rooms; integrates with LLM, STT, and TTS providers.

## Security (3)

- **Livekit Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Livekit Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Livekit Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Livekit Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Real-Time, WebRTC, Audio, Video, Open-Source, AI Agents, Voice, Cloud

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