# Livepeer **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/livepeer/ **Website:** https://livepeer.org/ **APIs profiled:** 28 Livepeer is a decentralized video infrastructure network. Independent orchestrators run GPU hardware to provide live and on-demand video transcoding services, paid for in ETH/LPT on the Livepeer protocol. Livepeer Studio is the managed gateway and developer platform sitting on top of the network, exposing a REST API at livepeer.studio/api for live streams, on- demand assets, multistream targets, transcoding jobs, sessions, playback, signing keys, AI generation (text-to-image, image-to-image, image-to-video, upscale, audio-to-text), and webhooks. Official SDKs are published for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, and Ruby, with React Player and React Broadcast components for client-side playback and ingest. ## Kin Score — 54.6 / 100 (strong) Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 54.6). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 81.5 | | Contract Quality | 59.7 | | Governance | 69.7 | | Contract Governance | 69.7 | | Operational Transparency | 44.7 | | Developer Ergonomics | 40.5 | | Commercial Clarity | 46.1 | | Access Clarity | 46.1 | ## Agent readiness — 22.3 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | bearer | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | | Delegated Identity | no | | Protected Resource Metadata | no | | Dynamic Client Registration | no | | Agentic Commerce | no | ## Access Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (28) - **Livepeer Studio REST API** — Primary REST API for the Livepeer Studio gateway. Resource-oriented JSON endpoints for live streams, on-demand assets, multistream targets, transcoding jobs, sessions, playback,... - **Livepeer Streams API** — Endpoints for creating and managing live streams, ingest RTMP/WHIP URLs, profiles for adaptive bitrate transcoding, recording, and stream keys. - **Livepeer Assets API** — Endpoints for uploading, importing, transcoding, and serving on-demand video assets, including direct upload, URL import, and IPFS storage. - **Livepeer Multistream Targets API** — Endpoints for registering and managing multistream destinations that forward an active live stream to additional RTMP/RTMPS endpoints such as YouTube, Twitch, or X. - **Livepeer Webhooks API** — Webhook management endpoints plus outbound event notifications for stream lifecycle events (stream.started, stream.idle, recording.ready, asset.ready, playback.access_control). ... - **Livepeer Transcode API** — Endpoints for one-off transcoding jobs against source files in object storage, returning a job handle and transcoded renditions. - **Livepeer Sessions API** — Endpoints for retrieving completed live session recordings and metadata for past live streams. - **Livepeer Playback API** — Playback info endpoint returning HLS/WebRTC playback URLs and metadata for a stream or asset, plus access-control gating. - **Livepeer Signing Keys API** — Endpoints for managing JWT signing keys used for playback access control and webhook signature verification. - **Livepeer AI Generate API** — AI video and image generation endpoints (text-to-image, image-to-image, image-to-video, upscale, audio-to-text) routed through the Livepeer AI subnet of GPU orchestrators. - **Livepeer JavaScript/TypeScript SDK** — Official TypeScript/JavaScript SDK (@livepeer/ai or livepeer) for the Livepeer Studio REST API and AI endpoints. - **Livepeer Python SDK** — Official Python SDK for the Livepeer Studio REST API. - **Livepeer Go SDK** — Official Go SDK for the Livepeer Studio REST API. - **Livepeer Ruby SDK** — Official Ruby SDK for the Livepeer Studio REST API. - **Livepeer React Player Component** — React video player component for HLS/WebRTC playback of Livepeer streams and assets, with customisable controls and access-control integration. - **Livepeer React Broadcast Component** — React component for in-browser WebRTC broadcasting to a Livepeer live stream, with device selection and settings controls. - **Livepeer accessControl API** — Operations related to access control/signing keys api - **Livepeer asset API** — Operations related to asset/vod api - **Livepeer generate API** — Operations related to AI generate api - **Livepeer metrics API** — Operations related to metrics api - **Livepeer multistream API** — Operations related to multistream api - **Livepeer playback API** — Operations related to playback api - **Livepeer room API** — Operations related to rooms api - **Livepeer session API** — Operations related to session api - **Livepeer stream API** — Operations related to livestream api - **Livepeer task API** — Operations related to tasks api - **Livepeer transcode API** — Operations related to transcode api - **Livepeer webhook API** — Operations related to webhook api ## Agentic access (1) - **Livepeer Agentic Access** — 64 operations · 37 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop ## Security (2) - **Livepeer Authentication** — http · 1 scheme - **Livepeer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Livepeer Plans Pricing** ## Use cases (10) - **User-generated live streaming platforms (creator economy)** - **On-demand video platforms with low transcoding cost** - **Web3 / NFT video drops with on-chain provenance** - **Multistream restreaming to incumbent social platforms** - **Real-time video AI transformation (Daydream / live video-to-video)** - **AI avatars and embodied agents (Embody)** - **Open streaming infrastructure (Stream.place, Frameworks)** - **Generative video for marketing, advertising, and entertainment** - **Realtime sports / security / manufacturing video intelligence** - **LLM inference on decentralized GPU capacity** ## Tags Video, Streaming, Transcoding, Decentralized, Web3, Live Video, AI Video --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/livepeer/). 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