# Red5

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/red5/  
**Website:** https://www.red5.net/  
**APIs profiled:** 17

Red5 provides real-time streaming infrastructure for live video and audio delivery at scale. The Red5 Pro platform includes a media server, Stream Manager 2.0 for autoscaling cloud deployments, the Brew Mixer for composite stream production, a Restreamer for pushing live streams to social media and RTMP destinations, and WebRTC and native SDKs for browser and mobile integration. Red5 APIs enable programmatic management of streams, mixers, restreaming, cluster orchestration, and node monitoring. Use cases include live events, sports broadcasting, interactive video, gaming, surveillance, and enterprise communications requiring ultra-low latency streaming.

## Kin Score — 37.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 61.9 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 30.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (17)

- **Red5 Pro Server API** — The Red5 Pro Server API is an HTTP-based REST API for gathering server, application, client, and stream statistics from a running Red5 Pro instance. It exposes endpoints for ser...
- **Red5 Pro WebRTC SDK** — The Red5 Pro WebRTC SDK is a JavaScript library for integrating low-latency live streaming publish and subscribe capabilities into web applications. It supports WHIP for WebRTC ...
- **Red5 Core SDK** — The Red5 Core SDK is a native client library for building real-time streaming applications on Linux, Windows, and macOS desktop platforms. It offers interfaces for server connec...
- **Red5 Pro iOS Streaming SDK** — The Red5 Pro iOS Streaming SDK is a native iOS library for integrating real-time live streaming publish and subscribe capabilities into iOS applications. It supports H.264 video...
- **Red5 Pro Android Streaming SDK** — The Red5 Pro Android Streaming SDK is a native Android library for integrating real-time live streaming publish and subscribe capabilities into Android applications. It supports...
- **Red5 Admin API** — Node metrics, system info, and autoscaling management
- **Red5 Applications API** — Application scope statistics and management
- **Red5 File Restreamer API** — Restream recorded FLV or MP4 files as pseudo-live streams
- **Red5 Images API** — Image overlay management for mixer sessions
- **Red5 Inputs API** — Input stream management for mixer sessions
- **Red5 Logs API** — Server log access endpoints
- **Red5 Mixers API** — Mixer session lifecycle management
- **Red5 Provision API** — Stream provisioning, authentication, and configuration
- **Red5 Proxy API** — WHIP, WHEP, and WebSocket proxy endpoints
- **Red5 RTMP Restreamer API** — Configure RTMP and RTMPS push/pull restreaming
- **Red5 Servlet Configuration API** — Server-level restreamer plugin configuration
- **Red5 Streams API** — Live stream enumeration, statistics, and control

## Agentic access (1)

- **Red5 Agentic Access** — 35 operations · 18 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Red5 Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Red5 Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Red5 Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Live Streaming, Media, Real-Time, RTMP, Streaming, Video, WebRTC

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/red5/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.