Tavus

Tavus builds the Conversational Video Interface (CVI), an end-to-end pipeline that combines AI behavior with lifelike digital humans for real-time video conversations. The platform lets developers create personal AI replicas from a short video or a single image (Phoenix-4 and image-to-replica), generate async personalized videos, and run real-time conversational sessions backed by configurable personas, custom LLMs, tools, and document knowledge bases. Tavus targets product teams embedding human-like AI into sales, support, healthcare, education, and recruiting experiences, and monetizes through usage-based developer pricing and enterprise contracts.

Tavus publishes 13 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Conversations API, Documents API, Guardrails API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Video, Conversational AI, and Avatars.

Tavus’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, changelog, and 10 more developer resources.

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45.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 50/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant saas Full breakdown ↓
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Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Video Conversational AI Avatars Replicas Personalization Real-TimeCVIWebhook

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Composite quality — 45.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.4 / 15

Access Clarity 8.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 50/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 13

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

Tavus API

The Tavus REST API powers personalized video generation and real-time Conversational Video Interface sessions. It exposes endpoints for replicas (Phoenix-4 video and image-to-re...

Tavus Conversations API

The Conversations API from Tavus — 3 operation(s) for conversations.

Tavus Documents API

The Documents API from Tavus — 3 operation(s) for documents.

Tavus Guardrails API

The Guardrails API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for guardrails.

Tavus Objectives API

The Objectives API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for objectives.

Tavus Personas API

The Personas API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for personas.

Tavus Pronunciation Dictionaries API

The Pronunciation Dictionaries API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for pronunciation dictionaries.

Tavus Replacements API

The Replacements API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for replacements.

Tavus Replicas API

The Replicas API from Tavus — 3 operation(s) for replicas.

Tavus Transcriptions API

The Transcriptions API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for transcriptions.

Tavus Videos API

The Videos API from Tavus — 3 operation(s) for videos.

Tavus Voices API

The Voices API from Tavus — 1 operation(s) for voices.

Tavus Lip Sync API

The Lip Sync API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for lip sync.

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Open Collections 14

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Guardrails API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Lipsync API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Objectives API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Personas API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Pronunciation Dictionaries API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Replacements API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Replicas API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Transcriptions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Videos API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tavus Developer API Collection Conversations Voices API

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Tavus Developer API Collection

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tavus Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tavus Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Tavus Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Tavus Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tavus Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Tavus Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Tavus Agentic Access

54 operations · 31 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tavus
name: Tavus
description: Tavus builds the Conversational Video Interface (CVI), an end-to-end pipeline that combines AI behavior with
  lifelike digital humans for real-time video conversations. The platform lets developers create personal AI replicas from
  a short video or a single image (Phoenix-4 and image-to-replica), generate async personalized videos, and run real-time
  conversational sessions backed by configurable personas, custom LLMs, tools, and document knowledge bases. Tavus targets
  product teams embedding human-like AI into sales, support, healthcare, education, and recruiting experiences, and monetizes
  through usage-based developer pricing and enterprise contracts.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - tavus-engineering/tavus-examples
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tavus.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Video
- Conversational AI
- Avatars
- Replicas
- Personalization
- Real-Time
- CVI
- Webhook
tags_raw:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Video
- Conversational AI
- Avatars
- Replicas
- Personalization
- Real Time
- CVI
- Webhooks
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tavus/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tavus:tavus-api
  name: Tavus API
  description: The Tavus REST API powers personalized video generation and real-time Conversational Video Interface sessions.
    It exposes endpoints for replicas (Phoenix-4 video and image-to-replica), async video generation, real-time conversations,
    personas, and document knowledge bases, plus webhooks for lifecycle events.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Video
  - Conversational AI
  - Replicas
  - Personas
  - Real-Time
  - Knowledge Base
  tags_raw:
  - Video
  - Conversational AI
  - Replicas
  - Personas
  - Real Time
  - Knowledge Base
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.tavus.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.tavus.io/sections/introduction
  - type: Signup
    url: https://platform.tavus.io/auth/sign-up
  - type: API
    url: https://docs.tavus.io/api-reference/overview
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tavus/cvi-ui
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/Tavus-Engineering/tavus-examples
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.tavus.io/pricing
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.tavus.io/api-reference/authentication
  features:
  - name: Phoenix-4 Replicas
    description: Train high-fidelity replicas from a short training video.
  - name: Image-to-Replica
    description: Generate replicas from a single image for faster onboarding.
  - name: Stock Replicas
    description: Use pre-built stock replicas for instant integration.
  - name: Async Video Generation
    description: Create personalized videos from scripts or audio with replica and background customization.
  - name: Real-Time Conversations
    description: Spin up live AI video conversations with audio-only mode, closed captions, participant limits, and private
      rooms.
  - name: Personas
    description: Configure replica behavior, guardrails, objectives, and tool calling, including support for custom LLMs.
  - name: Knowledge Base
    description: Upload, recrawl, and manage documents and websites to ground replica responses.
  - name: React CVI Components
    description: Embed conversational video into web apps using the @tavus/cvi-ui React component library and hooks.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Receive callbacks for video, conversation, and replica lifecycle events.
  useCases:
  - name: AI Sales Reps
    description: Conduct lifelike video discovery and demo calls with a digital rep.
  - name: Healthcare Intake
    description: Walk patients through intake and screening with empathetic video AI.
  - name: Personalized Outreach Video
    description: Generate per-recipient videos for marketing and recruiting at scale.
  - name: AI Tutors and Coaching
    description: Deliver interactive video tutoring grounded in course content.
  - name: Customer Support Avatars
    description: Provide always-on conversational video support inside web and mobile apps.
  integrations:
  - name: React
  - name: Daily
  - name: Custom LLMs
  - name: Webhooks
  - name: Slack
  - name: Zapier
  authentication:
  - type: API Key
    description: API keys are generated in the Tavus Developer Portal and sent in the x-api-key header on every request.
- aid: tavus:tavus-conversations-api
  name: Tavus Conversations API
  description: The Conversations API from Tavus — 3 operation(s) for conversations.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Conversations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-conversations-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-documents-api
  name: Tavus Documents API
  description: The Documents API from Tavus — 3 operation(s) for documents.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-documents-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-guardrails-api
  name: Tavus Guardrails API
  description: The Guardrails API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for guardrails.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Guardrails
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-guardrails-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-objectives-api
  name: Tavus Objectives API
  description: The Objectives API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for objectives.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Objectives
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-objectives-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-personas-api
  name: Tavus Personas API
  description: The Personas API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for personas.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Personas
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-personas-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-pronunciation-dictionaries-api
  name: Tavus Pronunciation Dictionaries API
  description: The Pronunciation Dictionaries API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for pronunciation dictionaries.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Pronunciation Dictionaries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-pronunciation-dictionaries-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-replacements-api
  name: Tavus Replacements API
  description: The Replacements API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for replacements.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Replacements
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-replacements-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-replicas-api
  name: Tavus Replicas API
  description: The Replicas API from Tavus — 3 operation(s) for replicas.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Replicas
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-replicas-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-transcriptions-api
  name: Tavus Transcriptions API
  description: The Transcriptions API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for transcriptions.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Transcriptions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-transcriptions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-videos-api
  name: Tavus Videos API
  description: The Videos API from Tavus — 3 operation(s) for videos.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Video
  tags_raw:
  - Videos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-videos-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-voices-api
  name: Tavus Voices API
  description: The Voices API from Tavus — 1 operation(s) for voices.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Voice
  tags_raw:
  - Voices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-voices-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tavus:tavus-lip-sync-api
  name: Tavus Lip Sync API
  description: The Lip Sync API from Tavus — 2 operation(s) for lip sync.
  humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
  baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
  tags:
  - Lip Sync
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tavus-lip-sync-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tavus-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/tavus-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tavus-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tavus-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tavus.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.tavus.io
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.tavus.io/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Tavus-Engineering
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.tavus.io/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.tavus.io/legal/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.tavus.io/legal/privacy-policy
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/heyTavus
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tavus
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.tavus.io/changelog
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.tavus.io/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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