VideoSDK

Real-time voice, video, and AI agent platform for developers. VideoSDK provides REST and WebSocket APIs for building video conferencing, live streaming, interactive broadcast applications, and real-time AI agent integrations with SDKs for JavaScript, React, Flutter, React Native, Android, and iOS.

VideoSDK publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including HLS Streaming API, Participant Recordings API, Recordings API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Video, Audio, WebRTC, Real-Time Communication, and Live Streaming.

The VideoSDK catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

VideoSDK’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 12 more developer resources.

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1 published contract

Video Audio WebRTC Real-Time Communication Live Streaming HLS RTMP AI Agents Video Conferencing WebSocket

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Content Distribution & Delivery Management

BC-3740

HLS StreamingRTMP Streaming

POST /hls/start POST /livestreams/start

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 35.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 3.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Access Clarity scores 26.3 — up to +14.7 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 15.8 — up to +10.9 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

WebSockets

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 7

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

VideoSDK HLS Streaming API

HLS live streaming and playback management.

VideoSDK Participant Recordings API

Per-participant recording management.

VideoSDK Recordings API

Start, stop, and manage meeting recordings.

VideoSDK Rooms API

Manage meeting rooms.

VideoSDK RTMP Streaming API

RTMP live streaming to external platforms.

VideoSDK Sessions API

Manage and query meeting sessions and participants.

VideoSDK Track Recordings API

Per-track and composite recording management.

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Open Collections 7

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

VideoSDK Real-Time Communication HLS Streaming API

OPEN COLLECTION

VideoSDK Real-Time Communication HLS Streaming Participant Recordings API

OPEN COLLECTION

VideoSDK Real-Time Communication HLS Streaming Recordings API

OPEN COLLECTION

VideoSDK Real-Time Communication HLS Streaming Rooms API

OPEN COLLECTION

VideoSDK Real-Time Communication HLS Streaming RTMP Streaming API

OPEN COLLECTION

VideoSDK Real-Time Communication HLS Streaming Sessions API

OPEN COLLECTION

VideoSDK Real-Time Communication HLS Streaming Track Recordings API

OPEN COLLECTION

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VideoSDK API pricing

Not yet checked against VideoSDK's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free	Free
Pay-As-You-Go	—
Enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Videosdk Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Videosdk Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

VideoSDK

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Videosdk Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Videosdk Context

7 classes · 50 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

VideoSDK — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

HlsStream

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Participant

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Recording

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Room

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Session

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 5

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Create Room

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Fetch Sessions

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Start Hls Stream

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Start Recording

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Start Rtmp Livestream

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 4

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

Videosdk Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Videosdk Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Videosdk Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Videosdk Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Videosdk Agentic Access

36 operations · 17 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop

36 operations · 17 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: videosdk
name: VideoSDK
description: Real-time voice, video, and AI agent platform for developers. VideoSDK provides REST and WebSocket APIs for building
  video conferencing, live streaming, interactive broadcast applications, and real-time AI agent integrations with SDKs for
  JavaScript, React, Flutter, React Native, Android, and iOS.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/videosdk.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/videosdk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
tags:
- Video
- Audio
- WebRTC
- Real-Time Communication
- Live Streaming
- HLS
- RTMP
- AI Agents
- Video Conferencing
- WebSocket
apis:
- aid: videosdk:videosdk-hls-streaming-api
  name: VideoSDK HLS Streaming API
  description: HLS live streaming and playback management.
  humanURL: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  baseURL: https://api.videosdk.live
  tags:
  - HLS Streaming
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/videosdk-hls-streaming-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: QuotaLimits
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/tutorials/quota-limit-and-plan
- aid: videosdk:videosdk-participant-recordings-api
  name: VideoSDK Participant Recordings API
  description: Per-participant recording management.
  humanURL: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  baseURL: https://api.videosdk.live
  tags:
  - Participant Recordings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/videosdk-participant-recordings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: QuotaLimits
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/tutorials/quota-limit-and-plan
- aid: videosdk:videosdk-recordings-api
  name: VideoSDK Recordings API
  description: Start, stop, and manage meeting recordings.
  humanURL: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  baseURL: https://api.videosdk.live
  tags:
  - Recording
  tags_raw:
  - Recordings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/videosdk-recordings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: QuotaLimits
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/tutorials/quota-limit-and-plan
- aid: videosdk:videosdk-rooms-api
  name: VideoSDK Rooms API
  description: Manage meeting rooms.
  humanURL: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  baseURL: https://api.videosdk.live
  tags:
  - Rooms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/videosdk-rooms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: QuotaLimits
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/tutorials/quota-limit-and-plan
- aid: videosdk:videosdk-rtmp-streaming-api
  name: VideoSDK RTMP Streaming API
  description: RTMP live streaming to external platforms.
  humanURL: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  baseURL: https://api.videosdk.live
  tags:
  - RTMP Streaming
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/videosdk-rtmp-streaming-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: QuotaLimits
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/tutorials/quota-limit-and-plan
- aid: videosdk:videosdk-sessions-api
  name: VideoSDK Sessions API
  description: Manage and query meeting sessions and participants.
  humanURL: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  baseURL: https://api.videosdk.live
  tags:
  - Sessions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/videosdk-sessions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: QuotaLimits
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/tutorials/quota-limit-and-plan
- aid: videosdk:videosdk-track-recordings-api
  name: VideoSDK Track Recordings API
  description: Per-track and composite recording management.
  humanURL: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  baseURL: https://api.videosdk.live
  tags:
  - Track Recordings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/videosdk-track-recordings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/api-reference/realtime-communication/intro
  - type: QuotaLimits
    url: https://docs.videosdk.live/tutorials/quota-limit-and-plan
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/videosdk-capability-edges.yml
  name: VideoSDK Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/videosdk-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/videosdk-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/videosdk-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/videosdk-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/videosdk-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.videosdk.live
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.videosdk.live
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/videosdk-live
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/video-sdk
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/video_sdk
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.videosdk.live/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.videosdk.live/pricing
- type: Plans
  url: plans/videosdk-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/videosdk-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/videosdk-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

VideoSDK API — frequently asked questions

Does VideoSDK have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from VideoSDK, including VideoSDK HLS Streaming API, VideoSDK Participant Recordings API and VideoSDK Recordings API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the VideoSDK API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for VideoSDK, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the VideoSDK API?

VideoSDK uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Videosdk Authentication.

How much does the VideoSDK API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for VideoSDK, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the VideoSDK API ready for AI agents?

VideoSDK has a Kin Score of 35.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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