# Vonage Video API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vonage-video/  
**Website:** https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/video/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

Vonage Video API (formerly OpenTok / TokBox) is a programmable live video platform for building real-time interactive video, voice, and messaging into apps. Its REST API on the Vonage Video Cloud creates sessions and drives advanced server-side features - recording (archives), live streaming broadcasts, signaling, SIP interconnect, and the Experience Composer render service - authenticated with JWT Bearer tokens.

## Kin Score — 35.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 16.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (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 | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **Vonage Video API Archives API** — Record sessions as composed or individual-stream archives.
- **Vonage Video API Broadcasts API** — Live stream sessions to HLS and RTMP destinations.
- **Vonage Video API Captions API** — Start and stop real-time live captions.
- **Vonage Video API Moderation API** — Force-disconnect and mute participants.
- **Vonage Video API Render API** — Experience Composer render service.
- **Vonage Video API Sessions API** — Create sessions and manage connections.
- **Vonage Video API Signaling API** — Send server-side signals into a session.
- **Vonage Video API SIP API** — Dial SIP/PSTN endpoints into a session and play DTMF.
- **Vonage Video API Streams API** — Inspect streams and change stream layout classes.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Vonage Video Agentic Access** — 33 operations · 24 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Vonage Video Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Vonage Video Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Vonage Video Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Video, WebRTC, Live Streaming, Real-Time Communications, CPaaS

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