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Best Video APIs in 2026

35 apps
Research read 23 Sept 2026
How the order is worked out

1

LiveKit Agents

Free plan Open source AndroidAPIiPhone+5

LiveKit Agents offers a framework for realtime agents with flexible deployment, telephony, and observability tools.

8.9 Free plan · paid from $50/mo Visit site
2

Agora Interactive Live Streaming
by Agora Interactive Live Streaming
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+3

Agora combines real-time calls and streaming with audience interaction, collaboration, and several recording options.

7.7 Free plan · paid from $0.99 Visit site
3

Amazon Interactive Video Service
by Amazon Interactive Video Service
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

IVS provides two streaming latency options, interactive APIs, host stages, and recording integration. Pricing varies with service and usage; AWS also lists a Free Tier for new customers.

7.6 From $0.20 Visit site
4

api.video

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

7.6 Free plan · paid from $0.00 Visit site
5

Ant Media Server
by Ant Media Server
Free plan AndroidiPhoneSelf-hosted

Ant Media Server covers low-latency streaming, recording, multistreaming, and varied deployment models.

7.5 Free plan · paid from $89/mo (annual) Visit site
6

Daily

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

Choose Daily if you are building real-time voice, video, or AI experiences and want APIs, SDKs, or an embeddable call component.

7.5 Free plan · paid from $0.00 Visit site
7

Eyeson

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

7.4 Free plan Visit site
8

Janus Gateway

Free plan APILinuxMac+2

7.4 Open source Visit site
9

Jitsi as a Service

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

7.4 Free plan Visit site
10

Embedly

Free plan APIiPhoneWeb

7.3 Free plan · paid from $19/mo · 30-day trial Visit site
11

Livepeer
by Livepeer
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1

Livepeer provides a coordinated network for real-time video processing and AI inference, with API access for developers and roles for compute providers.

7.3 Free plan Visit site
12

MediaMTX

Free plan APILinuxMac+3

MediaMTX provides broad protocol support, conversion, and disk-based recording in a free server. Users should plan for their own recording storage, since cloud recording is not available.

7.3 Free plan Visit site
13

mediasoup

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+5

7.3 Free plan Visit site
14

Mux Video

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

7.3 Free plan · paid from $20/mo Visit site
15

Jitsi Videobridge

Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted

7.2 Open source Visit site
16

QuickBlox Video Calling

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+2

7.2 From $107/mo Visit site
17

SRS
by SRS
Free plan APILinuxMac+2

SRS provides broad protocol support and deployment guidance for streaming use cases. Plan API access control carefully, since the project recommends an Nginx proxy.

7.1 Free plan Visit site
18

Stream Chat

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

7.1 Free plan · paid from $399/mo (annual) Visit site
19

Stream Video

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

7.1 Free plan · paid from $0.30 Visit site
20

Tencent RTC

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+3

7.1 From $49.50/mo · 7-day trial Visit site
21

VideoSDK

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+1

7.0 Free plan · paid from $0.00 Visit site
22

Pion WebRTC

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+5

6.9 Free plan Visit site
23

ZEGOCLOUD In-app Chat

Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+3

6.9 Free plan · paid from $99/mo Visit site
24

100ms

Free plan AndroidiPhoneWeb

6.5 Free plan · paid from $0.00 Visit site
25

EnableX Video API

Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+2

EnableX offers video components with several call formats, deployment choices, and data controls.

6.4 30-day trial Visit site

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