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24 alternatives to API.stream

API to build cloud-native live streaming production tools

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. API.stream launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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api.video▲153
Building the backbone of online video.
2018 · api.video · its alternatives →
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api.video Live▲129
Add live streaming in your solution with few lines code!
2019 · api.video · its alternatives →
3
Stream 2.0▲303
API for building, scaling and personalizing feeds
2016 · getstream.io · its alternatives →
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Lightstream▲349
A powerful live streaming production studio in your browser.
2017 · golightstream.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive Live Streaming by Video SDK▲315
Experience interactive live streaming made for developers
2023 · videosdk.live · its alternatives →
6
LiveKit Cloud▲250
Build massive-scale, real-time video and audio experiences
2022 · livekit.com · its alternatives →
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Progressive Upload by api.video▲216
A revolutionary approach to video processing
2021 · its alternatives →
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LiveAPI▲189
Launch your live video streaming app in days
2022 · its alternatives →
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100ms Live Stream SDK▲442
Add Twitch-like live streams to your apps
2022 · 100ms.live · its alternatives →
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Live Streaming SDK by Dyte▲570
Add interactive live-streaming to your product in minutes
2023 · cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
11
Stream Chat▲327
Build, code and ship in app messaging in a few hours
2019 · getstream.io · its alternatives →
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Mux Live Streaming API▲210
A simple API to powerful live video streaming
2018 · mux.com · its alternatives →
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Devstream.tv – Watch developers code live▲257
2018 · devstream.tv · its alternatives →
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Lightstream▲28
A powerful live streaming production studio in your browser.
2018 · golightstream.com · its alternatives →
15
MeetStream AI▲180
MeetStream provides a single API to build meeting bots for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. It lets your agents join meetings, capture per-participant audio and video, transcribe in real time, and deliver MP4 recordings and metadata via webhooks and WebSocket. Developers i
Aug 2026 · meetstream.ai · its alternatives →
16
Stream▲309
Make money from virtual events hosted on Zoom
2020 · joinstream.io · its alternatives →
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LiveKit▲236
The open source platform for real-time communication
2021 · livekit.com · its alternatives →
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Stream.new▲148
Upload or record a video. Get a sharable link to stream it.
2020 · stream.new · its alternatives →
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workstreams.ai▲167
An intuitive workflow management app
2023 · workstreams.ai · its alternatives →
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Meerkat API▲258
Harness the power of live with Meerkat's public API
2015 · its alternatives →
21
OneStream Live▲127
Live stream real-time & recorded videos on social media
2023 · onestream.live · its alternatives →
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Daily Video API▲367
Add video calls to your app, in minutes.
2019 · daily.co · its alternatives →
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Render▲318
Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…
2019 · render.com · its alternatives →
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Swell▲109
Streaming API Development Tool
2018 · getswell.io · its alternatives →

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