Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to LiveKit
The open source platform for real-time communication
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. LiveKit launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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LiveKit Cloud▲250Build massive-scale, real-time video and audio experiences
2022 · livekit.com · its alternatives →
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Experience interactive live streaming made for developers
2023 · videosdk.live · its alternatives →
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Hi there - Ben from LiveKit here! If you’re curious about OpenAI’s brand-new Realtime API and speech-to-speech model, check out this hosted playground and play with the model yourself. If you’d like to learn more about how this came together, read on. If you’re like me, you’ve probably been wondering what novel things a model like this can do in an API setting with unfettered access to the system prompt and other parameters. I’ve been fortunate to have had early access through my work at LiveKit, where we’ve built open-source developer tooling that makes deploying this model in a production…
2024 · playground.livekit.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we've been working with OpenAI for the past few months on the new Realtime API. The goal is to give everyone access to the same stack that underpins Advanced Voice in the ChatGPT app. Under the hood it works like this: - A user's speech is captured by a LiveKit client SDK in the ChatGPT app - Their speech is streamed using WebRTC to OpenAI’s voice agent - The agent relays the speech prompt over websocket to GPT-4o - GPT-4o runs inference and streams speech packets (over websocket) back to the agent - The agent relays generated speech using WebRTC back to the user’s device The…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A popular suite of developer tools, now 100% open source
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CareKit by Apple▲229Open source software framework for creating health apps
2016 · researchandcare.org · its alternatives →
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Add Twitch-like live streams to your apps
2022 · 100ms.live · its alternatives →
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Stream 2.0▲303API for building, scaling and personalizing feeds
2016 · getstream.io · its alternatives →
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Build and monetize communication tools for businesses
2020 · platform.text.com · its alternatives →
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Securely upload images and videos + Share links instantly
2025 · imagekit.io · its alternatives →
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Video SDK▲173Add Google Meet like product, in just a few minutes 🔥
2021 · videosdk.live · its alternatives →
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LiveKit realtime and server SDKs for Rust. Contribute to livekit/rust-sdks development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I’m happy to announce the first release of Roc Toolkit, version 0.1.0! Roc provides a C API for real-time audio transport. The user just writes a stream to the one end and reads it from another end. Roc, in turn, performs encoding and decoding, and, more importantly, deals with the problems re
2019 · gavv.github.io · its alternatives →
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