LiveKit

lastmod 2026-09-02created 2021-07-204 edits

Open-source real-time communication platform

Features

• Lets you embed real-time audio/video conferencing for 10 to 1000 people in apps/web
• Open-source alternative to Agora
• Cross-platform SDKs: JS, React, Swift, Kotlin, Go
  • React Native, Flutter, Unity/C# support planned
• JWT-based authentication and RBAC support
• Smooth switching between cellular and WiFi
• Provides a Helm Chart for easy deployment to GKE/EKS and other K8s
• Easy to use without needing protocol-level knowledge of ICE, STUN, TURN, and WebRTC
• Great performance: on a single instance (GCP c2-standard-16)
  • Audio: 10 publishers, 1000 listeners
  • Video: 4 publishers, 440 listeners

See also

• VoIP
• Collaboration Platform
• Colyseus - Multiplayer Framework for Node.js
• PartyKit - A platform for building real-time collaborative apps
• SyncKit - A type-safe sync engine for real-time collaboration apps
• LiveKit - Open-source real-time communication platform
• SpacetimeDB - A DB for building multiplayer games/apps
• Instant – A backend platform for AI-written apps
• Triplit - An open-source DB that syncs between server and browser in real time

Favorite site

• LiveKit web site
• LiveKit - Open-source real-time communication platform | GeekNews