The World's Open
Video Infrastructure
Livepeer is a high-performance video infrastructure protocol for live and on-demand streaming, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared to traditional cloud providers. Designed to give developers the freedom to innovate, creators autonomy from platforms, and viewers a choice in their experience.
Livepeer is a high-performance video infrastructure protocol for live and on-demand streaming, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared to traditional cloud providers. Designed to give developers the freedom to innovate, creators autonomy from platforms, and viewers a choice in their experience.
LIVE
One API for all your video workflows
🔴 Live
⏯ On-demand
🔄 Transcode
Build live video experiences with just few lines of code — affordably, at scale, and with no vendor lock-in.
Go live effortlessly from any source
Stream seamlessly from mobile apps or broadcast software to any device with an optimized viewing experience.
Protect your streams with token-based access controls
Control who has access to livestreams and for how long with token and wallet-based access controls.
Build low-latency livestreaming experiences
Latency as low as two seconds enables natural interactive experiences between audiences and content creators.
Get real-time viewership and performance health
Understand engagement and improve the viewer experience.
Designed for developers
A fully integrated suite of open-source developer tools
Livepeer Protocol contributors are continuously solving the most challenging problems in video streaming and wrapping it all up in a thoughtfully designed, fully-integrated suite of developer tools and dashboards.
🎙️ Livepeer Studio
Your all-in-one dashboard for building, broadcasting, and publishing video on the open internet with Livepeer Protocol.
🧰 Livepeer.js
Livepeer.js is a typescript SDK that provides a collection of React hooks and video components for easy interaction with the Livepeer API.
⏯️ Livepeer Player
Livepeer Player is a developer-friendly open source solution for building custom video players.
Why Livepeer
A globally distributed, open infrastructure network
What makes Livepeer so scalable, reliable, and affordable? Enter the Livepeer Network, an open and permissionless peer-to-peer network of independent operators intelligently routing and processing video.
Open
Livepeer is open source software. Customize Livepeer to your needs and benefit from global innovation.
Affordable
Save up to 90% on costs with streamlined pricing that takes advantage of Livepeer's open marketplace of infrastructure providers representing access to 70k+ GPUs.
Performant
Deliver outstanding performance by leveraging the network's highly competitive infrastructure providers transmitting high-quality video at astonishing speeds.
Reliable
Keep your application’s video streams flowing 24/7 with the world’s most resilient and decentralized video infrastructure network.
Scalable
Livepeer harnesses the power of cryptoeconomic incentives, drawing a worldwide network of independent providers to process and deliver video, enabling near-infinite scalability.
Easy-to-use
The Livepeer API untangles the intricate web of video infrastructure workflows, offering developers one unified and intuitive API that can fulfill all video application requirements.
A 10-minute Primer
Curious about how Livepeer works?
Through storytelling, illustration, and data, the Livepeer Primer explains, at a high level, the problem Livepeer solves and how it works.
Check it outThe Livepeer Ecosystem
A growing network of open video apps
By combining Livepeer’s open video API with other emerging open protocols in social and onchain finance, developers are disrupting the way creators own and monetize their video content, enabling novel experiences in music, entertainment, shopping, gaming, and beyond.
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