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LiveKit Cloud — Build massive-scale, real-time video and audio experiences
Conferencing, livestreaming, metaverse, robotics, collaboration or telephony apps just became easier to build with LiveKit Cloud. Supports up to 100,000 simultaneous participants per session and includes detailed, real-time analytics and telemetry.
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@fares_aktouf @kirkdonohoe @pavell2l thank you all so much for the kind words and support! 🙏
Will keep you in mind, Pavel!
Looking forward to you trying it at some point, Kirk!
I've been playing with the open-source LiveKit SDK for over a year and I think everyone should seriously consider LiveKit for their next or current project. Here's why I'm very excited about this new release:
1. It is hands-down the best and cleanest library for in-browser WebRTC with the best DX and UX (I've tried m.a.n.y). You can start with the pre-built UI, or use well-designed hooks to build one from scratch. And it's packed with some of the best features used by web conferencing solutions today. Even such thing as [simulcasting](https://blog.livekit.io/an-intro...), which most competitors don't even offer, is handled transparently and just works.
2. The team is super responsive and supportive on Slack, and it's been great watching them ship new features regularly, such as the RTMP encoder and broadcaster, new SDKs, documentation, and even things like complex benchmarks and tests. These guys know what they're doing.
3. The only hurdle with using LiveKit in production as a small team was managing and scaling the deployment. The new cloud service solves this completely. And what's more, the pricing is based on bandwidth, not participant minutes, and is actually cheaper than pretty much every other alternative (plus, if you ever get to a scale where you'd rather host LiveKit yourself, you can switch to a fully-featured open-source solution). And 100k participants in a room at the same time? Most other solutions can barely get you a thousand.
Congrats @dsa and @davidzh on the launch!
"you can seamlessly switch between self-hosted or cloud-hosted without changing a line of code." - KILLER. This is what sold me.
We're using LiveKit since months for https://unping.com - its awesome so far. And the support is outstanding. Thanks so much guys!
@pmueller Thank you Philip! It's so great seeing what you guys have built with unping.
Congrats on the launch! Does # of participants depends on what version is used?
@nadenade hey Nadezhda, thanks for the question. We've published LiveKit's SFU benchmarks here:
https://docs.livekit.io/oss/benc...
Those are for a single node that we tested using our open source load tester. The number of participants you can handle with self-hosted depends highly on your deployment setup.
LiveKit Cloud is our own deployment design, so the number of participants you see there (100K) is based on what we've stress-tested our systems against.
We've been trialing LiveKit at Gather for a few weeks now, and are hoping to ramp up more soon. Both the team and the product are extremely impressive. Clearly has been built with a lot of love by people who really care about what they're doing.
It's the ~only real-time video API that has the flexibility we want, and they've put an incredible amount of effort into making it work to the degree of reliability you need in production. Extremely cost-effective too -- pricing makes much more sense than the other API providers.
Congrats on the launch Russ :)
@kumail_jaffer wow, thanks Kumail! <3
This means so much coming from someone that's been running real-time video at scale. The team at LiveKit has really enjoyed working with you and the crew at Gather. Looking forward to a long and successful partnership!
@kumail_jaffer thanks for the vote of confidence Kumail! It's be awesome working with your team thus far. Excited to continue to collaborate!
LiveKit is awesome and the team is really great and responsive. We've been moving from Twilio to LiveKit and couldn't be happier. Glad to see that finally someone is not using the dumbed down, overpriced model that everyone else uses for billing.
@jesse_ezell thanks so much for this note! The ideas and suggestions you've shared in the community indicate how much you've thought about real-time media and have helped us improve LiveKit. Appreciate you! <3
Is it CPAAS or Open Source? Would love to experiment with it and see how end to end user experience would be.
@kavin_nallasamy LiveKit is Open Source (Apache 2.0), and. LiveKit Cloud is CPaaS. Cloud is built on top of LiveKit open source and supports all the APIs and SDKs.
This seems super awesome and I think we'll almost certainly use this for our group calls! Although, what about 1-1 calls? Do you offer a P2P solution? Currently, most of our calls use P2P and it'd be a huge added expense to have to suddenly pay for anything beyond the occasional TURN or a server as a fallback in case there's a restrictive firewall (but not as a default solution).
Up until now, our plan has been to use Mediasoup to roll out our own P2P video calling because we've had an endless number issues with Twilio, with little control to do anything about them. A huge percentage of rooms have issues, we've refactored the setup tens of times by now, we've set up all sorts of hacky workarounds and still there's frequent enough complaints that some people just can't see each other, no matter what they do.
@astor_cook Thanks Astor! We do not support P2P currently. While a number of folks have expressed interest in it, it's very difficult to fit that model into LiveKit. There are quite a bit of end-to-end coordination between the clients and SFU.
@davidzh Thank you for the quick reply and for clearing this up! We'll consider using LiveKit as a backup for when P2P fails. Thanks again!
It looks great. The product can really allow teams to focus on their own developments. Congrats on the launch!
We’ve been using Livekit Open Source since July for Vocal (https://www.getvocal.app) and we love it!
Great work by the team!
@dan_robins I had my moments of concern during our rebrand process, but my teammates have done an amazing job. I love it too! Thanks so much for your support. 🙏
@mrdntlxla Thanks for the kind words Michael! Let us know if you have any feedback.
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