Agora’s sub-second channel-switching time creates a seamless real time video streaming viewing experience. Fast initial frame rendering, and channel creation deliver real-time, seamless video.
Dual video live streams
When serving a large audience with mixed devices and network bandwidth conditions, take advantage of Agora’s optional dual-video streaming to deliver video at both high and low bitrates.
AI-powered audio enhancements
Easily add AI audio features including Real-Time Speech to Text, 3D Spatial Audio, AI Noise Suppression, and more.
Cross-channel co-hosting
Share the stream between up to four channels to create competitions or co-host modes among hosts from different channels.
Screen sharing and recording
While streaming live video, hosts can share their entire screen, a specific area or a single tab.
Easy-to-add extensions
Integrate engaging AI-powered features like AR facial masks, beautification, and more with just a click and a few
lines of code.
Get dedicated expert help when you need it
Experience greater scalability, performance and operational efficiency — from 1:1 consultation, issue classification, to strategic production escalation and more, we’ve got you covered. Our dedicated team of experts is committed to delivering an unparalleled support experience.
One real-time view
for the metrics that
matter the most
Use a single dashboard to monitor every active session around the world. Track the metrics that are most
important to you, from concurrent users and channels to network latency and so much more.
With Interactive Whiteboard, you can build a collaborative app fast—with custom branding and full of features. Our platform makes it easy to create a customized and engaging learning environment.
Flexible APIs support custom branding and extensive digital whiteboard features.
Easily integrate real-time voice and video calling, interactive streaming and signaling.
Save users’ bandwidth by preloading, sharing, and annotating files, and retain all the dynamic content.
And have peace of mind with HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA compliance.
See OpenAI's Realtime API in action
Bring real-time voice and video to a massive audience
Interactive Live Streaming’s ultra-low latency voice and video streaming API enables you to live stream real-time audio and video communication between multiple parties to a large audience.
Allow hosts and audience members to connect
Allow a select group to communicate via real-time video or audio and broadcast to a large audience with Broadcast Streaming. Stream video or audio communication between multiple hosts or seamlessly promote selected audience members to speak with the hosts.
Allow hosts and audience members to connect
Create a unique and engaging virtual experience
Use Agora’s vast selection of extensions like AI Noise Suppression, AR Facial Masks, and 3D Spatial Audio to enhance the interactive audio and video stream. Allow a larger audience to interact and engage with the stream via real-time chat, emoji reactions, and virtual gifting.
Create a unique and engaging virtual experience
Stream with ultra-low latency
Stream with the lowest latency levels, without stutters, buffering, or other delays—using Agora’s global network built for real-time streaming. Track quality of experience (QoE) and performance to immediately identify and resolve any issues so end users experience perfectly synchronized, high-quality video and audio with seamless transitions.
Stream with ultra-low latency
Recording options for:
Cloud recording
Store, retrieve and share recordings in the cloud.
Directly push media streams into Agora voice and video channels using the RTMP/SRT protocol and enable advanced transcoding processing on media streams to facilitate distribution.
Enable the power of voice to create a better user experience with fast, accurate, automated transcription and subtitling services. Powered by cutting-edge AI that ensures the highest accuracy even with crosstalk and poor network conditions.
Build and integrate real-time visual collaboration features into your application with the most flexibility and full customization using Agora's Interactive Whiteboard SDK.
Agora is certified to the ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701 and SOC 2 security standards and meets privacy regulations like GDPR, CCAP, COPPA, and HIPAA. Agora doesn’t collect or store any end-user data aside from Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and operational information necessary for providing our services.
ISO 27001:2022
ISO 27017:2015
ISO 27018:2019
ISO 27701:2019
HIPAA
GDPR
SOC2 Type1&2
CCPA
COPPA
Use cases
Make any interactive live stream more engaging
Regardless of your use case, Agora’s Interactive Live Streaming, offers flexible customization, ease of implementation, and reliable network quality to provide your users with a fantastic experience.
Whether conducting small, intimate lectures or streaming to thousands of students worldwide, live Broadcast Streaming from Agora scales seamlessly, while enabling interactions like chat, breakout sessions, whiteboards and more.
Virtual Events
Broadcast discussions or events with celebrity hosts or influencers to a large, dispersed audience with an interactive video platform optimized for real-time engagement.
Watch Parties
Watch Parties
eCommerce
Engage social shoppers and build brand loyalty. Agora’s broadcast API allows product experts to lead customers on a buying journey, exploring options and features and answering their questions live.
Social
Allow users to live-stream themselves, watch others live-stream, play games, and send virtual gifts. Agora’s global SD-RTN™ network’s extremely low latency supports seamless real-time video experiences with no jitter or lag anywhere in the world.
Media and Entertainment
Agora’s real-time network provides the reliability and quality necessary for a global, live-streaming event while enabling support for unlimited participants.
Fastboard
Easily build and integrate Agora’s Interactive Whiteboard with our newest Fastboard SDK that delivers all the same whiteboard features with a pre-built UI and the ability to include custom plug ins.
"Agora's customizable APIs allowed us to optimize real-time connectivity and network traffic while reducing latency to milliseconds during live streaming and interactive sessions between creators and fans."
Saurabh Singh Kushwah
Co-Founder, Fanory
"Implementing Agora has been a game changer for KUMU, helping us to dramatically increase in-app engagement with a 30% increase in session time and 78% increase in users sending tips to streamers."