{
  "slug": "agora",
  "name": "Agora",
  "url": "https://www.agora.io",
  "cat": "rt",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Metered RTC voice and video API",
  "price": "Free monthly: 10,000 combined RTC minutes, 1M signaling messages, 500 chat users, 300 conversational AI minutes. RTC $0.59 per 1,000 minutes; recording $0.99 per 1,000; speech-to-text $16.99 per 1,000; real-time translation $8.99 per 1,000 per language. Analytics add-on from $449/mo",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Global realtime engagement platform selling voice, video, interactive live streaming, signaling and chat as metered minutes across its own software-defined network. Video is priced by resolution tier, so standard definition costs materially less than Full HD or 2K. Notably strong routing and presence across Asia, including mainland China.",
  "why": "Cheapest headline per-minute rate among the large video vendors and the broadest platform SDK coverage, including Unity and Electron. Its interactive live-streaming mode handles one host plus thousands of viewers, which a plain SFU room cannot.",
  "warn": "Minutes are aggregated and priced by resolution tier, so a 1080p multi-party call bills at several times the advertised standard-definition rate — read the resolution table before modelling costs. The SDK surface is large and the docs are dense next to Daily or LiveKit.",
  "install": "npm i agora-rtc-sdk-ng",
  "category": {
    "key": "rt",
    "name": "Realtime, comments & collab",
    "desc": "Live updates, comment systems, video, community.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.agora.io/en/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}