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  "slug": "livekit",
  "name": "LiveKit",
  "url": "https://livekit.com",
  "cat": "rt",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Open-source WebRTC SFU + cloud",
  "price": "Cloud Build free: 5,000 WebRTC minutes/mo, 100 concurrent connections, 1,000 agent session minutes. Ship from $50/mo (150,000 WebRTC minutes then $0.0005/min, 1,000 connections). Scale from $500/mo (1.5M minutes, 5,000 connections). Self-hosting free and open source",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Open-source WebRTC selective forwarding unit with a managed global cloud layered on top. Handles multi-party video and audio rooms, screen share, server-side recording, HLS and RTMP egress for broadcasting out, and SIP telephony ingress. Its agents framework adds server-side participants for realtime AI voice.",
  "why": "The only serious option that is both a credible hosted product and fully self-hostable, so you can prototype on cloud and move in-house when minutes get expensive. HLS egress turns a four-person panel into a public livestream.",
  "warn": "WebRTC minutes bill per participant, so a 500-viewer live event burns 500 minutes per wall-clock minute — push large audiences to HLS egress rather than into the room. Self-hosting means running TURN servers and scaling the SFU yourself.",
  "install": "npm i livekit-client @livekit/components-react",
  "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://livekit.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
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}