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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!
@mrdntlxla Thanks for the kind words Michael! Let us know if you have any feedback.
"you can seamlessly switch between self-hosted or cloud-hosted without changing a line of code." - KILLER. This is what sold me.
We’ve been using Livekit Open Source since July for Vocal (https://www.getvocal.app) and we love it!
Great work by the team!
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
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.
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