Apivideo

api.video provides video infrastructure delivered as an API, letting product teams add on-demand video and low-latency live streaming to websites, software and mobile apps. The platform covers the full pipeline: ingesting any video format, encoding it for playback across devices, storing and managing assets, distributing them through an HTML5 player and a global CDN, and reporting engagement analytics.

The REST API, hosted at ws.api.video, exposes endpoints for videos (create, upload, chunked and delegated token upload, thumbnails, status, discarded videos), live streams (create, update, thumbnails, completion), captions, chapters, player themes, tags, upload tokens, watermarks, webhooks, and analytics (aggregated metrics, metrics breakdowns and metrics over time). Built-in AI features expose video transcription and summarization through a summaries endpoint, so those capabilities can be invoked with a single API call rather than through separate third-party services.

The company distributes official client libraries and SDKs across many stacks, including Swift/iOS/macOS/tvOS, Java, Go, Python, Node.js, PHP, Kotlin/Android, React Native, Flutter and a browser player SDK, alongside low-code plugins and an API client generator based on OpenAPI codegen. Client libraries handle file chunking, pagination and token refresh on behalf of the developer, and a sandbox environment is available in addition to production.

Business model

B2B developer platform sold as a self-service API with usage-based pricing and volume discounts; a free tier is available without a credit card.

Usage-based pricing on video services, with volume discounts, entered through self-service sign-up and paid by card.

Traction

The company states that 60,000 developers and digital agencies build on api.video, that the platform serves one petabyte of traffic monthly and reports 99.999% uptime. Public customer references include Testlify, Jobylon and HackU. Its GitHub organization hosts 99 public repositories of client libraries, SDKs and demos.

Latest developments

Recent product surface includes a summaries API for AI-generated video summaries and an analytics API with aggregated, breakdown and time-series metrics, exposed in client library versions such as the Swift client 1.3.7, Java client 1.4.7 and Python client 1.4.7.