Agora
Agora is a real-time engagement platform providing ultra-low latency voice, video, signaling, chat, interactive whiteboard, cloud recording, real-time speech-to-text, and conversational AI infrastructure for human-to-human and human-to-AI interactions. The platform powers approximately 80 billion communication minutes monthly across 3+ billion devices, serving 1,800+ organizations including Whatnot, The Sandbox, Education First, Talkspace, HTC Vive, and Unity Technologies.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Agora the way a machine reads it — 42 machine-readable artifacts across 11 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Agora scores 37.6/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 15/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Agora
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Agora. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 11
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Agora Video Calling API
The Agora Video Calling API enables real-time, interactive video communication with sub-200ms global latency. Supports one-to-one calls, group calls, and multi-host scenarios ac...
Agora Voice Calling API
The Agora Voice Calling API embeds high-quality real-time voice chat into any application. Provides crystal-clear audio with AI noise suppression, echo cancellation, and adaptiv...
Agora Interactive Live Streaming API
The Agora Interactive Live Streaming API powers ultra-low latency live streaming with interactive multi-host capabilities for audiences of any size. Supports live shopping, soci...
Agora Broadcast Streaming API
The Agora Broadcast Streaming API supports one-way large-scale content distribution with optimized bandwidth for audience-only scenarios such as town halls, concerts, sports bro...
Agora Signaling API (RTM)
The Agora Signaling API (formerly Real-Time Messaging / RTM) provides real-time low-latency synchronization of metadata, presence, channel events, point-to-point messages, and s...
Agora Conversational AI Engine API
The Agora Conversational AI Engine enables building voice-enabled AI agents with sub-second response times by integrating any LLM, ASR, and TTS provider into Agora's real-time v...
Agora Chat API
The Agora Chat API provides scalable in-app messaging with one-to-one chat, group chat, chat rooms, threads, reactions, attachments, push notifications, and moderation. Built fo...
Agora Interactive Whiteboard API
The Agora Interactive Whiteboard API embeds collaborative real-time digital whiteboards for drawing, annotation, presentation, PPT/PDF rendering, and shared cursor experiences. ...
Agora Cloud Recording API
The Agora Cloud Recording API records voice, video, and interactive live streaming sessions to cloud storage (AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, Alibaba OSS, Qiniu, Tence...
Agora Real-Time Speech-to-Text API
The Agora Real-Time Speech-to-Text API provides streaming transcription and real-time translation across multiple languages, with captions delivered into Agora RTC channels. Use...
Agora Analytics API
The Agora Analytics API surfaces quality, performance, and usage metrics for all RTC, signaling, chat, and recording sessions. Provides call inspector, real-time dashboards, geo...
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Features 9
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Ultra-Low Latency
Sub-200ms global latency for responsive real-time voice, video, and signaling on a software-defined real-time network spanning 200+ data centers across 200+ countries.
99.999% Uptime SLA
Five-nines uptime guarantee with 24/7 monitoring and incident response across the global Agora SD-RTN network.
AI Noise Suppression
Deep-learning audio enhancement that isolates human speech and removes background noise, keyboard clicks, and ambient interference.
3D Spatial Audio
Positional audio rendering that places voices in 3D space for immersive social, gaming, and virtual world experiences.
Live Avatar Synthesis
Real-time avatar animation synchronized to speech audio, enabling generative video personas for AI agents and human speakers.
Real-Time Transcription and Translation
Streaming speech-to-text and live cross-language translation delivered into RTC channels as captions.
Cross-Platform SDKs
First-party SDKs for iOS, Android, Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, Unity, Unreal Engine, Flutter, React Native, Electron, and embedded devices.
Enterprise Compliance
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, and regional residency support for regulated workloads.
No-Code App Builder and UI Kits
Drop-in UI Kit and visual App Builder that let teams launch RTE experiences without writing custom signaling or media plumbing.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 8
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Telehealth and Remote Care
HIPAA-aligned video visits, secure messaging, and AI-assisted clinical workflows between patients and providers.
Live Shopping and Commerce
Interactive live streams with co-host promotion, shoppable overlays, and real-time engagement for marketplaces like Whatnot.
Online Education and EdTech
Virtual classrooms, breakout rooms, shared whiteboards, and recorded lessons used by Education First and global learning platforms.
Real-Time Gaming and Virtual Worlds
Proximity voice, team chat, and 3D spatial audio for multiplayer games, metaverse platforms like The Sandbox, and VR experiences on HTC Vive.
Media, Entertainment, and Social Audio
Drop-in audio rooms, fan engagement broadcasts, watch parties, and creator livestreams.
Customer Support and Contact Center
Voice, video, and chat support channels with recording, transcription, and AI agent escalation.
Conversational AI Voice Agents
LLM-powered phone and in-app voice agents with sub-second latency, used for sales, support, and companion applications.
IoT and Embedded Communications
Low-bandwidth, low-power voice and video for doorbells, intercoms, robotics, and connected devices.
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Integrations 8
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
OpenAI Realtime API
Reference integration combining Agora's RTC layer with OpenAI's Realtime API for voice agents, published as openai-realtime-python.
Anthropic Claude
Conversational AI Engine integration with Claude models for natural-language voice agents and enterprise assistants.
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Storage
Cloud Recording targets for video, audio, and composite session archives across major cloud storage providers.
Alibaba OSS, Qiniu, Tencent COS
Additional regional cloud storage targets for recording and content delivery in APAC.
WordPress
Official Agora Video for WordPress plugin for embedding live broadcast and video conferencing in posts and pages.
Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk
CRM and helpdesk integrations for contact center and customer engagement workflows.
WeChat Mini Programs
Embedded Agora SDKs that run inside WeChat Mini Program runtimes for China-market deployments.
Unity and Unreal Engine
Native engine plugins for in-game voice, video, and signaling.
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Solutions 4
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Real-Time Engagement Platform
Unified voice, video, signaling, chat, recording, and analytics for any human-to-human interactive experience.
Conversational AI Platform
End-to-end stack for building voice AI agents with avatar, ASR, LLM, TTS, and noise suppression provided as a managed pipeline.
Live Streaming and Broadcast
One-to-many and interactive many-to-many live streaming with CDN egress and recording.
Embedded and IoT RTE
Optimized SDKs for low-resource devices and embedded systems.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Agora — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 19
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
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