Ant Media
Ant Media Server is a scalable, open-source media server for ultra-low latency live streaming and WebRTC-based video applications. It supports WebRTC, RTMP, RTSP, SRT, HLS, and CMAF protocols, enabling developers to build real-time video applications with sub-second latency. Available in Community (open-source) and Enterprise editions with adaptive bitrate streaming, cloud auto-scaling, video recording, and REST API management.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Ant Media the way a machine reads it — 28 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — Ant Media scores 57.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (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.
How we profile Ant Media
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Ant Media. 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 6
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.
Ant Media Server REST API
The Ant Media Server REST API provides programmatic access to all streaming server management functions including stream management, broadcast configuration, recording control, ...
Ant Media Broadcasts API
The Broadcasts API from Ant Media — 45 operation(s) for broadcasts.
Ant Media Filters API
The Filters API from Ant Media — 7 operation(s) for filters.
Ant Media Push Notification API
The Push Notification API from Ant Media — 3 operation(s) for push notification.
Ant Media Version API
The Version API from Ant Media — 1 operation(s) for version.
Ant Media Vods API
The Vods API from Ant Media — 8 operation(s) for vods.
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Ant Media Server REST API Reference
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Ant Media Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Ant Media Finops
FINOPSFeatures 6
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 WebRTC Streaming
Achieve sub-500ms latency with WebRTC-based publish and play, enabling real-time interactive video applications like auctions, gaming, and telehealth.
Multi-Protocol Support
Ingest and deliver streams via RTMP, RTSP, SRT, WebRTC, HLS, CMAF, and LL-HLS, supporting a wide range of encoders and players.
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
Automatically transcode streams to multiple bitrate/resolution ladders and deliver the optimal quality based on viewer bandwidth.
Video Recording and VoD
Record live streams to MP4 or HLS on local disk or cloud storage, creating video-on-demand assets from live broadcasts automatically.
Cluster and Auto-Scaling
Deploy Ant Media Server in horizontal cluster mode with auto-scaling on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud for high-concurrency events.
REST API Management
Full programmatic control of streams, broadcasts, conferences, and server settings via a comprehensive REST API.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Ant Media Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Ant Media API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 1
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Broadcast
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Ant Media Broadcast Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 1
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Ant Media Broadcast Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 1
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.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 5
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 Consultations
Enable HIPAA-compliant real-time video consultations between patients and healthcare providers with sub-second latency.
Live E-Commerce and Auctions
Power interactive live shopping experiences and real-time bidding platforms with low-latency video and chat.
E-Learning and Virtual Classrooms
Deliver interactive live lectures, webinars, and virtual classrooms with two-way video and screen sharing.
Gaming and Esports Broadcasting
Broadcast gaming sessions and esports events with RTMP ingest from OBS and HLS/WebRTC delivery to viewers at scale.
Video Surveillance
Ingest RTSP streams from IP cameras and provide browser-based WebRTC viewing with recording and motion detection.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Ant Media — 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 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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