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Livepeer

Livepeer is the open, permissionless protocol for video transcoding, streaming, and AI video inference, coordinated on Ethereum mainnet and Arbitrum One via the Livepeer Token (LPT). The company commercializes the network through Livepeer Studio (a managed REST API for live streaming, VOD, multistream, recording, rooms, access control, and AI generate) and the Livepeer AI Network, where any GPU operator can serve text-to-image, image-to-video, live video-to-video, LLM, audio-to-text, text-to-speech, upscale, and segmentation pipelines for fees settled in ETH via probabilistic micropayments. The reference Go implementation (go-livepeer), official SDKs in TypeScript, Python, and Go, the React UI Kit, the AI worker, and the Gateway are all open source under the Livepeer GitHub organization.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Livepeer the way a machine reads it — 96 machine-readable artifacts across 19 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 — Livepeer scores 65.7/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 65.7/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 9.6 / 13
Governance 5.7 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Livepeer

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Livepeer. 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 19

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.

Livepeer accessControl API

Operations related to access control/signing keys api

Livepeer asset API

Operations related to asset/vod api

Livepeer Ethereum API

Ethereum operations and token transfers

Livepeer Gateway API

Gateway/broadcaster configuration

Livepeer generate API

The generate API from Livepeer — 17 operation(s) for generate.

Livepeer Hardware API

The Hardware API from Livepeer — 2 operation(s) for hardware.

Livepeer Health API

The Health API from Livepeer — 1 operation(s) for health.

Livepeer metrics API

Operations related to metrics api

Livepeer multistream API

Operations related to multistream api

Livepeer Orchestrator API

Orchestrator configuration and management

Livepeer playback API

Operations related to playback api

Livepeer room API

Operations related to rooms api

Livepeer session API

Operations related to session api

Livepeer Staking API

Token bonding and delegation operations

Livepeer Status API

Node status and information

Livepeer stream API

Operations related to livestream api

Livepeer task API

Operations related to tasks api

Livepeer transcode API

Operations related to transcode api

Livepeer webhook API

Operations related to webhook api

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Postman Collections 4

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 4

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).

Livepeer AI Runner

OPEN COLLECTION

Livepeer AI Runner

OPEN COLLECTION

Livepeer API Reference

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 11

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Livepeer Clip a Livestream

Create a clip from a live playback ID, poll the clip task, fetch the asset.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Enable Recording on a Stream

Create a stream, enable recording via update, and confirm the change.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Import an Asset from a URL

Upload an asset from an external URL, then poll the processing task.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Inspect a Session Recording

Read a stream session and resolve its recording playback info.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Provision a Live Stream

Create a live stream, confirm it exists, and resolve its playback info.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Provision Multistream Restreaming

Create a stream and attach an inline multistream target to restream it.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Register a Stream Webhook

Create a stream then register a webhook scoped to its lifecycle events.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Secure a Stream with a Signing Key

Create a signing key, create a JWT-gated stream, and resolve playback.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Reuse a Standalone Multistream Target

Create a reusable multistream target, then bind it to a new stream by ID.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Run a Transcode Job

Submit a transcode job to S3/web3.storage and poll the task until done.

ARAZZO

Livepeer Upload and Process an Asset

Request a direct upload URL, then poll the asset and task until ready.

ARAZZO

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Pricing 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.

Livepeer Com Rate Limits

8 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Features 18

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.

Decentralized GPU network for transcoding + AI inference
LPT token live on Ethereum mainnet and Arbitrum One
Probabilistic micropayment (PM) tickets for sub-cent settlement
Livepeer Studio managed REST API with Bearer auth
Live streaming via RTMP, SRT, and WHIP ingest
Adaptive bitrate HLS + WebRTC playback
Recording, clipping, and on-demand asset hosting
Multistream simulcast to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, etc.
WebRTC rooms with optional RTMP egress
Token-gated playback via signing keys, JWT, and webhook policies
Webhooks for stream/asset/recording/task lifecycle
AI pipelines (text-to-image, image-to-video, live video-to-video, LLM, etc.)
Two AI gateways (community + Studio beta) interchangeable per request
Official TypeScript, Python (Studio + AI + Gateway), and Go SDKs
React UI Kit (Player, Broadcast) for client embedding
go-livepeer reference node for operators
NAAP plugin platform for the AI Compute Network
Open governance via Livepeer Improvement Proposals (LIPs)

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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.

Livepeer Com Context

72 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

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.

Livepeer API Rules

8 rules · 2 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Livepeer API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Livepeer API Rules

11 rules · 2 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

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.

Livepeer AI — Image-to-Video

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Livepeer AI — Text-to-Image

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Livepeer Asset

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Livepeer Stream

32 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Livepeer Task

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Livepeer Webhook

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

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.

Livepeer Platform Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Livepeer Stream Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

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.

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.

Livepeer Com Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Livepeer Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Livepeer Com Agentic Access

99 operations · 66 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop

99 operations · 66 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 10

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.

User-generated live streaming platforms (creator economy)
On-demand video platforms with low transcoding cost
Web3 / NFT video drops with on-chain provenance
Multistream restreaming to incumbent social platforms
Real-time video AI transformation (Daydream / live video-to-video)
AI avatars and embodied agents (Embody)
Open streaming infrastructure (Stream.place, Frameworks)
Generative video for marketing, advertising, and entertainment
Realtime sports / security / manufacturing video intelligence
LLM inference on decentralized GPU capacity

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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.

YouTube, Twitch, Facebook Live (multistream targets)
IPFS / Filecoin (asset storage)
Ethereum Mainnet (LPT, governance)
Arbitrum One (PM tickets, AI fee settlement)
The Graph (subgraph for Livepeer protocol)
OBS, Streamlabs, Larix, Restream (ingest tooling)
OpenAI-compatible LLM clients (via /llm endpoint)
Daydream, Embody, Frameworks, Stream.place, Storyboard (ecosystem apps)

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Livepeer — 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

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

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