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Red5

Red5 provides real-time streaming infrastructure for live video and audio delivery at scale. The Red5 Pro platform includes a media server, Stream Manager 2.0 for autoscaling cloud deployments, the Brew Mixer for composite stream production, a Restreamer for pushing live streams to social media and RTMP destinations, and WebRTC and native SDKs for browser and mobile integration. Red5 APIs enable programmatic management of streams, mixers, restreaming, cluster orchestration, and node monitoring. Use cases include live events, sports broadcasting, interactive video, gaming, surveillance, and enterprise communications requiring ultra-low latency streaming.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Red5 the way a machine reads it — 37 machine-readable artifacts across 17 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 — Red5 scores 52.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (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 — 52.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Red5

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Red5. 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 17

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.

Red5 Pro Server API

The Red5 Pro Server API is an HTTP-based REST API for gathering server, application, client, and stream statistics from a running Red5 Pro instance. It exposes endpoints for ser...

Red5 Pro WebRTC SDK

The Red5 Pro WebRTC SDK is a JavaScript library for integrating low-latency live streaming publish and subscribe capabilities into web applications. It supports WHIP for WebRTC ...

Red5 Core SDK

The Red5 Core SDK is a native client library for building real-time streaming applications on Linux, Windows, and macOS desktop platforms. It offers interfaces for server connec...

Red5 Pro iOS Streaming SDK

The Red5 Pro iOS Streaming SDK is a native iOS library for integrating real-time live streaming publish and subscribe capabilities into iOS applications. It supports H.264 video...

Red5 Pro Android Streaming SDK

The Red5 Pro Android Streaming SDK is a native Android library for integrating real-time live streaming publish and subscribe capabilities into Android applications. It supports...

Red5 Admin API

Node metrics, system info, and autoscaling management

Red5 Applications API

Application scope statistics and management

Red5 File Restreamer API

Restream recorded FLV or MP4 files as pseudo-live streams

Red5 Images API

Image overlay management for mixer sessions

Red5 Inputs API

Input stream management for mixer sessions

Red5 Logs API

Server log access endpoints

Red5 Mixers API

Mixer session lifecycle management

Red5 Provision API

Stream provisioning, authentication, and configuration

Red5 Proxy API

WHIP, WHEP, and WebSocket proxy endpoints

Red5 RTMP Restreamer API

Configure RTMP and RTMPS push/pull restreaming

Red5 Servlet Configuration API

Server-level restreamer plugin configuration

Red5 Streams API

Live stream enumeration, statistics, and control

Scroll within the panel for all 17 ·

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).

Red5 Pro Brew Mixer API

OPEN COLLECTION

Red5 Pro Restreamer API

OPEN COLLECTION

Red5 Pro Server API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Red5 Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

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.

Red5 Rate Limits

2 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.

Red5 Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Red5 Pro WebRTC Streaming Events

AsyncAPI specification for the Red5 Pro WebRTC streaming event system, covering WebSocket signaling messages exchanged during publish and subscribe sessions. Red5 Pro WebRTC use...

ASYNCAPI

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.

Red5 Context

0 classes · 9 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.

Red5 API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

Red5 API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Red5 API Rules

11 rules · 3 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Red5 Pro Restream Provision

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Red5 Pro Stream

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON 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.

Red5 Stream Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

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.

Red5 Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Red5 Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · 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.

Red5 Agentic Access

35 operations · 18 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

35 operations · 18 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Red5 — 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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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