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What is OpenVidu?

OpenVidu is a self-hosted real-time video and audio stack, built on top of LiveKit and mediasoup, and developed by a team with over a decade of experience building WebRTC systems. It ships as two products:

OpenVidu Meet

OpenVidu Meet is a ready-to-use, self-hosted video conferencing application: an open-source alternative to Zoom, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet.

Using it requires no code. You deploy it and it works — rooms, recordings, chat, screen sharing and moderation included. It is also highly customizable: brand it with your own name, logo and colours, and choose which features each participant gets.

With minimal effort it embeds into your own application, through an <iframe> or the OpenVidu Meet web component, and is driven from your backend with a REST API and webhooks:

OpenVidu Platform

OpenVidu Platform is the programmable client and server SDKs for building custom WebRTC applications with low-level control over media, on top of LiveKit and mediasoup. It is API-compatible with LiveKit: any LiveKit client/server SDK works unchanged.

Both products

• Self-hosted only: deploy them on your own infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, DigitalOcean, on-premises). There is no hosted/SaaS tier: OpenVidu PRO is a paid, self-hosted edition, and the OpenVidu team offers support and consultancy.
• Advanced media features: recording, RTMP/streaming egress, AI agents (transcription, translation), virtual backgrounds, and more.

Getting started

• 📖 Documentation
• 🚀 Try it locally
• 💻 Tutorials
• 🎥 OpenVidu Meet — the ready-to-use video conferencing app (source)

Community Forum

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Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

Acknowledgments

OpenVidu has been supported under project "CPP2021-008720 NewGenVidu: An elastic, user-friendly and privacy-friendly videoconferencing platform", funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union-NextGenerationEU/PRTR.

Sponsors

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