About 100ms
100ms is a commercial live video infrastructure platform for developers. Its SDKs and APIs let teams embed real-time video calls and livestreaming in their apps, with a fully customizable interface and APIs to manage rooms.
Interactivity APIs add chat, whiteboard, polls and similar features on top of calls. The vendor lists use cases including video conferencing, live streaming, virtual classrooms, audio rooms, virtual events and video KYC, and industry pages for EdTech, fitness and telehealth. Prebuilt components speed up development, and comparison pages position it against Twilio, Zoom and Agora.
100ms provides documentation, examples, a GitHub presence, webinars and an API status page, and offers a free trial with a pricing page. The company also mentions building AI agents for healthcare operations under a separate brand, 100ms.ai.
Key features
- Video and audio call SDKs
- Livestreaming support
- Room management APIs
- Interactivity APIs for chat, whiteboard and polls
- Prebuilt video experience components
- Audio rooms and virtual events
Good fit for
- →Adding video calls to a telehealth app
- →Running live virtual classrooms
- Tags
- video-sdk
- live-streaming
- webrtc
- video-conferencing
- audio-rooms
- developer-tools
- edtech
100ms: questions and answers
- What is 100ms used for?
- 100ms is a video and audio SDK platform for adding live video calls, streaming, audio rooms and interactivity such as chat, whiteboard and polls to apps. It is a good fit for adding video calls to a telehealth app and running live virtual classrooms.
- Is 100ms free?
- Yes. 100ms has a free plan. A free tier includes 10,000 conferencing minutes a month. After that, conferencing costs $0.004 per participant minute plus add-on rates; high-volume discounts come through sales.
- Is 100ms open source?
- No. 100ms is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to 100ms include LiveKit and OpenVidu.
- What are some alternatives to 100ms?
- 100ms competes with Daily, Agora and Stream. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source 100ms alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to 100ms
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Apache-2.0vs Daily★ 21k
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Apache-2.0vs Daily★ 2.1k
OpenIM
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🚀 The open-source alternative to Twilio.
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Supabase
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The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to bui
Apache-2.0vs Firebase★ 111k
PocketBase
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Open Source realtime backend in 1 file
MITvs Firebase★ 61k
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ZEGOCLOUD
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