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LiveKit — self-hostable WebRTC SFU for realtime audio, video, and data between people and AI

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Stars
20,984
Primary language
Go
License
Apache-2.0
Repository last updated
Sep 18, 2026

Overview

LiveKit is an open-source realtime media server/SFU for WebRTC audio, video, and data. Applications organize participants and AI into rooms and can run on self-hosted infrastructure or LiveKit Cloud. The latest release checked is v1.13.7.

Features and best fit

Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:

Route multi-party WebRTC media through an SFU

The server forwards participant media efficiently for conferencing, voice rooms, and realtime AI experiences.

Sources: [2]

Scale with Redis and production networking such as TURN

Deployments can grow from a local node to clustered infrastructure with Redis and TURN-aware networking.

Sources: [2]

For products that need a programmable realtime media layer

It fits conferencing and voice-AI applications that want to avoid building signaling/SFU infrastructure from scratch.

Sources: [2]

Separate the media server from recording, SIP, ingest, and agent components

The broader LiveKit stack includes separate Egress, Ingress, SIP, and Agents services. Self-hosters also own bandwidth, NAT/TURN, certificate/key, Redis, and scaling operations. LiveKit server is Apache-2.0.

Sources: [2][3][4]

Official sources

  1. [1]livekit/livekit repository(2026-09-18)
  2. [2]LiveKit README(2026-09-18)
  3. [3]LiveKit LICENSE(2026-09-18)
  4. [4]LiveKit v1.13.7 release(2026-09-18)
Supplemental curator note

`livekit/livekit` is the core realtime media server in the wider LiveKit stack. Recording/ingest, SIP, and AI Agents use separate components, so the repository should not be credited with every LiveKit product capability.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/livekit/livekit.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd livekit
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

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GitHub Topics

  • golang
  • webrtc
  • sfu
  • media-server
  • video
  • voice
  • voice-ai
Stars
20,984
Forks
2,349
Watchers
181
Open issues
120
Primary language
Go
License
Apache-2.0
Repository last updated
Sep 18, 2026
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