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VideoSDK
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Developer APIs and SDKs to embed real-time voice, video, live streaming, and AI voice agents into web and mobile apps.
164K visits/mo
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Gladia
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Speech-to-text API infrastructure with multilingual real-time and batch transcription for building voice products.
211K visits/mo
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Airbyte
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Open-source data-movement platform now adding a context/action layer for AI agents; 600+ connectors and flexible pricing.
222K visits/mo
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Tinybird
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Managed ClickHouse platform giving developers hosted ingestion and query APIs to ship real-time analytics products fast.
104K visits/mo
Pricing
Pay-As-You-Go: audio from $0.001/min
Pay-As-You-Go: video from $0.004/min
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Agents Free: $0/mo (1000 AOs)
Agents Individual: $29/mo (5000 AOs)
Agents Team: $299/mo (10,000 AOs)
Data Standard: from $10/mo
Data Plus: from $500/mo
Free: $0/mo (0.25 vCPUs, 1k requests/day, 10GB storage)
Developer: $49/mo (0.5 vCPUs, 25GB storage, 2 replicas)
Core features
- ✦Audio and video calling APIs and SDKs
- ✦Interactive live streaming APIs and SDKs
- ✦AI voice agent integration
- ✦Web and mobile platform support
- ✦Pay-as-you-go pricing with one-time $20 free credit
- ✦Fully managed TiDB service
- ✦Easy deployment on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud
- ✦Scalable and reliable MySQL-compatible database
- ✦Elastic scaling of storage, transactional, and analytical workloads
- ✦Robust security compliance (SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001/27701, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA)
- ✦Real-time multilingual speech-to-text (<300ms)
- ✦Batch/async transcription
- ✦Solaria speech models
- ✦Key-entity capture and enrichment
- ✦EU data residency
- ✦Free tier and playground
- ✦600+ data connectors
- ✦ELT replication and CDC
- ✦Open-source and managed cloud options
- ✦Airbyte Agents context store (MCP/SDK/CLI)
- ✦Capacity- and volume-based pricing
- ✦Governance: SSO, RBAC, encryption
- ✦Managed, hosted ClickHouse database
- ✦Sub-second SQL query APIs
- ✦Kafka and other data connectors
- ✦Safe, zero-downtime schema migrations
- ✦Git-based branching with zero-copy prod data
- ✦SOC 2 Type II enterprise security
Use cases
- →Embedding video and audio calling into web and mobile apps
- →Adding interactive live streaming to a platform
- →Building AI voice agent experiences into products
- →Building mission-critical applications requiring scalable and reliable databases
- →Managing and scaling transactional and analytical workloads
- →Deploying databases across multiple cloud providers and regions
- →Ensuring data security and compliance with industry standards
- →Transcribe voice-agent and contact-center calls
- →Power meeting-assistant note taking
- →Generate subtitles and media transcripts
- →Build voice products on one API
- →Building data pipelines to warehouses
- →Syncing SaaS data for analytics
- →Giving AI agents live business context
- →Building real-time analytics dashboards
- →Powering in-app usage or event analytics
- →Streaming Kafka topics into query-ready tables
- →Letting AI coding agents build and deploy analytics
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