Vonage Video API: Build Scalable Live Video Experiences That Convert
Integrating high-quality, real-time video into digital experiences has become a strategic priority for organizations across industries. Customers expect seamless interactivity, whether they are meeting with a doctor, joining a virtual classroom, collaborating with a colleague, or engaging with thousands during a live event. Yet many teams struggle with fragmented technologies, complex infrastructure, and the rising expectations of users who now judge video quality as quickly as they judge web or mobile performance.
Vonage Video API
The Vonage Video API removes these barriers by providing developers and product teams with a complete API for interactive video applications—from small-group sessions to large-scale broadcasts. It supports fully custom experiences, low-code and no-code deployment paths, and a deep portfolio of AI capabilities that elevate accessibility, engagement, and operational efficiency.
Vonage Video API is a global, real-time video platform that allows teams to embed live video into web, mobile, and desktop applications with robust tooling, enterprise-grade security, and advanced media processing features.
By adopting the Vonage Video API, organizations can deliver more personalized, interactive, and scalable video experiences while reducing development complexity. The platform enables crafting tailored workflows, incorporating AI throughout the video lifecycle, and reaching audiences from one-to-one interactions to large-scale live events.
Vonage is also a recognized CPaaS leader, earning a Customers’ Choice distinction in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer™ for CPaaS, with a 93% Willingness to Recommend—reinforcing its credibility for mission-critical communications (source: Gartner Peer Insights). Teams benefit from the platform’s global architecture, ability to compose entire application experiences, and visibility into usage and quality metrics.
Key Features of the Vonage Video API
The following features give developers and businesses the capabilities needed to build modern, interactive video applications across industries.
- Advanced Insights: Provides deep usage and quality-of-service analytics, enabling teams to understand user behaviors, identify performance trends, and integrate insights into operational systems for optimization.
- AI Tools: Includes the Audio Connector for extracting audio streams for machine-learning engines, and Media Processor for applying ML-driven audio and video effects such as background blur, spotlighting, surround sound, or echo cancellation.
- Compliance Architecture: Provides security and privacy controls aligned with WebRTC standards, as well as enhanced capabilities such as end-to-end encryption, firewall controls, and compliance support for healthcare, finance, and other regulated environments.
- Experience Composer: Captures not only streams but the entire interactive application experience, enabling rich recording, live event broadcasting, and scalable sessions with advanced composition.
- Interactive Broadcast: Supports up to 16,000 real-time participants with additional streaming to millions using WebRTC, HLS/LL-HLS, or RTMP, delivering high-quality events up to 1080p.
- Low-Code/No-Code Options: Offers faster paths to deployment for teams wanting to add video rapidly without deep engineering investment, including prebuilt components and guided workflows.
- Video API: Delivers complete control for building purpose-built video applications with customizable workflows, branding, layout control, and advanced real-time interactivity across devices.
Together, these features form a flexible, highly scalable foundation for everything from telehealth consultations and virtual events to customer support interactions and learning platforms.
Teams working with the Vonage Video API gain a complete ecosystem—one that makes it easier to develop, refine, and scale interactive experiences without the overhead typically associated with real-time media infrastructure.
Ready to Build?
Developers begin by creating a Vonage account and accessing the Video API dashboard, where they can launch sample projects, generate API keys, and explore platform documentation. Vonage provides SDKs for web, iOS, Android, and desktop applications, helping teams integrate quickly while following established best practices for session creation, publishing, and subscribing to streams, and managing events. For organizations migrating from another provider, Vonage offers dedicated migration guides for Web, iOS, and Android to accelerate the transition with minimal disruption.
Vonage makes it possible to experiment immediately. You can start building interactive video applications with free credit and explore low-code, AI-powered, and fully customizable options.
