api.video Video API

This developer-first video hosting and streaming platform enables teams to integrate on-demand and live video into websites, mobile apps, and software products in minutes through a single REST API. Headquartered in Paris with infrastructure powered by OVHcloud, the platform serves over 60,000 developers and processes 1 petabyte of monthly video traffic across 140-plus points of presence with 99.999 percent uptime and 0.02-second average playback start time. Enterprise customers include the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for live event broadcasting, Continental for automotive training content, Mercedes AMG Petronas for team communications, Bauer Media Group for editorial video, and BNP Paribas for financial education content. The platform accepts any input format and automatically transcodes to adaptive bitrate HLS and DASH streams optimized for every screen size and network condition. AI-powered features include automatic transcription and summarization, intelligent chapter generation, and machine-learning-based thumbnail selection. Developer integrations span 20-plus SDKs covering iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Java, Csharp, Python, Node.js, PHP, WordPress, Bubble, and Contentful, with low-code plugins for no-code platforms. A documented case study with Testlify reports a 99 percent reduction in upload drop rates after migrating to adaptive upload with resumable transfer. The free tier includes 100 gigabytes of monthly streaming with no credit card required.