100ms

100ms provides video conferencing infrastructure for embedding live video into applications — rooms, peers (participants), tracks (audio/video), templates (room configuration), and recordings. For agents, the REST API enables: creating rooms programmatically (for on-demand video sessions), generating auth tokens for participants, managing active sessions (listing rooms, kicking peers), starting/stopping recording and RTMP streaming, and querying session analytics. SDK-first for the actual RTC (React, React Native, iOS, Android, Flutter); REST for room lifecycle and control. Clean API design with good documentation. Competitive with Agora and Daily in the embedded video space. Confidence is docs-derived.

REST API at api.100ms.live/v2. Resources: rooms, sessions, peers, recordings, room_codes. POST /v2/rooms creates a room (name, template_id, region). GET /v2/rooms/{id} retrieves room config and status. POST /v2/sessions/{id}/end ends an active session. GET /v2/sessions lists sessions with filtering by room, active status. POST /v2/rooms/{id}/codes generates room codes for token-less join flows. Recording start via POST to room configuration. Response payloads are clean JSON. Pagination via limit and start params.

Management Token (JWT) auth: create JWTs signed with app_secret (from 100ms dashboard), including app_access_key claim. Token expiry recommended at 24h. POST requests include Authorization: Bearer {management_token} header. Participant auth tokens are separate (short-lived, peer-specific) generated by the agent's backend for SDK connections. App credentials (app_access_key + app_secret) from 100ms dashboard. HTTPS enforced. Token generation libraries available for Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby.

Standard HTTP status codes with JSON error responses: code (string), message, description (detailed). 401 for invalid/expired management token, 404 for missing room/session, 409 for room name conflict. Session end operation is async; GET /v2/sessions/{id} polls for ended status. Recording start failures include S3 bucket validation errors. Rate limits documented per account plan. 100ms infrastructure uptime at status.100ms.live. Regional SFU nodes for latency optimization (US, EU, IN, SG, AU).

100ms.live/docs provides a well-structured developer guide: quickstart tutorials for React/React Native/iOS/Android/Flutter, REST API reference, JWT generation guide, template configuration, recording setup, RTMP streaming, and webhooks for session events. Documentation quality is high and actively maintained. Getting started requires a 100ms account (free plan with 10,000 minutes/month). Management Token generation examples in multiple languages. Community support via Discord.