ApiRTC
Cloud-based WebRTC API for adding real-time video, voice, and chat to any app
About ApiRTC
ApiRTC is a cloud-based WebRTC Platform-as-a-Service by French company Apizee that lets developers embed real-time video calls, audio calls, instant messaging, screen sharing, and file transfer into web and mobile applications. It abstracts away WebRTC infrastructure (STUN/TURN, signaling, media servers) behind JavaScript, iOS, and Android SDKs, with built-in recording, whiteboard, and snapshot capabilities.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Complete real-time toolkit in one API — video, voice, chat, screen share, file transfer, recording, and whiteboard
- Genuinely free Starter tier with 1k minutes and no credit card required
- Transparent volume-based pay-per-use pricing that drops to €0.0014/min at scale
- Managed STUN/TURN and signaling infrastructure included in all plans
- European provider (France) with HIPAA/HDS-compliant hosting available for healthcare use
- Backed by Apizee, a Bouygues Telecom Entreprises subsidiary, with active W3C WebRTC working group participation
Cons
- Free Starter plan is time-limited to 4 months
- Smaller ecosystem and community than Twilio Video, Agora, or Vonage — few third-party reviews on G2
- Priority support costs extra (Silver €250/mo to Gold 24/7 €1,900/mo); free tier gets best-effort only
- SIP interconnection and compliance hosting are gated to the custom Enterprise plan
- Documentation and blog activity skew older; slower public release cadence than larger CPaaS vendors
Key Features
Video calls & conferencing
One-to-one calls, broadcast, and multi-party video conferences via a cloud media infrastructure
Audio calls
Browser-based voice calls and web audio conferences without plugins
Instant messaging
One-to-one and group text chat alongside or independent of calls
Screen sharing
Share screens with participants in real time during sessions
File transfer
Peer-to-peer file transfer over the WebRTC data channel
Recording & replay
Record conferences in the cloud and replay them on demand
Whiteboard & snapshots
Collaborate on a shared canvas and capture snapshots from local or remote video streams
Cross-platform SDKs
JavaScript library plus native iOS and Android SDKs covering major browsers and operating systems
Managed STUN/TURN infrastructure
Hosted signaling and relay servers with token-based authentication included in every plan
Pricing
- 1k monthly minutes
- 10k chat messages
- 50 concurrent users
- 10 MB media resources
- STUN & TURN included
- Voice/video/chat, conferencing, screen share, file transfer, and whiteboard APIs
- 12k monthly minutes
- 250k chat messages
- 100 concurrent users
- 500 MB media resources
- 20% discount on annual subscription
- 25k monthly minutes
- 1M chat messages
- 250 concurrent users
- 2 GB media resources
- 50k monthly minutes
- 2M chat messages
- 500 concurrent users
- 5 GB media resources
- 100k monthly minutes
- 5M chat messages
- 1,000 concurrent users
- 10 GB media resources
- Unlimited minutes, messages, and users
- SIP interconnection
- HIPAA/HDS-compliant hosting
- Pricing by user
- Tailored support
Best For
Telehealth video consultations
Embed secure, HDS/HIPAA-capable video visits between patients and practitioners directly into e-health portals.
Remote visual support for field services
Connect field technicians with remote experts via live video, snapshots, and annotation to cut downtime and truck rolls.
Video-enabled customer service
Add video, voice, chat, and co-browsing escalation to contact centers and customer journeys at key conversion moments.
Online learning and coaching
Build distance-learning platforms with multi-party video, session recording, whiteboards, and replay.
Secure advisory in banking
Offer premium customers encrypted video meetings with advisors inside existing banking apps.
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