Agora, Inc. API

Company Overview

Agora, Inc. is a real-time engagement platform company that provides cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions enabling developers to embed real-time voice, video, interactive live streaming, and messaging capabilities into applications. The company operates primarily in the real-time communications (RTC) and interactive live engagement segments of the broader cloud software and developer platform industry. Its core customers include application developers, technology companies, and enterprises building social media, live commerce, online education, gaming, telehealth, and enterprise collaboration applications.

The company’s primary revenue drivers are usage-based fees derived from real-time voice and video minutes and messaging services consumed by customers. Agora is positioned as a developer-first infrastructure provider, emphasizing low latency, global scalability, and ease of integration through application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs). Founded in 2013 by Tony Zhao, Agora began as a Silicon Valley-based startup focused on real-time voice technology and expanded globally before completing its initial public offering in 2020, marking its transition into a publicly traded global cloud platform provider.