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- Stream is a developer platform of hosted APIs and UI SDKs for adding in-app chat, video and audio calling, activity feeds, and content moderation to your own product.
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- It covers React, iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Unity and Unreal clients plus server SDKs in Node, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP and .NET, with a moderation workspace for text, image, video and audio content.
- Best for
- Product and engineering teams that want to buy real-time social infrastructure (chat, video, feeds, moderation) instead of building it, especially those shipping across multiple client platforms or needing enterprise compliance.
- Pricing
- Stream earns through SaaS subscription tiers plus overage fees, not commissions, spreads, gas, or lockups.
More detail
- Chat: free Build tier at 1,000 MAU
- Start $399/mo billed annually or $499/mo monthly for 10,000 MAU and 500 concurrent connections
- Elevate $599/mo annual or $675/mo monthly adding multi-tenanc
- Main limitation
- Teams without their own backend auth server in production, since user tokens must be signed server-side.
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- Also a poor fit for small, price-sensitive apps and for anyone expecting a finished consumer app or no-code product.
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About
- Stream is a developer platform of hosted APIs and UI SDKs for adding in-app chat, video and audio calling, activity feeds, and content moderation to your own product.
- It covers React, iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Unity and Unreal clients plus server SDKs in Node, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP and .NET, with a moderation workspace for text, image, video and audio content.
What it helps with
- Build-versus-buy for real-time infrastructure: teams avoid building WebSocket messaging, storage, calling and moderation
- Cross-platform delivery: one set of users, tokens, webhooks and permissions serves chat, video, feeds and moderation acr
- Scale pressure: the provider claims 1B+ end users, 5M concurrent users per channel and 20B+ API calls per month.
- Content safety operations: review queues, no-code rule building, enforcement actions and audit logs for user-generated c
- Compliance needs: ISO 27001:2022, SOC2 Type II, ISO 20243, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and DPF posture, with HIPAA on paid tiers.
- Faster agent-assisted development via Stream CLI and Agent Skills for coding agents.
Capabilities
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| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| In-app chat messaging | Yes | Channels, threads, reactions and offline support with UI kits and SDKs. |
| Video and audio calling / livestreaming | Yes | Calls, audio rooms and livestreaming on Stream's global edge network. |
| Activity feeds | Yes | Social timelines, notification feeds, follows, comments, reactions, ranking and aggregation. |
| Content moderation | Yes | AI and rule-based moderation for text, image, video and audio, with review queues; 50+ languages. |
| Free tier | Yes | Chat Build tier 1,000 MAU; Feeds free tier 125,000 API calls and 5,000 activities. |
| Self-serve production without own backend | No | Production requires signing user tokens with your API secret on your server; developer tokens are prototype-only. |
| Finished consumer app or no-code product | No | Stream sells infrastructure APIs and SDKs, not an end-user application. |
| Published Video and Moderation tier prices | Unknown | Specific tier pricing was not retrieved; pages link from site navigation. |
| Bug bounty program | No | Stream states it does not currently have a bug bounty program; monetary rewards are not guaranteed. |
| Uptime SLA | Limited | 99.999% SLA is positioned as an Enterprise-tier feature. |
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