API Platform
Vendors: Daily
This is an example of what you can expect to find for
each vendor covered in the Choosing a WebRTC API
Platform report, courtesy of Daily.
The following four pages include the information
covering Daily’s capabilities related to WebRTC.
The full report covers the following active vendors:
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Daily vendor information
Daily
At a glance
Focus Fastest time to value for teams adding video to web applications
Reference • Focusmate (focusmate.com)
Customers • Kumospace (kumospace.com)
• Pitch (pitch.com)
• Study Together (studytogether.com)
• Y Combinator (ycombinator.com)
History & Founded in 2016, first launching hardware product then software.
Pedigree Launched self-service API in 2019. Video API for developers is its sole
product focus
Main office San Francisco, CA (United States)
Size 70 employees
Financials Raised $60M+ USD to date
Interesting stat Longest continuous customer video call ever hosted: 93 days
Data centers
Consider when looking to go to market rapidly with full featured video
Skip if you need strong PSTN capabilities
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Overview
Daily has built on WebRTC since its founding in 2016, first building out hardware and
software products on its cloud infrastructure. After introducing APIs to its platform in 2018,
it made these APIs self-service in 2019. The company's original experience serving end
users as customers enables Daily to understand the challenges of developers who need
to build complete communications experiences.
There are two paths for developers and product owners to take. You can build on Daily’s
video SDK or leverage Daily Prebuilt. This low-code embeddable video call interface
makes it possible to easily add video call features to an existing web or mobile application.
The prebuilt component includes standard video call features like grid and active speaker
layout options, input device selection, rich-text chat, recording, hand-raise, flying emoji
reactions, call access control, automatic bandwidth management, HIPAA compliance,
and localized interface text in 14+ languages. Daily is releasing customization options for
the Prebuilt product, including a custom layout where the developer can specify how
many tiles to show, paginate or scroll the participant's videos, use active speakers or pin
participants, and lastly, custom color theming, where developers can customize colors of
the video call UI.
Daily consistently posts developer tutorials to its blog and offers support at every price
tier, as well as enterprise SLAs.
In the last 2 years, Daily has doubled down on meeting sizes, now allowing customers
to build dynamic, interactive live streaming experiences for 25,000 participants with up
to 25 active speakers or 1,000-person calls, all with open mics and cameras. Daily lets
developers build animated graphics, custom layouts, and event-driven components into
multi-party live streams and recorded content.
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Features and Capabilities
Basics
1
Voice Yes Daily Prebuilt product offering
Video Yes
Screen Sharing Yes
Chat Yes
Prebuilt Yes1
Footprint
iOS SDK Yes2 2,3
Based on React Native. Native Swift/ObjC,
Android SDK Yes3 Kotlin/JNI and Flutter upcoming (Dec 2022)
4
PC SDK Yes4 Electron based
Media Processing (Server)
Group Voice Yes No distinction between voice and video conferencing
Group Video Yes Routing based; 1,000 participants with open cameras
Broadcast Yes 25,000 viewers; 1,000 open cameras
Recording Yes
RTMP Streaming Yes
Media Streams Yes
Media Processing (Client)
Noise Suppression No
Video Background Yes
Interworking
Outbound dialing No
Inbound dialing Yes
Number provisioning No
SIP connectivity No
Additional Capabilities
Real-time speech to text transcription with support for closed captioning. Integrations API
allows state and fate-sharing with third-party partners, e.g., chat features, whiteboarding,
and content moderation.
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Documentation and Support
Daily offers an API reference along with getting started, demos and additional guides.
Daily offers email, Slack, a ticketing system and live chat support. Enterprise support
plans are also available.
Deployment and Pricing
Daily’s pricing is based on participant minutes.
Deployment
Hosted PaaS Yes
On premise No
Pricing
Base monthly fee No1 1
10,000 free minutes a month
Usage model per participant
2
Support tiers Multiple tiers2 An enterprise SLA is available
Customization & Available to select
consultancy customers, directly
or via a partner
Investment
Added to report Detailed metrics Group sizes
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