Open Source Daily Alternatives
A curated collection of the 1 best open source alternatives to Daily.
The best open source alternative to Daily is LiveKit. If that doesn't suit you, we've compiled a ranked list of other open source Daily alternatives to help you find a suitable replacement.
Daily alternatives are mainly AI Development Platforms but may also be Automation. Browse these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Daily.
Open source WebRTC server for real-time video, audio and data, giving developers scalable multi-user conferencing they can host themselves.
LiveKit provides scalable multi-user conferencing built on WebRTC, together with the client SDKs needed to put video, audio and data into an application. It removes the months of work that go into assembling media servers, signalling and connectivity before a first call ever connects.
The server is written in Go on top of the Pion WebRTC implementation and runs as a distributed selective forwarding unit. Deployment is a single binary, a Docker image or Kubernetes, and JWT authentication is built in for production use.
The feature set covers what live calls tend to need once they leave a demo.
- Networking: UDP, TCP and TURN, with distributed multi-region deployments for participants spread across the world.
- Media handling: simulcast, selective subscription, speaker detection and SVC codecs including VP9 and AV1.
- Security: end-to-end encryption, plus moderation APIs for managing participants in a room.
- Egress and Ingress: record or multi-stream rooms and export tracks, and pull in RTMP, WHIP, HLS or OBS Studio sources.
- Agents: a separate SDK for code-first realtime voice agents in Python and Node.js, bundling STT, LLM, TTS, turn detection and telephony.
Client SDKs cover JavaScript and TypeScript among other languages, with declarative UI helpers for React. Live demos include a meeting app, a spatial audio room and livestreaming from OBS Studio, each with published source you can read before committing to the stack.
