Warning

Kurento is a low-level platform to create WebRTC applications from scratch. You will be responsible of managing STUN/TURN servers, networking, scalability, etc. If you are new to WebRTC, we recommend using OpenVidu instead.

OpenVidu is an easier to use, higher-level, Open Source platform based on Kurento.

About OpenVidu

OpenVidu is a framework that is based on Kurento, and encapsulates most of its features in order to simplify some of the most typical use cases of WebRTC, such as conference rooms.

An application developer using OpenVidu doesn’t need to worry about all the low-level technologies and protocols that form part of typical WebRTC communications. The main goal of this project is to provide a simpler API: just include the OpenVidu client-side library, and use OpenVidu Server for handling the media flows, and you’ll have a full-featured WebRTC-capable application.

For more advanced needs, or for applications that require more versatile management of media processing pipelines, Kurento is still the go-to solution; however, if you are planning on building a service which matches one of the simplified use cases covered by OpenVidu, we strongly suggest to check it out as it will be easier and cheaper to go that route.

OpenVidu is developed by the same team that created Kurento. Check it out: https://openvidu.io/