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Agora Overview

What is Agora?

Agora.io is committed to building next-generation technology that brings users together through live engagement on its global network.

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Agora.io is committed to building next-generation technology that brings users together through live engagement on its global network.


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Agora.io
Year Founded
2014
HQ Location
Santa Clara, CA
Twitter
@AgoraIO
26,387 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
845 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ:API
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$182

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It's great to get such quality audio and video services at such low prices. You can easily integrate it on web and mobile platforms.
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Shankar Ram A.
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What do you like best about Agora?

Scalable

Well documented

Many data centres across the globe Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

Pricing

It is very hard to debug errors

The dashboard is pretty complicated, especially for debugging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Agora:

If you are getting started and want to quickly get off the ground for a large video streaming idea, I would recommend Agora. They are more expensive and the tech is still a bit lacking with errors that are not easily debuggable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scalable live video

Very fast go-to-market with their platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramazan A.
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What do you like best about Agora?

Support is amazing. Agora has a very responsive and very qualified support team. Good documentation and easy-to-use SDKs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

The logs are kept for a short period. Web SDK always has problems with camera switching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

We developed a video call application for our product using Agora infrastructure. We do not have to deal with scalability, security and most of the devops stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Agora?

The sdk is really easy to use and the latency is really low. We compared it with a call in Google Meet and the latency was almost the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

I would like you to have support plans for each report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Agora:

Avoid building your own messaging system, instead, use agora real-time messaging. It is simple to use, simple to integrate, and you get a lot of benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it in live interpretation for different languages across the globe. We have found that the latency is really low. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Agora?

Reliable video and audio

Very good documentation

Lots of example code

Easy to integrate

Good pricing, 10,000 free minutes per month

Great support team, who are very responsive to questions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

We are very happy with Agora in general. It would be great if they offer spatial audio for web API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Agora:

Check out the documentation, there are lots of example code, ready to use, and can help with implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using real-time video, audio, screenshare and real-time messaging (RTM). It is the core offering of our software to our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Agora?

Simplicity of usage and sdk. Using the JS version is easy and you can build any complex web application with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

Documentation is not great and often is not pointing you in the right direction. For example you have always to select again and again which SDK you're interested in (js, android, Ios and so on...).

Also price is not easy to compute most of the times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hiding the complexity of webRTC is great. Also integration with RTMP thrid party systems is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Agora?

With good documentation, Agora is easy to integrate into a system.

Agora updates regularly to make sure it is compatible with all devices in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

The regular updates require me to update the system it is integrated to.

It would be great if the updates is done only on Agora server.

It is complicated to troubleshoot a session to find out the cause of the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Agora provides a multi-platform solution that we need, that is mobile to web video chat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Agora?

It is easy to integrate in web and mobile app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

The support, they take a lot of time to respond to your queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have integrated their video call SDK in our apps to add support for synchronous interactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Agora?

100% white label. You set the limit on what you can do and still very easy to get up and running out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

Difficult to manage connectivity / firewalls and to test in large scale scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Virtual meetings and events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James P.
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What do you like best about Agora?

Ease of integration, stability, audio quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

Some of the API docs could provide better examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Agora:

You can easily setup a test environment, using free minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Audio rooms for our app. Easily allows our users to create and join rooms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robin K.
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What do you like best about Agora?

The level of complexity that agora handles is interestingly amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Agora?

The support is very bad overall, given that it might take days to reach to a resolution even for simplest of queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Agora:

Might be overcomplicated for simple use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Agora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Voice / Video chat solution was what we integrated. We ultimately had to drop using agora and moved to 100ms which provided better support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.