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Video is evolving — fast.

The explosion of AI video generation and manipulation is creating entirely new classes of applications that need powerful, cost-effective, programmable video infrastructure.

Livepeer is uniquely positioned to serve this need.
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As video becomes the dominant interface for the internet and AI transforms how it’s created, processed, and experienced, the underlying infrastructure needs AI-native, real-time, performant systems that meet this demand. Listen to early Livepeer advocate, Shannon Wells, discuss how Livepeer is becoming the real-time media substrate of the new, AI-powered internet.

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The Livepeer Advantage

For developers and startups, Livepeer lowers the barrier to building video products at scale. Usage-based pricing, open APIs, and composable architecture reduce upfront costs and long-term dependency on hyperscalers. Teams can move faster, experiment freely, and build differentiated video experiences without negotiating complex cloud contracts or absorbing runaway GPU bills.

Designed for real-time interactive media AILivepeer is positioned for the fastest-growing class of video workloads - ranging from AI video to on-demand translation, music transforms and more, these workloads require low latency, high throughput, and elastic scaling.

Value accrual belongs to the value creators. Permanently.Livepeer is a creator-first infrastructure: designed to enable builders, innovators and key participants to own and control their pricing, models, innovations and applications.

Verifiable Compute and Provenance PrimitivesWith AI becoming indistinguishable from human artefact, trust and verifiability are no longer optional. Backed by blockchain guarantees, Livepeer enables trust primitives for AI products: provenance, integrity, auditability.

On-demand, agentic-friendly financial frameworkLivepeer offers the core payment rails and architecture agents workflows rely on: pay-as-you-go, on-demand, global payments - no bank account required.

Elastic capacity for enterprise-grade reliabilityLivepeer’s open GPU marketplace offers both resilience, performance and on-demand scalability - with 5,800+ GPUs, 100% uptime, and 85M+ in paid fees—built for production workloads that need reliability and elastic scaling.

Open Access drives Accelerated CapabilitiesLivepeer’s community driven, open source, open access design is a 10x iteration engine. New models and capabilities can be deployed network-wide as soon as they emerge - accelerating user capabilities and innovation.

By separating infrastructure from platforms that control attention and monetization, Livepeer enables a more competitive, cooperative, innovative ecosystem: where creators, developers, and businesses can all collaborate in shaping the future of video.

Explore the Livepeer Project Showcase

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Technical Benefits

Livepeer is purpose-built for real-time video and AI workloads. Its distributed network of globally distributed GPUs is optimized for low-latency, real-time processing, making it well suited for live streaming, interactive video, and AI-driven enhancements. Designed for low-latency video ingest → processing → delivery, and the ability to deploy custom workflows (model chains + pre/post processors) as a first-class unit of work.
Livepeer Technical Benefits
By routing jobs across heterogeneous hardware, Livepeer delivers cost-efficient, performant and flexible infrastructure that scales with demand and adapts as video workflows evolve. Livepeer delivers
  • Low Latency, Performant Infrastructure
  • On-demand cost-effective pricing
  • Automagic Scalability
  • Open, Composable Architecture
  • Community-Driven Innovation
  • An Active and Passionate Developer Community
Last modified on February 18, 2026