# Install livekit with Homebrew, Nix Scalable, high-performance WebRTC server. Version 1.13.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-03. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:livekit ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install livekit ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#livekit ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/livekit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:livekit - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.13.3 - **Source summary:** Scalable, high-performance WebRTC server - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-03T06:59:17Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - livekit-server (cli) - livekit-server (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.13.3 - Package-manager updated: 2026-07-03 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/livekit/livekit - Upstream latest detected: v1.13.3 (current) ## Project history and usage LiveKit is an open source realtime communications stack centered on a Go WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit. It began as infrastructure for scalable audio and video applications and evolved into a platform for voice, video, and physical AI agents while keeping the server and SDK ecosystem open source. ### Project history The livekit/livekit repository was created on September 30, 2020. LiveKit was publicly introduced on July 7, 2021 as free, open source infrastructure for building and scaling realtime audio and video experiences, with its SFU built on Pion WebRTC. The early project positioned itself against proprietary realtime communications services and hard-to-operate open source alternatives by providing a polished, deployable WebRTC stack with server, SDKs, documentation, and load-testing tools. Later documentation describes LiveKit as an open source framework and cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents, with the server supplying low-latency transport, routing, synchronization, and session management. ### Adoption history LiveKit's adoption accelerated with the demand for embedded realtime communication after 2020. In June 2024, the company wrote that LiveKit was used by more than 20,000 developers and listed uses ranging from AI assistants and emergency dispatch to drones, vehicles, security devices, and surgical robots. The GitHub repository's package-culture footprint is large for a media server: by July 1, 2026 GitHub metadata showed roughly 19.5k stars and 2.1k forks, while the repository listed dozens of releases and a broad SDK ecosystem. ### How it is used The Homebrew package installs the LiveKit media server executable. The README documents starting it in development mode with livekit-server --dev, where it uses placeholder API credentials, and points production users toward deployment documentation and explicit configuration. LiveKit is used as the realtime backbone for browser, mobile, backend, telephony, and agent applications. It handles WebRTC signaling, NAT traversal, RTP routing, adaptive degradation, and quality-of-service controls, while related SDKs expose client and server APIs. ### Why package nerds care For package nerds, livekit is interesting because it packages a serious realtime media server as a local developer binary. Installing it from Homebrew gives developers a quick path to running a WebRTC SFU without first deploying Kubernetes or buying a managed communications account. It is also part of the broader pattern of open source infrastructure projects that ship a local server, a cloud service, SDKs, and a CLI under one brand, making the package-manager formula one entry point into a much larger platform. ### Timeline - 2020-09-30: The livekit/livekit GitHub repository was created. - 2021-07-07: LiveKit was publicly introduced as open source realtime audio/video infrastructure. - 2024-06-04: LiveKit reported more than 20,000 developers using the platform. - 2026-06-27: The GitHub repository listed v1.13.2 as a release. - 2026-07-01: GitHub metadata showed about 19.5k stars and 2.1k forks for livekit/livekit. ### Related projects - Related projects include Pion WebRTC, LiveKit CLI, LiveKit Cloud, LiveKit Agents, LiveKit client SDKs, server SDKs, egress, ingress, SIP, WebRTC, and SFU-based media infrastructure. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for livekit. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: file supplied with --config ## Credential files - Unix: file supplied with --config ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** livekit - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - livekit: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/livekit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Media and graphics packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/media-graphics-tools/) - Matched media, image, audio, video, or graphics metadata. - [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [livekit-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/livekit-cli/) - Package name indicates the same formula family. - [pushpin](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pushpin/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, realtime. - [mediamtx](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mediamtx/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media-server, networking, webrtc. - [coturn](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/coturn/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, webrtc. - [freeswitch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/freeswitch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, webrtc. - [liblo](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/liblo/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: audio, cli, networking. - [minimodem](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/minimodem/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: audio, cli, networking. - [snowflake](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/snowflake/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, webrtc. - [stuntman](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/stuntman/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, webrtc. - [freeradius-server](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/freeradius-server/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, high, high-performance, networking, performance. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/livekit.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/livekit.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph