Metered video, payable by anyone
WAVE is video infrastructure where every stream can carry a price — per minute, per stream, per view. Payable instantly by anyone, including AI agents, with no accounts and no contracts. That single unlock is what makes everything below possible.
One capability under all of it
Moving live and on-demand video is the hard part, and WAVE solves it once across every transport. The new part is that the same stream can carry its own price — and any client can pay it: a person with a card, an audience by the view, an autonomous agent over HTTP-402. Price the video, and the business model is just a choice.
Build it on WAVE
Same infrastructure underneath — four very different things you can ship on top of it.
Enterprises & platforms
Meter video by the minute and build on infrastructure that bills itself.
- Charge per streaming minute or per gigabyte of egress, metered at the edge.
- Build internal video tools — review, monitoring, screen-share — without standing up your own media stack.
- Ship customer-facing video products on one API across SRT, RIST, NDI, OMT, ST 2110, MoQ, WebRTC, and HLS.
- Adopt the open protocol so your stack speaks the same wire as everyone else’s.
Creators & their audiences
Get paid for the stream itself — directly, per play.
- Pay-per-stream for music, video, and live — the audience pays for what they actually played.
- Keep the relationship and the revenue: nothing stands between you and the people who support your work.
- Host, stream, and collect in one place — streaming-native where a download store isn’t.
- Let a fan’s agent discover and pay for your catalog on their behalf.
Builders & agents
WAVE is the layer you build on — in whatever tool you already use.
- Drop the API into Lovable, v0, Replit, Vercel, or Base44 and ship a streaming app in an afternoon.
- Point Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, or Kiro at the SDK and wire real-time video into your own product.
- Give your company’s agents and systems eyes and ears — live video they can open, watch, and pay for.
- One integration: a person calls it with a key, an agent calls it — and pays — over HTTP-402.
Discovery & answer engines
Turn video into knowledge that agents can find, cite, and trust.
- Every stream can carry transcripts, captions, and structured metadata — so its content is machine-readable, not locked inside the pixels.
- Signed provenance on the source — so an answer engine can tell where a clip came from and whether it arrived intact.
- Make video a first-class source for generative and answer engines (GEO / AEO), the way text already is.
- Video becomes transcript becomes structured information — so an agent can quote it with a citation.
Build on WAVE with the tools you already use
An open API and SDKs — bring your own builder or coding agent.
One API. Price it however you want.
The hard parts — moving the video, keeping it in sync, metering it, and getting everyone paid — are solved once, in the open. What you build on top is yours: per minute, per stream, per view, or per agent call. Open protocol where it earns trust; metered where it earns revenue.