Stream API
Communications
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Stream API Highlights
Stream API is verified for developer integrations in Nigeria and across African markets, providing documented endpoints, sandbox testing, and developer support.
API Key
Rate limits based on plan. API: 100 requests/second standard. Message rate limits per channel vary. Contact Stream for high-volume limits.
Nigeria
Ghana
Kenya
AWS- Chat:Free for 1M messages/month + 100 MACs
- Production from $399/month for 5,000 MACs
- Feeds:separate pricing
- Contact Stream for enterprise
- Free trial period available
Stream API Core Features & Capabilities
Features Included
Not Supported
Required Access Documents for Stream API
Different Stream API use cases
- In-App Chat for Nigerian Social or Marketplace App:Use Stream Chat to add buyer-seller messaging to a Nigerian marketplace or social chat to a community app with channels, DMs, reactions, and push notifications all handled by Stream's infrastructure.
- Social Activity Feed for Nigerian Social Network:Use Stream Feeds to build a Twitter/Instagram-style activity feed for a Nigerian social app handling follow relationships, fan-out delivery of posts to followers' timelines, and notification aggregation with minimal backend code.
- Team Collaboration Chat for Nigerian SaaS:Embed Stream Chat into a Nigerian B2B SaaS product for team messaging creating project channels, direct messages between team members, and file sharing in a Slack-like experience without building communication infrastructure.
- Live Class Discussion Feed for EdTech:Combine Stream Chat (for student-teacher live chat during class) with Stream Feeds (for posting course announcements and student achievements) in a Nigerian edtech platform using one API for both use cases.