Your servers. Your video. Your numbers.
Production-grade WebRTC infrastructure on your own server. SDK in 10 lines, install in one. Free forever in Community mode; $25 per server per month for the full feature set.
17
services bundled
< 5 min
install on a fresh box
$25
per server per month
Ed25519
signed license blobs
Paste this on any Linux box.
The installer detects your OS (Ubuntu / Debian / RHEL / Alpine), installs Docker if missing, generates random secrets for every datastore, computes a stable instance fingerprint, and brings up the full stack. By default it boots in Community mode— no card needed.
What you need: a 4 vCPU / 8 GB box (Hetzner CPX31 €13.10/mo or equivalent), root access, internet egress on 443. Tested on Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04, Debian 12, Rocky 9, Alpine 3.20.
Prefer to read it first? View install.sh on GitHub — open source, ~360 lines, no obfuscation.
Free until you outgrow it.
Run forever in Community mode, no card. Buy a license the day you need to publish a 6th participant. Pay per server, not per seat.
Community
For evaluation, dev, and small internal demos.
Install in Community mode- 5 participants per room (hard cap)
- 1 concurrent room
- No recording, no broadcast, no E2EE
- Watermark on every tile
- Single server only — no clustering
License clause prohibits commercial / production use beyond evaluation. See LCL v1.0 in the repo.
Self-host node
The full LevelChat. Per-node Ed25519 license, fingerprint-bound.
Buy a license- Unlimited participants per room
- Unlimited concurrent rooms
- Recording + broadcast + E2EE
- No watermark, custom brand colors
- Multi-node cluster (per-node license)
- Ed25519-signed audit log
Annual: $240/server (20% off). Multi-node clusters scale linearly — 3-node cluster = $75/mo.
Four things you don’t have to think about.
One line to install
Detects your OS, installs Docker, generates random secrets, brings up 17 services. No manual config files. No copy-paste secrets.
HTTPS out of the box
Auto Let’s Encrypt for any domain you point at the box. Or take the auto-provisioned `lc-<8hex>.lc-cloud.io` sub-domain — already-trusted certs from second one.
Cluster with one more line
Spin up a second box, paste a join token, the installer wires the WireGuard mesh, NATS replica, and SFU cascade. No SSH key shuffling.
Per-node Ed25519 license
Pay only for the boxes you actually run. Each server gets a fingerprint-bound JWT — copy a VM, license refuses to verify. No DRM theatre, just clean math.
Add a second box. Paste a token. Done.
Mint a 24-hour join token from your leader’s admin (Cluster → Add node). Run the same one-liner on the new box with two extra env vars:
The worker auto-registers in cluster_nodes, joins the WireGuard mesh, attaches the NATS JetStream replica, and starts cascading SFU traffic. The leader’s UI surfaces the new node as pending license until you assign a per-node JWT to it.
Each node costs $25/mo regardless of size
Per-node fingerprint, no key sharing
SFU cascade promotes mid-call automatically
Your code stays your code.
LevelChat ships under the LevelChat Community License v1.0 (BSL-style). Source on GitHub, audit it, fork it, contribute upstream. Production use beyond Community mode requires a paid license — that’s how we keep building.