Stream Maker Account: Free APIs for Builders & Early-Stage Teams
Blog post from Stream
Stream, a company launched in 2015, offers the Maker Account to support early-stage ventures and side projects by providing free access to its APIs for Chat, Activity Feeds, Video, and AI Moderation. This initiative allows small teams with fewer than five members, less than $100k in funding, and under $10k in monthly revenue to utilize enterprise-grade infrastructure without surprise overages or credit card requirements. The Maker Account includes usage caps, such as 2,000 monthly active users for Chat and 125,000 API calls for Activity Feeds, and requires creating a Stream account and completing a secondary application form. Stream's APIs, built on technologies like Go, RocksDB, and Raft, offer reliable performance and come with SDKs and UI kits for easy customization.