Tavus API

aid: tavus:tavus-api
name: Tavus API
description: The Tavus REST API powers personalized video generation and real-time Conversational Video
  Interface sessions. It exposes endpoints for replicas (Phoenix-4 video and image-to-replica), async
  video generation, real-time conversations, personas, and document knowledge bases, plus webhooks for
  lifecycle events.
humanURL: https://docs.tavus.io/
baseURL: https://tavusapi.com
tags:
- Video
- Conversational AI
- Replicas
- Personas
- Real Time
- Knowledge Base
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.tavus.io/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.tavus.io/sections/introduction
- type: SignUp
  url: https://platform.tavus.io/auth/sign-up
- type: API
  url: https://docs.tavus.io/api-reference/overview
- type: SDK
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tavus/cvi-ui
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/Tavus-Engineering/tavus-examples
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.tavus.io/pricing
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.tavus.io/api-reference/authentication
features:
- name: Phoenix-4 Replicas
  description: Train high-fidelity replicas from a short training video.
- name: Image-to-Replica
  description: Generate replicas from a single image for faster onboarding.
- name: Stock Replicas
  description: Use pre-built stock replicas for instant integration.
- name: Async Video Generation
  description: Create personalized videos from scripts or audio with replica and background customization.
- name: Real-Time Conversations
  description: Spin up live AI video conversations with audio-only mode, closed captions, participant
    limits, and private rooms.
- name: Personas
  description: Configure replica behavior, guardrails, objectives, and tool calling, including support
    for custom LLMs.
- name: Knowledge Base
  description: Upload, recrawl, and manage documents and websites to ground replica responses.
- name: React CVI Components
  description: Embed conversational video into web apps using the @tavus/cvi-ui React component library
    and hooks.
- name: Webhooks
  description: Receive callbacks for video, conversation, and replica lifecycle events.
useCases:
- name: AI Sales Reps
  description: Conduct lifelike video discovery and demo calls with a digital rep.
- name: Healthcare Intake
  description: Walk patients through intake and screening with empathetic video AI.
- name: Personalized Outreach Video
  description: Generate per-recipient videos for marketing and recruiting at scale.
- name: AI Tutors and Coaching
  description: Deliver interactive video tutoring grounded in course content.
- name: Customer Support Avatars
  description: Provide always-on conversational video support inside web and mobile apps.
integrations:
- name: React
- name: Daily
- name: Custom LLMs
- name: Webhooks
- name: Slack
- name: Zapier
authentication:
- type: API Key
  description: API keys are generated in the Tavus Developer Portal and sent in the x-api-key header on
    every request.