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Gateways are the demand-side coordination nodes in Livepeer. Applications submit workloads to gateways, and gateways route jobs to orchestrators for execution.

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Core Responsibilities

  • Job intake from applications
  • Capability matching across available orchestrators
  • Routing and retry behavior under load or failure
  • Service-level interfaces for developers and platforms

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What Gateways Do Not Do

Gateways do not perform most GPU compute directly. Their primary function is coordination, service delivery, and reliability of the request path.

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Why Gateways Matter

Without gateways, every application would need to handle:
  • Compute provider discovery
  • Dynamic routing and failover
  • Capacity and availability management
  • Integration-specific operational logic
Gateways abstract these concerns and make the network easier to use.

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Typical Flow

  1. App submits a workload request
  2. Gateway evaluates compatible orchestrators
  3. Gateway dispatches job to selected orchestrator
  4. Gateway returns result to the app
Last modified on February 23, 2026