SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is agora.io legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Legitimate NASDAQ-listed real-time engagement platform with MT Intelligence partnership and clean security profile.

Cross-checked against 8 independent sources — none raised a concern
agora.ioScanned 1h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 96·MT 82
Screenshot of agora.ioSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (4)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown

Website Preview

Screenshot of agora.io
LIVE RENDER
agora.io

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

15
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The site appears to be a legitimate technology provider page for Agora, though the capture includes a security verification message that seems to be a localized network error rather than a site-wide scam tactic.

Visual risk15/100

What our vision model saw

5 signals

Professional layout for a technology company (Agora) with clear navigation and branding

Standard cookie consent modal present in the bottom-left corner

A security message 'We couldn't verify the security of your connection' is visible, likely due to a local network or proxy issue during capture

High-quality typography and consistent design elements

No fake urgency, countdowns, or suspicious trust badges detected

Brand Impersonation

medium confidence

The page mentions or styles itself as OpenAI / ChatGPT, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official OpenAI / ChatGPT property.

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust82/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain shows zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and passes browser blocklist checks. Business registration confirms the company is publicly traded on NASDAQ under ticker API with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The page content matches a legitimate developer platform offering SDKs and APIs, including a documented partnership with MT Intelligence. Visual analysis shows professional design without urgency tactics or fake trust badges. One Reddit complaint mentions refund issues with a service called Agora Streams, but this appears unrelated to the core platform. The combination of established corporate status, clean infrastructure signals, and positive developer reviews outweighs isolated complaints.
Risk Factors
2
  • One Reddit post reports refund difficulties with a service called Agora Streams.
  • Twelve total complaints found, primarily about technical performance and support response.
Positive Signals
5
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines with clean browser blocklist status.
  • Publicly traded on NASDAQ under ticker API with active US business registration.
  • Verified partnership with MT Intelligence for Realtime API integration.
  • Professional developer platform with SDK downloads, documentation, and no-code tools.
  • Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and clean reputation score.
The full analysis

Page Content

The page presents Agora as a real-time engagement platform with products for voice calling, video, live streaming, and conversational AI. It prominently features integration with MT Intelligence's Realtime API and offers SDK downloads, documentation, and a no-code App Builder tool. The layout includes standard navigation for Products, Solutions, Developers, and Support sections with professional typography and consistent branding.

Infrastructure

The site loads from IP 52.8.151.151 with a zero abuse score and no reported incidents. SSL certificate is valid from GoDaddy with 159 days remaining until expiry. Two redirects occurred without crossing domains or using homoglyphs. External resources load from standard CDNs including Google Fonts, jsDelivr, and HubSpot scripts.

Domain History

WHOIS data was unavailable in this scan. The domain ranks within the global top 100k sites by traffic and serves as the backbone for high-profile applications including the Clubhouse audio app. Business records confirm active registration in the United States with NASDAQ listing.

Web Reputation

Our research found two positive developer reviews on G2 and SoftwareSuggest praising SDK reliability and documentation. One Reddit post flagged refund difficulties with a service called Agora Streams. Twelve complaints exist in total, mostly related to technical performance rather than fraud. The company maintains verified partnership status with MT Intelligence for its conversational AI features.

What this means for you

This is an established technology company with verifiable corporate presence and clean security signals. Developers can use the platform with standard due diligence around support and refund policies.

AI Recommendation
Safe to use for legitimate development purposes. Review support and refund terms before committing to paid plans.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for agora.io, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · United States
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
1 scam report · 12 complaints · 2 positive
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • Agora.io is a legitimate Real-Time Engagement (RTE) platform listed on NASDAQ under the ticker 'API'.
  • The domain has a verified partnership with OpenAI, integrating OpenAI's Realtime API into its conversational AI engine.
  • The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with significant operations in China.
  • While generally reputable, some users on Reddit have complained about technical performance issues (latency) and refund difficulties.
  • It was the technological backbone for the high-profile social audio app Clubhouse.
Scam reports (1)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • reddit.comopen

    "Agora streams SCAM. Just a warning, do not use Agora streams. They attempt to assist you but when nothing works, they refuse refunds."

Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • "Agora SDKs are always my go-to because the documentation makes them easier to integrate and customise in my Unity applications."

  • SoftwareSuggestopen

    "The platform is highly reliable, ensuring stable and consistent performance for real-time applications. Developers appreciate the responsive customer support."

Business registration
Status: active · United States

Publicly traded on NASDAQ (Ticker: API). Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found one Reddit post warning about refund difficulties with a service called Agora Streams. Two positive reviews appear on G2 and SoftwareSuggest, with developers praising SDK documentation and platform reliability. Business records confirm the company is publicly traded on NASDAQ with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Twelve complaints exist overall, mostly concerning technical performance rather than fraudulent activity.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious59Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Technical Details

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers+1 408 879 5885
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles9
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Page impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT on a non-official domain.
  • Phone number listed (+1 408 879 5885).
  • Links to 16 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.2
IssuerGoDaddy.com · GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1
ExpiresDec 19, 2026 (159d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingAmazon Technologies Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servernginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://agora.io/
  • 2301https://www.agora.io/
  • 3200https://www.agora.io/en/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPAmazon Technologies Inc.
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

What to do

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  • Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on agora.io and not a lookalike like a-gora.io.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·agora.io
SAFE

Agora.io is a real-time engagement platform offering voice, video, and AI APIs. The domain is publicly traded on NASDAQ with an active US business registration and clean security scans. Some users report technical issues and refund difficulties, but no widespread scam patterns appear.

Safe to use for legitimate development purposes. Review support and refund terms before committing to paid plans.

AV engines
92
Domain age
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on agora.io, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • agora.io passed our automated checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from agora.io), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from agora.io is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report agora.io as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — agora.io is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
  • Yes — agora.io presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by GoDaddy.com · GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1, valid for another 159 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
  • agora.io resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
  • Yes — agora.io ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 12, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about agora.io has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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