# Cardinal > Cardinal is a live-streaming platform: send one stream over SRT or RTMP and it is encoded three times in separate data centers, delivered to any number of viewers, with live captions, restreaming, recordings, an embeddable white-label player and a REST API. Priced per stream-hour, billed per minute. ## Documentation Sets - [Abridged documentation](https://cardinalstreaming.com/llms-small.txt): a compact version of the documentation for Cardinal, with non-essential content removed - [Complete documentation](https://cardinalstreaming.com/llms-full.txt): the full documentation for Cardinal ## Notes - The complete documentation includes all content from the official documentation - The content is automatically generated from the same source as the official documentation