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NVIDIA•July 16, 2026
DeepStream SDK
Free
Computer Vision
AI Inference
Streaming Analytics
NVIDIA Jetson
### TL;DR
NVIDIA DeepStream SDK is a powerful streaming analytics toolkit designed for AI-based video and image understanding. It provides a GStreamer-based framework that enables developers to build highly efficient, multi-stream, and multi-model inference pipelines on NVIDIA dGPU and Jetson platforms.
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Pricing
Framework, plugins, and AI skills are open-source (Apache-2.0 for source, CC-BY-4.0 for documentation), but executing the pipelines requires downloading NVIDIA's proprietary, closed-source runtime binaries
Cost structure
Version
9.1
Current release version
Hardware
NVIDIA dGPU (x86_64) or Jetson (aarch64) with CUDA 13.2, TensorRT 10.16.x, and compatible NVIDIA drivers (595+)
Compute requirements
Category
Free
Licensing model
Region
United States
Primary region
Key Features
- Hardware-accelerated video decoding, encoding, and inference
- GStreamer-based framework for multi-stream/multi-model pipelines
- Deep integration with TensorRT and TAO-trained models
- Advanced AI agent skills for pipeline generation and profiling
- Comprehensive support for edge (Jetson) and data center (dGPU) deployment
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