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How Video SDK is better than Agora?
Super Fast Implementation
Prebuilt templates for creating virtual events and classrooms, as well as adding video calling to your platform in 10 minutes.
Reduce development effort
Custom video tracks, optimised mode for text and motion, preconfigured templates, and code examples save development efforts by 100x.
Optimized for excellent call quality
Low-latency across the globe with high bitrate audio and video streams.
Features comparison: Agora vs Video SDK
Features | ||
|---|---|---|
No. of Host with audio and video on | 17 Participants | 50 Participants |
No. of participants (Including hosts) | Up to million viewers | Up to millions of viewers |
Ease of SDK Integration | Avg. integration takes 3+ months | Avg. integration takes only 2 weeks |
Adpative audio/video quality | Does not support automated audio and video adaptiveness. Manual configuration required | Adaptive audio and video as per internet bandwidth and screen resolution |
Works behind the Firewall, Private Network | No, It does not support in-built TURN & STUN server support | Yes, In-built TURN & STUN server support |
Role Management, Permissions, Policy and Templates | Have to write external logic to implement roles and permissions. | Integrated role management with server side permissions. |
Automatic video and audio track degrade due to bandwidth in-consistency | Have to write code to handle audio and video track degrade. | Automated degrade of audio and video tracks. |
Dynamic Layout for Studio and RTMP Live Streaming | No support of customisation for Studio and RTMP Live Streaming. | |
Build collabrative features like chat, poll, Q & A, whiteboard etc. | Need to integrate external SDKs for collabrative features. | Native protocol support for all the collabrative features. |
Virtual Background, Live Transcription & ML Middleware | Complex integration with 3rd party integration | Simple integration with in-built support |
Webhooks | Only for cloud recording use-cases | Flexible wehooks for all the meeting states |
Pricing Comparison: Agora vs Video SDK
Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|
Pricing Model | On the basis of usage | On the basis of usage |
Volume Discount | Up to 10% for 1–3M minutes/month. | |
Video Conferencing | Too expensive on large scale. Aggregate resolution pricing model. Pay for every additional feature & extension | 65% afforadable than Agora. Flat resolution based pricing model. No need to pay for extra features. |
Interactive Live Streaming | Aggregated resolution based per participant pricing. | Flat resolution based pricing. Irrespective of No. of participants. |
Cloud Recording | Aggregated resolution based per participant pricing. Per 1000 minutes | Flat pricing irrespective of No. of participants. Per 1000 minutes |
Analytics | Aggregated resolution based per participant pricing. Per 1000 minutes | Flat pricing irrespective of No. of participants. Per 1000 minutes |
Interactive Whiteboard | $1.40 per 1000 participant minutes.. | FREE. |
Support Comparison: Agora vs Video SDK
Support | ||
|---|---|---|
Cost | Too expensive support plan with multiple tiers. | Simple and completely free support plan. |
Access to Testing | All paid accounts get access to testing support from Video SDK. | No explicit support for testing, quality measurements and reports. |
Access to TAM / CS Engineer | Multiple tiers plan. | Dedicated CS & Solution Engineer. |
SLAs | Multiple tiers plan. | Inexpensive SLA with 99.9% Uptime. |
Channels | Dashboard tier ticket system. | Slack & Discord |
Community Support | Agora’s Stack Overflow and Community Slack Channel. | Video SDK has an active Discord server. |
FAQ (How it works)
Does Agora have a free trial plan?
To try out Agora, you'll need to register with your credit card, so you can receive 10,000 minutes per month for free.
Is Agora expensive?
As your business and customer base grows, the agora pricing model becomes increasingly complex and expensive. Then you add additional costs for integrating other SDKs for chat/ whiteboard/polls and training users, and you are looking at a lot of money.
Who is agora's competitors?
Here are the best agora alternatives and competitors
- 1. Video SDK
- 2. Twilio Video SDK
- 3. Zoom Video SDK
Does Agora work in China?
Agora has offices around the world and is headquartered in Shanghai China and USA.
Why customers love Video SDK?
"Video SDK is a great product that is cost-effective and has many features (and is adding new features rapidly too). We compared many video solutions but found Video SDK to be the best. In addition, they listen to their customers' feature requests and also have great customer support."
Michael Ashmead
Cofounder at ForagerOne
"We're using Video SDK for a while for our live streaming features."
Emir Karşıyakalı
Founder & CEO of Kommunity
"This looks amazing! You're making a lot of makers' lives easier with this one."
Oscar Wehbe
Director at thisapp
