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How Video SDK is better than Twilio?
Better compatibility with browsers and devices
Video SDK has better compatibility with all the browsers and devices while Twilio .
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: Twilio vs Video SDK
Features | ||
|---|---|---|
No. of Host with audio and video on | 17 Participants | 50 Participants |
Max. cocurrent room participants | 50 participants only | 10,000+ participants in one meeting. |
Ease of SDK Integration | Avg. integration takes 3+ months | Avg. integration takes only 2 weeks |
No. of on screen video tile support per page | Only 10 on-screen video tile participant support per page | 25+ on-screen video tile participant support per page |
RTMP Live Streaming with Dynamic Layout for Studio | No in-built support of RTMP Live Streaming, need to integrate 3rd party | In-built templates with features like background, lower-third etc. |
Interactive live streaming support | No available in interactive way. | 10,000 interactive participant support |
Cloud recording | Fixed and manual config of composition required | Fully customisable and automatically composed |
Adpative Audio, Video and Screen bitrates based on internet bandwidth and screen resolution | Does not support automated audio and video adaptiveness. Manual configuration required | Adaptive audio and video as per internet bandwidth and screen resolution |
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. |
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: Twilio vs Video SDK
Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|
Pricing Model | On the basis of usage | On the basis of usage |
Volume Discount | No volume discount. | Up to 20% for 1–5M minutes/month. |
Video Conferencing | $3 per participant per 1000 minutes | $4 per participant per 1000 minutes |
Interactive Live Streaming | Aggregated resolution based per participant pricing. | Flat resolution based pricing. Irrespective of No. of participants. |
Cloud Recording | Aggregated resolution pricing, $4 per participant per 1000 minutes | Flat pricing, $10 per 1000 minutes, No limit on participants |
RTMP Streaming | Not Available | $15 per 1000 minutes |
Storage (on platform) | $5 per GB per month | $3 per 1000 minutes per month |
External Data Storage (S3) | FREE | FREE |
Analytics | Not availble | Available & Free |
Interactive Whiteboard | Not available | FREE. |
Support Comparison: Twilio 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 | Twilio does not have official slack support. | Video SDK has an officual Discord server. |
FAQ (How it works)
Who are Twilio competitors?
Top 3 alternatives to Twilio.
- 1. Video SDK
- 2. Vonage Video API
- 3. Agora Video SDK
What is Twilio Video?
Twilio Video (or Twilio Video SDK) is a “Video Software Development Kit” that offers API to integrate real-time video chat features into your applications.
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
