Amazon Chime SDK vs LiveKit

How do Amazon Chime SDK and LiveKit compare? And what does Video SDK offer?

AWS Chime

Amazon Chime is an SDK designed to facilitate the integration of video conferencing, audio calls, and texting into your applications. The Amazon Chime SDK offers essential live video features and incorporates AWS' user management capabilities to enhance the overall functionality.

LiveKit

Livekit is a collection of SDKs that enables the integration of live video and audio into your native applications. It offers various notable features, including live streaming, in-game communication, video calls, and more. Livekit utilizes a modern, end-to-end WebRTC stack to deliver seamless and high-quality real-time communication experiences.

How Video SDK make a difference

When it comes to SDKs, AWS Chime and LiveKit are popular choices. LiveKit stands out for its wide reach, developer community, and seamless integrations, while Chime benefits from AWS' robust cloud infrastructure and enterprise support.

However, both options might not be ideal for agile startups due to their bulkiness and lack of certain features.

Here's where Video SDK comes in. With Video SDK's single SDK, you get comprehensive video/voice calls, live streams, and collaborative features, all easily integrated into your app in just a few minutes.

This page compares AWS Chime and LiveKit, but don't forget to consider Video SDK as a worthy alternative for your needs.

Features comparison : AWS Chime vs LiveKit vs Video SDK

AWS Chime
LiveKit
Video SDK

No. of participants (Including hosts)

Up to 50 participants

Limited

Up to millions of viewers

Ease of SDK Integration

Requires high coding effort

Development is moderately tough

Avg. integration takes only 2 weeks

Adpative audio/video quality

Available

Not Available

Available

Works behind the Firewall, Private Network

No

No

Yes

Role Management, Permissions, Policy and Templates

Limited

Limited to host & participant roles

Available

Automatic video and audio track degrade due to bandwidth in-consistency

Not available

Available

Available

Dynamic Layout for Studio and RTMP Live Streaming

Not available

Not Available

Available

Build collaborative features like chat, poll, Q & A, whiteboard etc.

Not available

Not Available

Available

Virtual Background, Live Transcription & ML Middleware

Not available

Not Available

Available

Webhooks

Not available

Not Available

Available

Pricing Model

Usage based

Subscription based

Usage based

Interactive Live Streaming

Separate SDK

Yes

Yes

Cloud Recording

Yes

Yes

Yes

Interactive Whiteboard

No

No

Yes

Multi-platform

No

No

Yes

Interactive Participant Support

Up to 250

Limited

Up to 5,000

Mobile browser support

Limited

Limited

90%

Automatic audio / video degrade, re-connectivity

Yes

Yes

Yes

Audio & Video powered by AI

No

No

Yes

Independent of Open Source Dependency

No

No

Yes

Customised RTMP, Cloud Recording, HLS

No

No

Yes

API for building specific features such as collaborative games, polls etc

No

No

Yes

API to build social features such as merging rooms, battles, coins, gifts sending etc

No

No

Yes

Full HD recording

Yes

No

Yes

Open source templates

No

No

Yes

Full Custom roles

Limited

Limited

Yes

HLS Streaming

Yes

Yes

Yes

Cost-effective

No

No

Yes

Prebuilt SDK

No

No

Yes

Fully customizable UI

No

No

Yes

Metaverse platform support

No

No

Yes

Session analytics

Paid

No

Yes

Data Tracks

No

No

Yes

Cost comparison : AWS Chime vs LiveKit vs Video SDK

AWS Chime
LiveKit
Video SDK

Volume Discount

Yes

No

Yes

Video Conferencing

  • $1.7 per 1,000 minutes
  • $20 per 1,000 minutes
  • Video SD: $2.00
  • Video HD: $3.00
  • Video Full HD: $7.00
  • Video 2K: $7.00
  • Video 2K+: $7.00

Analytics

$0.023 per minute

Free

Free

Separate pricing for video and audio

Yes

Yes

Yes

Free 10,000 minutes every month

No

No

Yes

Minimum price for video calls

$0.0017 per participant minute

$0.02 per participant minute

$0.002 per participant minute

Minimum price for audio-only calls

$0.0017 per participant minute

$0.005 per participant minute

$0.0006 per participant min

Advanced Firewall Control

No

No

Free

Cloud recording pricing

  • $12.5 per 1,000 minutes

No accurate data available

  • $15 per 1,000 minutes, No limit on participants

RTMP pricing

NA

No accurate data available

  • $15 per 1,000 minutes

ILS pricing

NA

  • $69 per hour (upto 500 viewers only and doesn't support Full HD)
  • $0.001 per participant minute (Also supports Full HD)

Storage pricing

  • $0.023 per GB

No accurate data available

  • $3 per 1000 minutes per month

Support comparison : AWS Chime vs LiveKit vs Video SDK

AWS Chime
LiveKit
Video SDK

Support

Paid

Yes

Yes

Cost

  • Plans upto $5,500 per month

Only accounts having Standard or Enterprise plan

Free

Access to Testing

No

No

All paid accounts get access to testing support from Video SDK.

Access to TAM / CS Engineer

No

No

Dedicated CS & Solution Engineers

SLAs

No

Only accounts having Enterprise plan

Inexpensive SLA with 99.9% uptime

SUCCESS STORY

How MomentoStream increased user engagement into their live streaming platform with Video SDK

See why customers love Video SDK

Ankur Chandra-Engineering Manager at Fynd
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“I still remember when I was trying out the product and connected over discord with Arjun Kava, and he immediately responded. It is one of the things that we found less often. The team is super enthusiastic to make the product as next big thing. Easy integration is the beauty of it. Few lines of code and it's done.”

Ankur Chandra ,

Engineering Manager at Fynd

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