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Vonage is highly expensive compared to Video SDK
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Video SDK in-expensive compared to Vonage. Don't pay thousands of dollars for each extra feature. Just pay what you use.
In-built firewall, TURN & Analytics
Free support of inbuilt configurable firewall, TURN server and analytics
Excellent call quality with high bitrate
Vonage restricts on resolution and bitrate. with Video SDK, enable high quality audio and video conferencing.
Features comparison: Vonage vs Video SDK
Features | ||
|---|---|---|
No. of Host with audio and video on | 25 Participants | 50 Participants |
Max. cocurrent room participants | 55 participants only | 10,000+ participants in one meeting. |
Ease of SDK Integration | Avg. integration takes 3+ months. | Avg. integration takes only 2 weeks. |
Mobile browsers support | Limited support (works good on chrome only) | 98% browsers support (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE etc). |
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 | In-built support of RTMP Live Streaming but customisation is not possible. | In-built templates with features like background, lower-third etc. |
Interactive live streaming support | No available in interactive way. | 10,000 interactive participant support |
Max Quality | 720p | 1080p |
Inspection for network and quality | No analytics for quality and network inspection | End to end quality and network reports |
Cloud recording | Fixed and manual config of composition required | Fully customisable and automatically composed |
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 |
Analytics | Limited quality stats aggregated to overall session | Detailed per particiapnt analytics on joining time, audio / video quality and network quality |
Quality control via bitrate targets | No API for bitrate targets | Customizable via an Tracks |
Quality control via simulcast | No API for bitrate targets | Customizable via an Tracks |
Pricing Comparison: Vonage 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 | $4 per participant per 1000 minutes | $2 per participant per 1000 minutes |
Interactive Live Streaming | Not available. It cost much higher than video sdk. | Flat resolution based pricing. Irrespective of No. of participants. |
Cloud Recording | $45 per 1000 minutes recording, $125 for composition | 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) | Not Available | FREE |
Analytics | $500 / month | FREE |
Allowed IP List | $1500 / month | FREE |
Regional Media Zones | $1000 / region / month | FREE |
Advanced Firewall — Configurable TURN | $1000 / month | FREE |
Advanced Firewall — IP Proxy | $1000 / month | Coming Soon (Free) |
AES-256 Transport Encryption | $500 / month | FREE |
Interactive Whiteboard | Not available | FREE |
Support Comparison: Vonage vs Video SDK
Support | ||
|---|---|---|
Cost | Too expensive support plan with multiple tiers. | Simple and completely free support plan. |
Advanced Insights | $500 / month | FREE |
Reports API | 450/month (then $0.0004/CDR) | FREE |
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 | Vonage does not have official slack support. | Video SDK has an officual Discord server. |
FAQ (How it works)
What does Vonage do?
Vonage is API based communication platform which provides pay as you go services like SMS, Voice, Video Communication etc.
Who is Vonage competitor?
Vonage competitors are
- 1. Video SDK
- 2. Twilio
- 3. Ring Central
Do you have to pay for Vonage?
Yes, Vonage does provide free quota for basic usage but you have to pay as you use after the quota.
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
