| Price from | $100/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Live TV streaming services | 9.0 (#7) | 8.4 (#40) |
| Spec score · Live Streaming Software | 8.9 (#11) | 8.3 (#39) |
| Spec score · Live streaming software | 8.9 (#11) | 8.3 (#39) |
| Custom RTMP destinations | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Official deployment options include Ubuntu Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud environments such as AWS, GCP and Azure. | MediaMTX is available as a standalone binary, Docker image, Arch Linux package, FreeBSD package, and OpenWrt binary. |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Integrations | The product page lists AWS, OpenStack, Amazon S3, Swift, NVIDIA, Intel QuickSync, and DRM providers among supported technologies and integrations. | The documentation names FFmpeg, GStreamer, OBS Studio, Python, Go, Unity, web browsers, Raspberry Pi cameras, and VLC among compatible publishing or reading tools and sources. |
| Multistreaming | Yes | Yes |
| Product | Flussonic Media Server is video streaming software for capturing, processing, recording, protecting, and delivering video. | MediaMTX is a ready-to-use, zero-dependency live media server and proxy for publishing, reading, proxying, recording, and playing back real-time audio and video streams. |
| Protocols | It supports delivery over HLS, DASH, WebRTC, MPEG-TS, and other listed protocols. | It supports Media-over-QUIC, SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS, and RTP for publishing, with several protocols also supported for reading. |
