| Price from | $100/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 2 |
| Spec score · Live TV streaming services | 9.0 (#7) | 8.0 (#79) |
| Spec score · Live Streaming Software | 8.9 (#11) | 7.9 (#77) |
| Spec score · Live streaming software | 8.9 (#11) | 7.9 (#76) |
| Custom RTMP destinations | Yes | Yes |
| 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. | It exposes a C API, RESTful API, and web hooks, and the repository lists related Java, C#, Spring Boot, and Prometheus exporter projects. |
| Product | Flussonic Media Server is video streaming software for capturing, processing, recording, protecting, and delivering video. | ZLMediaKit is a C++11 streaming media server and client framework for mobile, embedded, and commercial server use. |
| Protocols | It supports delivery over HLS, DASH, WebRTC, MPEG-TS, and other listed protocols. | It supports RTSP, RTMP, HLS, HTTP-FLV, WebSocket-FLV, GB28181, HTTP-TS, WebSocket-TS, HTTP-fMP4, WebSocket-fMP4, MP4, and WebRTC, including protocol conversion. |
| Scale | The product page describes deployments from one stream to 3,000 streams per server and up to 30,000 simultaneous viewers. | The project states a single machine can support 100,000-level players and 100 Gb/s-level I/O bandwidth. |
| Support | The documentation gives [email protected] and +1 (778) 716-2080 as support contact details. | The project directs questions to GitHub issues and says paid technical support is available through its knowledge community; the Pro pricing page says contracts under 5000 do not include technical support. |
| Trial | The license documentation says users can request a trial license through the website; it does not state the trial duration. | Pro software starts a network-activated trial with 15 days of full features and quota by default on each machine; trial activation requires a non-Docker environment and is normally available once per machine. |