| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Video APIs | 8.2 (#11) | 8.3 (#8) |
| Deployment | MediaMTX is available as a standalone binary, Docker image, Arch Linux package, FreeBSD package, and OpenWrt binary. | The project describes itself as a low-level media-layer component intended for integration into applications, including group video chat, real-time broadcasting, and RTP streaming. |
| 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. | The site says mediasoup can be used with multimedia tools such as FFmpeg and GStreamer. |
| License | The main MediaMTX repository code is released under the MIT License. | The project is distributed under the ISC License, which permits use, copying, modification, and distribution with or without fee subject to the stated notice condition. |
| Product | 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. | mediasoup is a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) for building multi-party video conferencing and real-time streaming applications. |
| Protocols | It supports Media-over-QUIC, SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS, and RTP for publishing, with several protocols also supported for reading. | It supports WebRTC and plain RTP input and output, and leaves signaling protocol choices to the application developer. |
