Product: Comparison (2)

Agora Alternatives - Agora Video vs. Competitors

In this comprehensive comparison, we delve into the advantages and disadvantages of Agora and its competitors for video calling, live streaming, and open-source solutions. Whether you're a developer looking to embed video, voice, or messaging capabilities into your applications or a business searching for the perfect communication platform, this in-depth analysis will help you navigate
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Firebase Alternative: Building Chat With Firebase vs. Stream

We have recently noticed an influx of individuals searching for alternatives to building chat messaging applications on Firebase. It's important to note that Firebase is a multi-use tool for developers to build just about anything quickly but does not take into account the cost when an application starts to scale in terms of users. In
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Sendbird Alternatives - Sendbird Chat vs Competitors

However, finding a fair and direct comparison of Sendbird and your other top choices can be difficult with thousands of alternatives. It is essential to determine the budget, primary use case, and must-have features of your project and workflow before evaluating the competitive landscape of chat API offerings. To make things easier, we've rounded up
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A Guide to White-Label Chat

Read on if you find yourself in this position, and want to learn more about the space and options available. 👍 What Is White-Label Chat White-label chat is considered any chat service provided by a chat vendor that doesn’t show the vendor’s logo, domain, or any other type of vendor-specific branding. The term white-label chat
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Stream Chat vs. Twilio Chat

Chat and messaging are becoming ever more critical for application success. When searching for a provider to enable in-app chat, you might compare Stream Chat with Twilio Chat. Twilio is a monster in the space of API-driven SMS support and email (through their acquisition of SendGrid), but their other APIs like voice, chat, video, and
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Review: SendBird vs. Stream

Real-time chat messaging is a critical component of your application to improve user conversion, engagement, retention, and satisfaction. When searching for a provider and infrastructure to integrate and enable in-app messaging, you might compare the two major players in the market today — Stream Chat and SendBird Chat. Stream and Sendbird are the most commonly
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Product Comparison: Stream vs. Layer

Update: Layer has shut down their API. Read about how to migrate from Layer and read our own thoughts about it. Chat and messaging are critical components to application success. When searching for a provider to enable in-app chat, you might compare Chat by Stream with Layer’s chat. Layer has been providing a chat solution
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Why Stream is the Best Alternative to PubNub Chat

Launching your in-app chat feature is critical for user conversion, engagement, retention, and satisfaction, which means choosing the right provider to build it for you is just as important. Stream and PubNub are two major options in the in-app messaging space, so you might compare the two chat API providers when evaluating solutions. Here, we
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Pusher Chatkit Alternative: Stream vs. Pusher

When searching for a provider to enable in-app messaging, you might compare Chat by Stream with Pusher’s Chatkit.
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Algolia Review – A Hosted Search API Reviewed

Today we’re reviewing Algolia. This blog post is part of our review series where we uncover best-of-class SaaS solutions for developers. Reviewing other API services helps us come up with ideas for improving Stream, our API for building scalable and perisonalized feeds. You can try an interactive tutorial of Stream here. Getting Started with Algolia
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Imgix Review - Image Processing as a Service Reviewed

_Today we're reviewing Imgix. This blog post is part of our review series where we uncover best-of-class SaaS solutions for developers. Reviewing other API services helps us come up with ideas for improving Stream, our API for building scalable and personalized feeds. You can try an interactive tutorial of Stream here._ Approximately 60%+ of the
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