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Aircast vs Wowza Streaming Engine

Both stand on rtmp streaming services. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Wowza Streaming Engine offers configurable streaming infrastructure with extensive protocols, APIs, transcoding, and recording. Its paid plans and channel limits matter, and WebRTC deployments need another authentication method instead of SecureToken.

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The facts

	Aircast	Wowza Streaming Engine
Free plan	No	A free trial
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Web	API, Linux, Self-hosted, Web, Windows
Lowest paid plan	Not published	Basic Monthly: $195 a month
Plans published	None	3
Maker	Not published	Wowza Streaming Engine
Website	aircast.app	wowza.com
On rtmp streaming services	#25 of 32	#21 of 32

Aircast: what it does well

Wowza Streaming Engine: what it does well

On-premises, cloud, or air-gapped deployment
Broad live-streaming protocol support
Real-time transcoding and transrating
REST and Java APIs
Live recording to VOD

What to know first

No free plan
Basic Monthly costs $195 a month
Up to 10 concurrent transcoded channels per instance
SecureToken is unavailable for current WebRTC

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