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Stop wasting developer bandwidth on dealing with individual streams & publish-subscribe code

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WHY DYTE OVER AGORA

Agora takes months to integrate,
launch in a few hours with Dyte

Here are reasons why you should consider Dyte over Agora

Custom experience without hassle

Branding, permissions, and custom UI/UX are all a breeze away with our UI Kit.

Build more than just video

Create interactive meetings with one-click plugins and built-in chat & polls.

Reduce development effort

Forget dealing with streams, edge-cases, and writing 1000s of lines of code.

Better call completion rates

Ensure your video always runs smoothly no matter the network conditions.

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Ease of Development

Publish-subscribe events are handled by our SDKs

Low-level publish-subscribe events makes it complicated and consumes the majority of developer time

UI Support

Robust end-to-end UI Kit that is easy to use and customize

Customizations: Colors, fonts, borders, spacing & more

Provides a static UI kit with limited customization options

Customizations: Only colors

Multiple SDK Overhead

None. A single SDK that supports video, voice, streaming, chat, polls, and more

Yes. Separate SDKs for video calling, streaming, chat, and more just to create a simple live video solution

Roles / Permissions

Create custom roles that are specific to your use-case

Limited to host & participant roles

Concurrent Streams & Active Speaker

200 and automatically switches to the people who are actively speaking

Limited to 17 streams, no inbuilt active speaker switching

Auto Reconnect

Yes

Not available

Support for Multiple Audio Inputs/Outputs

In-built

Manual configuration needed

HLS Streaming

In-built

Possible with a separate SDK

RTMP Streaming

Out-of-the-box, Stream to YouTube, LinkedIn, Meta (Facebook), etc.

Needs complicated configuration

Adaptive Bitrate

Auto

Manual configuration needed

Plugins

One-click add ons or build your own, e.g.: YouTube, Remote browser, Whiteboard, Code Editor, Quiz, etc.

Only Whiteboard

Chat

In-built

Separate SDK for chat

Polls

In-built

Not available

Virtual Background, Live Transcription & ML Middleware

Single line integration

Complex integration

Breakout Rooms

In-built

In a separate Classroom SDK

Webhooks

Yes

Only for recording states

Error Handling

In-built

Does not support in-built disconnection handling. Extra coding needed to set it up.

Video Quality

High & optimized by default

Medium (To achieve resilient audio-video quality across network and device conditions, high coding effort is required)

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Multiple Screenshare
Live streaming
Host Controls
Whiteboard
Recording
Reactions
CC audio transcripts
Chat
Multiple Layouts
Custom roles
Native Mobile SDKs
Polls
HD & SD Quality
Multiple Screenshare
Live streaming
Host Controls
Whiteboard
Recording
Reactions
CC audio transcripts
Chat
Multiple Layouts
Custom roles
Native Mobile SDKs
Polls
HD & SD Quality
HLS livestream
Customizable UI Kit
Breakout rooms
Virtual Background
Auto bandwidth switching
- Webinar
RTMP Out
Middleware for ML Processing
Waiting Rooms
Awesome Plugins
Native video & audio Playback
Real-time Webhooks
Detailed call analytics
Auto-reconnect
Pinning
Remote screen control
HLS livestream
Customizable UI Kit
Breakout rooms
Virtual Background
Auto bandwidth switching
- Webinar
RTMP Out
Middleware for ML Processing
Waiting Rooms
Awesome Plugins
Native video & audio Playback
Real-time Webhooks
Detailed call analytics
Auto-reconnect
Pinning
Remote screen control

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Whether you need to get a few basic queries answered, or need technical heavylifting, we’re here for you.

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PRICING comparision

Pay only for Live Video

Value adds included to take your experience to the next level

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Chat

Free

$14.50/1000 monthly peak DAU

Detailed Analytics

Free

Paid plans upto $1599/month

Interactive Whiteboard

Free

First 10,000 mins free, $1.40/1000 participant minutes

Dedicated Customer Support

Free dedicated 1:1 support directly via Slack or Live Chat

Paid dedicated support plans upto $4,900/month

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