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Twilio, Zoom, WebRTC, Jitsi, and Nexmo are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Agora.
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What is Agora and what are its top alternatives?

Agora.io provides building blocks for you to add real-time voice and video communications through a simple and powerful SDK. You can integrate the Agora SDK to enable real-time communications in your own application quickly.
Agora is a tool in the Voice and SMS category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Agora

  • Twilio
    Twilio

    Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs. ...

  • Zoom
    Zoom

    Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and cross platform group chat into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Zoom Rooms, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and H.323/SIP room systems. ...

  • WebRTC
    WebRTC

    It is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose. ...

  • Jitsi
    Jitsi

    Jitsi (acquired by 8x8) is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting. ...

  • Nexmo
    Nexmo

    Nexmo connects your apps directly to carriers around the world. Integrate SMS and Voice messages using one simple API. Use Nexmo Verity to register users, verify transactions, and implement two factor authentication. ...

  • SendBird
    SendBird

    SendBird is a Messaging SDK, Chat API, and fully managed chat infrastructure for your mobile apps and websites. Embeddable chat for iOS, Android, JavaScript, Unity, .NET. ...

  • LINE
    LINE

    Use the Messaging API to build bots that provide personalized experiences for your users on LINE. You associate your bot with a channel on the LINE Platform. The bot works behind the LINE Official Account that is generated when you create the channel if you operate the account in bot mode. ...

  • Braze
    Braze

    Braze is a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. ...

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    Powerful, simple, and well documented api
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    RESTful API
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    Clear pricing
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    Great sms services
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    Low cost of entry
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    Global SMS Gateway
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    Good value
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    Cloud IVR
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    Simple
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    Extremely simple to integrate with rails
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    Great for startups
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    SMS
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    Great developer program
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    Hassle free
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    Text me the app pages
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    New Features constantly rolling out
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    Many deployment options, from build from scratch to buy
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    Two factor authentication
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Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

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Searching for options for SMS that integrates with SiteLink and will allow personalization of text and tracking of both incoming/outgoing messages with reporting (Time, date, call#, etc) Have been looking at Twilio, and seems most leaning toward this. Are there any other options known that integrate into SiteLink? Also looked at Clickatell.

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PROS OF ZOOM
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    Web conferencing made easy
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    Remote control option
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    Draw on screen
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    Very reliable
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    In-meeting chat is pretty good
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    Free
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    Pair programming sessions with shared controls
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    Easy to share meeting links/invites
  • 7
    Good Sound Quality
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    Cloud recordings for meetings
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    Great mobile app
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    Virtual backgrounds
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    Recording Feature
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    Other people use it
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    User Friendly actions
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    Reactions (emoticons)
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    Auto reconnecting
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    Chrome extension is great to easily create meetings
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    While sharing screen, you can still see your video
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    Mute all participants at once
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    When ending the videocall, everybody gets kicked
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    Registration form
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    Limited time if you are a basic member
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    Limited Storage
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    Hate how sharing your screen defaults to Full Screen
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    Quality isn't great (Free)
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    No cursor highlight on screenshare.
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    Potential security flaws
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    Onboarding process for new users is not intuitive
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    Virtual background quality isn't good
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    Security
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    Editing can be improved
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    Doesn't handle switching audio sources well
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    The native calendar is buggy
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    Dashboard can be improved
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    Pornographic material displayed
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    Any body can get in it
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    Not many emojis
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    Past chat history is not saved
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    Recording Feature
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Tools just plainly don't work (Skype), are painful to install for external participants (Webex and other "enterprise" solutions) can't properly handle 10+ participants calls (Google Hangouts Chat).

Zoom just works. It has all required features and even handles bad connections very graciously. One of the best tool decisions we've ever made :)

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WebRTC

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A free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications
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    Hello. So, I wanted to make a decision on whether to use WebRTC or Amazon Chime for a conference call (meeting). My plan is to build an app with features like video broadcasting, and the ability for all the participants to talk and chat. I have used Agora's web SDK for video broadcasting, and Socket.IO for chat features. As I read the comparison between Amazon Chime and WebRTC, it further intrigues me on what I should use given my scenario? Is there any way that so many related technologies could be a hindrance to the other? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. Ritwik Neema

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    Jitsi

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      Open Source
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      Entirely free conferencing
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      Unlimited time
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      WebRTC standard
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      Secure & encrypted video conference
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      Great API to develop with
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      Live stream to youtube
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      Dial-In and Dial-Out via SIP
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      Full HD
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      FSB Approved
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      Share youtube videos in conference
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      Easy installation and good support
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      MCU
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      For outbound and inbound SMS
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      Cheap
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      Simple REST API
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      Most reliable global communication vendor w/simple APIs
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      Broad coverage
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      Excellent support team
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      Implement inbound SMS
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      Super fast and easy to use
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      Nexmo vs Twilio ?

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      When revamping the platform, I made sure to flip the decision process how it should be. Business provided an input but Engineering lead the way and has the final say on all implementation matters. My engineers and I decided on re-evaluating the criteria and vendor selection. Not only did we need SMS support, but were we not thinking about #VoiceAndSms support as the use cases evolved.

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      Twilio won on all fronts. Including costs and implementation timelines. No-one even noticed the vendor switch.

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        First chat SDK officially supports Xamarin
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