Cloudflare Stream vs Zencoder: What are the differences?

Developers describe Cloudflare Stream as "Combine video encoding, global delivery, and player". Cloudflare Stream makes integrating high-quality streaming video into a web or mobile application easy. Using a single, integrated workflow through a robust API or drag and drop UI, application owners can focus on creating the best video experience. On the other hand, Zencoder is detailed as "Cloud-based video and audio encoding product suite". Zencoder downloads the video and converts it to as many formats as you need. Every output is encoded concurrently, with virtually no waiting—whether you do one or one hundred. Zencoder then uploads the resulting videos to a server, CDN, an S3 bucket, or wherever you dictate in your API call.

Cloudflare Stream and Zencoder belong to "Media Transcoding" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Cloudflare Stream are:

• Scalable Encoding and Storage
• Customizable Player
• Instant Global Distribution

On the other hand, Zencoder provides the following key features:

• Fastest Encoding Speeds- Zencoder consistently delivers the fastest encoding times in the cloud. Even HD Quality video is encoded faster than realtime.
• Easy API Integration- Integrate in an afternoon with Zencoder's well documented API, easy-to-use API Request Builder, integration libraries, and dedicated support.
• Any Video. Any Device.- Zencoder has an industry leading 99.9% encoding success rate and supports outputs for nearly every device on the market.