Kurento vs Zencoder: What are the differences?

Kurento: A WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs *. It is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Media Server features include group communications, transcoding and more; *Zencoder:** 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.

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

Some of the features offered by Kurento are:

• WebRTC media server
• group communications
• broadcasting and routing of audiovisual flows

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.