EngageRooms, cloud phone, and embeddable widgets
MediaSFUvs100ms
Video rooms, live streams, phone lines and agents on one bill you can check.
Price your room side by side from published rates, then open a working room in this browser.
- From $0.375 per 1,000 video minutes
- Prebuilt UI or headless
- Recording, translation and phone built in
Price the room you actually run
MediaSFU bills each stream by the people receiving it, so cameras that are off cost nothing. 100ms bills every participant for every minute. Set your room and both bills are worked out from published rates.
Video quality
MediaSFU is $110.00 lower a month for this room.
Prices checked 13 October 2026: MediaSFU pricing, 100ms. List rates before negotiated discounts. MediaSFU room-size tiers start at the 51st sender or receiver; people off camera are counted as open microphones. Recording, transcription and phone lines are left out on both sides.
Checked 13 October 2026
- MediaSFU
- Per stream: audio $0.10, SD $0.75, HD $1.50 per 1,000 stream-minutes, for each person receiving the stream. Cameras that are off cost nothing.
- 100ms
- $0.004 per participant-minute for video; audio only $0.001 (derived), for every participant. Conferencing $0.004 per participant-minute after 10,000 free minutes a month. Audio-only is published as 75% off; the $0.001 used here is derived from that.
Also on 100ms's page: Recording $0.0135/min after 300 free; HLS live streaming $0.0012 per viewer-minute after 10,000 free; Live transcription $0.017/min.
Sources: 100ms pricing and MediaSFU pricing. Prices change; check the source before you decide.
What maps to what
| 100ms | MediaSFU |
|---|---|
| Room and template | Room and event settings |
| Role | Host, co-host and participant permissions |
| Peer | Member |
| HLS live streaming | HLS for large audiences |
| Recording | Cloud recording |
- Create a free account and a sandbox API key to build against.
- Create rooms from your server with the REST API, the same place you mint tokens today.
- Swap the client SDK: React, React Native, Angular, Vue or Flutter, with a prebuilt room or fully headless.
- Run both side by side on a slice of real traffic, then compare the bills line by line in the bill explorer.
Assess it in ten minutes
Open a working room in this browser.
Each one is a finished product on the MediaSFU SDKs, with no signup. Open it on a second device to be both sides, then check the things that decide a 100ms evaluation.
- Two-person call
- Send the secure invite to a second device
- Camera, mic and screen share
- Remote-first layout, draggable self-view
- Broadcast control room
- Line up cameras in preview
- Cut one to air with real media
- See where HLS and recording begin
- Stage plus audience
- Talk live on the WebRTC stage
- Watch the same moment as the HLS audience
- Compare the two clocks
- Interactive classroom
- Run a real poll
- Draw on the shared board
- Split the class into breakout groups
- Live auction
- Open the bidder link on your phone
- Bids land in server order
- A late bid extends the countdown
- Watch party
- Bring a video in over WHIP
- Choose WebRTC or HLS delivery
- Open the eight-place live floor
What the decision unlocks
Choose MediaSFU when the job is the whole communication workflow.
Use MediaSFU when one launch needs real-time rooms, phone calls, AI agents, translation, recording artifacts, widgets, and SDK control. Keep 100ms in the shortlist when you want role templates and live streaming in a video SDK and will add telephony and agents separately.
One connected operating modelFrom live interaction to usable output.
Launch the experience, run the workflow, retain the artifacts, and extend it with code when needed.
AutomateAI agents, campaigns, and live translation
CaptureRecordings, transcripts, notes, and summaries
ExtendSDKs, APIs, SIP, domains, and webhooks
Published starting rates
$0.10per 1K audio minutes
$0.375per 1K video minutes
$2+per 1K recording minutes
Unified launch plus developer control
Best when the product must be operated by real teams and extended by engineers.
Video SDKs with role templates and HLS live streaming
Best when that narrower center of gravity is the main buying reason.
LaunchMeetings, cloud phone, campaigns, widgets, rooms, notes, and recordings are usable without rebuilding the product surface.
ExtendSDKs, API keys, domains, SIP configs, provider keys, and webhooks remain available when engineering needs precision.
AuditCalls and sessions can produce logs, transcripts, AI notes, summaries, recordings, and downloadable artifacts.
Ask before choosing:
- Will non-developers run calls, campaigns, rooms, or notes after setup?
- Do phone, WebRTC, widgets, AI, translation, and recording need to work as one flow?
- Are you comparing total workflow cost instead of one isolated API line item?
MediaSFU advantage
The stronger comparison is the complete workflow.
Against 100ms, MediaSFU is most compelling when the buyer needs live media, phone calls, AI workflows, translation, recordings, and usable apps to work together without forcing every team into a developer-only rollout.
Launch from guided apps
Use meeting rooms, Lite Dashboard, cloud phone, AI campaigns, managed numbers, and built-in AI notes/transcripts where the plan includes managed MediaSFU services.
Keep provider and SDK control
Bring SIP providers, AI keys, widgets, domains, API keys, webhooks, and SDK integrations while still relying on MediaSFU for the room, media, telephony, and workflow surface.
01
Translated audio, not just captions
Participants can speak naturally while MediaSFU plays translated room audio. A French speaker can be heard in German, and listeners can keep or override their output language.
02
Phone, AI, and human handoff together
Inbound and outbound calling, managed numbers, AI receptionists, callback flows, and human handoff use one operating model instead of a stitched call stack.
03
A complete meeting product surface
SDK-backed meetings can include screen share, messaging, polls, whiteboard, breakout rooms, widgets, recordings, and room controls without starting from bare media primitives.
04
Recordings become review assets
Recording workflows support pause/resume, playback, transcripts, AI notes, summaries, and downloadable artifacts for review, compliance, or customer follow-up.
05
Ready apps plus developer control
Operators can use meetings, cloud phone, AI campaigns, and Lite Dashboard flows. Developers still get APIs, SDKs, webhooks, SIP configs, widgets, and provider-key control.
06
Plain SIP/PSTN stays plain
When calls do not use AI, MediaSFU positions the workload around audio infrastructure plus your carrier/provider path, not an extra WebRTC/SIP bridge billing layer.
Pricing lensAudio, video, and recording rates in readable units
Use these as MediaSFU-side inputs before comparing vendor-specific bundles, add-ons, or carrier charges.
| Workload | Dollars | Cents | 1K minutes | How to read it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio transport | $0.0001/min | 0.01¢/min | $0.10 per 1K min | Use for audio rooms and plain SIP/PSTN media transport. |
| Video transport | $0.000375/min | 0.0375¢/min | $0.375 per 1K min | Starting rate, at QnHD (320×180); SD is $0.00075/min. Add-on services are separate. |
| Recording - audio only | $0.002/min | 0.2¢/min | $2 per 1K min | Audio-only recording derived from the recording purchase factors. |
| Recording - video SD | $0.006/min | 0.6¢/min | $6 per 1K min | Baseline SD video recording minute pricing. |
| Recording - video HD/FHD/QHD | $0.012 - $0.024/min | 1.2¢ - 2.4¢/min | $12 - $24 per 1K min | HD, FHD, and QHD video recording scale by recording quality. |
From comparison to working product
Browse all live experiences See the broader MediaSFU story in context.
A rate or feature row cannot show how the pieces work together. These product-shaped experiences make the room, media, operator, audience, and integration surfaces tangible.
Runnable showcaseFamiliar two-person calls
Inspect a polished calling experience with self and remote media, a draggable mini view, and focused call controls.
Open familiar calls
Runnable showcaseInteractive live broadcast
Move from an interactive WebRTC control room to audience-scale viewing while preserving production controls.
Open broadcast control
Runnable showcaseInteractive classroom
Explore a teaching surface shaped around participation, media, screen sharing, collaboration, and instructor control.
Open the classroom| Category | MediaSFU | 100ms |
|---|---|---|
| How video is billed | Each stream × the people receiving it; cameras that are off cost nothing | Every participant for every minute of the session |
| Large audiences | Webinar and broadcast rooms with room-size tiers, plus HLS | HLS live streaming billed per viewer-minute |
| Phone calls and SIP | Bring your own SIP trunk into the same rooms, with no markup | Added through a separate telephony provider |
| AI in the room | Voice and vision agents, live translation and AI notes with your own provider keys | Transcription and summaries as add-ons |
| Bills you can check | Every charged minute itemised per room and per day, with CSV export | Usage dashboard by product line |
Last updated: October 13, 2026