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Anbox Cloud vs Ant Media comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Anbox Cloud
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Application Virtualization (8th)
Ant Media
Average Rating
9.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Live Streaming Platforms (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Anbox Cloud and Ant Media aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Anbox Cloud is designed for Application Virtualization and holds a mindshare of 1.4%.
Ant Media, on the other hand, focuses on Live Streaming Platforms, holds 14.7% mindshare, down 19.4% since last year.
Application Virtualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Anbox Cloud1.4%
Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service)23.4%
Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS)15.3%
Other59.900000000000006%
Application Virtualization
Live Streaming Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Ant Media14.7%
Brightcove11.8%
Red5 Pro9.6%
Other63.9%
Live Streaming Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

IsaacHernandez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Lead QA at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Cloud-based Android testing has transformed how our teams reproduce issues and run remote QA sessions
Anbox Cloud can be improved mainly in ease of setup and operational simplicity. The platform is very powerful, but the initial configuration can feel complex, especially around infrastructure, networking, images, GPU support, and scaling. Better guided setup, clearer troubleshooting messages, and more production-ready templates would help a lot. I would also improve the monitoring and reporting experience, especially around session performance, resource usage, latency, and failures. For QA and operation teams, having clearer dashboards and logs would make it easier to detect problems quickly. Overall, it works well, but it could be more user-friendly for teams that do not have Linux, LXC, or cloud infrastructure experience. I would add that the documentation could be more scenario-based. The official docs cover the components, but real production examples would help more, specifically for scaling, GPU configuration, networking, image lifecycle, and troubleshooting failed sessions. Also, integrations could be stronger. Better out-of-the-box examples for CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, observability dashboards, and automated QA workflows would make adoption easier. I also would appreciate clearer guidance around cost optimization because when you scale Android instances in the cloud, resource planning becomes very important.
GS
Senior Software .Net Developer at Moisho Mission Co
Live streaming workflow has simplified setup and now streams browser-based video to multiple platforms
Ant Media offers many features that depend on the version you choose. When using the beginner and professional versions, those features are related to your payment plan. When using a beginner or lower level, the features involve streaming data, FPS, data file from the image, image resolution, image quality, and other components you need to send from WebRTC to Ant Media. Those configurations are available in Ant Media and show how you want to send those media to YouTube. These are the best features, but you need to pay more to get better functionality or better resolution. When using a development level, such as dev, UAT, and production environments, while testing, you do not have all the features and you do not have higher quality when sending the data. When you pay more and have a paid version of Ant Media, they will provide you with the best quality for how you want to send the data to YouTube or elsewhere. This is the basic principle: when you pay more, you receive better resolution. Ant Media is configurable from the web using WebRTC. If I want to do a live streaming project, I would have to create a Flutter application on Android or iOS, but with Ant Media, I can integrate from the browser itself. I only have to pass the Ant Media endpoint API to a Chrome browser from WebRTC. It is easily configurable, and my organization works on live streaming projects. This is the best way to use Ant Media because you can integrate your simplest or quickest version when you have a deadline or specific live streaming needs. It basically saves time. Previously, we were creating our own web server and media server. We no longer need that media server and can just use Ant Media directly. There is no doubt that we are paying for Ant Media, but once you acquire users, they start using your website and start WebRTC live streaming through your application. You increase your customer base, and then you can move to a paid version. Ultimately, Ant Media saves your time, money, and the cost of buying a separate web server or media server. Instead of that investment, use Ant Media, get the endpoint, configure it, and do the live streaming.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We have an excellent experience with support from Canonical, as they provide great support and our experience with the support team has been excellent."
"Anbox Cloud has helped us deliver faster to the market, automating testing and significantly improving testing cycles and time by 60 to 70%, resulting in faster time to market and increased customer satisfaction, which is up by at least 70 to 80%."
"Overall, Anbox Cloud is a strong platform when you need scalable Android environments in the cloud, creating a more controlled, repeatable, and scalable Android workflow for QA, demos, and remote validation."
"It helps run Android and system containers using Ubuntu Pro."
"Anbox Cloud positively impacts my organization by enabling us to run over 100 Android instances on a single server and maximizing infrastructure efficiencies."
"The web dashboard is clean and easy to work with."
"Ant Media is a powerful platform that delivers on its promise of low-latency, high-quality streaming."
"AMS allowed us to integrate a streaming platform into our solution fairly easily, with great support from a very accessible developer and company."
"Ant Media has allowed us to meet strict security and compliance standards required by our enterprise clients without sacrificing performance."
"Valuable features include live streaming, event scheduling with the Ant Media Enterprise admin panel, and broadcast forwarding to social media platforms."
"Ultimately, Ant Media saves your time, money, and the cost of buying a separate web server or media server."
"It is easy to set up and integrate, and the support is excellent."
"We tried other streaming services, but Ant Media provided us with the most reliable and affordable services."
 

Cons

"In Brazil, it is difficult to find technical professionals with OpenStack or this technology skills."
"Anbox Cloud can be improved mainly in ease of setup and operational simplicity."
"To improve Anbox Cloud, we can enhance the speed and flexibility of the platform."
"The documentation is generally good, but more deep-dive examples for complex, custom edge-case configurations would be helpful for advanced developers."
"The product could be improved by adding VPN support and offering a local push feature in the free version."
"For the auto-managed service on AWS, it would be an improvement if it auto-scaled and the launch from the marketplace function actually added to the currently running instance in a scaled manner instead of creating an isolated instance that cannot be used without CloudFormation."
"While the streaming performance is excellent, the pricing could be more accessible for small teams or markets with limited resources."
"Ant Media needs many improvements. Sometimes I am not getting proper video resolution, and it is lagging."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
58%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Construction Company
29%
Comms Service Provider
19%
Educational Organization
9%
Outsourcing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Anbox Cloud?
Our experience with pricing was that it was reasonable for the value, but it requires careful planning. The main cost came from AWS compute resources, storage, networking, and scaling Android sessi...
What needs improvement with Anbox Cloud?
To improve Anbox Cloud, we can enhance the speed and flexibility of the platform. We can focus on optimizing allocations and CPU scheduling, as we are experiencing load distribution issues and expe...
What is your primary use case for Anbox Cloud?
My main use case for Anbox Cloud is for developments and critical enterprise development requirements. I use Anbox Cloud for Android automation on demand across the public cloud, which includes clo...
What needs improvement with Ant Media?
I believe more features regarding runtime media editing can be helpful.
What is your primary use case for Ant Media?
I am using Ant Media Server Enterprise for streaming live events. We are a platform where venues can book DJs for their events, and DJs can stream live from their studios to the venue. This way we ...
 

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