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GetStream Alternatives vs Competitors in 2023
GetStream Alternatives and Competitors

GetStream Alternatives vs Competitors in 2023

Dead Simple Chat Team

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There are many Chat API and SDK software providers available in the market today.

Although GetStream is one of them and a good choice for chat API, it is not perfect and not suitable for everyone and every use-case

List of GetStream Alternatives and Competitors in 2023:

  1. Stream VS DeadSimpleChat
  2. Stream VS SendBird
  3. Stream VS Twillio
  4. Stream VS Agora

About Stream Chat API

Stream started out as a activity feeds provider than started another product as chat api and sdk.

Nowadays, stream has branched out further into video calling and audio calling. Although Video and audio calling are not a finished products and there are much better alternatives available like: Metered Video, Agora and Twillio.

In this article we will focus on the main product of Stream that is the Chat API

So, lets consider some of the alternatives to Stream Chat API

GetStream Vs DeadSimpleChat

DeadSimpleChat beats Stream Chat in the following key areas

  1. Scalability: DeadSimpleChat provides 10 Million concurrent users in a single chat. GetStream provides 5 Million only, also many of stream chat's features are turned off as the number of chat users increases
  2. Reliability: Both stream chat and DeadSimpleChat offer 99.999% Uptime but DeadSimpleChat offers the reliability free across all plans. In case of Stream Chat the reliability is a paid add-on
  3. Ease of use: DeadSimpleChat offers UI based Dashboard to control the chat along with Chat API and SDK and webhooks. DeadSimpleChat also has Pre-Built Chat along with Chat API and SDK.
  4. Security: DeadSimpleChat messages are end-to-end encrypted for security through TLS encryption thus providing enterprise grade security
  5. Pricing: DeadSimpleChat Pricing starts at 99 USD/ mo for Growth Plan and 369 USD /mo for business plan. DeadSimpleChat also offers a free plan
  6. Support: DeadSimpleChat API offers free developer and integration support which is something the stream chat does not offer. DeadSimpleChat also has phone support.
  7. Customization: DeadSimpleChat offers unlimited customization options. If you want you can get started with the Pre-Built chat option or completely build the UI using the Chat API and SDK
  8. Trust: DeadSimpleChat is a trusted provider for large corporations and Governments around the world
  9. Moderation Features: DeadSimpleChat has awesome moderation features like A.I based moderation, automatic profanity filters, ability to create moderators, ability to delete messages and ban users

Thus DeadSimpleChat is a better alternative to Stream chat in all respects

Stream Chat vs SendBird

SendBird and Stream Chat both are good Chat API and SDK providers. Although SendBird was the chat api provider and stream started out as a Activity feeds provider then pivoted into chat api

  1. Scalability: Stream chat Scales to 5 M concurrent users but SendBird Scales to 20,000 only. On the other hand DeadSimpleChat scales to 10 Million concurrent users in a single chat
  2. Reliability: Both sendbird and getstream provides 99.999% reliability as an add on and only 99.99% as a general reliability. DeadSimpleChat on the other hand provides 99.999% reliability across all the plans at no extra cost
  3. Ease of Use: Both Sendbird and Stream Chat provides UI components, to quickly build your application, on the other hand DeadSimpleChat provides UI components along with pre built chat and dashboard based Moderation and Customization Options.
  4. Security: Both the GetStream and SendBird Chat have TLS encryption enabled. TLS encryption that is end-to-end encrypted is in DeadSimpleChat as well
  5. Pricing: The Stream chat pricing is for the around 500 USD /mo for the start up plan and 1300 USD / mo for the standared plan.  While the Sendbird pricing is around 400 USD /mo for Starter 5k and 600 USD / mo for Pro 5k. DeadSimpleChat is the value proposition with 200 USD /mo for Growth and 369 USD /mo for business plans
  6. Support: SendBird offers paid support plans that comes with arying levels of supports and stream chat offers 24X& phone support but we don't know if its paid or it comes free with the plan. DeadSimpleChat on the other hand offers free integration support, free meetings with dev teams and DeadSimpleChat is support team is staffed with developers which is something other players do not have.
  7. Customization: Both these plans offer unlimited customization options, these customizations are all available in DeadSimpleChat as well
  8. Trust: Sendbird and GetStream have startups and big compamnies as there customers but DeadSimpleCHat has Goverments around the world and Large companies and startups as their customers
  9. Moderation features: Both sendbird and getstream have basic moderation features but DeadSimpleCHat features Moderation dashboard and awesome moderation feartures such as AI based moderation ability to create multip,le moderationers deletre messasges ban users and much more which are exclusive to DeadSimpleCHat

StreamChat VS Twilio

Twillio is a big platofrm which offers multiple communication platforms to communicate with tyour customers and itnernal staff alike

Twilio offers video calling, sms and chat along with other services. But most of the Twilio services are concentrated in the Email and Video calling segments

Here are the key differences between Twilio and Stream Chat

  1. Scalability: Twilio scales to 5000 users while Stream Chat scales to 5 M but DeadSimpleChat Scales to 10 Million
  2. Reliability: There is no data on how reliable twilio is but Stream Chat is 99.9% reliable normally and is 99.999% reliable with an add on. DeadSimpleChat is 99.999% reliable

GetStream Chat Vs Agora Chat

GetStream was an activity feeds provider that started getting in the chat business and Agora used to be a video call and audio calling provider then started getting in the chat business

GetStream is a much better product as compared to Agora if you are looking for chat and Agora is a much better product than GetStream if you are looking for Video and Audio calling

DeadSimpleChat API and SDK is the best chat provider if you are looking for chat

Here are the differences between GetStream Chat and Agora Chat

  1. Scalability: Agora does not say anything about scalability in its chat platform but GetStream says it can scale up to 5 M, though all the chat features does not work when you scale with a number of users.

This is not the case with DeadSimpleChat. DeadSimpleChat scales upto 10 Million concurrent online users and all the features work as you scale

2. Reliability:  DeadSimpleChat is absolutly more reliable than all the other chat providers out there. Agora does not say anything about what kind of reliability does it provides with respect to chat api.

3. Ease of use. DeadSimpleChat is much easier to use than the other providers. GetStream provides the component based UI and the agora chat provides some other components but DeadSimpleChat provides Component based UI as well as Pre Built Chat. Which is something nobody else provides. Also, DeadSimpleChat has dashboard based moderation and UI based customization options which is also something other chat providers simply do not have.

4. Security: All the chat providers are secure. GetStream, DeadSimpleChat and Agora all provide TLS based security and end-to-end encryption on all the chat services

5. Pricing: While GetStream is the most expensive option here with the startup plans starting at 500 USD /mo. Agora comes a close second. The best value option is DeadSimpleChat with 99 USD /mo Growth plan and 369 USD /mo Business plan.

6. Support: There is paid support available with GetStream and Agaora as well. Most of the support comes bundled with DeadSimpleChat, there is only 1 paid add on of Phone support that you can purchase

7. Customization: You can customize as you like with stream and Agora Chat. DeadSimpleChat offers a better customiztion, you have the option of complete customization with Chat API and SDK  from DeadSimpleChat or you can use the Pre Built Chat and customize it using the UI based customization tool

8. Trust: With respect to Chat Stream has a few good sized companies using its chat software but agora is basically for Video Calling.

DeadSimpleChat is trusted around the world by fortune 500 companies and goverment agencies alike for its chat API and SDK platform and UI based Chat embed

9. Moderation Features: Both GetStream and Agora offers some moderation features but none offer the best moderation features that the DeadSimpleChat offers like AI based moderation, ability to create multiple moderators, ban users, delete messages, mute users, Pre moderated chat and much more.

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Conclusion

In this article we learnt about the various alternatives and competitors of GetStream Chat software and we came to the conclusion that the best chat software in the market for Chat API and SDK is DeadSimpleChat