Ant Media Server vs BoxCast Comparison 2026
Both cover live streaming. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Sub-second streaming you run yourself
Live streaming for places that stream every week
At a glance
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Ant Media Server | BoxCast | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $109 | From $109 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | Not stated |
| Runs on (they differ) | Web, Linux | Web, iOS, Android |
| Covers | Live Streaming | Live Streaming, Video Hosting |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Ant Media Server
Sub-second streaming you run yourself
Ant Media Server is streaming infrastructure rather than a streaming service: it takes RTMP or WebRTC in, transcodes, and delivers with latency measured in fractions of a second. Licences are sold by the instance, by the hour for something that runs occasionally and by the month for something always on. SDKs are included rather than sold separately. This is a product for whoever is building the streaming app, not for whoever is going live tonight.
Our note
Work out your hours before choosing between the hourly and monthly licences, because the crossover is around the twentieth day of uptime and event streaming rarely gets near it. Anything running continuously should be on the monthly licence from the start rather than discovering that at the end of a billing period.
BoxCast
Live streaming for places that stream every week
BoxCast is built around a recurring broadcast rather than an occasional one, which is why its customers are churches, schools and local sport. Streams go out from a phone, a browser or a hardware encoder, and the same subscription covers the player, the hosting and a website to put it on. Branded television and mobile apps are sold as a separate product. Nothing about the pricing rewards streaming once a quarter.
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