If you are searching for a 100ms alternative, you are usually solving one of three problems: your DRM requirements have outgrown a real-time video SDK, your per-minute bill has become unpredictable, or you have realised you need a video platform rather than a conferencing building block.

This comparison is built from official product pages, developer documentation and published pricing from each vendor — not from review-site summaries. Where a capability could not be verified in a vendor’s own documentation, it is marked “Not clearly documented” rather than assumed to be missing.

Short answer: for two-way, sub-second interactive video, 100ms remains a capable SDK. For a complete video streaming infrastructure — secure hosting, VOD, multi-DRM, transcoding, adaptive delivery and analytics on one bill — TPStreams is the strongest overall 100ms alternative.

What is 100ms?

100ms is a developer-first real-time video infrastructure company. Its SDKs and REST APIs let teams embed video conferencing, interactive live streaming, audio rooms, virtual classrooms, virtual events and video KYC into their own apps, with SDKs for Web, iOS, Android, React Native and Flutter.

Verified capabilities :

• WebRTC conferencing and interactive live streaming with HLS output
• External streaming (RTMP out) to platforms like YouTube
• Recording, including a VOD recording mode that produces an HLS asset with adaptive bitrate
• Live transcription, post-call transcription and AI-generated summaries
• SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance; media encrypted over SRTP/DTLS with AES-256; JWT tokens and room-level permissions; data residency in the US, EU and India
• Published uptime SLA of 99.99%

100ms pricing (100ms.live/pricing): a free tier of 10,000 conferencing minutes, 10,000 streaming minutes and 1,000 encoding minutes per month, plus 300 minutes each of recording, transcription, RTMP-out and AI summaries. Beyond that: $0.004 per participant/minute conferencing, $0.0012 per viewer/minute streaming, $0.04/min encoding, $0.0135/min recording and $0.04/min RTMP-out. Support is tiered separately at Developer (free), Premium (1,500/mo or 5% of MRR)and Enterprise(2,500/mo or 8% of MRR); a HIPAA BAA is a $500/month add-on on the free support tier.

Why Look for a 100ms Alternative?

Four reasons come up repeatedly, all of them verifiable rather than editorial:

DRM
100ms secures the session, and it does that well — JWT tokens scoped to a room, role-based permissions, AES-256 encryption in transit and at rest. But securing a session and licensing a content library are two different problems. Studio DRM — Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady — is what stops a paying subscriber from walking off with your catalogue, and it sits outside what a real-time video SDK is built to do. If your revenue depends on recorded content, this is the first question to put to their team.

Retention and hosting
Recordings left in 100ms storage expire after 15 days, and on-demand CDN playback is still in beta — free today, chargeable later. The platform is designed to hand the file off rather than keep it, so most teams pipe recordings into their own S3 or GCS bucket. Then they need a second platform to host, protect and serve those files. That second platform is usually what people are actually shopping for when they search for a 100ms alternative.

Metered cost at scale
Conferencing, streaming, encoding, recording, transcription and RTMP-out each carry their own meter, and support is priced on top of all of it — $1,500 a month or 5% of MRR, whichever is greater, for the Premium tier. At low volume it is genuinely cheap. It just becomes hard to forecast the month your launch goes well.

100ms vs TPStreams: Which Is Better?

Every row below reflects each vendor’s own documentation.

Feature	100ms	TPStreams
Live Streaming	Interactive WebRTC live streaming with HLS output; RTMP-out to external platforms; built for two-way, low-latency interaction	RTMP ingest from OBS, vMix, Wirecast or hardware encoders; adaptive HLS over global CDN; DVR (pause/rewind/replay); auto-recording after the event
Video Hosting	Session recordings rather than a content library; VOD assets retained 15 days in 100ms storage or exported to your own bucket	Full hosting: upload MP4/MOV/MKV, managed library, embeds, replace files without breaking URLs or losing analytics
VOD	VOD recording mode outputs HLS with ABR; CDN on-demand playback documented as free beta	Native VOD product with player, thumbnails, chapters and subtitles
DRM	Not clearly documented	Multi-DRM: Google Widevine and Apple FairPlay, included on every plan; direct Google Widevine partner; per-session forensic watermarking; token-based playback; domain restriction
Transcoding	Encoding billed at $0.04/min beyond 1,000 free minutes	Per-title encoding; transcoding hours bundled into each plan; migration transcoding free on annual plans
Adaptive Bitrate	Yes — documented for VOD recordings and streaming	Yes — 1080p/720p/480p+ ladders for both VOD and live, tuned for unstable networks
Video Analytics	Session, quality and usage metrics; log retention 15 days (free support) to 30 days+ (paid)	Engagement analytics: views, watch time, completion rate, drop-off, device and regional breakdown; playback and IP access logs
API Integration	REST APIs; open-source SDKs for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter	REST APIs with JSON responses and webhooks; SDKs for JavaScript, Android, iOS, React and Flutter
Security	SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA; SRTP/DTLS AES-256; JWT + room permissions; US/EU/India data residency	ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II; AES-256 at rest and in transit; multi-DRM; dynamic watermarking; role-based access control
Scalability	99.99% uptime SLA across support tiers	Vendor-reported: 99.999% uptime over the last 12 months, 4 PB delivered monthly, 50,000 concurrent viewers on a single stream
Best Use Case	Two-way real-time video: conferencing, telehealth, video KYC, audio rooms, interactive classrooms	Secure video hosting, VOD libraries, DRM-protected courses, large-scale live events, OTT and EdTech delivery

Why TPStreams Is the Best 100ms Alternative

TPStreams (built by Testpress Tech Labs) covers the entire video lifecycle on one platform and one invoice:

Upload → Transcode → Secure → Host → Stream → Analyze

Three things separate it from every other option on this list:

DRM is not an upsell. Widevine and FairPlay, forensic watermarking, token authentication and domain locking are included on the $150/month entry plan, not gated behind an enterprise contract. TPStreams is a direct Google Widevine partner, so the licence pipeline is first-party rather than resold.

Pricing is a plan, not a meter. Published tiers bundle delivery, storage, DRM licences, transcoding and live hours together: Start $150 (750 GB delivery, 55,000 DRM licences, 24 live hrs), Pro $450 (6 TB, 110,000 licences, 130 live hrs), Growth $1,350 (26 TB, 300,000 licences, 430 live hrs) and Scale $4,050 (90 TB, 1M licences, 2,000 live hrs). Growth and above include a named customer success architect and a contractual SLA.

It is proven where leaks cost revenue. NISM — SEBI’s securities-market certification body — runs mandated certification training on it. A joint venture of AAI and DGCA delivers regulated aviation training on it. Art of Living streamed live to 180 countries. Utkarsh Classes migrated off a multi-vendor cloud stack in three months.

Who Should Choose TPStreams?

• EdTech and exam-prep platforms — DRM-protected course libraries where a leaked catalogue is lost revenue
• Coaching and online learning businesses — live classes auto-recorded and published as on-demand modules
• Corporate training and compliance teams — RBAC, watermarking and completion analytics for audit trails
• OTT and media companies — catalogue management, multi-DRM, adaptive delivery across mobile, desktop and smart TV
• Faith-based and event organisations — global live streaming at scale with instant on-demand replay
• Teams building their own video app — REST APIs, webhooks and SDKs for JS, Android, iOS, React and Flutter
• DRM-only buyers — TPStreams sells DRM licensing separately if you already run your own delivery

• What is the best 100ms alternative?

  For complete video streaming infrastructure — hosting, VOD, DRM, transcoding, live and analytics — TPStreams. For pure real-time conferencing, LiveKit, Agora or Daily are closer replacements.
• Can TPStreams handle large live events?

  TPStreams reports 4 PB delivered monthly and 50,000 concurrent viewers on a single stream, with 99.999% uptime over the last twelve months. Art of Living streamed live to 180 countries on the platform.
• Does TPStreams offer APIs and SDKs?

  Yes — REST APIs with JSON responses and webhooks, plus SDKs for JavaScript, Android, iOS, React and Flutter. Full documentation is at developer.tpstreams.com.