Why Developers are Using Daily as a Vonage Alternative

Daily delivers best-in-industry call reliability at industry-leading <200ms latency. Host larger sessions with more features, without compromising on call quality.

As low as $1.50 per 1,000 minutes
With Daily, you’re not just dealing with support. You’re dealing with a domain expert and an expert in WebRTC.
Flo Crivello, CEO @ Teamflow
From developer experience to call stability, there is no system that even comes close to Daily.
Sasha Varlomov, CEO @ Coding Rooms
Just start with Daily — especially if you are the type of team who likes to build without stuff getting in your way or any friction.
Darren Buckner, CEO @ Workfrom

Why choose Daily

Industry-leading call quality

Get higher quality with Daily’s next-gen Global Mesh. Our calls are built with automatic bandwidth management to optimize for real-world network conditions. Plus use our APIs to configure simulcast and peer-to-peer bandwidth targets for specific use cases.

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More APIs, more ways to build

Build custom video UIs with our core SDKs. Or integrate Daily Prebuilt, a fully supported, hosted video call component. Get more features for your use case, like HD recording, live transcription, and HIPAA support.

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More dynamic large sessions

Daily supports more video publishers than any other API. And with Daily’s Video Component System (VCS) toolkit you can build a broadcast studio in the cloud for your recordings and real-time streams.

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Better docs and support

Daily support is faster, more responsive, and free to every developer. We invest in resources like high quality developer docs, and offer enterprise add-ons and SLAs to support your company at scale.

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Connect with 100,000 real-time participants with world class call reliability

VonageDaily
Features
Max. participants per call15,000
with 2 active		100,000
real-time active
Max. participants per call551,000
Global Mesh NetworkNoYes
Cross-platform Adaptive HEVCNoYes
Free minutes included2,00010,000
Max. concurrent rooms2,000Unlimited
Advanced firewall control (TURN)Additional chargeAlways included
Encrypted recordingAdditional chargeAlways included
IP whitelistingAdditional chargeAlways included
Pricing
Group video call$0.00395
flat rate		$0.0015–$0.004
+ automatic volume discounts
Recording
HD recording
Full HD recording		$0.0125–$0.045
$0.035
$0.045		$0.01349
for composited Full HD video
Composition$0.055
per session minute		Free
Full HD by default
Interactive Live Stream / Interactive Broadcast$0.00395
flat rate		$0.0012
+ automatic volume discounts
SupportChat support
sometimes free		Free support
Email and chat

Try Daily in your product without changing a single line of your Vonage code

Easily experience the power of Daily with our shims libraries

  • Enable Daily for 1% of your Vonage customers in a few minutes without having to invest the time and resources towards doing a full migration
  • See firsthand how Daily supports call quality and connectivity
  • Connect with our dedicated solutions team at any time

Migrate to Daily with 1 developer in less than a week

It ended up taking less time for our team to fully integrate a functional solution with Daily than it took to parse through the documentation of some of the competitors.
Zach Jordan, CEO
Zach Jordan, CEOEasy EMDR

With Daily's APIs you can

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@daily-co/daily-js"></script>
<script>
    callFrame = window.DailyIframe.createFrame();
    callFrame.join({ url: 'https://you.daily.co/hello' });
</script>
Explore the docs

Experience best-in-industry call reliability

  • Learn about the key requirements for a reliable video call experience
  • Identify the top 3 drivers that impact video call reliability
  • Pinpoint ways to improve video call reliability in your product
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