🆚 Cloudflare Stream vs. YouTube
- 📈 YouTube is much more popular than Cloudflare Stream.
- 🌍 YouTube is more popular in all countries.
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About
Cloudflare Stream is a video-on-demand and live streaming service that provides a unified API to upload, encode, store, and deliver video across 
Cloudflare's global network.
It handles the full media pipeline with automatic encoding to multiple bitrates, adaptive playback up to 1080p, direct user uploads, and access control using signed URLs.
YouTube is the world's largest online video platform and social media service owned by Google that lets users watch, comment on, and upload videos, as well as subscribe to channels.
It supports high-resolution video hosting up to 8K, live streaming with real-time chat and monetization tools, algorithmic recommendations, Shorts for vertical videos, customizable playlists, subtitles, and paid channel memberships.
Headquarters
Pricing
(5,000 streaming minutes)$5+/month
(50,000 streaming minutes)$50+/month
(5 members)$22.99/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Video Platforms category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Australia in the Video Platforms category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Platforms category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the Netherlands in the Video Platforms category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Video Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Video Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Google company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,511,216 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.