Amazon Elastic Transcoder Alternatives

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is described as 'Is media transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy to use and a cost effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices' and is an app in the file management category. There are nine alternatives to Amazon Elastic Transcoder for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, SaaS, PHP and Go (Programming Language) apps. The best Amazon Elastic Transcoder alternative is Coconut, which is free. Other great apps like Amazon Elastic Transcoder are Transloadit, Zencoder, Snickers and 10Duke File+.

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  1. Coconut icon
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    Coconut - Outsource video transcoding for Web, Mobile and TV projects with just a few lines of code.

    14 Coconut alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • .NET Framework
    • PHP
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Java
    • Node.JS
     
    • Coconut is the most popular Web-based alternative to Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

    • Coconut is the most popular free alternative to Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

    • Coconut is Freemium and ProprietaryAmazon Elastic Transcoder is also Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Transloadit icon
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    Transloadit handles file uploads, resize, crop and watermark your images, make GIFs, transcode your videos, extract thumbnails, generate audio waveforms, and so much more. In short, it is a Swiss Army Knife for your files and a one-stop place for developers that are looking to...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Zencoder icon
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    Audio and video encoding/transcoding software as a service. Convert videos online into web and mobile formats using our cloud encoding API.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Zencoder is the most popular commercial alternative to Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

    • Zencoder is Paid and ProprietaryAmazon Elastic Transcoder is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. Snickers icon
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    Snickers is an open source alternative to the existent cloud encoding services. It is a HTTP API that encode videos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Snickers is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

    • Snickers is the most popular Open Source alternative to Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

    • Snickers is Free and Open SourceAmazon Elastic Transcoder is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. 10Duke File+ icon
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    File+ is a dedicated file management and file conversion API for online files and media. File+ provides an engine that allows large scale online file storage as well as the mapping of input files to series of commands for producing file conversion.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. MediaMachine icon
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    Engage users and boost your brand with Intelligent Video Thumbnail generation, NLP-like Video Summarization, and a rock-solid Video Transcoding pipeline.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    It's more cheaper and with better output.

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    • MediaMachine is the most popular SaaS alternative to Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

    • MediaMachine is Freemium and ProprietaryAmazon Elastic Transcoder is also Freemium and Proprietary
  7. SlashedCloud icon
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    SlashedCloud is a cloud-based video transcoding service that lets you encode your entire video library to the next-generation codecs, like HEVC and AV1, for a fraction of the price you'd pay in-house.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Rendi icon
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    Rendi is a simple REST API for FFmpeg. We take care the cloud infrastructure and costs, so you don't have to.

    5 Rendi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Video Simplified! HTML5VideoBank uses AWS MediaConvert as the backend and offers the same 100's of presets. It is one of the simplest apps we've ever tested. Just pick a preset and upload your video. Conversion starts automatically.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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