What is the difference between Encoding.com & Vid.ly?

Encoding.com and Vid.ly may appear as similar, but there are vast differences. Follow along below, or feel free to chat up sales[at]encoding[dot]com for any questions!

The Encoding.com service works is as follows:

- Store your source videos on S3 / Rackspace or FTP site
- Decide your integration method, whether it be API or watch folder. Here, you must be the maestro and pick your encoding settings
- Deliver videos back to your S3 / Rackspace or FTP site.
- Encoding.com charges based on bandwidth I/O. So that would be source in + encodes out = total bandwidth used.

Vid.ly works very much in the same manner, except the following differences:

-  Store your source videos on S3 / Rackspace or FTP site
-  Use our API integration, as UI for Vid.ly has not been rolled out yet. With Vid.ly, we configure all the settings for you.
-  Receive the Vid.ly URL back. Watch it anywhere!
-  We do the hosting for you and charge based on # of Vid.ly URLs + storage + views.