--- description: Learn more about Wowza Streaming Engine price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in South Africa. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Wowza Streaming Engine Price, Reviews & Features - Capterra South Africa 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Video Management Software](/directory/30754/video-management/software) > [Wowza Streaming Engine](/software/180393/wowza-streaming-engine) # Wowza Streaming Engine Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.za/software/180393/wowza-streaming-engine Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/180393/wowza-streaming-engine?page=2) > The gold standard of customizable streaming server software for building and delivering professional-grade streaming at any scale. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 45 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Wowza Streaming Engine? A builder-focused video streaming software solution that can be easily integrated with your existing infrastructures. Now offered with hybrid cloud capabilities. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 45 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Wowza Media Systems - **Location**: Golden, US - **Founded**: 2005 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$195,00 - **Pricing model**: Other (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Basic - $125 Price per Month/Prepaid Annually - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Bulk Uploading - Content Library - Live Streaming Production - Real-time Broadcasting - Reporting/Analytics - Social Sharing - Video Streaming ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Video Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30754/video-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Video Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30754/video-management/software) - [Live Streaming Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/31755/live-streaming/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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The compatibility with our JW Player is perfect and the live DVR allows fans and statisticians to go back and review plays. The system is well understood by most web developers, it is very full featured and the license fees are affordable when deployed on our own equipment. > > **Cons**: Deficiencies, in my opinion, are the complexities of storing separate files for each ABR resolution and automating a system to create SMIL files for on-demand playback. A single file with all resolutions would be very preferable. There is no function within Wowza to accept an uploaded file and translate it into usable frame aligned files for on-demand playback. We have to use an unauthorized file naming plug-in in order to automate our playlist and SMIL file creation. > > Overall, our experience has been extremely good. We run two servers that are load balanced and the primary also is linked to a third party CDN. Without the CDN, we can comfortably stream HD to over 300 viewers and with the CDN enabled, there is no limit. The Wowza Streaming Engine is more tolerant of of venue origin streams than many other services and that is extremely important. ----- ### "Poor customer experience with support and billing" — 3.0/5 > **Clinton** | *23 June 2022* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 1.0/10 > > **Pros**: Wowza has been an important part of our systems over the past 7 years or so. We have built several systems around streaming video on campus for different purposes. Wowza has been a mostly stable product that has allowed us to transmux, transcode, and distribute video across campus for a decent price. > > **Cons**: The configuration and management of the servers is difficult. Upgrades in our environment are difficult because named user account configurations are difficult to deal with around the Wowza Streaming Engine product. You have not made it easy to upgrade software and full version upgrades from version 3 to version 4 was incredibly difficult. Webrtc implementation took some work to get working properly. Documentation is out of date at times and hard to follow. Customer support has been the worst experience we have had here and is causing us to rethink our use of Wowza. We keep on trying to change our billing but no one will work with us on it and we keep having billing issues every year. We never receive billing notices. We get late notices without ever receiving an initial billing notice or request. We request a PO but only get told to use a card. Our customer service representative never returns our calls and has not been helpful in this matter. > > Our overall experience with Wowza Streaming Engine has been a mixed bag. It has required a lot of time and work to achieve the results that we were looking for. Upgrades and patching have been difficult and the documentation is at times out of date, incorrect, or difficult to follow. Support has been difficult to deal with especially since they will reference and send you links to the documentation to "help." It's been very difficult to work with Wowza and our experience overall has been poor. The software works well enough to get the job done but offers nothing exceptional in return. ----- ### "The most flexible and economical streaming video platform" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *05 September 2023* | Online Media | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Simple to use, a large community available to find more specific solutions, good frequency of updates, excellent support. > > **Cons**: The documentation is sometimes too vague, to solve a simple and specific problem you have to proceed with trial and error. ----- ### "Nadaje Broadcasting recommends Wowza Streaming Engine" — 5.0/5 > **Wojciech** | *16 April 2020* | Online Media | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The most impactful features are transcoding and HLS/DASH web streaming. The software was easy to integrate and operate via the API and integration is stable while upgrading. Our company use Wowza Streaming Engine for over 10 years\! > > **Cons**: Additional charges for support and a bit heavy memory usage in some use cases. Also logging was not possible per a vhost. > > Nadaje Broadcasting use Wowza to stream in multiple use cases: RTMP to HLS/DASH; RTSP to HLS/DASH; Secure token streaming with CDN - protected internal corporate streaming; Transcoding to lower quality to cover all devices. All this makes Wowza very flexible software and Nadaje Broadcasting's main video streaming software partner. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/180393/wowza-streaming-engine?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/180393/wowza-streaming-engine) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data