Tencent RTC vs. Stream Chat

Leveraging Tencent’s more than 20 years of experience in network and audio/video technologies, Tencent RTC mainly offers audio/video calls, conferencing, in game voice chat, Beauty AR, low-latency interactive live streaming solutions. At Tencent RTC, we specialize in providing global enterprises with cutting-edge real-time communication solutions. Tencent RTC focuses on delivering high-quality, cost-effective, and low-latency solutions, ensuring seamless and efficient communication for all-size businesses worldwide.

Stream Chat is a messaging API and SDK suite for developers building in-app chat. Teams integrate it to ship production messaging in weeks instead of building and maintaining real-time infrastructure in-house. Client SDKs cover React, Swift, Android, Flutter, React Native, Angular, JavaScript, Unity, and Unreal, each with a UI kit you can customize or replace entirely. The backend runs on Go and RocksDB across 12 global edge locations, holding sub-40ms latency and 5M concurrent connections in a single channel behind a 99.999% uptime SLA.