Cloudflare vs JW Player | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 9.2 out of 10

Based on 79 reviews and ratings

Score 7.4 out of 10

Based on 13 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Cloudflare

JW Player

Support for advertisements

Video SEO

Cloudflare

JW Player

Video access controls

User management

Video link sharing

External video

Cloudflare

JW Player

Player customization

Embedded videos

Video quality / Bandwidth controls

Mobile compatibility

Cloudflare

JW Player

Per viewer tracking

Per video tracking

Video analytics dashboard

Cloudflare

JW Player

On-Demand video

Live streaming

Video upload & format support

Video library / File management

Video portal

Pros

Security: Cloudflare keeps our website safe from DDoS attacks and other malicious traffic.
CDN: Cloudflare caches our website content, increasing our website's reliability and reducing server load. This saves on bandwidth costs from web servers.
Registrar: We can migrate domains to Cloudflare, though they don't currently allow the purchase of new domain names. The benefit of this is cheaper renewal fees and fewer systems involved in managing our domains.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 501-1000 employees

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Responsive HTML5
Provides share functionality built into the player
Platform use enables playlist functionality and playlist players which can be customized or versioned for specific uses
Videos uploaded to the JW Platform automatically provide multiple image frame options for selecting video thumbnail

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Chief Executive Officer

Motion Media SolutionsMedia Production, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Multiple Users - It would be great to be able to have multiple users on one account.
Itemized Cache - Would love to see a list of files that have been cached by CloudFlare's CDN and when they will expire. Also nice to optionally remove one or more files from the cache.

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Web Developer

Grady BrittonMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Definitely missing the ability (in and easy way) to have clickable links in the video.
Analytics is a little cumbersome and not very user-friendly.

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Digital & Video Specialist

Allured Business MediaPublishing, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Cloudflare 10.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

JW Player 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Just made the decision to renew given demonstrated improvements being made to the platform to expand compatibility for its player use on devices such as Apple TV, as well as improvements made recently to its JW Platform Dashboard

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Chief Executive Officer

Motion Media SolutionsMedia Production, 1-10 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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JW Player 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Reliability and compatibility on a majority of platforms. Would have received a 10 except recent versions of browsers such as Firefox are now defaulting against Flash components and thus prompting approval from users BEFORE loading which is a HUGE obstacle to an effective user experience thus creating concerns by end-users unnecessarily and risking that they will NOT accept the prompts, thus leaving unable to view video content hosted using the JW Player. Assurances by JW support suggest they will resolve this, so we'll see...

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Chief Executive Officer

Motion Media SolutionsMedia Production, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Cloudflare 8.2

Based on 11 answers

We've been using a free plan, so we know that we aren't a priority on their list, but we had a severe issue in just one project, and they weren't able to help us with that.
We had to remove that website from Cloudflare and use another service since they couldn't help us, and they took a long time to respond to our inquiries.

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Carlos Eduardo de Souza

Co-founder & Manager

Coopers Digital ProductionInternet, 1-10 employees

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JW Player 7.0

Based on 2 answers

Support is reasonable. I from time to time have made suggestions on improvements that would be nice to see (like the ability to have a clickable link within the video - that is easy to create, without tons of coding) and it seems as though I never see it happen or get much response to "suggestions" to upgrade the software. The good news, other than a few things as I mentioned above, overall, I don't have many "technical issues" in the platform, which is a good thing. On occasion, I have seen some "issues" with the delivery of the video, but it has been pretty scarce. So it is dependable.

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Digital & Video Specialist

Allured Business MediaPublishing, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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JW Player 7.0

Based on 1 answer

One of the primary features promoted by JW Platform is its SEO definition. However, there did not seem to be a way to integrate that data to our platform if selected thus only leaving the benefits of that data to be established on the individual video page hosted by JW Platform, which isn't useful in the end to the client value we are trying to deliver for our VideoproFile.net solution

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Chief Executive Officer

Motion Media SolutionsMedia Production, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare and CloudFront are both great tools. I would recommend Cloudflare for sites that are not hosted on Amazon, and CloudFront for sites using Amazon Web Services. The pricing and features are comparable. Overall, Cloudflare's free tier offers more services, which gives it a slight edge over the competition.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Think Tanks Company, 11-50 employees

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JW had more player options, a better/more intuitive user interface, was altogether faster both in rendering the uploaded videos and in time to load on the web page. The integration with OpenX for pre-roll was faster and easier than with Brightcove, and lastly, they offered a great price for service.

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Director, Online Advertising and Operations

PlaybillPublishing, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Our business has online presences to reassure our customers, not to gain new ones, so the actual ROI is smaller than for most other people.
CloudFlare is super easy to use so I can make adjustments on the fly.
Safety and security is important and I don't have to worry about a lot of things due to CloudFlare.

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VP of Technology & Human Resources

Quality Ironworks, Inc.Construction, 51-200 employees

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JW Player has was less expensive (without sacrificing quality) than our previous video platform so the ROI was instant.
We were easily able to add a variety of video advertising options including pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll.
The quality and consistancy of the look of the video has enabled us to grow our video views by well over 100% since starting with JW.

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Director of Video Content

Forum CommunicationsMedia Production, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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