With the pace with which communication is happening, everyone wishes to experience lag-free video or voice chats in their chat platform, but unfortunately, it takes a tough stone to make a tender video calling app.  

Besides the time and cost involved to build a video chat app, many business owners are starting to feel gritty about whether to choose WebRTC or WebSocket as the communication protocol as both are the front runners of communication.

• WebRTC is used for all P2P communications among mobile and web apps using UDP connections but WebSockets is a client-server communication protocol that works only over TCP.

• WebSockets uses TCP connections, the chance of data integrity is higher when compared to WebRTC. However, speed is unmatched with WebRTC protocol.

• WebRTCs are mainly designed for audio and video streaming. Though these are possible with WebSockets too, they are best suited for transmitting data strings using JSON formats. 

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