What is the best alternative to JW Player?

By number of websites, the most widely used alternatives to JW Player are YouTube, Vimeo, MediaElement.js, Wistia, Embedly. The right one depends on your needs; compare them on adoption, authority, and audience above.

How many alternatives to JW Player are there?

Site Stats Database tracks 17 other video players & hosts used by 100 or more websites, plus a long tail of rarer ones. JW Player itself is used by 913 websites.

Which video player / host has the most websites?

YouTube leads this category with 82,680 websites in our catalog.

Where does this data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; authority (Ahrefs Domain Rating) and traffic come from Ahrefs and DataForSEO. Everything reflects the sites we track and refreshes at least monthly.

JW Player Alternatives & Competitors

Last updated July 1, 2026 · refreshes automatically as new data lands.

Looking for an alternative to JW Player? Site Stats Database tracks 17 other video players & hosts; the top ones are below, ranked by adoption, with authority and traffic for each and the leading sites that use them. JW Player itself is used by 913 websites. Back to JW Player.

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JW Player Alternatives & Competitors

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YouTube

Vimeo

MediaElement.js

Wistia

Embedly

Cloudflare Stream

Video.js

Plyr

Brightcove

Vidyard

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