Restream Review

Restream is mainly a live multistreaming service with a browser production studio. Its core plans set how many channels you can stream to at once, Studio quality, recording and team features.

Prerecorded streaming is sold separately as Upload & Stream, with its own prices, so the core plan table does not tell you what a prerecorded channel costs.

No Restream plan runs one prerecorded event for 30 days. An uploaded video or a Restream recording can loop up to 10 times, and the event can last at most 40 hours.

So Restream suits premieres and marathons that end, not a channel that loops all month.

If your channel should loop all month, compare the best Restream alternatives.

Premier costs $39 per month, provides a two-hour 1080p library and does not loop. Marathon costs $79 per month, provides four hours of 1080p media and enables looping. Media costs $239 per month, provides a 12-hour library, enables looping and adds 4K.

Upload & Stream is priced on its own, and Restream says every account level can stream recorded videos, with Restream branding on Free. Its pages do not say you need a paid core plan before you can buy an add-on with looping.

A prerecorded playlist can contain up to 40 entries, including duplicates. Playlists do not loop; repetition requires duplicating entries.

After playback starts, videos cannot be added, removed or reordered. Live and prerecorded sources cannot be mixed in the same playlist, and back-to-back playlists are separate streams with a two-minute buffer.

Current core pricing lists Free at $0, Standard at $19 monthly, Professional at $49 and Business at $239. Annual totals are $190, $470 and $2,390 respectively, with rounded monthly equivalents displayed on the cards.

Free includes two channels at once, Restream branding and 720p Studio output. Its recordings can run up to six hours and are kept for 15 days. These limits are separate from the Upload & Stream library and looping limits.

Custom RTMP or RTMPS channels need a paid core plan. On those channels Restream cannot show the platform's chat or analytics, or change the stream title, because it connects by stream key, not through the platform's own API.

You set titles on the platform itself. Restream's help article lists no separate limit on custom RTMP channels beyond your plan's channel count.

Streamloop fits better when the channel is all prerecorded and should run with no end date. It suits you if you do not need a guest studio or combined live chat, and up to 5 destinations per stream are enough. To set the play order, you just ask Smart order in plain words.

Restream is the better match for produced live shows with guests, streamed to several platforms at once, with an occasional prerecorded event.