Runnel.live Review

Runnel advertises $6 per separate stream per 30-day month, prorated by the minute. That is approximately $0.20 per day or $0.00833 per active hour before upload charges.

Uploads are charged separately using public quality-band examples of $0.03 per GB for SD, $0.07 for HD, $0.20 for UHD and $0.50 for 4K. Runnel also says the actual quote is calculated from the media bitrate, so the labels are not a complete universal formula.

No ongoing free plan, trial or free-credit allowance was found on the reviewed public pages.

It means users can create multiple separate stream objects, each priced as another $6-per-30-days unit. Runnel's setup guide requires another destination event and stream key for each livestream.

The help center also says account limits may need to be raised by support and launches can wait when server capacity is unavailable. “Unlimited” is therefore not a defensible hard concurrency guarantee or a single-payment fan-out entitlement.

Runnel describes itself as built for YouTube. Its current homepage calls Rumble and Twitch partially supported and says Instagram, Facebook and TikTok are unsupported.

An older official comparison mentions Kick while the newer homepage does not. Kick should remain unverified rather than being listed as confidently supported.

The upload guide lists MP4, MOV, MKV and WebM files from 100 MB to 100 GB and from 20 seconds to four days long. At least one dimension must be 300 pixels or more, neither dimension may exceed 6,000 pixels, and audio bitrate is capped at 400 kbps.

The homepage advertises output up to 4K60 in horizontal or vertical formats. MP4 is recommended, and Runnel warns against some CapCut and ClipChamp exports.

Users can bulk-upload a queue, add more videos while the stream is running, and enable shuffle. The setup interface can start immediately or at a selected future date and time, while the homepage describes continuous playlist operation.

No recurring schedule or broadcast-calendar workflow was found in the reviewed guides. Runnel also states that overlays are not available.

No permanent-retention promise is published. Runnel's help page says streams containing videos are automatically removed after two months without activity.

It also does not publish a normal monthly storage quota, so upload charges and inactivity cleanup should be described separately from persistent storage entitlement.

Streamloop is the more directly documented fit when managed YouTube lifecycle controls, broader RTMP destinations, audio playlists, server-side imports or API and MCP automation matter.

Runnel remains a relevant low-cost option for straightforward YouTube-first prerecorded loops that fit its upload and destination restrictions.