| 1Pricing & access |
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| Pay-as-you-go, no subscription | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | Top up by card or crypto and pay as you go; a monthly plan is optional |
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| Trial | Permanent Free plan: 20 hours/mo, 200 MB, no 24/7 | Permanent Free plan, not a trial | Free trial available; Trial TV Playout is branded | Free forever | Permanent Free plan, not a trial; 5-hour watermarked sessions | Free, 24h/mo | Permanent Free plan, not a time-limited trial | $1 trial week by card, which becomes a monthly plan unless you cancel |
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| Starting price | Free; Pro $15/mo; continuous 24/7 from Creators $39/mo | Free core; paid core $19/mo; Upload & Stream $39/mo; looping $79/mo | Core $19.99/mo; infinite Pre-Recorded Live loop from Premium $199.99/mo | Free; from ~$10/mo | Free; Creator $29/mo; Channel automation $49/mo | From $24/mo yr / $30 mo | Free; Small $19.99/mo; dedicated 24/7 $39.99/mo | 720p24: $4 per 30 live days; billed by the minute, monthly plan optional |
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| 720p 30-day price | Persistent 24/7 starts on Creators at $39/mo or $33/mo annually | No 30-day prerecorded tier; looping starts at $79/mo and stops by 40 h | TV Playout starts at $19.99/mo but Starter cannot loop indefinitely | ~$10/mo + $30 add-on | Persistent channels from Creator at $29/mo or $19/mo annually | 30fps: $24/mo yearly, $30 monthly. 60fps: $36/mo yearly, $40 monthly | $39.99/mo; $33 annual equivalent | $4 at 24fps; $5 at 30fps |
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| 1080p 30-day price | Persistent 24/7 starts on Creators at $39/mo or $33/mo annually | No 30-day prerecorded tier; 1080p looping starts at $79/mo and stops by 40 h | TV Playout 1080p starts on Ultra $349.99/mo; max 30-day loop | ~$10/mo + $30 add-on | Persistent channels from Creator at $29/mo or $19/mo annually | 30fps: $24/mo yearly, $30 monthly. 60fps: $36/mo yearly, $40 monthly | $39.99/mo; $33 annual equivalent | $10 at 30fps |
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| 1440p / 2K 30-day price | 4K-class persistent playout begins on Creators at $39/mo or $33/mo annually | No 30-day prerecorded tier; above 1080p needs Media at $239/mo, and looping stops by 40 h | No 1440p option; TV Playout outputs 720p or 1080p | ✕ | 1080p30 is the documented base; no separate 1440p tier | No 1440p option; 4K at 30fps is $63/mo yearly, $70 monthly | No 1440p tier; the next step above 1080p is 4K at 2x the price | $20 at 30fps |
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| 2160p / 4K 30-day price | 4K persistent playout begins on Creators at $39/mo or $33/mo annually | 4K requires $239/mo Media but still cannot run 30 days continuously | 4K is not listed for prerecorded playout | ✕ | Business $149/mo plus a $40/mo 4K add-on | 30fps: $63/mo yearly, $70 monthly. 60fps: $108/mo yearly, $120 monthly | Only on upgraded plans | $30 at 30fps; $45 at 60fps |
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| 2Streaming quality |
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| 720p / 30fps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| 1080p / Full HD | ✓ | ✓ | TV Playout 1080p on Ultra/Events; lower plans are fixed 720p30 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| 60fps | 60fps is marketed for Creators and above; the plan table does not list frame rates | Official prerecorded requirements recommend 30 or 60fps | TV Playout 50/60fps on Ultra and Events | ✕ | Channel or Business plus $10/mo; 4K60 requires both add-ons | ✓ | Paid 1.5× option on Small+ and 24/7; 4K60 is 3× | 24, 30 or 60 fps |
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| Up to 4K @ 60fps | 4K begins on Creators | 4K requires the $239/mo Media Upload & Stream tier | 4K is not listed for prerecorded streaming | ✕ | Business plus $40/mo 4K add-on | ✓ | Paid 2× quality option on Medium+, Enterprise, and 24/7 | Up to 2160p/4K |
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| Vertical / portrait streaming | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Portrait production and output are supported | ✓ | Portrait, square or landscape output | Portrait and landscape output |
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| HDR streaming publicly documented | ✕ | HDR prerecorded output is not publicly documented | ✕ | 1080p ceiling, no HDR | HDR output is not publicly documented | ✕ | ✕ | HDR to YouTube only |
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| 3Production & design |
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| Stream designer / layout builder | Official comparisons recommend an external producer for scenes and guests | Scenes, custom layouts, portrait/landscape, branding, and media | Cloud Production supports positioning, scaling, transitions, and slates | ✓ | Preset/custom layouts, overlays, lower thirds, clips, and compositions | ✓ | Scenes, layouts, branding, media, text, and overlays | Yes, in Live Scenes, Streamloop's mode for live inputs and graphics: a layered scene editor with an AI assistant. |
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| Image, video & logo overlays | Chat overlays | Logos, overlays, lower thirds, captions, tickers, QR codes, and backgrounds | Images, tickers, lower thirds, alerts, and external URL overlays | ✓ | Overlay templates can be assigned to calendar blocks | ✓ | Images, video, text, comments, branding, and interactive layers | Yes, in Live Scenes, Streamloop's mode for live inputs and graphics: image, logo, text, clock, countdown and video layers. |
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| Embed live websites & graphs | ✕ | Embed player only | Hosted HTML5 player and video hosting | Embed player only, not web sources in-stream | Channel add-on $29/mo; Business includes embed with higher viewer allowance | ✓ | ✕ | Yes, in Live Scenes, Streamloop's mode for live inputs and graphics: any web page can be a layer. |
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| Interactive alerts & widgets | No native games, polls, or guest-studio widgets documented | Unified chat and on-screen cross-platform comments | External URL widgets are supported; built-in interactive show tools are limited | Unified chat | ✕ | ✓ | Polls, trivia, giveaways, countdowns, comments, and AI Host | No native alerts or polls. Live Scenes, Streamloop's mode for live inputs and graphics, can show a third-party chat or alert page. |
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| Custom fonts in overlays | No overlay designer | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | Font choice for text layers; uploading your own font is not documented | Partly. Live Scenes, Streamloop's mode for live inputs and graphics, uses the Google Fonts catalog; no font upload. |
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| Browser Live Studio (camera) | Basic direct webcam input only; no full multi-guest scene studio | Full browser Studio with up to 10 on-screen participants | Cloud Production switcher up to 1080p60; not a full multi-guest studio | Up to 4 cameras | WebRTC guests, cameras, screen share, layouts, recording, and channel takeover | ✓ | Full browser studio with guests, cameras, screens, scenes, and layouts | No browser studio, webcam or guests. Live Scenes, Streamloop's mode for live inputs, takes OBS, vMix or IP camera feeds up to 1080p60. |
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| 4Sources & inputs |
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| MP4 / MKV / AVI / MOV upload | Cloud prerecorded uploads supported; current public plan table does not give a definitive format list | MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV with H.264/AAC; AVI is not documented | Pre-Recorded Live documents MP4 only | MP4, MOV, M4V, WebM | Cloud media uploads supported; current pricing sources do not publish one definitive format list | ✓ | MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV and 4 more formats; encoded on upload | MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, MPEG and MXF |
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| Separate audio track (music / voiceover) | ✕ | Separate Studio recording tracks do not provide a separate prerecorded audio playlist | ✕ | ✕ | Studio mixer | ✓ | Studio music/audio is supported; a separate prerecorded replacement-audio workflow is not clearly documented | Separate audio and audio playlists: MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, Opus |
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| Import from Google Drive / Dropbox | ✕ | Current Upload & Stream pages reviewed do not verify Drive or Dropbox import | ✓ | Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive/Box/S3 | YouTube URL only | ✕ | Google Drive, Dropbox and YouTube import on paid plans | Google Drive, Yandex Disk, YouTube, other video sites and direct file links. |
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| Playlists with custom ordering | Cloud playlists and continuous looping | Marathon/Media; 40 videos, no playlist looping | Ordered playlists with per-item enable/disable controls | ✓ | Loop, shuffle, inline swaps, fallback, and autonomous progression | ✓ | Loop, rerun, and scheduled prerecorded playlists | Drag to reorder; play in order, shuffle without repeats, or describe a custom order in plain words |
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| Custom loop logic (shuffle, loop counts) | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | In order, shuffle without repeats, or a custom order in plain words; no loop counts |
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| Edit the stream live (swap / skip / reorder) | Official surfaces conflict on plan gating; active playlists can be changed | Playlist items cannot be added, removed, or reordered after playback starts | Items can be managed, but the playing TV item should not be moved or replaced live | ✓ | Playlist swaps and future schedule transitions can be edited live | ✓ | Studio projects and live content can be edited while broadcasting | Publish playlist edits while live; they start at the next item. No skip button. |
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| 5Destinations |
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| YouTube (one-click OAuth) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Custom RTMP (any platform) | Custom RTMP destinations supported | Paid core plan required; no Restream chat, analytics, or title control | Custom RTMP and SRT endpoints consume destination allowance | ✓ | Custom RTMP/RTMPS output begins on Creator | ✓ | Custom RTMP supported; interactive comments/games and metadata controls are limited there | Any compatible RTMP destination |
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| Twitch / Facebook / Kick / TikTok | YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, TikTok, Kick, LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Rumble, and more | 30 integrated destinations plus custom RTMP/SRT/HLS/WHIP options | 30+ platform catalog with native and custom endpoints | ✓ | 25+ supported platforms including major native integrations | ✓ | YouTube, Facebook, Twitch direct; other platforms through custom RTMP | Twitch, Facebook, Kick, TikTok, and others through compatible RTMP endpoints |
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| Multistream to several destinations | One RTMP/SRT ingest can be relayed to many destinations | One live source can distribute to several enabled channels | One source can distribute to several account-wide destinations | ✓ | One channel can send to several destinations | ✓ | Simultaneous destination distribution is plan-limited | Up to 5 destinations per stream. Each one after the first adds $6 per 30 days at 1080p while live. |
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| One-click YouTube (no stream key) | ✕ | Native YouTube integration | Native YouTube destination integration | Connect account, no stream key | Native YouTube destination integration | ✓ | Direct YouTube integration is documented | Official Google OAuth connection; manual stream-key option also available |
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| SRT ingest | RTMP and SRT ingest | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | SRT output on a custom plan only; SRT input not documented | Yes, in Live Scenes, Streamloop's mode for live inputs: SRT, RTMP, RTSP and HLS. Plain loops take uploaded files only. |
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| 6Lifecycle & automation |
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| True 24/7 continuous loop | Continuous looping begins on Creators | Maximum 10 loops and 40 hours per video event | Infinite Pre-Recorded Live looping on Premium+; TV Playout loops are time-limited | YouTube only, Enterprise/add-on | Persistent channels begin on Creator; Free stops after 5 hours | ✓ | Persistent operation is a separate 24/7 product | Continuous cloud loop while active and funded |
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| YouTube broadcast lifecycle automation | ✕ | Scheduled event creation/attachment and advance posts; not full lifecycle ownership | Native YouTube destination and scheduling; full broadcast automation is not described | Scheduling up to 60 days ahead | Destination connection and scheduling are documented; complete lifecycle ownership is not | ✓ | Native destination and scheduling are documented; full lifecycle ownership is not established | Can create and synchronize broadcast metadata, privacy, thumbnail, latency, DVR, recording, and schedule |
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| Scheduling | Scheduled starts and recurring broadcasts | Scheduled prerecorded events and playlists | One-time prerecorded schedules and TV-style timetables | Up to 60 days | Free/Creator can build calendars; Channel+ executes one-time and recurring automation | ✓ | Basic on Small+; repeat/multi-date Medium+; four-week horizon and 3-minute gaps | Immediate/future start; duration, end time, or open-ended |
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| MCP / agent integration | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | MCP server on every plan | MCP server included with every paid plan | OAuth-protected hosted MCP for streams, playlists, uploads, destinations, usage, and billing |
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| YouTube ad cue points | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | YouTube ad slots on Medium and up; SCTE-35 on a custom plan | ✕ |
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| Edit title / description / thumbnail live | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Public API | ✓ | ✓ | API access begins on Premium | ✕ | ✕ | Live Streaming API on every plan | REST API included with every paid plan | Public OpenAPI REST interface plus documented GraphQL |
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| Unlimited loop without manual rescheduling | Creators and higher include continuous 24/7 playback | No perpetual prerecorded loop; playlists cannot loop | Yes for Premium+ Pre-Recorded Live; no for TV Playout | Enterprise/add-on | Paid Live Channels have no session cap | ✓ | Dedicated 24/7 plan has unlimited duration | Can run indefinitely until stopped, credit is exhausted, or destination action is required |
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| 7Limits & inclusions |
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| Storage included | 200 MB Free; 8 GB Pro; 20 GB Creators; 100 GB Business | Upload & Stream publishes 2-, 4-, and 12-hour libraries rather than GB quotas | Pre-recorded: 4/4/10/20/20 GB; hosted VOD storage is separate | 1 GB (Free) to 150 GB (Enterprise); +10 GB for $10/mo | 10 GB Free; 100 GB Creator; 150 GB Channel; 250 GB Business | 100GB on the free plan | Plan allowances from 0.5 GB to 150 GB; 24/7 includes 100 GB at base quality | Uploads are free. The first 30 GiB of large-playlist storage is free, then $0.35 per GiB-month while live. |
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| Concurrent streams / slots | Live streams 1/3/5/15; prerecorded streams 1/2/3/12 by plan | Published numbers are active destination channels, not independent program jobs | Created workflows, including inactive ones, count; prerecorded streams are 1/1/2/3/3 | 3 on Enterprise; add-on ($30/mo each) on lower plans | One concurrently live channel per seat; buy additional seats for more | 1 on the free plan; paid plans priced per concurrent stream | Paid plans: unlimited streams at once. 24/7 plan: 1 to 20 streams at checkout, up to 1,000 on request | Multiple separate streams are supported; no public account hard cap is documented |
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| Max multistream destinations | Official cards, table, FAQ, and help pages conflict; use three on Free conservatively | 2 Free; 3 Standard; 5 Professional; 8 Business; Enterprise custom | 6 Starter; 10 Standard; 20 Premium; 30 Ultra/Events, account-wide | 45+ | 2 Free; 5 Creator; 8 Channel; 10 Business | 10 | 1 Free; 3 Small; 6 Medium; 10 Large; 20 Enterprise; 5 on 24/7 | 5 per stream, with at most one connected YouTube channel |
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| Videos per playlist | No published limit | 40 videos per playlist | Pre-recorded: 2/2/10/15/15; TV Playout: 5/10/30/30/50 files | No published limit | No published limit | No published limit | No published limit | 1000 items per playlist |
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| Max upload size / length | 20 min Free; 4 h Pro; unlimited event duration Creators+ | 2/4/12-hour libraries; playlists max 40 items | Pre-recorded max 240 min/file Premium+; TV caps range 500 MB to 10 GB and 30 to 240 min | 15 min (Free) to 20 hrs (Enterprise) per stream | 1 h Free; 4 h Creator; 8 h Channel; 12 h Business | ✕ | 24/7: 10 GB/file and 100 GB storage at base quality; standard limits vary by plan | 15 GiB per file |
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| Team / multi-user access | Published seat allowances increase by plan | ✓ | 3 members (Premium), 5 (Ultra) | 1 seat (Free) to 10 (Enterprise) | Workspace members and per-seat concurrent channels | ✓ | ✕ | Shared workspaces with email invites and owner, admin and member roles |
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| No watermark | ✓ | Free carries Restream branding; paid plans remove it | Trial, Starter, and Standard TV Playout output is branded | ✓ | Paid plans are unwatermarked; Free is watermarked | ✓ | Watermark on free plan | No watermark on any plan |
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| 8Reliability & support |
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| Automatic monitoring & recovery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | Fallback content and automatic recovery are documented | ✓ | ✓ | Automatic monitoring, restart and reconnection |
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| Backup streams | ✕ | Disconnect protection on Business; true backup encoder ingest on Enterprise | Failover ingest begins on Ultra and Events | ✕ | Fallback programming and auto-recovery; redundant backup ingest is not generally documented | ✓ | ✕ | No. You do not set up a backup stream. A failed stream restarts automatically. |
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| Chat / email support | Chat / email | ✓ | ✓ | Chat + email, 4.7/5 on Trustpilot | Chat / email | ✓ | Chat / email | Email only, with replies typically within 24 hours |
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| Uptime guarantee / compensation | Enterprise advertises SLA options; standard plans do not | No public compensation-backed uptime SLA found | 99.9% uptime SLA on every plan | No published SLA | No public compensation-backed uptime SLA found | ✓ | No published SLA | No contractual uptime compensation or recovery-time SLA published |
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| In-app viewer analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Stream insights included | ✕ | ✕ | YouTube views, watch time and revenue per stream on paid plans | YouTube concurrent viewers only |
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