Head-to-head
Streamloop
SubSub LiveStreamloop vs SubSub Live
Updated August 4, 2026
Two usage-based prerecorded playout services compared on price transparency, destination evidence, reusable libraries, and long-run operation.
| At a glance | Streamloop | SubSub Live |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Continuous prerecorded video and audio playout to one managed YouTube or compatible RTMP destination per stream. | Catalog-based prerecorded playout with a strongly YouTube-focused public workflow. Facebook appears in marketing language, but a current detailed setup flow was not found. |
| Billing | Prepaid credits with exact per-minute rates by resolution and frame rate; inactive streams cost nothing. | Pay as you go for active streaming plus storage; idle streams cost $0. |
| Published price | Exact rates from 720p24 through 4K60, including 30-day estimates. | Marketed from $0.06 per hour, but no dependable universal hourly-plus-storage formula is published. |
| Storage | Uploads and storage are listed as free, with no public total quota. | Storage is described as billable, but no defensible public unit rate, quota, or retention table was found. |
| Concurrent streams | No fixed public account cap is documented; each active stream is separately billed. | Markets unlimited simultaneous separate streams, with each stream contributing to usage. |
| One-to-many fan-out | No. Each stream has one destination. | Not clearly documented. Public examples describe separate streams and channels, not one feed replicated to many endpoints. |
| Destination setup | Managed YouTube through Google authorization, or a YouTube/custom RTMP stream key. | The current public workflow has the user create and configure a broadcast in YouTube Studio, then build and start it from SubSub. Detailed Facebook authorization or key instructions were not found. |
| Quality | Up to 4K60 with qualified HDR support. | Advertised up to 4K; no public frame-rate table was found. |
| Media reuse | A shared workspace library supports playlists, imports, and separate audio. | A central content library lets one upload be reused across multiple separate streams. |
| Playlist and schedule | Ordered, shuffle without repeats, and custom-rule playback with future start, end, duration, or indefinite operation. | Loop, shuffle, sequential playback, ordering, and timing controls are advertised from the shared library. |
| Long-run guidance | Designed for open-ended operation with automatic monitoring and recovery, without a published routine-restart cadence. | Supports 24/7 use but recommends refreshing or restarting streams about every three days because performance is described as strongest in the first 72 hours. |
| Free usage | Eligible new accounts receive starter credits without a card; no fixed public allowance is guaranteed. | The pricing page advertises free credit for approximately 10 or more hours, with actual time depending on quality and file size. |
Primary job
- Streamloop
- Continuous prerecorded video and audio playout to one managed YouTube or compatible RTMP destination per stream.
- SubSub Live
- Catalog-based prerecorded playout with a strongly YouTube-focused public workflow. Facebook appears in marketing language, but a current detailed setup flow was not found.
Billing
- Streamloop
- Prepaid credits with exact per-minute rates by resolution and frame rate; inactive streams cost nothing.
- SubSub Live
- Pay as you go for active streaming plus storage; idle streams cost $0.
Published price
- Streamloop
- Exact rates from 720p24 through 4K60, including 30-day estimates.
- SubSub Live
- Marketed from $0.06 per hour, but no dependable universal hourly-plus-storage formula is published.
Storage
- Streamloop
- Uploads and storage are listed as free, with no public total quota.
- SubSub Live
- Storage is described as billable, but no defensible public unit rate, quota, or retention table was found.
Concurrent streams
- Streamloop
- No fixed public account cap is documented; each active stream is separately billed.
- SubSub Live
- Markets unlimited simultaneous separate streams, with each stream contributing to usage.
One-to-many fan-out
- Streamloop
- No. Each stream has one destination.
- SubSub Live
- Not clearly documented. Public examples describe separate streams and channels, not one feed replicated to many endpoints.
Destination setup
- Streamloop
- Managed YouTube through Google authorization, or a YouTube/custom RTMP stream key.
- SubSub Live
- The current public workflow has the user create and configure a broadcast in YouTube Studio, then build and start it from SubSub. Detailed Facebook authorization or key instructions were not found.
Quality
- Streamloop
- Up to 4K60 with qualified HDR support.
- SubSub Live
- Advertised up to 4K; no public frame-rate table was found.
Media reuse
- Streamloop
- A shared workspace library supports playlists, imports, and separate audio.
- SubSub Live
- A central content library lets one upload be reused across multiple separate streams.
Playlist and schedule
- Streamloop
- Ordered, shuffle without repeats, and custom-rule playback with future start, end, duration, or indefinite operation.
- SubSub Live
- Loop, shuffle, sequential playback, ordering, and timing controls are advertised from the shared library.
Long-run guidance
- Streamloop
- Designed for open-ended operation with automatic monitoring and recovery, without a published routine-restart cadence.
- SubSub Live
- Supports 24/7 use but recommends refreshing or restarting streams about every three days because performance is described as strongest in the first 72 hours.
Free usage
- Streamloop
- Eligible new accounts receive starter credits without a card; no fixed public allowance is guaranteed.
- SubSub Live
- The pricing page advertises free credit for approximately 10 or more hours, with actual time depending on quality and file size.
Real cost
What a 24/7 stream actually costs, by quality
Streamloop bills by the minute — pick a resolution and frame rate and pay only while you're live. Optional monthly credit plans are also available. Below is the cost of a stream running nonstop for a full 30 days.
| Quality | 30 fps / mo | 60 fps / mo |
|---|---|---|
| 720p | $5 | $8 |
| 1080pMost popular | $10 | $15 |
| 1440p (2K) | $20 | $30 |
| 4K (2160p) | $30 | $45 |
720p
- 30 fps
- $5
- 60 fps
- $8
1080p
Most popular
- 30 fps
- $10
- 60 fps
- $15
1440p (2K)
- 30 fps
- $20
- 60 fps
- $30
4K (2160p)
- 30 fps
- $30
- 60 fps
- $45
Metered by the minute, so a week of streaming costs about a quarter of these figures, and a day about a thirtieth. Plus a one-time ~$0.005 per minute of video to encode it once. Uploads, storage, and idle loops are free.
A 1080p stream running 24/7 on Streamloop is about $10/month — and you only pay while it's live. SubSub Live charges a flat Marketed from $0.06 per stream-hour, plus storage whether you stream all month or not.
Full feature comparison
Streamloop vs SubSub Live, side by side
Every feature that matters, with standout differences flagged by a star.
| Feature | Streamloop | SubSub Live |
|---|---|---|
| 1Pricing & access | ||
| Pay-as-you-go, no subscription | Pay as you go is available; official pages also reference optional monthly credit plans | Pay as you go; $0 while idle |
| Free trial (no card) | Eligible accounts may receive starter credits; no guaranteed public amount or duration | Bonus credits for about 10+ hours; no card |
| Starting price | 720p24: $4.02 per 30 live days; usage billed, not a subscription | Marketed from $0.06/h plus storage; calculator quote required |
| 720p 30-day price | $4.02 at 24fps; $5.01 at 30fps | No defensible flat 30-day total; streaming hours and storage are billed |
| 1080p 30-day price | $9.98 at 30fps | No defensible flat 30-day total; streaming hours and storage are billed |
| 1440p / 2K 30-day price | $20.00 at 30fps | No defensible flat 30-day total; streaming hours and storage are billed |
| 2160p / 4K 30-day price | $29.98 at 30fps; $45.01 at 60fps | Up to 4K, but no defensible public 30-day total |
| 2Streaming quality | ||
| 720p / 30fps | ✓ | ✓ |
| 1080p / Full HD | ✓ | ✓ |
| 60fps | 24, 25, 30, or 60fps | No public FPS limit is stated |
| Up to 4K @ 60fps | Up to 2160p/4K | Original quality up to 4K |
| Vertical / portrait streaming | Portrait and landscape output | Horizontal and vertical content |
| HDR streaming publicly documented | HDR supported where destination and playback device support it | HDR output is not publicly documented |
| 3Production & design | ||
| Stream designer / layout builder | No general-purpose live scene/layout builder | ✕ |
| Image, video & logo overlays | No general-purpose overlay designer is documented | ✕ |
| Embed live websites & graphs | ✕ | ✕ |
| Interactive alerts & widgets | No live games, polls, alerts, or audience widgets | ✕ |
| Custom fonts in overlays | ✕ | No overlay designer |
| Browser Live Studio (camera) | No webcam, guest, screen, or gaming production studio | No browser camera/guest production studio |
| 4Sources & inputs | ||
| MP4 / MKV / AVI / MOV upload | Docs list MP4, MOV, MKV with AV1/HEVC/H.264; homepage file-limit copy conflicts | Marketing says broad format support, but no concrete current codec/container list is published |
| Separate audio track (music / voiceover) | Separate audio and audio playlists: MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, Opus | ✕ |
| Import from Google Drive / Dropbox | Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, and direct-download URL imports | ✕ |
| Playlists with custom ordering | Ordered, non-repeating shuffle, and natural-language custom order | Loop, shuffle, or sequential playback with order and timing |
| Custom loop logic (shuffle, loop counts) | Ordered playback, shuffle without repeats, and rule-based sequencing | Loop/shuffle/sequence |
| Edit the stream live (swap / skip / reorder) | Publish playlist edits live; changes apply after the current clip | The content mix can be adjusted while streams operate |
| 5Destinations | ||
| YouTube (one-click OAuth) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom RTMP (any platform) | Any compatible RTMP destination | Generic RTMP support is not verified |
| Twitch / Facebook / Kick / TikTok | Twitch, Facebook, Kick, TikTok, and others through compatible RTMP endpoints | YouTube and Facebook marketed; public setup is strongly YouTube-centric |
| Multistream to several destinations | No one-to-many fan-out; create separate streams for several destinations | No clear one-feed multi-destination fan-out; separate streams are billed independently |
| One-click YouTube (no stream key) | Official Google OAuth connection; manual stream-key option also available | Documented workflow begins by creating the stream in YouTube Studio |
| SRT ingest | ✕ | ✕ |
| 6Lifecycle & automation | ||
| True 24/7 continuous loop | Continuous cloud loop while active and funded | Automated continuous streaming is supported |
| YouTube broadcast lifecycle automation | Can create and synchronize broadcast metadata, privacy, thumbnail, latency, DVR, recording, and schedule | Full managed YouTube lifecycle automation is not documented |
| Scheduling | Immediate/future start; duration, end time, or open-ended | Order and timing scheduler included |
| MCP / agent integration | OAuth-protected hosted MCP for streams, playlists, uploads, destinations, usage, and billing | ✕ |
| YouTube ad cue points | ✕ | Monetization eligible |
| Edit title / description / thumbnail live | ✓ | ✕ |
| Public API | Public OpenAPI REST interface plus documented GraphQL | No public API is documented |
| Unlimited loop without manual rescheduling | Can run indefinitely until stopped, credit is exhausted, or destination action is required | 24/7 supported, but SubSub recommends restarting every 72 hours |
| 7Limits & inclusions | ||
| Storage included | Uploads and storage are free; no published hard total quota | Storage is billable; no public unit rate or cap is defensible |
| Concurrent streams / slots | Multiple separate streams are supported; no public account hard cap is documented | Markets unlimited simultaneous separate streams |
| Max multistream destinations | One destination per stream | One destination per separate stream is the defensible interpretation |
| Videos per playlist | No published limit | No published limit |
| Max upload size / length | Current docs say 10 GB/file; homepage still says 1.5 GB free and 5 GB paid | No strict public video-length or file-size limit found |
| Team / multi-user access | Shared workspaces with separate sign-ins; no public RBAC or seat limit | ✕ |
| No watermark | No Streamloop output watermark documented | ✓ |
| 8Reliability & support | ||
| Automatic monitoring & recovery | Reports over 99.9% uptime with automatic monitoring, restart, and reconnection | ✕ |
| Backup streams | Standby capacity is reported; zero downtime and recovery time are not guaranteed | ✕ |
| Chat / email support | ✓ | |
| Uptime guarantee / compensation | No contractual uptime compensation or recovery-time SLA published | No published SLA |
| In-app viewer analytics | ✓ | ✕ |
| 9Trust & account | ||
| Trustpilot rating | No profile yet | No Trustpilot profile |
| YouTube-Verified encoder | ✓ | ✓ |
| Two-factor authentication | Passkeys | ✕ |
Pricing & access
Pay-as-you-go, no subscription
- Streamloop
- Pay as you go is available; official pages also reference optional monthly credit plans
- SubSub Live
- Pay as you go; $0 while idle
Free trial (no card)
- Streamloop
- Eligible accounts may receive starter credits; no guaranteed public amount or duration
- SubSub Live
- Bonus credits for about 10+ hours; no card
Starting price
- Streamloop
- 720p24: $4.02 per 30 live days; usage billed, not a subscription
- SubSub Live
- Marketed from $0.06/h plus storage; calculator quote required
720p 30-day price
- Streamloop
- $4.02 at 24fps; $5.01 at 30fps
- SubSub Live
- No defensible flat 30-day total; streaming hours and storage are billed
1080p 30-day price
- Streamloop
- $9.98 at 30fps
- SubSub Live
- No defensible flat 30-day total; streaming hours and storage are billed
1440p / 2K 30-day price
- Streamloop
- $20.00 at 30fps
- SubSub Live
- No defensible flat 30-day total; streaming hours and storage are billed
2160p / 4K 30-day price
- Streamloop
- $29.98 at 30fps; $45.01 at 60fps
- SubSub Live
- Up to 4K, but no defensible public 30-day total
Streaming quality
720p / 30fps
- Streamloop
- ✓
- SubSub Live
- ✓
1080p / Full HD
- Streamloop
- ✓
- SubSub Live
- ✓
60fps
- Streamloop
- 24, 25, 30, or 60fps
- SubSub Live
- No public FPS limit is stated
Up to 4K @ 60fps
- Streamloop
- Up to 2160p/4K
- SubSub Live
- Original quality up to 4K
Vertical / portrait streaming
- Streamloop
- Portrait and landscape output
- SubSub Live
- Horizontal and vertical content
HDR streaming publicly documented
- Streamloop
- HDR supported where destination and playback device support it
- SubSub Live
- HDR output is not publicly documented
Production & design
Stream designer / layout builder
- Streamloop
- No general-purpose live scene/layout builder
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Image, video & logo overlays
- Streamloop
- No general-purpose overlay designer is documented
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Embed live websites & graphs
- Streamloop
- ✕
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Interactive alerts & widgets
- Streamloop
- No live games, polls, alerts, or audience widgets
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Custom fonts in overlays
- Streamloop
- ✕
- SubSub Live
- No overlay designer
Browser Live Studio (camera)
- Streamloop
- No webcam, guest, screen, or gaming production studio
- SubSub Live
- No browser camera/guest production studio
Sources & inputs
MP4 / MKV / AVI / MOV upload
- Streamloop
- Docs list MP4, MOV, MKV with AV1/HEVC/H.264; homepage file-limit copy conflicts
- SubSub Live
- Marketing says broad format support, but no concrete current codec/container list is published
Separate audio track (music / voiceover)
- Streamloop
- Separate audio and audio playlists: MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, Opus
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Import from Google Drive / Dropbox
- Streamloop
- Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, and direct-download URL imports
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Playlists with custom ordering
- Streamloop
- Ordered, non-repeating shuffle, and natural-language custom order
- SubSub Live
- Loop, shuffle, or sequential playback with order and timing
Custom loop logic (shuffle, loop counts)
- Streamloop
- Ordered playback, shuffle without repeats, and rule-based sequencing
- SubSub Live
- Loop/shuffle/sequence
Edit the stream live (swap / skip / reorder)
- Streamloop
- Publish playlist edits live; changes apply after the current clip
- SubSub Live
- The content mix can be adjusted while streams operate
Destinations
YouTube (one-click OAuth)
- Streamloop
- ✓
- SubSub Live
- ✓
Custom RTMP (any platform)
- Streamloop
- Any compatible RTMP destination
- SubSub Live
- Generic RTMP support is not verified
Twitch / Facebook / Kick / TikTok
- Streamloop
- Twitch, Facebook, Kick, TikTok, and others through compatible RTMP endpoints
- SubSub Live
- YouTube and Facebook marketed; public setup is strongly YouTube-centric
Multistream to several destinations
- Streamloop
- No one-to-many fan-out; create separate streams for several destinations
- SubSub Live
- No clear one-feed multi-destination fan-out; separate streams are billed independently
One-click YouTube (no stream key)
- Streamloop
- Official Google OAuth connection; manual stream-key option also available
- SubSub Live
- Documented workflow begins by creating the stream in YouTube Studio
SRT ingest
- Streamloop
- ✕
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Lifecycle & automation
True 24/7 continuous loop
- Streamloop
- Continuous cloud loop while active and funded
- SubSub Live
- Automated continuous streaming is supported
YouTube broadcast lifecycle automation
- Streamloop
- Can create and synchronize broadcast metadata, privacy, thumbnail, latency, DVR, recording, and schedule
- SubSub Live
- Full managed YouTube lifecycle automation is not documented
Scheduling
- Streamloop
- Immediate/future start; duration, end time, or open-ended
- SubSub Live
- Order and timing scheduler included
MCP / agent integration
- Streamloop
- OAuth-protected hosted MCP for streams, playlists, uploads, destinations, usage, and billing
- SubSub Live
- ✕
YouTube ad cue points
- Streamloop
- ✕
- SubSub Live
- Monetization eligible
Edit title / description / thumbnail live
- Streamloop
- ✓
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Public API
- Streamloop
- Public OpenAPI REST interface plus documented GraphQL
- SubSub Live
- No public API is documented
Unlimited loop without manual rescheduling
- Streamloop
- Can run indefinitely until stopped, credit is exhausted, or destination action is required
- SubSub Live
- 24/7 supported, but SubSub recommends restarting every 72 hours
Limits & inclusions
Storage included
- Streamloop
- Uploads and storage are free; no published hard total quota
- SubSub Live
- Storage is billable; no public unit rate or cap is defensible
Concurrent streams / slots
- Streamloop
- Multiple separate streams are supported; no public account hard cap is documented
- SubSub Live
- Markets unlimited simultaneous separate streams
Max multistream destinations
- Streamloop
- One destination per stream
- SubSub Live
- One destination per separate stream is the defensible interpretation
Videos per playlist
- Streamloop
- No published limit
- SubSub Live
- No published limit
Max upload size / length
- Streamloop
- Current docs say 10 GB/file; homepage still says 1.5 GB free and 5 GB paid
- SubSub Live
- No strict public video-length or file-size limit found
Team / multi-user access
- Streamloop
- Shared workspaces with separate sign-ins; no public RBAC or seat limit
- SubSub Live
- ✕
No watermark
- Streamloop
- No Streamloop output watermark documented
- SubSub Live
- ✓
Reliability & support
Automatic monitoring & recovery
- Streamloop
- Reports over 99.9% uptime with automatic monitoring, restart, and reconnection
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Backup streams
- Streamloop
- Standby capacity is reported; zero downtime and recovery time are not guaranteed
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Chat / email support
- Streamloop
- ✓
- SubSub Live
Uptime guarantee / compensation
- Streamloop
- No contractual uptime compensation or recovery-time SLA published
- SubSub Live
- No published SLA
In-app viewer analytics
- Streamloop
- ✓
- SubSub Live
- ✕
Trust & account
Trustpilot rating
- Streamloop
- No profile yet
- SubSub Live
- No Trustpilot profile
YouTube-Verified encoder
- Streamloop
- ✓
- SubSub Live
- ✓
Two-factor authentication
- Streamloop
- Passkeys
- SubSub Live
- ✕
★ Key differentiator✓ Feature included✕ Not included– Not publicly documented
Which should you pick?
When each tool is the right call
There's no objective winner — only which tool fits your actual job.
Pick Streamloop if…
Pick Streamloop when exact pricing, broader RTMP reach, and richer media controls matter more than advertised unlimited stream creation.
- You need a transparent rate for a specific resolution and frame rate before adding credit.
- Free uploads and storage are preferable to an unpublished storage charge.
- Destinations extend beyond SubSub's currently documented YouTube-focused workflow.
- Separate audio playlists and Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, or direct-URL imports are useful.
- Open-ended operation without a published three-day restart recommendation is important.
Streamloop publishes exact rates: about $9.98 per 30 continuous days at 1080p30 or $29.98 at 4K30, plus a one-time $0.005 charge per minute of successfully converted source video.
Start with StreamloopPick SubSub Live if…
Pick SubSub Live when a reusable catalog must feed many separate YouTube-oriented streams and calculator-based usage estimates are acceptable.
- One centralized upload library needs to serve many separately configured channels.
- The advertised unlimited simultaneous-stream model fits a large catalog operation.
- Loop, shuffle, sequence, and timing controls cover the programming requirements.
- A YouTube-centric setup is acceptable, and any required Facebook support can be confirmed before purchase.
- You are willing to use SubSub's current calculator or Enterprise sales process to determine streaming and storage cost.
SubSub Live markets pay-as-you-go streaming from $0.06 per hour plus storage, but a reliable universal total-price formula is not publicly stated.
(We'll leave you to find them — we don't pass link equity to competitors.)
FAQ
Streamloop vs SubSub Live: FAQ
The questions people actually ask before picking one
Are Streamloop and SubSub Live direct competitors?
Yes. Both provide managed cloud playout for prerecorded content and use consumption-oriented billing rather than fixed stream-slot subscriptions. Their main differences are price transparency, storage, destinations, media controls, and long-run operating guidance.
What does SubSub Live cost for a continuous channel?
SubSub markets streaming from $0.06 per hour and says storage is also billed, but its official pages do not publish a dependable universal storage rate or total formula. Use the current calculator or obtain an Enterprise quote rather than multiplying one headline rate without qualification.
Does unlimited simultaneous streams mean multistreaming one feed?
No clear official evidence supports that interpretation. The safer reading is unlimited separate stream jobs that can reuse the catalog and are billed for their own usage. That is different from one-to-many destination fan-out.
Why does SubSub recommend restarting every three days?
Its Live page says performance is strongest during the first 72 hours and recommends periodic refreshes or restarts. Streamloop does not publish a comparable routine-restart requirement, although neither service can override destination outages, account restrictions, or expired credentials.
Does SubSub Live support destinations beyond YouTube?
The reviewed public workflow is explicitly YouTube-focused. Facebook appears in marketing language, but a detailed current Facebook setup or authorization guide was not found, so support should be confirmed for the intended account before purchase. Streamloop documents managed YouTube plus compatible RTMP destinations.
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