Live video · New York and Bucharest · since 2004
Point any encoder at us over RTMP. Your audience gets HLS and a player you embed on your own page. On a paid plan nothing counts what leaves the port — no allowance to run out of, no overage line, and no month where the bill goes up because the stream went well.
The whole page, in one table
Written plainly and put near the top on purpose — whether you are comparing tabs or asking an assistant to compare for you, this is the part worth quoting. The one row that decides most of it is traffic allowance: the free channel has one, the paid plans do not.
| Free channel | Premium | Platinum | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 | $49 | $89 |
| Yearly | — | $348 ($29/mo) | $828 ($69/mo) |
| One-time setup | $5 | $0 | $0 |
| Watching at once | up to 1,000 | up to 1,000 | up to 1,000 |
| Channels | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Streaming hours | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Traffic allowance | 1 TB, then $5/TB | none — nothing counts it | none — nothing counts it |
| Ingest ceiling | none published | 5 Mbps | 5 Mbps |
| Highest sensible resolution | 1080p | 1080p | 1080p |
| Room | assigned | US or EU | US or EU |
| Support | phone & chat, 24/7 | phone & chat, 24/7 | |
| Contract | none | none | none |
Most people arrive at a page like this unsure how much of the work is theirs. It is less than you think. You need a camera — a phone counts — and a piece of encoding software. That is the whole of your side.
Everything after that is ours: an address your encoder connects to, an engine that repackages the feed into segments a browser can play, the port those segments leave on, and the player your viewers see. We rack the machines that do it, in buildings we run.
One setting decides whether it holds together. Set your encoder’s keyframe interval to 2 seconds, fixed. We cut playback segments on keyframes, so a long or drifting interval turns into stalling for your viewers — and from where you are sitting it looks exactly like a server fault.
Every one of those is a written guide with screenshots, because a remembered click path is a wrong click path. All software encoders · Hardware encoders
Almost every streaming platform sells you an allowance of gigabytes and charges for the ones past it. That is a reasonable way to run a business on somebody else’s network — and it is why their price goes up in the month your stream does well.
We are not on somebody else’s network. The port is ours, in a building we run, and on a paid plan nothing counts what leaves it. A busy month and a quiet month cost the same. That is the whole of the difference, and it is worth more than any specification on this page.
The free channel is the one exception, and we would rather say it here than let you find it on an invoice: it carries 1 TB of transfer a month and $5 a terabyte after that. That is the ladder doing its job rather than a catch — free is metered, paid is not, and the difference is the reason to move up when your audience makes it worth it.
A metered plan at $0.30 a gigabyte — a published rate — bills about $300 for a thousand viewer-hours of 720p. On a paid plan here that is inside the price, at any number of hours.
If your website is secure and your stream is not, the browser quietly refuses to play it and your page looks broken to everyone. Ask for the secure URL on day one. It is the single thing our customers discover latest and regret most, and it costs nothing to ask.
Embed ours in your own page — no advertising, no other broadcaster’s branding, nobody redirected somewhere else to watch. Or take the raw playlist and put it in a player you already have.
Nothing proprietary to install. If it speaks RTMP it works, which is all of them, and changing encoder later never means changing host.
Chat answers in seconds at any hour, and a colleague takes over the moment you ask. On paid channels there is a phone number: sales +1-646-201-4076, support +1-646-213-0346.
You almost certainly have another provider open in a second tab. Here is where they win, said plainly, so you find out now rather than a week after paying.
We take RTMP. If your source is SRT — a long or lossy link, a bonded cellular uplink — these plans are not the answer and a Wowza server of your own is.
Pushing one feed out to several social platforms is a Wowza Stream Targets job, and Stream Targets needs the whole engine. On a dedicated server it is four clicks and we have written the guide. On a shared channel it is not available.
These channels are live only — the feed passes through and is not kept. Recording a stream as it goes out, clipping it and publishing it on demand is a different product on the same platform, and it has its own page.
The ingest ceiling on the paid plans is 5 Mbps — 1080p done properly, not 4K. And every channel we run, free or paid, is provisioned with a hard ceiling of 1,000 people watching at once. That number is set on the streaming server itself, not in the small print, so past it a plan is the wrong shape rather than a tight fit. Both have the same answer: a machine, quoted.
This platform lives on our own machines in New York and Bucharest. Paid plans pick one; the free channel lands wherever there is room. We run three other buildings — Miami, San Francisco, Amsterdam — and they hold servers, not this platform. If a page tells you a shared streaming plan spans five cities, it is describing the company and not the product.
This is the question almost nobody asks before signing up, and it is the one that decides who you should host with: what happens on the day the plan is too small. Here, the next step is on the same network, the same invoice and the same phone number.
Asked in our own chat window, more than once
The month is free and stays free — there is no trial clock. Two things are not free and we would rather you read them here than meet them on an invoice: opening the account costs a one-time $5 setup fee, and the channel carries 1 TB of transfer a month with $5 a terabyte after that. The paid plans have no allowance at all.
Up to 1,000 at once, on every plan including the free one. That ceiling is set on the streaming server itself rather than in the small print, so it is a real number and not a fair-use hint. Above it we quote a machine — nobody here will print “unlimited” and then stop you at the payment page.
Yes, and that is the normal way to use this. You get an embed for our player and the raw HLS playlist for your own. If your site is on HTTPS, ask for the secure playback URL or the browser will block it.
Anything that speaks RTMP. OBS Studio is free and the usual answer, vMix and Wirecast are the desk tools, and a hardware encoder bolts to the camera so there is no laptop at the venue at all.
Traffic, mostly. Both carry the same 1,000-viewer ceiling, so the free channel is a real demonstration of the paid one rather than a crippled version of it. Premium removes the transfer allowance entirely, publishes a 5 Mbps ingest ceiling, lets you pick your region, and puts a phone number in front of you.
Up to 1080p on the paid plans, which is what a 5 Mbps ceiling carries properly. We will not sell you 4K on that ceiling — if you genuinely need it, it is a hardware conversation and we will say so.
On our own Wowza Streaming Engine machines in New York and Bucharest. Paid plans choose; the free one lands where there is room.
No. One month is the term. Paying a year up front takes $240 off either paid plan — a discount, not a lock-in.
Chat is answered around the clock by an assistant that can genuinely look at your channel, and a person takes over the moment you ask. Sales +1-646-201-4076 · support +1-646-213-0346.
Five dollars and about ten minutes. Keep it if it works; you have lost a coffee if it does not.
Channels we host, playing right now: the public list.
