Castr vs Uscreen Comparison 2026
Castr is built around live streaming, hosting and a paywall, from $19.99 a month. Uscreen is a video membership platform with its own phone and television apps, from $49 a month for up to a hundred subscribers with no per-subscriber fee below that cap. Live streaming is a small included feature on Uscreen, an hour free, where it is the whole point of Castr.
At a glance
- Castr starts cheaper, at $19.99.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Castr | Uscreen | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $19.99 | From $49 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 7 days | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Yes |
Castr
Live streaming with hosting and a paywall
Castr covers the parts of streaming that sit either side of the broadcast: hosting the recording afterwards, running a 24/7 playout channel, and putting a paywall in front of either. Bandwidth is sold as a pool rather than metered per viewer. It is priced for a business running channels, not for somebody going live on a Sunday.
Only on this side
- Covers live streaming
- Works with YouTube
- Works with Facebook
- Works with Twitch
- Works with Kick
Uscreen
A video membership with its own apps
Uscreen is for creators who want subscribers paying for a library rather than viewers watching an ad, and it will ship that library as a phone and television app under your own name. The entry plan takes no cut of a subscription and caps you at a hundred subscribers, so the pricing pushes growth toward the tier with a per-subscriber fee. One-time sales are charged at ten percent on that first plan.
Our note
The pricing is designed to move you off the first plan, and it does that at exactly a hundred subscribers. Work out what Pro costs at your target audience size before starting, because at five hundred subscribers the fee is most of the bill.
Why people weigh these two
- Uscreen instead of Castr
- Uscreen approaches the paid-access side as a full video membership platform with its own apps at $49, more storefront than Castr's paywalled streams.
- Castr instead of Uscreen
- Castr adds a paywall on live streams specifically, from $19.99, the live-event side of the same idea rather than an on-demand library.
Which one should you pick
Castr is the cheaper and more direct choice for a business built around live broadcasts: scheduled channels, a paywall on the stream itself, and bandwidth sold as a yearly pool rather than metered per viewer. Its live features go far deeper than Uscreen's included hour.
Uscreen is worth the higher price for a creator building a paid content library, fitness, cooking or instruction, who wants subscribers on a branded phone and television app rather than just a stream. The flat $49 up to a hundred subscribers keeps the first year cheap, but the per-subscriber fee on Pro at $1.99 each is worth modelling against your target audience size before committing.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper?
- Castr, at $19.99 a month against Uscreen's $49. They are different products, though: Uscreen adds phone and television apps for subscribers that Castr does not offer.
- Which one is built for live streaming specifically?
- Castr. Live channels, a paywall on the stream, and 24/7 playout are its core features. Uscreen includes an hour of live streaming free but is built around a subscriber video library.
- Does either take a cut of sales?
- Uscreen does on its entry plan: a 10 percent fee on one-time sales, dropping to 5 percent on Pro. Castr's listing does not mention a sales fee.
- Which one ships a branded app for subscribers?
- Uscreen. Phone and television apps under your own name are a core feature. Castr's listing does not describe a subscriber app.
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