Dacast vs Uscreen Comparison 2026
Dacast sells bandwidth and a paywall for a live broadcast: $39 a month billed annually for 2.4TB a year. Uscreen sells a video membership with its own branded phone and television apps, from $49 a month with no annual commitment required, capped at a hundred subscribers before a per-subscriber fee kicks in. One prices by how much data moves. The other prices by how many people pay you.
At a glance
- Dacast starts cheaper, at $39.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Dacast | Uscreen | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $39 | From $49 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 14 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
Dacast
Live streaming and hosting sold by the terabyte
Dacast is a broadcaster's video platform: live channels, a paywall, white-label playback and a bandwidth allowance measured in terabytes a year. Unused bandwidth rolls forward, which suits anybody whose schedule is a season rather than a week. It sells to events and businesses rather than to social creators, and the interface has never pretended otherwise.
Our note
The three-month minimum on monthly billing is the term to notice, because it makes a single event cost three payments. Buy this when you are selling access to the stream itself; for hosting recordings, SproutVideo or Vimeo is simpler and cheaper.
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.
Why people weigh these two
- Uscreen instead of Dacast
- Uscreen sells the audience-facing half, a video membership with its own apps from $49, if recurring subscribers matter more than broadcast infrastructure.
- Dacast instead of Uscreen
- Dacast sells hosting by the terabyte instead of by subscriber count, from $39, a cost that follows bandwidth rather than growth.
Which one should you pick
Pick Dacast if the product is a live event or a channel and bandwidth is the real cost driver: unused allowance rolls forward, which suits a season rather than a weekly release schedule. Starter is $39 a month billed annually, cheaper to start than Uscreen, but only if you are comfortable committing for the year and accepting the three-month minimum on monthly billing.
Pick Uscreen if the product is a subscription library people pay into every month, especially if you want it on their phone and their television under your own name. Growth is $49 a month with no subscriber fee up to a hundred people, and no annual lock-in required, but model the per-subscriber fee on Pro before you grow past that cap: at five hundred subscribers, the fee becomes most of the bill.
Common questions
- Does Uscreen build a real television app, or just a responsive website?
- A real app, shipped under your own name on phone and television, which is the reason people pick it over a website that resizes. Dacast focuses on the live broadcast and its paywall instead and does not describe branded television apps.
- Which one is cheaper to start?
- Dacast, at $39 a month against Uscreen's $49, though Dacast requires annual billing to reach that price and carries a three-month minimum if you pay monthly instead. Uscreen's $49 has no annual commitment attached.
- What happens to Uscreen's price as subscribers grow?
- It jumps hard past a hundred subscribers, from a flat $49 to $149 a month plus $1.99 per subscriber on Pro. Dacast does not price by subscriber count at all; its cost is driven by bandwidth instead.
- Can Dacast run a paid subscription library like Uscreen?
- It supports pay-per-view and subscriptions on a live stream, but the product is built around broadcasting rather than a browsable library with its own apps. Uscreen is the one built specifically for a subscriber paying monthly for a catalogue like fitness, cooking or instruction.
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