Castr

Live streaming and hosting sold by the terabyte

Dacast sells the same business live streaming and hosting by the terabyte from $39, the closest match for scheduled channels.

Works with YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Kick

Go live to several places from a browser tab

StreamYard goes live to several places from a browser tab, free to start with paid at $44.99, an easier front end than Castr's channel tooling.

Works with YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, LinkedIn, Kick

Stream to eight platforms from one encoder

Restream pushes one stream to eight platforms from $19 with a free tier, the cheaper and simpler pick for a solo creator going live weekly.

Works with YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Podcast, Twitch, Kick

Live streaming for places that stream every week

BoxCast serves the same stream-every-week organisation at $109, built for recurring broadcasts rather than one-off streams.

Your own live streaming server, free

Owncast is a free self-hosted streaming server, the do-it-yourself answer to Castr's hosted channels and paywall.

Sub-second streaming you run yourself

Ant Media Server is sub-second streaming infrastructure you run yourself from $109, for a business that wants Castr's job on its own servers.

A video membership with its own apps

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.