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10 tools that solve a similar problem. Compare what each costs and what it covers.
Live streaming with hosting and a paywall
Castr is the closest match, live streaming with hosting and a paywall, at a lower $19.99 entry against Dacast's $39.
Works with YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Kick
Go live to several places from a browser tab
StreamYard puts the live production in a browser tab and sends it to several places at once, free tier then $44.99, lighter than a terabyte-metered platform.
Works with YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, LinkedIn, Kick
Editing, hosting and streaming on one plan
Wave.video puts editing, hosting and streaming on one plan from $16 with a free tier, so the video is made and served in the same place.
Works with YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, LinkedIn, Kick
Live streaming for places that stream every week
BoxCast serves venues and organisations that stream every week, from $109, further up the same broadcaster market.
Your own live streaming server, free
Owncast is your own live streaming server, free and self-hosted, if you would rather run the infrastructure than rent it by the terabyte.
A video membership with its own apps
Uscreen sells the audience-facing half, a video membership with its own apps from $49, if recurring subscribers matter more than broadcast infrastructure.
Video hosting and streaming as an API
Mux is hosting and streaming as an API from $20 with a free tier, the build-it-yourself route for a team with developers.
Video hosting with the bandwidth included
SproutVideo includes the bandwidth at $12, which suits steady viewing where paying by the terabyte suits bursts.
Video hosting priced by bandwidth, with DRM on top
Gumlet prices hosting by bandwidth actually used, with DRM included, and keeps a free tier before $6, a lighter fit for on-demand video than Dacast's live-broadcaster terabyte plans.
Sub-second streaming you run yourself
Ant Media Server runs on your own infrastructure instead of Dacast's hosted terabyte plans, built for sub-second latency; no free tier and a higher $109 starting price.