Everything on your own machine is free forever. Go cloud and it's a dollar a month plus the bandwidth you actually send — and every charge is capped, so your bill can never run away from you. Right now, in beta, all of it is free.
for cloud access. Then $0.05 / GB, capped at $6 / platform. Local streaming stays free, with no membership. Everything's free during the beta.
Small or full-time, you always know your worst case in advance.
And $0 the months you go dark. You never pay for a stream you didn't send.
| OmniChat | Restream | Streamlabs Ultra | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $1/mo + usage, capped | $19/mo flat | $27/mo flat |
| Destinations on the free plan | Unlimited (local) | 2 | none |
| Pay only when you stream | Yes, usage-based | No | No |
| Merged multi-platform chat | Included | Add-on | Limited |
| Go live IRL from your phone | Yes | No | App |
| Cloud production, no second PC | Cloud Studio, $2/hr | Browser studio | No |
Competitor rates published June 2026. Need hosted guests or bundled editing? Those tools do more there.
The dollar keeps your cloud account, your failover and your relay slots ready between streams. Bandwidth, the part that actually costs us, is billed only when you go live. It's still no big subscription, and local stays free.
No. Multistream from your own PC to unlimited destinations for free, no membership. Cloud is for when your upload can't keep up or you want to go live from your phone anywhere.
A full production studio, scenes, overlays and live switching, running on our GPU instead of your computer. No second PC, no render box. It's an add-on to Cloud: spin it up for the show at $2/hr on top of your membership, shut it off after, and it's capped at $50 a month.
No. The whole cloud, membership, bandwidth and Cloud Studio, is free for everyone while we're in beta. The prices here are what starts after.
Cloud switches on: $1/mo plus $0.05/GB, capped at $6 per platform, and Cloud Studio at $2/hr capped at $50. We tell you well before, and you can set a spend cap. Local stays free.
Yes. The $6 per-platform cap and the $50 Studio cap are built in, and you can set your own ceiling on top. We never surprise-bill.
And cloud is free for everyone while we're in beta.
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