# Castr

> Multistreaming, video hosting and 24/7 playout in one service

Castr is a live streaming service for multistreaming one encoder feed to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, LinkedIn and custom RTMP or SRT destinations, and for hosting the video on your own site. Every plan also includes cloud recording, an embeddable player, 24/7 TV-style playout of pre-recorded video and a paywall. It is aimed at broadcasters, churches, schools and event producers rather than webinar hosts, and takes its feed from encoders or cameras, with a browser switcher for mixing them.

- **Category:** Webinars & Live Streaming
- **Made by:** Castr Live Streaming, Inc. (since 2018)
- **Website:** https://castr.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Castr is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $16.67 per month, billed annually ($19.99 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of the Starter plan, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $16.67 per month, billed annually ($19.99 billed monthly) | 2 concurrent streams (3 on annual), 6 destinations, 200 GB of player bandwidth a month and 100 GB of video storage. |
| Standard | $41.67 per month, billed annually ($49.99 billed monthly) | 10 destinations, 500 GB of bandwidth a month and 200 GB of storage, plus SRT and RTMP pull links and in-stream ads. |
| Premium | $166.67 per month, billed annually ($199.99 billed monthly) | 5 streams (10 on annual), 20 destinations, 3 TB of bandwidth, 2 TB of storage, adaptive bitrate, API access and 3 team members. |
| Ultra | $291.67 per month, billed annually ($349.99 billed monthly) | 10 streams (15 on annual), 30 destinations, 5 TB of bandwidth, 3 TB of storage, failover ingest and low-latency playback. |
| Events | $624.99 per month, billed annually ($749.99 billed monthly) | A branded OTT web app with a CMS, subscriptions and pay-per-view sales, 15 streams, 30 destinations and 10 TB of bandwidth a month. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom stream, bandwidth and storage allocations, enterprise controls and migration help, arranged with sales. |

Read from https://castr.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Castr before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months free with annual billing** (Annual discount): Castr's pricing page says annual billing gives 2 months free plus a larger upfront bandwidth pool: Starter is $199.99 a year against $19.99 a month. Source: https://castr.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Multistreaming:** One RTMP or SRT feed goes out to up to 30 destinations, including YouTube, Facebook pages and groups, Twitch and LinkedIn; TikTok and Instagram connect through custom RTMP.
- **Video hosting and player:** An embeddable player with analytics, video storage from 100 GB, and unlimited viewers within each plan's bandwidth allowance.
- **Cloud recording and live-to-VOD:** Records streams of up to 72 hours, keeps the recordings for up to three days, and turns live streams into on-demand videos.
- **24/7 playout:** Runs pre-recorded videos as an always-on live channel, like a TV station, on every plan.
- **Paywall and monetization:** A paywall comes with every plan, in-stream ads start on Standard, and Events adds subscriptions, pay-per-view and more than 30 payment gateways.
- **Ingest protocols and API:** Takes RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS and SRT input, offers pull links from Standard, and adds API access and HLS URLs on Premium.

## Good for

- Churches and schools streaming services or events to several platforms
- Broadcasters running a 24/7 channel from pre-recorded video
- Selling access to live streams behind a paywall

## Worth knowing

- Streams come in from encoder software, hardware or IP cameras; the browser-based Cloud Production switcher is enabled by Castr on request.
- Each plan has a player-bandwidth allowance, and monthly plans get less upfront bandwidth and fewer concurrent streams than annual ones.
- Only Starter has the 7-day trial; the other plans go straight to checkout.
- DRM and native iOS, Android and TV apps for the Events plan are add-ons arranged with sales.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Castr takes one feed from your encoder or camera and sends it to up to 30 destinations, and it also hosts the video on your own site with a player, a paywall and 24/7 TV-style playout. Starter is $16.67 a month billed yearly. It's for broadcasters, though: you bring the encoder, since the browser switcher is turned on only if you ask.

- **Value for money: B.** Starter is $16.67 a month billed annually ($199.99 a year, $19.99 by the month) and streams to 6 destinations, enough for three platforms. That's level with Restream and Ecamm, well under StreamYard's Core, and it includes hosting and a paywall.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 7-day free trial of Starter with no credit card. The other plans go straight to checkout.
- **Features: C.** Multistreaming to 30 destinations, hosting, a player, cloud recording, 24/7 playout and a paywall on every plan. The gaps: you bring the encoder, as the browser Cloud Production switcher is enabled by Castr on request, and recordings are kept up to three days.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. You set up an encoder such as OBS or a camera, add each destination and embed the player, which takes some know-how.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** A web service with no desktop or phone app listed. It sends to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and LinkedIn, takes RTMP, SRT, RTSP and HLS input from OBS or cameras, and has an API on Premium.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Castr's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among webinar and live streaming tools

- Castr's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 10 of the 14 other webinar and live streaming tools we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on value for money (B, above 11 of 14) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $16.67 a month, against a middle price of $47 for the category: 1 of the 13 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/webinars

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Castr you would be making one live stream sent to several platforms at once. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 10 of the 14 other webinar and live streaming tools we grade. It costs $200.04 a year.

- You could not: One live stream sent to several platforms at once.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, YouTube, Facebook and Twitch among them, and has an API.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, LinkedIn, OBS Studio

**Tags:** Multistreaming, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Restream](https://toolgpa.com/tools/restream): Multistream one live video to YouTube, Twitch, LinkedIn and more. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castr-vs-restream)
- [Switcher Studio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/switcher-studio): Multicamera live streaming from iPhone, iPad and Mac. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castr-vs-switcher-studio)
- [StreamYard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/streamyard): Browser-based studio for live streaming and recording with guests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castr-vs-streamyard)
- [Vimeo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vimeo): Ad-free video hosting with a customizable player and review tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castr-vs-vimeo)
- [OBS Studio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/obs-studio): Free, open-source software for video recording and live streaming. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/castr-vs-obs-studio)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://castr.com/pricing/
- https://castr.com/multistream/
- https://castr.com/cloud-production/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/castr
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).