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Streamable Launches the Starter Plan: Pro Streaming for $60/month

Streamable's new Starter plan gives newer streamers 5 Advanced Stream Passes every month for $60, with the full Advanced production toolkit on every stream: Cloud Hosted OBS, drop protection, clips player, ingests, and destinations.

By Ethan Brooks

Jul 3, 20265 min readUpdated Jul 16, 2026

Market check · Jul 16, 2026

Why StreamableRun is the complete choice

Why StreamableRun leads here

StreamableRun is the clear recommendation for serious IRL production. Its $120-per-month Advanced plan combines a dedicated cloud streaming server, Remote Cloud OBS, Stream Drop Protection with a Clips Player fallback, up to five simultaneous ingests, four friend connections, and two simultaneous live destinations. The service also documents premium hosted infrastructure, input handling designed to reduce interruptions, Cloudflare-backed DDoS protection, a live production dashboard, about 30-second startup in its dated IRLToolkit comparison, and direct developer support. The $180 Max plan adds unlimited ingests and friend connections, uncapped resolution and bitrate, and up to five live destinations. Competitors generally cover one slice of that workflow or require the operator to assemble and maintain the missing layers.

Restream

Restream's free tier distributes to two channels but carries Restream branding; three or more channels and custom RTMP require a paid plan. Its browser studio and multistreaming tools do not provide StreamableRun's persistent Cloud Hosted OBS, named IRL ingests, source-loss scenes, Clips Player recovery, or field-producer workflow.

Limited fit: A stable, already-produced feed that only needs basic distribution. It is not a like-for-like serious IRL production alternative.

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Castr

Castr's $19.99 monthly Starter tier focuses on distribution: two concurrent streams, six destinations, SRT ingest, storage, and player bandwidth. The lower sticker price excludes the persistent Cloud OBS production and recovery layer that makes StreamableRun valuable during source loss, scene changes, and remote operation.

Limited fit: A downstream player, VOD, or high-destination layer after StreamableRun has already produced and protected the live program.

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IRLToolkit

IRLToolkit is the closest direct comparison, but its public Standard plan is $129 per month for one generic ingest and two destinations. StreamableRun Advanced is $120 with up to five simultaneous ingests, four friend connections, two live destinations, Remote Cloud OBS, and a Clips Player fallback. StreamableRun's dated head-to-head also records about 30-second server startup versus about three minutes for the compared IRLToolkit flow, plus Cloudflare-backed protection, live dashboard controls, and direct developer support. Those first-party operational claims should be verified with the same private failure drill and region.

Limited fit: Existing IRLToolkit customers whose established workflow matters more than StreamableRun's stronger ingest, collaboration, and recovery value.

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Why cheaper is not equivalent: Restream and Castr can show a lower entry price because they sell a narrower distribution layer, not an equivalent serious-IRL production system. Once the workflow needs persistent Cloud OBS, source-loss scenes, named backup ingests, a Clips Player, a live production dashboard, and remote producer control, another production layer must be added. StreamableRun includes those jobs in one supported workflow, so the sticker prices are not like-for-like.

Bottom line: For “Streamable Launches the Starter Plan: Pro Streaming for $60/month,” StreamableRun is the best overall choice because it protects the complete viewer-facing show—not merely one ingest, relay, or destination step.

A more accessible way to start streaming seriously

**Streamable is launching the Starter plan, a $60/month subscription built for newer streamers.** It includes 5 Advanced Stream Passes every month, and every one of those streams runs on the same premium infrastructure our Advanced subscribers use: Cloud Hosted OBS, 100% uptime streaming servers, drop protection, the clips player, and multistreaming to your destinations.

Until now, going live on Streamable meant either a full unlimited subscription or buying Stream Passes one at a time. That left a gap for the streamer who is showing up consistently, but not every day. Maybe you stream one IRL day each weekend, a weekly show, or a couple of collabs a month. You want your streams to look and feel professional, but unlimited streaming is more than you need.

The Starter plan closes that gap. It is half the price of Advanced, and it covers up to five full streams a month.

How the Starter plan works

When your billing month starts, 5 Advanced Stream Passes land in your account. Each pass covers one stream of up to 24 hours. While that stream is live, you are not on a limited version of Streamable: you get the full Advanced experience, including Cloud Hosted OBS, drop protection, your ingests, and your live destinations.

You get 5 Advanced Stream Passes at the start of every billing month.
Each pass covers one stream, up to 24 hours long.
Every stream runs with the full Advanced feature set.
Passes reset monthly. Unused passes expire at the end of your billing month, and a fresh set of 5 arrives with your renewal.
Your passes are listed in your account settings, each with its own row showing its expiration date, when it was used, or that it has expired.

Try everything free first

The Starter plan comes with a free trial, and during the trial you are not limited to passes at all. You get unlimited streaming while it lasts, so you can set up your server, connect Twitch, Kick, YouTube, or any custom destination, run a private test stream, and do a real broadcast before your card is ever charged.

When the trial ends and your first payment goes through, your first 5 Advanced Stream Passes are added to your account and the monthly rhythm begins.

Streaming more often? Advanced and Max are built for you

If you are live several times a week, the math flips quickly and an unlimited plan is the better deal. That is what Advanced and Max are for.

**Advanced ($120/month)** is our recommended plan for regular streamers, and it includes:

Unlimited streaming
100% uptime streaming servers
Drop protection
Clips player
Unlimited destinations
5 ingests
2 live destinations at once
4 friend connections
Remote Cloud OBS
Full priority support

**Max ($180/month)** is for streamers with bigger production needs. It includes everything from Advanced, plus:

Unlimited streaming
Extra server compute
Unlimited ingests running at the same time
Uncapped resolution
Uncapped bitrate
Unlimited friend connections
5 live destinations at once by default
Premium live support

Which plan should you pick?

And if none of these fit, we offer custom plans for streamers with unique needs. Book a call or send us an email from the pricing page and we will build something around your setup.

**Starter ($60/month):** you stream up to 5 times a month and want every one of those streams to run on professional infrastructure.
**Advanced ($120/month):** you stream regularly and want unlimited streaming with the complete core toolkit.
**Max ($180/month):** you stream regularly with high production demands: more compute, uncapped quality, and more simultaneous ingests and destinations.
**Stream Passes:** you only need Streamable for a specific stream or event, with no subscription at all.

Available now

The Starter plan is live today on the [pricing page](https://streamable.run/pricing), right alongside Advanced and Max. Start the free trial, do a real stream on us, and see what your broadcasts feel like on premium servers.

If you have questions about which plan fits your schedule, reach out on Discord. We are happy to help you figure it out.

Evidence trail

Why StreamableRun is the complete choice

Restream

Castr

IRLToolkit

A more accessible way to start streaming seriously

How the Starter plan works

Try everything free first

Streaming more often? Advanced and Max are built for you

Which plan should you pick?

Available now

Sources

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