Online TV channels
Build your feed, test it with your audience and add programming as it grows.
See 24/7 TVFree plan forever
Free streaming server for live video, forever.
Create your live video channel without paying and without a card. Connect OBS or your encoder over RTMP or SRT and put the player on your website today.
No credit card. No setup fee. No end date.
- RTMP and SRT
- Player for your site
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Forever
- $0
- Concurrent viewers
- 10
- Stream bitrate
- 1,500 kbps
- Bandwidth
- Unlimited
What is included
What does the free streaming server include?
What you need to go on air with your own channel, with nothing to install or maintain.
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RTMP and SRT ingest
Connect OBS, vMix, Larix or a hardware encoder with the URL and key from your panel.
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Player for your website
An embed code for your page and a link to share your channel.
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10 concurrent viewers
For your first broadcasts, tests and small audiences.
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Up to 1,500 kbps
Total video and audio bitrate, meant for 480p or low-motion 720p.
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1 restream destination
Take the same feed to Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Twitch.
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Unlimited bandwidth
No monthly transfer allowance and no usage charges.
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Managed server
We run the server. You just broadcast.
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No card, no setup fee
It is not a trial that runs out: the channel is yours while you use it.
How to stream live on your website, in 3 steps.
From creating the account to seeing your feed on your site, in a few minutes.
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Create your free channel
Name, email and channel name. You verify your email with a code and enter your panel.
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Connect OBS or your encoder
Copy the server URL and the Stream Key from Streaming Data and paste them into your software.
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Put the player on your site
Copy the embed code from Share Streaming and paste it into your page.
Who it is for
Create your online TV channel for free, whatever your project.
The free plan is for getting started. Each solution shows how far you can go afterwards.
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Churches and ministries
Take the service to your congregation’s website and its social network.
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Radio stations with video
Add the studio camera to your station and show it on your site.
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Your site and your social network
One feed, on your site and on your social network.
You send a single feed from your encoder. We deliver it in the player on your website and restream it to the network you choose.
- One restream destination included
- Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Twitch
- You turn it on and off from your panel
Free streaming server: compare your options.
Streaming without paying always has a cost somewhere else. This is the one behind each path.
Social networks
YouTube Live, Facebook Live
- Cost
- Free
- Where your audience watches
- On the network’s platform, next to other people’s content
- Branding and ads
- The network’s brand and the ads it decides to show
- Getting started
- Immediate
- Who maintains it
- The network, under its own content rules
Your own server
A VPS with Nginx-RTMP or MediaMTX
- Cost
- The software is free; you pay for the VPS and traffic
- Where your audience watches
- On your site, with the player you build
- Branding and ads
- No third-party branding
- Getting started
- Install, configure and test
- Who maintains it
- You: updates, security and outages
XtreamCast free
Managed server
- Cost
- Free, no card and no setup fee
- Where your audience watches
- On your site, with a player ready to embed
- Branding and ads
- A small XtreamCast mark on the player
- Getting started
- Create the account and copy the details
- Who maintains it
- We do
The included restream lets you be on a social network too without giving up your own site.
When you grow
Start free. Grow without starting over.
When your audience outgrows the free plan, you change plans from your panel and your player link stays the same.
Free
To get started
- Price
- Free forever
- Concurrent viewers
- 10
- Bitrate
- Up to 1,500 kbps
- Restream
- 1 destination to social networks
- Player
- With XtreamCast branding
- Recording
- Not included
- HLS URL and SRT output
- Not included
- Bandwidth
- Unlimited
- Uptime SLA
- Not included
Paid plans
Started+, Pro+ and Max+
- Price
- From USD 25/month
- Concurrent viewers
- No limit
- Bitrate
- Configurable, no limit
- Restream
- 10 destinations, including your own RTMP
- Player
- Unbranded and customizable
- Recording
- Recording Cloud and OnDemand
- HLS URL and SRT output
- Included
- Bandwidth
- 1, 3 or 6 TB per month
- Uptime SLA
- 99.995% monthly
When you change plans your player link is kept; only the broadcast details for your encoder change.
Keep going with these guides and services.
- Plans and pricing The free plan next to Started+, Pro+ and Max+.
- Streaming server Everything the managed server does.
- RTMP server Per-encoder settings and RTMP versus SRT.
- SRT server For remote or lossy links.
- Multistreaming Up to 10 destinations on paid plans.
- How to create an online TV channel The step-by-step guide.
- Streaming with OBS Studio Connect your encoder with the details from the panel.
- Running your own RTMP server What operating it yourself involves.
Frequently asked questions about the free streaming server
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Yes. The Free plan is permanently free: it has no end date and does not ask for a credit card. It is not a trial that runs out.
No. We charge no setup or installation fee, we do not ask for a card and there are no usage charges. The limits of the plan are published on this page.
Up to 10 viewers at a time, 1,500 kbps of total bitrate and one restream destination to social networks. The video plays in the XtreamCast player, which shows a small mark over the picture.
Yes. Your panel gives you the server URL and the Stream Key for OBS, vMix, Larix or any encoder that sends RTMP. You can also broadcast over SRT.
Yes. You copy the player embed code from your panel and paste it into your site. You also get a direct link to share.
No. You install and maintain nothing: you copy two details into OBS and paste a code into your page.
Yes. The free plan has no transfer allowance and no usage charges. Its limits are concurrent viewers and bitrate.
On the free plan the stream plays only in the player. The HLS URL and the SRT output are part of the paid plans.
The first 10 keep watching. Anyone who arrives later sees a notice that the channel is full. To remove that limit you move to a paid plan.
A channel that does not broadcast within its first 24 hours, or that goes 30 days in a row without broadcasting, is deleted. We email you first, and you can create another one whenever you want.
You can broadcast for as many hours as you want from your encoder. Automatic programming from a video playlist (Live Station 24/7) is an add-on of the paid plans.
No. It is a server for broadcasting your own live content, not an app for watching television.
From your panel, under Modify plan. Your player link is kept; only the broadcast details for your encoder change.
One per account. If you need more channels, paid plans are contracted per channel.
Have more questions?
Our team is available 24/7 to help you with any question about your streaming project.
Your free channel, on air today.
No card and no end date. When your audience grows, you move to a paid plan without changing your player link.