Restream

Name: Restream
Brand: Restream
Price: 019 USD

One broadcast, eight destinations, with webinars sold as an add-on

Restream is a live streaming studio and multistreaming service that takes a single video feed, from its browser studio or from OBS and other encoders, and broadcasts it simultaneously to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Twitch, and dozens of other destinations, with branded overlays, guest invitations, unified cross-platform chat, cloud recording, clip generation, an embeddable website player, and an optional Webinars add-on that turns a broadcast into a registration-gated event with a hundred or five hundred attendees.

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Overview

Restream's core job is not webinars. It is multistreaming: taking one live video feed and putting it on every platform your audience uses at the same time, with a single chat window that merges comments from all of them. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, it grew out of the game-streaming world and then found a much larger market among businesses, podcasters, churches, and marketing teams who wanted their live content on LinkedIn and YouTube and Facebook without running three separate broadcasts.

That heritage explains the shape of the product. The centre is Restream Studio, a browser-based production environment with branded overlays, backgrounds, banners, guest invitations by link, screen sharing, video playback, and layout control. Around it sits the destination layer, where the number of simultaneous channels is the primary thing your plan buys: two on Free, three on Standard, five on Professional, and eight on Business. Underneath is a set of tools that reflect how live content is actually consumed now, including cloud recording, automatic clip generation for short-form platforms, dual horizontal and vertical output, and an embeddable player for your own website.

Webinars exist here, but as a deliberate add-on rather than the main event. On Standard and Professional it is 99 dollars a month extra for a hundred attendees; on Business it is 299 dollars a month for five hundred. What you get is a registration-gated room layered on top of the Restream broadcast, which is a genuinely useful combination for a company that wants a private registered audience and a public simulcast from the same production. What you do not get is the depth of a dedicated webinar platform: this is not where you go for behavioural email sequences, native CRM objects, or evergreen automation.

Commercially, Restream is the rare tool in this category with a free plan that is actually usable, at two destinations with Restream branding, and a paid ladder that starts at 19 dollars. It has raised roughly 56.5 million dollars, most of it in a 50 million dollar Series A led by Sapphire Ventures and Insight Partners, and remains an independent company. For a small business, the honest framing is this: buy Restream when the broadcast and its destinations are the point, and add Webinars when you occasionally need a gated version of the same production. Buy a webinar platform when registration, reminders, and lead data are the point.

Best for

Marketing teams, podcasters, churches, educators, and small businesses whose live content is public and needs to be on LinkedIn and YouTube simultaneously, plus anyone who wants a polished browser-based studio with guests and overlays without learning OBS.

Not the right fit for

Teams buying primarily for webinars; the registration-gated room is a 99-dollar-a-month add-on on top of a subscription, and it does not approach Demio, Livestorm, or GoTo Webinar on registration, reminders, or reporting.
Anyone who needs behavioural email sequences or native CRM sync from event attendance; Restream's data layer is stream analytics, not lead management.
Businesses wanting evergreen or automated webinars; there is no scheduled replay mode, no just-in-time registration, and no chat simulator.
Buyers who want a large included audience cheaply; the Business plan at 239 dollars a month plus the 299-dollar Webinars add-on is 538 dollars for a 500-attendee gated room, which several dedicated platforms beat comfortably.
Anyone who only ever streams to one destination; if you are not multistreaming, you are paying for the defining feature of the product and not using it.

How it works

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You connect destinations to your Restream account, authorising YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Twitch, Kick, and dozens of others, plus custom RTMP endpoints for anything not on the list. Your plan determines how many can be live at once.
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You produce the broadcast either in Restream Studio, the browser-based production environment, or by pointing OBS, Streamlabs, vMix, or a hardware encoder at Restream's ingest and letting it fan out. Studio handles overlays, logos, lower thirds, backgrounds, layouts, screen sharing, video playback, and guests who join by clicking a link with nothing to install.
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While you are live, Restream Chat merges comments from every connected destination into one window, so a question from LinkedIn and a question from YouTube arrive in the same queue and can both be answered and displayed on screen as a banner.
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If you have the Webinars add-on, the same production can instead run as a registration-gated event: attendees sign up, receive a join link, and watch in a private room with a hundred or five hundred seats depending on the add-on tier, rather than on a public social feed.
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Afterwards, cloud recordings are stored for download or editing, the clip tool cuts short-form vertical highlights automatically for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, and stream analytics report viewership and engagement per destination so you can see which platform actually carried your audience.

Feature breakdown

26 features in 5 modules

Multistreaming and destinations

The core product, and what your plan tier actually buys.

Simultaneous multistreaming: One feed goes to multiple platforms at once, from two channels on Free to eight on Business, without running separate broadcasts or separate encoders.
Thirty-plus supported destinations: YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Twitch, Kick, and a long tail of others, so a business audience on LinkedIn and a consumer audience on YouTube are served from one production.
Custom RTMP endpoints: Push to any platform or internal system that accepts RTMP, including your own CDN, so the destination list is not a hard limit.
Guest channels: Stream to a guest's own channel as well as your own, which is how co-marketing and podcast cross-promotion actually works.
Dual format streaming: Professional and above output horizontal and vertical simultaneously, so YouTube and TikTok get correctly framed video from the same broadcast.
Stream health monitoring: Live bitrate, dropped-frame, and connection monitoring per destination, which is how you find out a platform has silently dropped you.

Restream Studio

A browser production environment good enough that most users never open OBS.

Browser-based studio: Full production from a browser tab with nothing installed, including for guests, who join by clicking a link.
Branded overlays and backgrounds: Logos, lower thirds, banners, and custom backgrounds, with Restream branding removed from Standard upward.
Guest invitations: Bring guests into the broadcast by link and control who is on screen and when, with a backstage area for preparation.
Screen sharing and media playback: Share a screen or play a pre-recorded video into the live broadcast without a separate playback tool.
Layout control: Switch between solo, split, picture-in-picture, and screen-share layouts live, which is the basic grammar of a watchable stream.
Encoder ingest: OBS, Streamlabs, vMix, and hardware encoders can feed Restream instead of Studio when you want full production control.
Co-producer mode: Business adds a second operator role so a producer can run overlays and banners while the host presents, which is how professional shows are made.

Audience interaction

Unified across platforms, which is Restream's quiet superpower.

Cross-platform unified chat: Comments from YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitch, and the rest merge into a single window, so you engage one audience rather than five.
On-screen chat banners: Push a viewer comment or question onto the broadcast as a lower third, which makes public streams feel participatory.
Website player embed: Business includes an embeddable player supporting up to 1,000 viewers, so the stream can live on your own site as a destination in its own right.
Chat moderation: Moderate the merged feed centrally rather than platform by platform.

Webinars add-on

A registration-gated room bolted onto the broadcast, priced separately.

Registration-gated events: Attendees register and receive a join link rather than watching on a public social feed, giving you a contact list from a broadcast production.
Attendee capacity by add-on tier: 99 dollars a month adds 100 attendees on Standard and Professional; 299 dollars a month adds 500 attendees on Business.
Same studio and production tools: The webinar uses the identical Restream Studio production, so branding, overlays, guests, and layouts carry across without rebuilding anything.
Attendee reporting: Registration and attendance data for the gated event, exportable for follow-up in your own systems.

Recording, clips, and analytics

What happens to the content after the broadcast ends.

Cloud recording: Every paid tier records to the cloud for download and reuse, with 4K recording available from Professional.
Automatic clip generation: The Clips add-on cuts short-form vertical highlights from a long broadcast, at 50, 100, or 250 clips a month depending on tier and add-on price.
Stream analytics: Viewership, watch time, and engagement broken down by destination, which answers the question of whether LinkedIn or YouTube is actually carrying your audience.
Encrypted RTMPS ingest: Streams are ingested over encrypted RTMPS on all paid tiers rather than plain RTMP.
Full HD and 4K: 1080p streaming and 4K recording from the Professional tier, with lower resolution ceilings below it.

Use cases

4 documented

B2B marketing team running a weekly live show

The audience is split between LinkedIn, where the buyers are, and YouTube, where the archive lives, and running two broadcasts has never been practical.

One Restream Studio production goes to both simultaneously with branded overlays, unified chat merges comments from each platform, and the Clips add-on cuts short-form highlights for the week's social posts.

Podcaster recording video episodes with remote guests

Guests will not install software, the show needs to look produced, and episodes should go out live as well as being recorded for later editing.

Guests join Studio by link with nothing installed, overlays and layouts make the show look intentional, the broadcast goes to three destinations at once, and the cloud recording feeds the edit.

Small software company running a gated product launch

The launch should be public on LinkedIn and YouTube for reach, but a customer-only deep dive the same week needs a registration list.

The public launch multistreams from Studio, and the Webinars add-on runs the gated session from the same production setup, producing a registrant list without buying a separate webinar platform for one event a quarter.

Church or nonprofit streaming weekly services

The congregation watches on Facebook, YouTube, and the organization's own website, and the volunteer running the stream is not a video engineer.

Studio handles the production in a browser, three destinations plus the embeddable website player cover every audience, and stream health monitoring surfaces problems before the congregation notices them.

Pricing

from $0 (Free, two destinations with branding); $19 per month for Standard

Subscription tiers priced primarily on the number of simultaneous destinations, with Clips and Webinars sold as separate monthly add-ons whose price depends on your base tier.

Plan	Price	Includes
Free	$0 forever	Stream to 2 channels simultaneously Restream Studio access Restream branding on output Unified cross-platform chat Genuinely usable for a solo creator testing multistreaming. The branding is the constraint that pushes businesses to upgrade.
Standard	$19 per month	Stream to 3 channels No Restream branding Guest channels Cloud recording and stream analytics Encrypted RTMPS ingest Clips add-on +$19 a month for 50 clips; Webinars add-on +$99 a month for 100 attendees.
Professional	$49 per month	Stream to 5 channels Full HD 1080p streaming 4K Ultra HD recording Dual format streaming, horizontal and vertical Everything in Standard Clips add-on +$29 a month for 100 clips; Webinars add-on +$99 a month for 100 attendees. The tier most working businesses land on.
Business	$239 per month	Stream to 8 channels Website player for up to 1,000 viewers 2 team seats included Co-producer mode Everything in Professional Clips add-on +$59 a month for 250 clips; Webinars add-on +$299 a month for 500 attendees.
Enterprise	Custom quoted	SSO Dedicated account management Stream backup Custom arrangements for media and corporate teams The only tier requiring a sales conversation; everything below it is self-serve checkout.

Add-ons

Webinars (Standard and Professional) (+$99 per month): Adds a registration-gated room for 100 attendees.
Webinars (Business) (+$299 per month): Adds a registration-gated room for 500 attendees.
Clips (Standard) (+$19 per month): 50 automatically generated short-form clips a month.
Clips (Professional) (+$29 per month): 100 clips a month.
Clips (Business) (+$59 per month): 250 clips a month.

Billing notes

Annual billing saves 20 percent against monthly across the paid tiers.
The primary price driver is simultaneous destinations, not audience size. Streaming to a hundred thousand YouTube viewers costs the same as streaming to three, because the platform hosting them bears that load, not Restream.
Webinars are an add-on, not an included feature, and the add-on price depends on your base plan. A 500-attendee gated webinar requires Business at 239 dollars plus the 299-dollar add-on, or 538 dollars a month total.
There is no attendee overage on public streaming because there is no attendee cap; the constraint only appears inside the Webinars add-on, where the 100 or 500 seat allowance is a hard ceiling on the gated room.
The website player on Business supports up to 1,000 viewers, which is a separate cap from the Webinars add-on and applies to embedded playback on your own site.
Clips are metered monthly by count rather than by minutes, so a heavy short-form programme can outgrow the add-on allowance.

Value assessment: Priced as a multistreaming and production tool, Restream is very good value. Professional at 49 dollars a month for five destinations, 1080p output, 4K recording, dual horizontal and vertical streaming, and a browser studio your guests can join by link is difficult to beat, and the free plan is a real evaluation path rather than a demo. Priced as a webinar platform it is poor value: 148 dollars a month gets you a hundred gated attendees on Professional plus the add-on, which Demio, ClickMeeting, or Zoho Webinar beat outright with far more registration, reminder, and reporting capability. The correct way to read the Webinars add-on is as a convenience for a company that already lives in Restream and occasionally needs a gated version of the same production, not as a reason to choose Restream over a dedicated tool.

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

Best-in-class multistreaming, with more than thirty destinations, custom RTMP, guest channels, and per-destination health monitoring in one place.
Unified cross-platform chat is the standout feature: merging comments from every destination into one moderated window changes how a public live show actually runs.
Restream Studio is good enough that most businesses never need OBS, and guests join by link with nothing installed.
A genuinely usable free plan at two destinations, plus a self-serve paid ladder from 19 dollars, so evaluation costs nothing and commitment is gradual.
Dual horizontal and vertical output plus automatic clip generation match how short-form distribution actually works rather than treating it as an afterthought.
No attendee cap on public streams; audience size is the destination platform's problem, so a broadcast that goes unexpectedly well costs nothing extra.
Well funded and independent, with roughly 56.5 million dollars raised including a 50 million dollar Series A led by Sapphire Ventures and Insight Partners.

Limitations

Webinars are an add-on rather than a feature, and the resulting cost of a 500-attendee gated room, 538 dollars a month, is well above dedicated platforms with far deeper webinar functionality.
No evergreen or automated webinar mode, no just-in-time scheduling, and no scheduled replay of a recording as a live event.
Registration, reminders, and lead data are thin compared with any real webinar platform; there is no behavioural email sequencing and no native CRM object sync.
The jump from Professional at 49 dollars to Business at 239 dollars is very steep for what is largely three extra destinations, two seats, and the website player.
Clips are metered by count per month, so an active short-form programme outgrows the add-on allowance and pays again.
SSO is Enterprise only, so a mid-size company with identity requirements is pushed into a quoted contract.
If you only ever stream to one destination, you are paying for a capability you are not using, and a simpler studio tool would serve you better.

Head-to-head comparisons

5 alternatives

Restream vs StreamYard

from $0 (Free), then $35.99 per month billed annually (Core)

The closest comparison in the category and a genuinely tight one. StreamYard has the better-loved studio interface and a stronger brand among creators; Restream has the deeper destination list, better per-destination analytics, dual vertical output, and the website player. Both do unified chat and both let guests join by link. Choose StreamYard for the production experience, Restream when the number and variety of destinations, or the analytics across them, is what you are optimising.

Full Restream vs StreamYard comparison

Restream vs Riverside

from $0 (Free), then $24 per month billed annually (Pro)

Riverside records locally at each participant's end and produces broadcast-quality separate tracks, which makes it the better tool when the recording is the deliverable. Restream optimises the live moment and its distribution across platforms. A podcast that is edited before publication should be recorded in Riverside; a show that goes out live to LinkedIn and YouTube and is clipped afterwards should run on Restream.

Full Restream vs Riverside comparison

Restream vs Crowdcast

from $49 per month (Lite); annual billing saves 30 percent

Crowdcast is an event platform with registration, ticketing, timestamped Q and A, and an instant replay page, that also multistreams to a few destinations. Restream is a multistreaming platform that can gate an event for an extra 99 dollars a month. If you are gathering a registered or paying audience, Crowdcast is the right shape and considerably cheaper for that job. If the broadcast is public and reach across platforms is the goal, Restream wins clearly.

Full Restream vs Crowdcast comparison

Restream vs EasyWebinar

from $44 per month (Launch, 50 live attendees, live webinars only)

EasyWebinar covers live, automated, simulive, and evergreen webinars with registration pages, reminder sequences, CRM sync, and its own multistreaming from 116 dollars a month on Growth. Restream Professional plus the Webinars add-on is 148 dollars for a hundred gated attendees and none of the funnel machinery. For webinars as a marketing channel, EasyWebinar. For broadcast quality and destination reach, Restream, with EasyWebinar's multistreaming being the weaker of the two.

Full Restream vs EasyWebinar comparison

Restream vs Zoom Webinars

from From about $66.67 per licence per month billed annually (300-attendee capacity), plus a paid Zoom Workplace licence

Zoom Webinars is a registration-gated webinar product billed by attendee capacity, with familiar attendee software and strong reporting. Restream is a public broadcast tool with an optional gated room. They rarely compete directly: teams often run Zoom for the gated webinar and Restream to simulcast it, since Zoom's own social streaming is basic. If you must pick one and your content is public, Restream; if it is registered and lead-generating, Zoom.

Full Restream vs Zoom Webinars comparison

Implementation & onboarding

Setup time: Twenty minutes to a first multistream. Connecting destinations is an OAuth click each, and Studio needs no configuration to produce a watchable broadcast. Building branded overlays and a repeatable show format is the part worth an afternoon.
Learning curve: Low in Studio, moderate if you bring your own encoder. Anyone who has run a video call can produce a decent Restream broadcast on the first attempt. OBS or vMix ingest follows normal streaming conventions and is well documented.
Onboarding: Entirely self-serve up to Business, with the free plan available indefinitely for evaluation. Only Enterprise requires a sales conversation. Add-ons are toggled from billing rather than negotiated.
Migration notes: Nothing needs migrating to start: destination connections are OAuth and take minutes. If you are moving from OBS-only streaming, you keep OBS and simply point it at Restream's ingest rather than at one platform. Leaving is equally low friction, since recordings download and destination accounts are yours, though overlays, layouts, and show templates built in Studio do not export.

Platform, API & security

Platforms: Browser-based Restream Studio for hosts and guestsEncoder ingest from OBS, Streamlabs, vMix, and hardware encodersiOS and Android appsEmbeddable website player (Business and above)
API: A developer API and webhooks are available for programmatic stream and channel management alongside Zapier coverage.
Compliance: GDPRStandard SaaS security controlsEncrypted RTMPS ingest on paid plans
Data residency: Not published as a selectable option on standard plans.
SSO: Available on the Enterprise tier only.
Security notes: Encrypted RTMPS ingest on all paid tiers, stream backup available at Enterprise, and per-destination health monitoring that surfaces connection problems live. Restream publishes a status page covering ingest and destination delivery.

Support & resources

Channels: Email and ticket supportLive chat on paid plansDedicated account management on Enterprise
Documentation: A substantial help centre and blog covering multistreaming setup, Studio production, encoder configuration, destination-specific requirements, and the Webinars add-on.
Community: Large creator and business streaming community, with an active blog and a great deal of third-party tutorial content built up since 2015.

Company

Founded: 2015
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
Ownership: Venture-backed, independent
Founders: Alexander Khuda, Andrew Surzhynskyi
Employees: Not formally disclosed; a distributed team of roughly a hundred people
Funding: Approximately 56.5 million dollars raised across eight rounds, most significantly a 50 million dollar Series A led by Sapphire Ventures with Insight Partners participating.

Funding history

Round	Amount	Year	Notes
Seed and early rounds	~$6.5M combined	2016	Early backing while the product served the game-streaming market.
Series A	$50M	2021	Led by Sapphire Ventures with Insight Partners, funding the expansion from multistreaming utility into a full browser production studio.

Timeline

2015Founded by Alexander Khuda and Andrew Surzhynskyi as a multistreaming service for game streamers who wanted to be on Twitch and YouTube at once.
2018Restream Chat merges comments from every connected destination into one window, which becomes the feature users cite most often.
2020Restream Studio launches as a browser-based production environment with overlays, guests, and layouts, moving the product beyond pure stream relaying.
2021Raises a 50 million dollar Series A led by Sapphire Ventures with Insight Partners, funding expansion into the business and marketing market.
2024Automatic clip generation and dual horizontal and vertical streaming ship, aligning the product with short-form distribution on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
2026Plans run from a free two-destination tier through Standard at 19 dollars, Professional at 49, and Business at 239, with Webinars sold as a 99 or 299 dollar monthly add-on.

Integrations

YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Twitch, and Kick
Thirty-plus additional streaming destinations
Custom RTMP endpoints
OBS, Streamlabs, vMix, and hardware encoders
Zapier
Restream developer API and webhooks
Embeddable website player
Cloud recording download and third-party editors

Frequently asked questions

10 questions

What is Restream?

Restream is a live streaming studio and multistreaming service. It takes one video feed, produced either in its browser-based Studio or from OBS and other encoders, and broadcasts it simultaneously to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Twitch, and dozens of other destinations, merging the chat from all of them into one window. Recording, automatic clip generation, an embeddable player, and an optional Webinars add-on sit around that core.

Is Restream a webinar platform?

Not primarily. Restream is a streaming studio; webinars are a paid add-on that layers a registration-gated room on top of the same production. On Standard or Professional it is 99 dollars a month extra for 100 attendees, and on Business it is 299 dollars a month for 500. It is a convenience for teams already using Restream, not a substitute for Demio, Livestorm, or GoTo Webinar.

How much does Restream cost?

Free covers two destinations with Restream branding. Standard is 19 dollars a month for three channels with branding removed. Professional is 49 dollars for five channels, 1080p streaming, 4K recording, and dual vertical output. Business is 239 dollars for eight channels, a 1,000-viewer website player, two seats, and co-producer mode. Annual billing saves 20 percent, and Clips and Webinars are separate monthly add-ons.

What happens if more people watch than my plan allows?

On public streams, nothing: there is no attendee cap because YouTube, LinkedIn, and the other destinations carry the audience, not Restream. That is a real structural advantage over Demio and WebinarJam, which hard-lock the room, Livestorm, which blocks joiners mid-session, and Zoom, which bills by capacity tier. The only cap in Restream is inside the Webinars add-on, where the 100 or 500 seat allowance is a hard ceiling with no overage path.

What does a 500-registrant webinar cost on Restream?

If it is a public stream, effectively nothing beyond your plan, because there is no cap. If it needs to be registration-gated for 500 attendees, you need Business at 239 dollars a month plus the 299-dollar Webinars add-on, totalling 538 dollars a month. That is expensive for the capability delivered: GoTo Webinar Standard holds 500 for 99 dollars, and Demio Growth at a 500-attendee cap lands near 164 dollars, both with far deeper registration and reporting.

Do attendees or guests need to install anything?

No, on both sides. Public viewers watch on whichever platform they already use, so there is nothing to install by definition. Guests joining a Restream Studio broadcast click a link and appear in a browser tab with no download. Hosts who want more control can use OBS or vMix, but that is a choice rather than a requirement.

Can Restream simulcast to YouTube and LinkedIn at the same time?

That is the entire point of the product. Even the free plan does two destinations simultaneously, and paid plans go to three, five, or eight, with more than thirty supported platforms plus custom RTMP for anything else. Unified chat then merges comments from every destination into a single moderated window, which is what makes multistreaming practical rather than just possible.

Does Restream handle recording and replay?

Cloud recording is included on every paid tier, with 4K recording from Professional, and recordings download for editing or hosting elsewhere. The Clips add-on automatically cuts vertical short-form highlights for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. What Restream does not do is scheduled replay: there is no mode that plays a recording as a live-feeling event, so evergreen webinars need a different tool.

Does Restream sync with a CRM?

Only lightly. Integration runs through Zapier and the developer API rather than native Salesforce, HubSpot, or Marketo objects. Registration data from the Webinars add-on can be exported and routed, but there is no attendance-driven lead scoring or behavioural email sequencing of the kind a dedicated webinar platform provides. If lead data is the reason you are buying, buy a webinar platform.

Restream or StreamYard?

They overlap heavily and both are good. StreamYard has the more beloved studio interface and a stronger creator following. Restream has a longer destination list, better per-destination analytics, dual horizontal and vertical output, an embeddable website player on Business, and a free tier that is a real evaluation path. If the production experience matters most, StreamYard; if reach across many platforms and measurement of it matters most, Restream.

Editorial verdict

Restream is the best answer in this category to a question most webinar tools do not ask: how do I get one live production onto every platform my audience uses, and then talk to all of them in one chat window? The browser studio is capable enough to replace OBS for most businesses, guests join by link, dual vertical output and automatic clipping match how short-form distribution actually works, and there is no attendee cap because the destination platforms carry the audience. Professional at 49 dollars a month is genuinely strong value. Just do not buy it as a webinar platform. The Webinars add-on is a 99 or 299 dollar monthly convenience for teams already living in Restream, and at 538 dollars a month for a 500-seat gated room it loses badly to GoTo Webinar, Demio, or ClickMeeting on both price and capability. Buy Restream for public broadcast and reach; buy a webinar tool for registration, reminders, and leads.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.