What Cloud Live Streaming Platforms Cost You
Storage Caps That Scale With Fees
Cloud live streaming platforms meter your storage. Hit the cap and your stream stops, or you upgrade to a higher tier. Your media library should not have a ceiling set by someone else.
Monthly Fees That Grow With Success
Per-viewer charges, tier upgrades, stream-hour limits. The more your audience grows, the more the platform charges. Success should not come with a scaling bill.
Platform Lock-In
Your schedule, branding, and audience data live on someone else's servers. Migrating to another platform means starting over. Your streaming infrastructure should be portable.
Cloud Live Streaming Platform vs Self-Hosted
| CAPABILITY | CLOUD PLATFORM | SAVEPOINT |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | Tiered limits | Your hardware |
| Monthly Cost | $30-$200+/mo | Free core + optional license |
| Viewer Limits | Per-tier caps | Your bandwidth |
| Multi-Destination | Add-on or upgrade | |
| Schedule Control | Platform-dependent | Full weekly grid |
| Pre-Rendered Video | ||
| Branding | Template-limited | Full overlay control |
| Data Ownership | Platform-held | Yours entirely |
The Choice is Yours
Keep Paying Platforms.
- Monthly fees that increase with usage.
- Storage caps that limit your media library.
- Vendor lock-in that makes migration painful.
Own Your Platform.
- Download SavePoint and install on your hardware.
- Your storage, your bandwidth, your rules.
- Stream everywhere from one station manager.
THREE MODES OF OPERATION
One live streaming platform engine with three operating modes. Run audio-only radio, full video channels, or mixed-media broadcasts, all from the same station manager.
Radio Station Manager
Internet Radio Automation- Schedule audio playlists with segment rotations and shuffle logic for unattended playback.
- Publish now-playing metadata, album art, and track announcements automatically.
- Go live with DJ Mode for voice-over broadcasting, then hand back to automation.
Video Station Manager
Scheduled Video Playout- Build recurring video rotations with day-of-week and time-slot scheduling.
- Pre-render transitions and overlays ahead of broadcast to reduce live encoding load.
- Publish pre-recorded programming to YouTube Live and RTMP destinations on autopilot.
Broadcast Station Manager
Live + Pre-Recorded Hybrid- Mix pre-recorded segments with live broadcast sessions in a single stream. (coming soon)
- Switch between scenes, overlays, and media sources during broadcast. (scene management coming soon)
- Multicast manager for publishing to multiple destinations simultaneously.
Radio and Video station management are production-ready. Live broadcast management for podcasts, presentations, and real-time scene switching is experimental and under active development.
Everything a Live Streaming Platform Should Include
Multi-Destination Streaming
Publish live streams to YouTube Live, Discord, Twitch, and more from a single station. HLS web player included. Platform outputs available with Year Pass.
Weekly Schedule Grid
Visual schedule builder with time slots, segment rotations, and day-of-week programming. See your entire broadcast week at a glance.
Pre-Render Pipeline
Transitions and visual overlays are rendered before playback. Stream cached segments instead of live-encoding, keeping CPU usage low during broadcast.
Visual Overlays
Now-playing ticker, logo watermark, custom graphics, and audio visualizers. Layered canvas compositing for broadcast video output.
DJ Mode
Take over the broadcast live with your microphone. Audio ducking fades scheduled content while you speak, then returns to automation.
REST API
Control your streaming platform programmatically. Manage playlists, trigger transitions, update metadata, and monitor station status through a documented API.
PLATFORM-GRADE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
Import audio and video files into your live streaming platform library. Create playlists with shuffle or sequential playback, mark favorites for boosted rotation, and exclude content without deleting it.
Folder Scanning
Import audio and video files from local directories with automatic metadata extraction. MP3, FLAC, WAV, MP4, WebM.
Playlist Scheduling
Create playlists with shuffle or sequential playback. Assign playlists to schedule segments for automated stream rotation.
Favorites & Boost
Mark content as favorites to increase their frequency in shuffle rotation. Weight your stream toward preferred tracks.
Exclusion Lists
Hide content from stream rotation without removing it from your library. Useful for seasonal or retired content.
Program Your Entire Week
Arrange your segments into a weekly schedule. Different music for morning, afternoon, and night, automatically.
24/7 STREAMS WITHOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE COST
Cloud live streaming platforms provision server resources for real-time encoding. That means higher infrastructure costs passed on to you through monthly fees and usage tiers.
SavePoint takes a different approach. Transitions and visual overlays are pre-rendered overnight, then cached segments are streamed during broadcast at near-zero CPU usage. No real-time encoding pressure.
The result: a self-hosted live streaming platform that runs reliably on most home computers, without the scaling costs of cloud-based alternatives.
One Live Streaming Platform, Every Destination
The Ownership Advantage
No Monthly Platform Fees
No recurring SaaS charges for the core station manager. Platform broadcasting features are available through an optional Year Pass ($69/year).
No Storage Caps
Your media library lives on your drives. SavePoint doesn't limit how much content you import: capacity depends on your hardware, not a pricing tier.
No Listener Limits
SavePoint doesn't gate capacity behind pricing tiers. Listener and viewer limits depend on your hosting, bandwidth, and streaming architecture.
The core SavePoint station manager is free to use, including the built-in HLS web player. Platform broadcasting features (such as YouTube and Discord outputs) require a Year Pass ($69/year). Get instant access. View pricing →