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StreamHouse alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
owncast/owncast★11,466 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf-hosted live video server with built-in web UI, chat, and streaming management.Open on GitHub ↗ant-media/Ant-Media-Server★4,722 GitHub starslicence unclearLive streaming server with WebRTC/RTMP/SRT support, transcoding, and management console.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Commercial SLA and 99.9% uptime guarantee and priority queue
- Polished multi-destination management and billing portal
- Built-in scheduler, storage quotas and UI polish for non-technical creators
- Operational reliability of an always-on, managed encoding fleet and bandwidth at scale
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches StreamHouse, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.