■ Video CDN · Primcast
Free video CDN with the channel and player built in.
Primcast has kept broadcasters on air since 2004, and the CDN is the newest piece of that work. Your video leaves from the city closest to each viewer, your encoder connects to the city closest to you, and the free plan carries 1 TB every month.
- Cities
- 5
- Free each month
- 1 TB
- Per TB on Platinum
- $4
- Viewers on Platinum
- 25,000
Over 500 TB a month? Enterprise starts at $3.75 per TB. Write to us in the chat.
■ New · Production studio
Fill your channel with programming you made this morning.
A channel needs more than a camera. Production, a tab in your Primcast dashboard, turns a few choices into songs, station jingles, voice-overs, sponsor spots, cover art and music videos, and files each one in your video library, ready for the TV station's playlists or a YouTube stream.
- You choose, it writes. Pick the format, the mood and the length; the lyrics or the script are written for you and checked against the content rules first.
- Ready to broadcast. Every file arrives as a 1080p MP4 at broadcast loudness, labelled as AI-generated.
- Your AI, your bill. Connect your own Google Gemini, ElevenLabs, OpenAI or Stability AI account with its API key. That company charges you directly for what you make.
On every paid plan: Starter, Pro and Platinum.
- SongsWritten and sung to your brief
- InstrumentalsBeds for talk and titles
- JinglesA sung station ID
- Voice-oversPromos, intros, announcements
- Ad spotsSponsor breaks of 15 or 30 s
- ArtworkShow covers and backdrops
- ClipsShort video from a sentence
- Music videosYour song over a picture
Your key, fromGoogle GeminiElevenLabsOpenAIStability AI
Finished files go to your video library, marked as AI-generated.
In, across, out.
A stream makes three journeys on the way to a screen. We built a short one for each.
To the city nearest your encoder
Point OBS, vMix or your hardware encoder at ingest.video.primcast.com. RTMP works on every plan and SRT from Starter; the name answers with whichever of our cities is closest to you.
On our own links to your channel
From there the stream travels our network to your channel in New York or Bucharest, where your viewer limit, tokens and country rules are checked as they always were.
From the city nearest each viewer
Viewers play from https://play.video.primcast.com/. Every city keeps the video it fetched, so a thousand people watching in one place cost your channel a single copy.
5 cities, and who lands where.
The steering looks at where a viewer's or an encoder's network sits and sends it to the nearest healthy city. An answer is remembered for 60 seconds; a city that goes quiet is skipped within 60–120 seconds.
San Francisco
First stop for: Asia and the Pacific.
Miami
First stop for: Latin America and the Caribbean.
New York
First stop for: North America and everywhere not listed.
Amsterdam
First stop for: Western Europe and Africa.
Bucharest
First stop for: Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South Asia.
A terabyte, on paper.
Streaming platforms tend to bundle a little bandwidth and bill heavily for the rest. Here is the same unit, one terabyte, priced from each vendor's own page.
| Who | How the figure is reached | One TB |
|---|---|---|
| Dacast | Bandwidth past the plan billed at $0.30 per GB (pricing page read 2026-10-20) | $300 |
| Castr | Premium: $199.99 a month buys 3 TB (pricing page read 2026-10-20) | $66.66 |
| Primcast Pro | Each TB after the 100 TB the plan includes | $4.50 |
| Primcast Platinum | Each TB after the 500 TB the plan includes | $4 |
Competitor figures were read from their public pricing pages on the date shown and may have changed since. Our figure is what a plan charges for each terabyte after the transfer it already includes.
The full comparison.
Live, on demand and delivery are one plan family. Free is live only; the library begins at Starter. The viewer figure is a hard limit set on your channel, so it is exactly what you get.
| Line | Free | Starter | Pro | Platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay | ||||
| Monthly | $0 | $29 | $99 | $499 |
| Twelve months paid at once | — | $228 | $588 | $2,988 |
| One-time setup | $5 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Delivery | ||||
| Transfer included per month | 1 TB | 10 TB | 100 TB | 500 TB |
| Every TB after that | $5 / TB | $5 / TB | $4.50 / TB | $4 / TB |
| Viewers at the same time | 1,000 | 1,000 | 5,000 | 25,000 |
| CDN cities | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| HTTPS player links | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HLS and MPEG-DASH | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Low-latency HLS and DASH | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Standby origin, automatic failover | — | — | — | Yes |
| Live | ||||
| Live channels | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| RTMP and WebRTC (WHIP) ingest | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SRT ingest | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Restream destinations at once | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Rewind window (DVR) | — | 2 h | 1 days | 7 days |
| Recordings kept for | — | 7 days | 30 days | 90 days |
| Adaptive bitrate transcoding | — | — | — | 5 renditions |
| Live thumbnails | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Event mode, no separate event order | — | — | — | Yes |
| On demand | ||||
| Video library | — | 50 GB | 200 GB | 2 TB |
| Player and embed code for every file | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 24/7 TV station from your files | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Samsung and LG app in your name | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI production studio (your own AI account) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VAST ads and server-side ad insertion | — | — | — | Yes |
| Who may watch | ||||
| Country, IP and website rules | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Expiring signed links | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Your brand, our people | ||||
| Public channel page and TV guide listing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Player without our name on it | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Phone support as well as chat | — | — | Yes | Yes |
Need more than 500 TB a month or more than 25,000 viewers at once? Enterprise rates begin at $3.75 per TB; a person will size it with you in the chat.
Included whatever you pay.
Embed it anywhere
An ad-free player up to 1080p and no list of allowed domains to maintain.
Your socials, simultaneously
YouTube, Facebook, Twitch or any RTMP address, up to 5 at a time, from one encoder.
A live list of viewers
Who is watching this minute, from which country and in which player, ready to download.
Publish from a browser
WHIP from OBS 30 or a web page, with roughly half a second of delay into the channel.
A page in our TV guide
A public page for your channel and a guide listing, offered on the free plan as well.
Nothing you shared breaks
Your channel's existing addresses keep playing; the CDN address is added next to them.
Straight answers.
What does the free video CDN cost?
Nothing per month. There is a $5 setup fee once, and the plan includes 1 TB of transfer each month across all 5 cities. It streams live only; video on demand starts with Starter at $29 a month.
What if a month is busier than my plan?
Every plan prints its price for each terabyte past the allowance, $5 on Free and as little as $4 on Platinum. You can watch the month's transfer in the dashboard as it grows, and on Free you can buy extra terabytes there at $5 each.
Can I switch plans without starting over?
Yes. Going up from Free begins the new plan the same day. Going up between paid plans costs only the difference for the time left in your period, and the renewal date does not move.
What can I connect as an encoder?
Anything that speaks RTMP, which is nearly every software and hardware encoder. Starter and above add SRT for long or unreliable connections, and every channel accepts WebRTC from OBS 30 or a browser.
How big an audience does each plan carry?
1,000 viewers at once on Free and on Starter, 5,000 on Pro and 25,000 on Platinum, per channel. Beyond that we quote Enterprise for your event or service.
■ Start today
Open a free channel in a few minutes.
1 TB a month, 1,000 viewers at once and a one-time $5 setup fee. When the audience grows, move up from your dashboard.