Amagi earned its position: it moved serious broadcasters off racks and into the cloud, and the enterprise platform is genuinely deep, with multi-region blue-green redundancy, After Effects graphics pipelines, and TR-07 contribution from the ground. None of that is in dispute here. The comparison that matters is the model you buy it under. CLOUDPORT is quoted per deployment behind a sales process, and the one price Amagi does publish, the CLOUDPORTXpress pay-as-you-go listing, prices playout at $4.10 an hour. A linear channel that never goes off air runs about 730 hours a month; that is roughly $2,993 of runtime before storage, before delivery, and before anyone watches.
LIVEPLUSTV starts from the operator’s side of that arithmetic. The engine keeps a channel on air permanently, so runtime is not a metered quantity, and neither is the audience: delivery is unlimited on every plan, from 330+ cities, where the pay-as-you-go rate bills $30 for every terabyte. The published price is flat per channel, and the channel is live the same day you sign up, built and changed from a browser rather than through an operations relationship. The spec sheet holds its own in the comparison too: contribution over RTMP, SRT or RIST in push or listener mode, and encoding up to AV1 on the top plan, line items you will rarely find published anywhere in enterprise playout. What a TV channel costs runs these published rates out to a full year against flat per-channel pricing.
Where the money goes at scale
Runtime and delivery dominate an always-on channel’s bill; two published rates are enough to price the entire operation at any audience size. On ads, Amagi sells insertion and marketplace demand as adjacent enterprise products; here SSAI is included on every plan, at a flat $1 per 1,000 delivery-confirmed impressions with your own VAST demand and 100% of the revenue staying yours. What Amagi genuinely holds that we do not claim to replace is the enterprise apparatus itself: the distribution relationships, the managed operations, the vendor who attends the meetings. If your organization needs that apparatus, buy it. If what you need is the channel, the meter is the part you can decline.
Trying the alternative is easy
No contract, cancel anytime, 7-day money-back on the first purchase. Stand up one channel here in parallel, run it for a month, and put the two invoices side by side, with the runtime and delivery lines highlighted. That comparison is the one we are happy to be judged on. Weighing more vendors? See LIVEPLUSTV vs Janya and LIVEPLUSTV vs Muvi.