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LIVEPLUSTV vs Amagi, without the quote call.

Amagi is the enterprise FAST heavyweight: quote-based CLOUDPORT for global networks, and a pay-as-you-go edition priced by the hour. LIVEPLUSTV puts the same class of channel on air flat-priced and self-serve, with runtime and delivery included. Line by line.

The short version

An enterprise relationship or a flat rate.

Both put a channel on air. One of them starts with a quote call.

Choose LIVEPLUSTV if

You want the channel without the procurement cycle

You want broadcast-grade playout you operate yourself: burned-in graphics, frame-accurate SCTE-35, as-run logs an advertiser can audit, and plans that scale to 4K, AV1 and backup channels. And you want the bill to be boring: flat per channel, around-the-clock runtime included, unlimited delivery from 300+ cities, SSAI on every plan with 100% of your ad revenue staying yours. Live in minutes. Operating since 2016.

What Amagi asks first

A sales process in front of the channel

Enterprise CLOUDPORT is quoted per deployment, so the price is whatever the conversation produces and the timeline is however long the conversation takes. The self-serve edition publishes its rates by the playout hour and by the terabyte delivered, which is a meter that climbs every time your audience does.

Side by side

The comparison, line by line.

Amagi entries reflect their public site and the public CLOUDPORTXpress AWS Marketplace listing as of July 2026; enterprise CLOUDPORT is quoted per deployment. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

LIVEPLUSTV
Amagi
Time to air
Minutes, self-serve
Sales-led for CLOUDPORT; pay-as-you-go via AWS Marketplace
Pricing
$254/mo per channel billed yearly, flat
CLOUDPORT: quote-based. Xpress: $4.10 per playout hour, published
24/7 runtime
Included; always-on is the product
≈$2,993/mo at the published $4.10/hour
CDN delivery
Unlimited, included, 300+ cities
$30 per TB CloudFront egress (Xpress), plus storage per TB-hour
Broadcast graphics
Built in the browser; logos, lower thirds, ticker, live triggers on every plan
HTML and After Effects graphics pipelines
Ad monetization
SSAI every plan: BYO VAST, keep 100%, $1 per 1,000 shown
Separate SSAI and ad-marketplace products, quoted
Redundancy
Backup channel on Studio
Multi-region, blue-green deployments
UHD / 4K
Studio plan
Supported
Video codecs
H.264, HEVC, AV1 by plan
AV1 not listed in public materials
Live contribution
RTMP, SRT, RIST; push or listener
Includes TR-07 ground-to-cloud; RIST not listed
FAST distribution
Your delivery links work with any distributor
Distribution relationships across the FAST ecosystem
Contract
None; cancel anytime; 7-day money-back
Enterprise agreement; Xpress cancels anytime
Built for
Operators who run their own channels
Global networks and enterprise broadcasters
The meter, in dollars

What pay-as-you-go really costs at your audience size.

Amagi publishes usage rates for CLOUDPORTXpress on AWS Marketplace: $4.10 per playout hour and $30 per TB of delivery. Slide to your audience and see what an always-on month meters out to. On LIVEPLUSTV there are no usage charges at all: plans are flat, with runtime and delivery included.

Video quality
Delivered / month~197 TB
Playout hours (730 × $4.10)~$2,993/mo
Delivery (× $30/TB)~$5,913/mo
On LIVEPLUSTV$0 usage · flat plans
Usage you never pay~$8,906/mo

Estimate only. Assumes 24/7 playout (730 hours per month) and delivery at the bitrate above. Rates are from the public CLOUDPORTXpress AWS Marketplace listing as of July 2026; storage ($0.042 per TB-hour) and other AWS infrastructure costs are not included, and enterprise CLOUDPORT deployments are quoted separately. LIVEPLUSTV plans are flat, from $254/mo per channel, with unlimited delivery.

The real difference

The incumbent’s meter, in plain numbers

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 those numbers. 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 300+ 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 in minutes, 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. The enterprise apparatus is what the quote pays for: the account team, the managed operations, the vendor who attends the meetings. If what you need is a channel on air, the meetings and the meter are both optional.

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.

Questions

LIVEPLUSTV vs Amagi, answered.

Is LIVEPLUSTV an Amagi alternative?

For running 24/7 linear and FAST channels, yes. Both put broadcast-grade playout in the cloud: scheduling, graphics, live control, SCTE-35 ad signaling, and delivery. Amagi sells it as an enterprise platform through a sales process, with a pay-as-you-go edition metered by the hour. LIVEPLUSTV sells it as flat-priced software you sign up for and run yourself, with runtime and delivery included.

How much does Amagi CLOUDPORT cost?

The enterprise CLOUDPORT platform has no published pricing; you request a demo and get a quote for your deployment. Amagi does publish rates for CLOUDPORTXpress, its pay-as-you-go edition on AWS Marketplace: $4.10 per playout hour plus $30 per TB of CloudFront egress and storage billed per TB-hour. A 24/7 channel runs about 730 hours a month, so always-on playout comes to roughly $2,993 a month at the published hourly rate, before storage and before a single viewer is delivered.

What is the main difference between LIVEPLUSTV and Amagi?

How you buy and what moves the bill. Amagi is an enterprise relationship: sales-led for CLOUDPORT, and usage-metered by the hour and the terabyte on the pay-as-you-go edition. LIVEPLUSTV publishes flat per-channel prices that include around-the-clock runtime and unlimited delivery, and the channel is yours to set up and change in minutes. The capability class is similar; the operating and billing model is not.

What does it take to get on air with each?

Here you sign up, upload, schedule and go, and the channel is on air minutes after payment. Every price is published, so nothing is waiting on a conversation. Enterprise CLOUDPORT is quoted per deployment, which means a sales process and a pricing conversation before a channel reaches a screen.

Who is LIVEPLUSTV a good fit for?

Operators who want broadcast-grade output without the enterprise process: FAST networks, diaspora and faith broadcasters, sports and news channels, and streaming services adding linear feeds. Burned-in graphics, frame-accurate SCTE-35, as-run logs, plans up to 4K, AV1 and backup channels, and every price on the site. Live in minutes, no procurement cycle, operating since 2016.

How does delivery (CDN) billing compare?

LIVEPLUSTV includes unlimited CDN delivery from 300+ cities on every plan. On Amagi’s published pay-as-you-go rates, CloudFront egress bills at $30 per TB. One Full HD viewer watching around the clock is roughly 2 TB a month, about $60 at that rate, so 100 average concurrent viewers work out to nearly $5,900 a month in delivery alone. Enterprise deployments are quoted case by case, so run the calculator at your own audience size before any quote conversation, and make the vendor beat those numbers.

How does ad monetization compare?

Amagi runs monetization as adjacent products, including server-side ad insertion and an ad marketplace, quoted as part of the enterprise relationship. LIVEPLUSTV includes SSAI on every plan: bring your own VAST demand, keep 100% of your ad revenue, and pay a flat $1 per 1,000 delivery-confirmed impressions, with unfilled breaks costing nothing and managed demand available by invitation.

Can I try LIVEPLUSTV before switching from Amagi?

Yes, and without a project plan: no contract, plans cancel anytime, and the first purchase has a 7-day money-back guarantee. A common path is standing up one channel here in parallel, then comparing the invoice, the workflow, and the picture after a month. For a 24/7 channel, compare specifically what runtime and delivery cost at your audience size.

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