The operating model decides this comparison long before any feature checklist does. Janya sells playout the way broadcast vendors always have: a proposal, a deployment scoped to you, and an operations team in the loop. That model carries costs past the invoice. Every change moves at the vendor’s speed, and the capability you get is whatever was scoped into your deployment.
Their AWS Marketplace listing puts a number on the invoice part. One feed is $1,500 a month, priced as licence only, on a twelve month minimum, so the year opens at $18,000 and the AWS bill for compute, storage and bandwidth sits on top of it. A year of one channel here is $3,048 with delivery included, and you can walk away at any point inside it.
LIVEPLUSTV sells playout like software, and none of it at a capability discount. The engine is broadcast-grade end to end: frame-accurate SCTE-35, burned-in graphics, adaptive ladders up to 4K with HEVC and AV1, contribution over RTMP, SRT or RIST in push or listener mode, backup channels on the top plan, and as-run logs that hold up in an advertiser audit. RIST and AV1 in particular are spec lines you will rarely find published by any cloud playout vendor. The price is published, the channel is live in minutes, and when the evening show changes twenty minutes before air, you drag the new item into the slot and it airs. No deadline, no ticket, no operations calendar that is not yours. What a TV channel costs lays the year out in full.
Where the money goes at scale
Two lines dominate a channel’s bill as the audience grows: delivery and ad economics. Delivery here is unlimited and included on every plan, from 300+ cities, so audience growth never shows up as a surprise line item; ask any vendor whose price excludes delivery to spell out exactly how it is billed at your expected audience before you sign. On ads, both platforms can bring demand: Janya through its in-house exchange, LIVEPLUSTV through managed ads, where our team fills the breaks and splits revenue with you. The difference is that demand is never the only door here. Operators with their own ad deals bring their own VAST tag, keep 100% of the revenue, and pay a flat $1 per 1,000 delivery-confirmed impressions, with unfilled breaks costing nothing, and switching between the two models is a decision, not a renegotiation.
Trying the alternative is easy
Switching playout vendors sounds heavy, but testing this one is not: no contract, cancel anytime, 7-day money-back on the first purchase. Run one channel here in parallel for a month, then put the two invoices, the two workflows, and the two pictures side by side. That comparison is the one we are happy to be judged on.