Muvi Playout’s published tiers include 10, 50 or 100 streaming hours per month. A linear channel that is actually on air 24/7 runs about 730. That single piece of arithmetic is the comparison: on a metered model, an always-on channel spends over 85% of the month past the included hours even on the $1,999 tier, at a published $1 per hour (bulk slabs reach $0.70), and the delivered bandwidth meter runs alongside it at $0.09 per GB. None of that is hidden or unfair on Muvi’s part; it is a pricing model built for a suite where playout is one workload among many, often a part-time one.
LIVEPLUSTV starts from the opposite assumption. The engine exists to keep a channel on air permanently, so runtime is not a billable quantity at all, and neither is the audience: CDN delivery is unlimited on every plan, from 330+ cities. The published price is the price, whether the channel had a quiet week or its best week ever. For an operator forecasting a year of running costs, that difference matters more than any feature row. What a TV channel costs sets both bills out over a full year.
Both halves of the operation, without the meter
Because the linear channel is a first-class product rather than one of ten, the broadcast layer runs deeper here: logos, lower thirds and tickers burned into the stream on every plan, graphics triggered live from the control room, frame-accurate SCTE-35, as-run logs an advertiser can audit, and server-side ad insertion included everywhere, at a flat $1 per 1,000 delivery-confirmed impressions with your own VAST demand and 100% of the revenue staying yours. Transport and encoding run wider too: RTMP, SRT and RIST contribution, SRT and RIST outputs with a CBR option for satellite paths, and codecs up to AV1 on the top plan, none of which appears in Muvi Playout’s published specs. The on-demand half is not outsourced either: the OTT Platform runs a branded streaming service with subscriptions, rentals, ads, DRM and your own apps, priced flat per service, so the Muvi One comparison holds the same way the Playout one does. Where Muvi genuinely leads is accumulation: fifteen years of products, a long list of shipped app ecosystems, compliance certifications, and managed FAST syndication. Weigh that against how each platform bills the operation you actually plan to run.
Trying the alternative is easy
Other VOD-first suites size their plans the same way: the Lightcast comparison runs the same arithmetic against an audience-metered plan. No contract, cancel anytime, 7-day money-back on the first purchase. Run one channel here in parallel for a month and put the two invoices side by side, with the runtime and bandwidth lines highlighted. That comparison is the one we are happy to be judged on.