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 one number is the whole 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. 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. Our playout 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 300+ 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. Set 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: live feeds in over RTMP, SRT and RIST, SRT and RIST outputs with a constant-bitrate (CBR) option for satellite paths, and codecs up to AV1 on the top plan. RIST and AV1 are not listed in Muvi Playout’s public materials. 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. What separates them is how each one bills the operation you actually plan to run: a flat number per channel here, an hours-and-gigabytes meter there.
Trying the alternative is easy
Other VOD-first suites size their plans the same way. Run the same numbers against Lightcast’s 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.