10 Benefits of The “Pay As You Go” Plan In Live Streaming Platforms

If you are a live streamer, you might already know the various infrastructure components of a live stream. Storage, Bandwidth, Live Encoding, CDN, Streaming Hours and DRM play crucial roles in making your live stream a success. And so, most of the live streaming platforms (and probably all of them) charge you a certain amount of money upfront, as the platforms bear the cost of all these infrastructure components.

But, as a live streamer, especially if you are just a beginner, you might not want to pay anything upfront. As you can generate your revenue only after the live stream, hence it might become troublesome to pay even a small amount (as small as US$ 25) beforehand. This is where the Pay As You Go Plan really helps!

In this blog, we will tell you why Pay As You Go live streaming is the need of the hour for every live streamer, its top 10 benefits, and where you can use it to reap the maximum benefits. So, let’s begin.

Pay As You Go is a pricing plan where you can use a live streaming platform without paying anything upfront. And once you start using it, a calculative bill will be generated which is based on your usage. Accordingly, you will have to make the payment at a later point in time.

Hence, in this plan, you will not have to pay anything in the beginning. And after you complete the live stream and generate the revenue, you will be easily able to pay the bill.

In most cases, this bill is generated based on your usage of the key infrastructure components like:

Currently, LinqTV Live is the only CMS-based live-streaming platform that allows you to use their entire platform and stream live content without paying a single penny upfront.

In LinqTV Live, your Pay As You Go live streaming bill is calculated based on the following base prices:

Every 100 GB (Recurring Billing Unit)

US $0.08 per GB (keeps decreasing as the bandwidth increases)

Every 10 hours (Recurring Billing Unit)

US $0.45/hour (keeps decreasing as the streaming hour increases)

Storage (if Recording is enabled)

DRM (only if enabled)

As you can see, the platform fee is ZERO. You only need to pay for the infrastructure that you use. You can read about the infrastructure pricing in detail here.

“Pay As You Go” plan has some unique benefits that any other pricing plan fails to offer. And these benefits make it the need of the hour. These benefits include:

Let’s take a detailed look at them one by one.

Usually, when you pay a subscription fee upfront, that fee includes an additional amount as a platform fee, along with the infra fees. But, in Pay As You Go plan, this fee should not be taken.

Ideally, in Pay As You Go, as soon as you sign up, you can use the entire platform as you want. You don’t need to pay any fee for accessing or using the platform. Hence, it saves a good amount of money for you.

In fact, when you sign up with LinqTV Live, you get 10GB of bandwidth and 1 streaming hour for free, so that you can start streaming immediately!

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