BoxCast

You get one account for scheduling a live stream, sending it to your website, social channels and TV apps, and keeping the recording, so you upload a single feed instead of encoding one per destination. It suits organisations with recurring broadcasts, such as business events, worship services, school and sports fixtures, and council meetings. BoxCast sells cloud streaming plans, the Spark hardware encoder, branded video apps and RemoteMix for mixing live audio from elsewhere.

What it is for

You can cover staff briefings, virtual conferences and public meetings without separate tools for capture, scheduling and delivery. Paired with Spark, a scheduled broadcast starts by itself. The Multi-Site Player carries a programme to a remote campus or overflow room without a hardware decoder.

Features

• Video sources: Spark (HDMI or SDI, up to 4K60, touchscreen, microSD backup, Ethernet and Wi-Fi), the Broadcaster app, BoxCast Producer in a browser, or any RTMP or SRT encoder.
• Stream stability: BoxCast claims its patented Flow protocol holds picture quality on weak connections. Diagnostics report bitrate, frame rate and packet loss.
• All streaming plans: up to 4 adaptive bitrate streams, simultaneous streaming to Facebook, YouTube and X, unlimited viewers with at least 10,000 viewer hours a month, scheduling, viewer chat, analytics, automated captions on recordings, a website builder (Sites) and AI-assisted clips (Sharing). Viewers can also watch on Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV.
• Deluxe and above: simulated live, graphic overlays, document display and a white-labelled embed.
• Advanced and above: password protection, live captions, a manual scoreboard overlay, geo-blocking, embedding restrictions and API access.
• OTT Apps: a no-code builder for branded web, mobile and TV apps with pay-per-view or subscriptions. No streaming plan needed.
• RemoteMix: control a digital mixer from a browser or Mixing Station, also without a streaming plan. BoxCast lists more than 60 mixer models and quotes 50 to 200 ms for control changes.

Plans and pricing

You can budget from published figures for everything except Premium, and mix plans across products. Prices are in US dollars.

Plan	Price	Billing	Includes
Streaming Standard	$109/month	Annually ($119 monthly)	1080p30, 1 broadcast at a time, recordings kept 90 days
Streaming Deluxe	$169/month	Annually ($189 monthly)	1080p30, 1 broadcast at a time, recordings kept 1 year
Streaming Advanced	$249/month	Annually ($279 monthly)	1080p60, 3 concurrent broadcasts, recordings kept 1 year
Streaming 4K	$449/month	Annually ($499 monthly)	4K60 for up to 30 hours a month, 3 concurrent broadcasts
Streaming Premium	Contact Sales	By agreement	Unlimited concurrent broadcasts, 50 hours of 4K60 a month, 20,000 viewer hours
OTT Apps Standard	$25/month	Annually ($35 monthly)	Web app, 50 hours of storage, 1 admin user
OTT Apps Deluxe	$75/month	Annually ($100 monthly)	Web app, 100 hours of storage, 2 admin users
OTT Apps Advanced	$200/month	Annually ($250 monthly)	Web, mobile and TV apps, 150 hours of storage, 10 admin users
RemoteMix	$8.25/month	$99/year annually ($19 monthly)	All compatible mixers, up to 4 active devices, Mixing Station
Spark encoder	$1,199 (HDMI) or $1,499 (SDI)	One-time purchase	Encoder for use with any paid plan

Prices as shown on its pricing page and Spark page, checked 3 November 2026. Monthly add-ons include an extra concurrent broadcast ($50 per stream), live captions ($100 per stream), captions in up to 5 languages ($50), Multi-Site Player ($25 per campus), API access ($50), high frame rate ($50), extended broadcast duration ($100) and automatic scoreboard overlays ($50). A single OTT app added to a plan costs $40 billed annually or $50 billed monthly. Ticketing is also an add-on.

Free plan and trial

You can try the platform for 14 days with no credit card after booking a demo, and the pricing FAQ says the trial covers everything in Advanced. No free plan is listed and no encoder is lent, so you would test with the free Broadcaster app, Producer or your own encoder. Paid streaming plans and hardware carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Integrations and API

You can keep the production gear you own. BoxCast names Wirecast, OBS and vMix as compatible software and accepts any RTMP or SRT source. RemoteMix includes Mixing Station, and its certified brands are Allen & Heath, Behringer, Mackie, Midas, PreSonus, QSC, Sennheiser, Shure, Soundcraft, TASCAM and Yamaha.

Developers get API documentation and SDKs for Apple, TVML, Android, Roku, React Native and JavaScript. The pricing table lists an m3u8 link on Standard, Deluxe and Advanced, but not 4K. OTT sales run through Stripe, and Sites contact forms connect to Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Constant Contact and webhooks. In 2021 BoxCast announced Diligent Video Manager HD for local government meetings.

Deployment and platforms

You have no streaming servers to maintain, because delivery runs in BoxCast’s cloud, which it says is built on AWS. The dashboard and Producer work in a browser. The Broadcaster app is iOS only. OTT apps cover web, iOS, Android, Apple TV and Roku. RemoteMix connects through a free software agent or Spark, and Mixing Station runs on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux.

Company

You can reach US-based support by chat, email or phone seven days a week. BoxCast Inc. is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Its founders began work on the idea in 2009 and officially launched in 2013. It raised a $20 million Series A in 2020, names Updata Partners, Jumpstart Ventures and Shure as investors, and bought Sunday Streams (2019) and Stream Monkey (2021).

What to check before buying

• Contract: streaming plans need an annual commitment even if paid monthly, and renew unless you give 30 days’ written notice. The service agreement limits the guarantee to new subscribers and its definition mentions free trials, so ask whether taking the trial affects your refund.
• Event length and audience: the agreement expects events under 8 hours, and allows extra fees for longer or overlapping broadcasts and abnormally large viewership. The extended duration add-on reaches 24 hours.
• Latency: BoxCast quotes about 30 seconds, so test live Q&A with remote viewers.
• Selling access: its help centre says 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction comes off first and you then receive 75%. Tickets cost $4 to $999.99, cannot go to social or RTMP destinations and cannot be bought in its TV apps. Payouts are quarterly once over $100. In OTT apps, iOS, Apple TV and Roku viewers can watch but not buy.
• 4K: Spark cannot record and stream 4K60 at once, and the 4K plan caps 4K60 at 30 hours a month.
• Buying from outside the US: payment is in US currency under Ohio law. Its public pages state no hosting region and no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification, so ask if you require them.

BoxCast pricing

What BoxCast publishes about its pricing, checked on its own pricing page. Prices change, so confirm the current terms with BoxCast before you buy.

Pricing model	Subscription
Published starting price	$109 per month billed annually (Standard streaming plan)
Free plan	No
Free trial	Yes

Higher plans $169, $249 and $449 a month billed annually; Premium by Contact Sales; streaming plans need an annual commitment even if paid monthly; 14-day free trial; 30-day money-back guarantee; Spark encoder sold separately ($1,199 HDMI, $1,499 SDI).

Source: boxcast.com, checked 3 November 2026.

Alternatives to BoxCast

Other directory profiles that do the same job as BoxCast.

• Livestorm, also listed for audience engagement tools
• Stagetimer
• Ecamm Live
• Goldcast, also listed for AI event management and data tools
• Interprefy, also listed for AI event management and data tools
• StreamYard

Compare every listed option in live streaming software for events.

Related on Event Tech News

• AV and streaming directory, the wider category
• Wirecast, software BoxCast names as compatible
• OBS Studio, also named, with our explainer on event streaming setups
• vMix, vision mixing software BoxCast names
• Blackmagic Design, switchers that can feed Spark
• Restream, another way to send one feed to many destinations
• StreamYard, a browser studio to compare with Producer, and how it suits remote speakers
• Dacast, a paywalled player to compare with ticketing
• Castr, cloud delivery from your own encoder

Sources: pricing, add-ons, streaming, Spark, RemoteMix, service agreement, about, help centre, checked 3 November 2026.