▮ Castr alternative
The self-hosted, open-source Castr alternative
Castr offers cloud multistreaming and hosting on a subscription. Muxshed does the multistreaming and serves your own watch page from hardware you own, as free and open-source software.
Muxshed vs Castr
Castr is a cloud multistreaming and hosting. Castr is cloud-only and closed-source, billed monthly, with limits on destinations, bandwidth and storage by plan.
Why teams move from Castr to Muxshed
No metered bandwidth
Fan out from your own box. You are not billed by destination, viewer or gigabyte.
Own the whole chain
Ingest, switch, multistream and host the watch page yourself, with recordings on your disk.
Open source
AGPL-3.0, self-hosted, with no vendor lock-in.
A full switcher, not just a relay
Scenes, compositor, overlays, stingers and guests are all included.
- ▸ Monthly subscription plus bandwidth and storage limits
- ▸ Streams and recordings sit in their cloud
- ▸ No self-hosted deployment
- ▸ Costs scale with usage
How to switch from Castr
- 01 Install Muxshed on your own hardware.
- 02 Add your destinations and, if you want a public page, enable the Channel watch page.
- 03 Send your source in over RTMP, SRT or WebRTC.
- 04 Go live to every destination and your watch page at once.
Castr alternative FAQ
Is there a self-hosted Castr alternative? +
Yes. Muxshed is self-hosted and open source, so multistreaming and your watch page run on hardware you own with no monthly fee.
Does Muxshed limit bandwidth or viewers? +
No. There are no artificial caps. Your limits are your own hardware and network.
Is Muxshed really free? +
Yes. The self-hosted core is free and open source under AGPL-3.0, with no per-channel fees and no destination limits. A managed hosting option is coming for people who would rather not run a box.
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One binary plus ffmpeg on your own hardware. Ingest, mix, multistream to every platform, and serve your own watch page, with no subscription and no destination limits.