🆚 Castr vs. Twitch

Statistics for Castr are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

Castr

Twitch

Type

Video platform

About

Castr is a cloud-based live video streaming and hosting platform that provides multistreaming and transcoding.

It provides multistreaming to over 30 destinations, including YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch, multi-CDN delivery, RTMP and SRT ingest, live-to-VOD recording, paywall and instream ad monetization, and pre-recorded streaming that broadcasts a scheduled video file as a live stream.

Twitch is a live video streaming service owned by Amazon that focuses on video game broadcasting as well as interactive content such as esports, music, and creative streams.

It enables real-time streaming with chat-based audience interaction, provides video-on-demand replays and clips, and supports monetization through subscriptions, virtual tipping currency Bits, and ads.

Headquarters

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

castr.com #119,784

twitch.tv #42

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 7-day trial

Starter
(2 streams, 6 multistream destinations) $19.99/month

Standard
(2 streams, 10 multistream destinations) $49.99/month

Premium
(5 streams, 20 multistream destinations) $199.99/month

Ultra
(10 streams, 30 multistream destinations) $349.99/month

Free version ✔️ Ad-supported

Turbo $11.99/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Total websites

Market share

Video Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

United States

Vietnam

Germany

France

Spain

United Kingdom

Italy

Brazil

Canada

Netherlands

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Video Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Video Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Video Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the Video Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Video Platforms category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Games

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Sports

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

Name

Rank

#13

#15

#42

#97

#108

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🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,861,081 websites. However, data for Castr is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
Statistics were last calculated on October 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.