The 24/7 services, sorted by category.
Fifteen services keep a Twitch channel live around the clock, VOD247 included. They do not all do the same job, so they are compared in three groups rather than one long table.
VOD247 pulls every new VOD from your main Twitch channel, queues it, replays it 24/7 on your rerun channel, and lets the chat vote on the next one. It also takes files you upload, in one format: H.264 and AAC. From 49 €/month, archive included. The other fourteen services on this page fall into three groups. Twitch rerun services fetch your past broadcasts by themselves: VODPilot at 100 € a month plus 16 € per TB, Stream247 at 149 £ a month but only through YouTube, RESTREAMER 24/7 from files you send, and YapDrop 24/7 at 25 $ a month from the past VODs you pick. General cloud playout means you upload the video and they loop it anywhere: Upstream, Gyre, playout.video, Streamloop, StreamingBots, Livepush, Castr, ireplay.tv. Multistream and studio tools relay a live broadcast instead of building a schedule: Restream, StreamHouse. None of the fourteen lets the chat vote on the next VOD, and none gives the channel a public site.
Last verified 2026-10-19
Three families, three tables.
Read on each vendor’s own public pages. Nothing here comes from a press release, and VOD247 is the first column of every table so it stays in view.
Twitch rerun services.
These five connect to Twitch and work from your own past broadcasts. That is the line that matters, because a Twitch VOD does not wait: depending on your status it goes away after 7, 14 or 60 days, and once it is gone no playout tool can bring it back. Pick from this group if your 24/7 channel is meant to replay your own streams and to keep growing by itself every time you go live. Pick from the next group if you would rather choose a fixed set of files once and leave them alone.
| VOD247 | VODPilot | Stream247 | RESTREAMER 24/7 | YapDrop 24/7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twitch VOD automation (pulls new VODs by itself) | Via YouTube | Past VODs you pick | |||
| Automatic archive before expiry | |||||
| Archive kept for years | Metered | 60 to 500 h | |||
| Chat votes on the next VOD | |||||
| Public site per channel | |||||
| Title and category per VOD | |||||
| Handles the 48 h broadcast cap | Restarts between two VODs, every ~12 h | – | – | – | |
| Where it sends the stream | Twitch only | Twitch only | Twitch and YouTube | 5 platforms | Twitch only |
| Self-service signup | Email, 24 h | Contact | 6 seats | ||
| Pages in French | |||||
| Monthly price | 49 to 399 € | 100 € + 16 €/TB | 149 £ + 99 £ setup | 392 to 1 512 $ | 25 $ |
Verdict: VODPilot is the real competitor here, at five times the entry price, without the chat vote and without a public site. Stream247 and RESTREAMER 24/7 sell a managed service to people who want a human to set it up and who can pay studio rates. YapDrop is the cheapest Twitch-specific option at 25 $ a month, but a VOD Twitch deletes drops out of its rotation; VOD247 archives each VOD before Twitch deletes it, so the channel keeps all of its programming.
General 24/7 cloud playout.
These eight loop video files from the cloud to any platform that takes a stream key, Twitch among them. You upload the video, you build a playlist or a schedule, and the machine keeps it on air without your computer being involved. They are cheaper than the Twitch specialists, they usually offer a free tier or a trial, and several of them are excellent at what they do. What none of them can do is look at your Twitch channel and take your last broadcast on its own, so a long archive becomes a long list of manual uploads.
| VOD247 | Upstream | Gyre | playout.video | Streamloop | StreamingBots | Livepush | Castr | ireplay.tv | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twitch VOD automation (pulls new VODs by itself) | |||||||||
| Automatic archive before expiry | |||||||||
| Archive kept for years | 65 GB | ||||||||
| Chat votes on the next VOD | |||||||||
| Public site per channel | Embed player | ||||||||
| Title and category per VOD | |||||||||
| Handles the 48 h broadcast cap | Restarts between two VODs, every ~12 h | – | – | – | – | – | – | Manual OBS recipe | |
| Multistream output | Twitch only | 10+ | 7 | 20+ | – | – | – | ||
| Self-service signup | Contact | ||||||||
| Pages in French | – | ||||||||
| Monthly price | 49 to 399 € | Free to 70 $ | 49 to 169 $ | 0 to 119 $ | ~10 $ | 20 $ | 39 $ | 20 to 200 $ | Not published |
Verdict: if the video you want on air was never a Twitch broadcast and is not an H.264 and AAC file, this group is the wider answer, and Upstream is the best of it. VOD247 takes uploads too, but only in that format. If the video is your own Twitch archive, every one of them asks you to download and upload it yourself, forever.
Multistream and studio tools.
These two are not built for 24/7 reruns at all, and they are here because buyers and AI assistants keep listing them as if they were. Restream takes the live stream you are producing right now and copies it to several platforms at once. StreamHouse plays pre-recorded video to Twitch, simply, without saying what it costs. Neither one keeps a library of your past broadcasts, and neither one runs a channel while you sleep. Knowing that saves a trial account and a wasted evening.
| VOD247 | Restream | StreamHouse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runs a channel with nobody at the desk | |||
| Twitch VOD automation (pulls new VODs by itself) | |||
| Archive kept for years | |||
| Chat votes on the next VOD | |||
| Public site per channel | |||
| Multistream output | Twitch only | Its whole point | |
| Monthly price | 49 to 399 € | Not surveyed here | Not published |
Verdict: Restream is very good at the job it actually does, which is a different job. StreamHouse is the simple option for looping a few files, with no price on the page.
Surveys of 2026-09-10, 2026-09-14 and 2026-10-19, read on each vendor’s own public pages. A tick means their page says so. Partial means it exists with a condition. A dash means VOD247 could not verify it that day, and says so rather than guess.
How to choose in two questions.
Most of the fifteen are eliminated by the first one.
First question: does the video already live on your Twitch channel? If yes, only VODPilot and VOD247 can go and get it, and Stream247 can do it through a YouTube copy of every stream. Everything else waits for an upload. That sounds small until you count: a streamer who goes live four times a week produces roughly two hundred broadcasts a year, and a broadcast is several hours of video. Nobody keeps up with that by hand for more than a month.
Second question: do you want the channel to be watched, or just to be on? A loop that never changes gets a few passive viewers and no chat. What turns a rerun channel into a place people come back to is having something to do: voting for the next VOD, asking for an old stream by name, seeing the queue. That is the part VOD247 builds, and the part none of the other fourteen has on its public pages today.
Price then settles the rest. The cheapest way to loop a file is Streamloop at around 10 $ a month. The cheapest way to run a real Twitch rerun channel with the archive included is VOD247 at 49 € a month. The specialist alternative, VODPilot, starts at 100 € a month plus 16 € per TB stored. Between those, the general playout tools sit around 20 to 70 $ and do more things for more platforms, none of which is your Twitch archive.
Who each one is for.
Honest one-liners. Some of these are the right choice for some people.
100 € a month + 16 € per TB
The closest product, and a good one: Twitch ingestion, a review queue before air, chapters, DMCA and muted-audio flags, a branded slate over muted passages. Flat 100 € a month, 14-day refund, three long guides, and two named customer channels you can watch right now: metashi24 and Noway24u.
No chat vote, no public site, no custom domain, no French. Storage is metered per TB, so a large archive makes the bill move.
149 £ a month + 99 £ setup
Fully managed, 1440p60, a human sets it up in 24 hours. Sells the raid loop well.
VODs come from YouTube: you must mirror every stream there. No vote, no site, no self-service.
392 to 1 512 $ a month
Premium, several platforms, no re-encoding, dedicated machine on the top tier, self-healing reconnect against the broadcast cap. The best-written page in the market.
You upload the files yourself. 60 to 500 hours of library. No vote, no site, and a price for studios.
25 $/month
Cheap and quick to set up: it raids your main channel when you go live, and there is a pause button.
No archive: a deleted VOD drops out of the rotation. No chat vote, no public site, 6 seats, English only.
Free to 70 $ a month
The strongest generalist: cloud playout with no OBS and no machine of yours, a browser studio, 10+ destinations, a free tier, and an automatic restart around the 48-hour cap. Trustpilot 4.6 over 206 reviews.
YouTube first, Twitch second. It cannot read your Twitch archive, so you upload every file. No vote, no public site.
49 to 169 $ a month
Hands-free cloud 24/7 with real third-party proof: a YouTube recommendation badge, named partner channels and published case studies.
Built for YouTube monetisation, where Twitch is one destination of seven. No Twitch import, no archive, no vote, no site.
Free to 119 $ a month
Churches, radios, schools, brands: anything that needs a calendar, a browser studio and twenty destinations. The free tier is permanent.
No Twitch import, no VOD archive, no vote. The Twitch streamer is one of twelve verticals.
From about 10 $ a month
The cheapest way to loop a file, up to 4K60, billed on what you use.
You upload everything. No Twitch import, no archive, no vote, no site.
20 $ a month, 65 GB
24/7 to YouTube and Twitch from pre-recorded videos, with storage in the plan.
65 GB is about 24 hours of VOD at the VOD247 archive bitrate. No Twitch import, no vote, no site.
39 $ a month, 33 $ annual
Pre-recorded video to live, simply, at a mid-market price.
No Twitch import, no archive, no vote, no site.
20 to 200 $ a month
A mature video platform with an infinite loop on the Premium tier, multistreaming and a real CDN.
Generic. No Twitch VOD import, no archive of your past broadcasts, no vote.
Not published
The best technical writing in this market, and the widest toolbox: hosted playout, mobile and Roku apps, a WordPress plugin, a delivery cost calculator. Their 24/7 Twitch article is the one you find first on Google, and it is accurate.
No price anywhere, nothing about VOD expiry, no Twitch import, no vote, no site. Twitch is one destination among many.
Not surveyed here
The reference for pushing one live stream to many platforms at once, with a studio and a chat aggregator.
It is a multistream tool, not a 24/7 playout: it relays what you are broadcasting. No Twitch VOD import, no archive, no vote.
If you came from playout.video.
The most searched alternative. What changes, in both directions.
playout.video gives you a calendar, a studio with guests, an overlay editor and twenty destinations. If you need any of those, keep it: VOD247 has none of them, on purpose.
What it cannot do is read your Twitch archive, keep it past Twitch's 14-day window, or let the chat choose. VOD247 does exactly those three things, for one platform, with a public site per channel.
Where they are better.
A comparison that hides this is not worth reading.
Calendar
playout.video and VODPilot have drag-and-drop schedules with recurrence. VOD247 has a queue and a vote, not a calendar.
Muted passages
VODPilot can drop a branded slate over a muted passage. VOD247 counts muted segments and shows the count, then replays the file as stored.
Platforms
playout.video pushes to 20+ platforms, RESTREAMER to five, Stream247 to Twitch and YouTube. VOD247 pushes to Twitch.
Overlays
Several of them burn overlays into the video. VOD247 replays the file untouched and puts the poll in chat and on the site.
Managed setup
Stream247 and RESTREAMER have a human on the other end. VOD247 is self-service with email support.
Free tiers
playout.video and Upstream both let you start for nothing. VOD247 has no free plan: the archive costs storage from day one.
Questions.
Which of these actually pulls VODs from Twitch by itself?
Two: VODPilot and VOD247. Stream247 gets them from YouTube, so you have to mirror every stream there first. Every other service on this page plays files you upload, whatever their source.
Why three tables instead of one?
Because a Twitch rerun service and a generic cloud playout are not competing for the same job, and lining up fifteen columns made both look worse than they are. Three tables also fit on a phone.
Which ones handle the 48-hour broadcast cap?
Twitch caps one broadcast at 48 hours. Upstream restarts the stream automatically around that mark, RESTREAMER 24/7 has a self-healing reconnect, and VOD247 restarts the stream about every 12 hours, only between two VODs. ireplay.tv publishes a manual OBS recipe instead.
Is there a free plan?
No. Every VOD247 plan is paid, monthly or annual, archive included. playout.video and Upstream both have a free tier, with limits on hours and a watermark.
What is the cheapest option on this page?
Streamloop, at around 10 $ a month, if all you want is a file on a loop and you handle the uploads. It has no Twitch import, no archive and no vote, so it is cheap for a different job.
How do I switch from VODPilot?
Connect the same 24/7 Twitch account to VOD247 and declare your main channel as the source. The archive starts filling from what Twitch still has online. Stop the VODPilot channel once the first VOD airs here.
How do I switch from Stream247 or RESTREAMER 24/7?
Same two Twitch logins, then declare the source channel. Neither service pulls from Twitch, so nothing has to be exported: the archive is rebuilt from your own VODs.
How do I switch from playout.video?
Keep playout.video if you need its calendar, studio or twenty destinations. If you only used it to loop Twitch VODs, connect the 24/7 account here and let the archive fill.
Why one comparison page and not one per competitor?
Because fourteen near-identical pages would say the same thing fourteen times. Everything about each product is here, in three tables and a profile each.