Bunny Stream vs Uscreen

The real split: raw delivery against a membership

These two barely overlap, and the gap between them is about as wide as any pair on this site. They both hold your video and give people a way to watch it, so on that one job they can look like alternatives. They are built for opposite jobs. Bunny Stream is video infrastructure: the cheapest way to encode, store and stream a file, with the player and everything around it left to you. Uscreen is a finished membership business: a Netflix-style catalog, recurring billing, a community space, native live streaming and your own branded apps, all under one roof.

So if you are choosing between these two, the question underneath is not which hosts video better. It is what the video is for. Bunny is the versatile, dirt-cheap home for video that just needs to be delivered fast and reliably, with the selling built by you. Uscreen is the platform you reach for when the video is a business in itself and a warm audience is going to pay a recurring fee to get in. Neither ties a play to a sale on cold traffic, which matters here, and it is worth saying plainly before the details.

Where they actually differ

What comes in the box. Bunny Stream gives you resumable upload, automatic adaptive-bitrate encoding, HLS output, a customizable HTML5 player or the freedom to bring your own, plus token authentication, hotlinking protection, AI content tagging and an optional enterprise DRM add-on. It expects you to write code, and it stops at delivery. Uscreen gives you a members-only catalog, recurring billing, a community space with channels and challenges, native live streaming, and its own mobile and TV apps built with no code. One is a building block; the other is a subscription business you launch and then run.

Charging your audience. This is the sharpest line. Uscreen is built around monetization: subscriptions, one-time purchases, free trials, bundles and coupons all ship in the box, and the company puts creator earnings on the platform at over $210M a year. If your model is a recurring membership, most of that machinery is already there. Bunny has none of it. It delivers the file and leaves the checkout, the gate, the pricing and the member accounts to you. For a developer building their own funnel that is a feature, not a gap; for anyone who wants the platform to handle the money and the members, it is the wrong shape.

Branded apps and community. Uscreen's standout is that your content becomes your own app, in the App Store, on Google Play and on TV platforms, under your name rather than someone else's. Creators credit those apps for higher watch time and better retention, and the community features keep members engaged between videos. Bunny has no equivalent, and does not aim to: your video is delivered to a player you embed, and there is no member community or app layer. If an own-brand app presence is the reason you are looking, only one of these two delivers it.

How they bill. The two make opposite bets. Bunny charges for the storage and delivery you actually use, on a $1 monthly minimum, so a small or unpredictable audience costs a few dollars and a launch scales with its own traffic. Uscreen charges a base plan plus a fee for every active member, so the bill grows with your success: more members means more revenue, but also a larger platform cost each month. That per-member model is fair when memberships are profitable and painful when they are not, so the maths only works once you have an audience willing to pay.

Reliability, support and track record. Bunny is fast and very well liked for the price, and course owners report bills under $10 a month after leaving a plan-based host, but long-term users call its dashboard and API still maturing next to the biggest platforms, and there are scattered reports of slow playback in some regions plus one serious storage-loss complaint. Uscreen assigns a success manager, migrates your users, payments and content across at no charge, and responsive launch support is one of the most repeated praises in its reviews. The flip side is that ongoing support is email and chat with no phone line, and cancellation is email-only, which some reviewers read as a deliberate barrier. Keep your own master files whichever you pick.

If the video's job is a direct-response sale: TrackPlay

There is a third situation neither of these was built for. If your video is a VSL running on cold paid traffic, and the only number that matters is whether the play produced a sale, TrackPlay is aimed straight at that job. Where Bunny confirms the file was delivered and Uscreen monetizes a warm audience into a recurring subscription, TrackPlay hosts the video behind one embed and ties every second watched to who actually bought, then posts the cart-verified sale back to Meta, TikTok and GA4 server-side, onto the play that earned it. It is built to tell you which ad, which play and which cut of the video produced revenue, which is a different job from delivering bytes or running a membership.

It backs that with a player made for cold traffic: sound-first autoplay, timed CTA cards and watch gates, per-second retention split into buyers versus non-buyers with the pitch moment marked, and split tests decided on real sales with statistical significance rather than on views. Billing is on plays, not storage, bandwidth or members, every feature ships on every paid plan from $29 a month, and there is a no-card free plan of 1,000 plays a month, watermarked, plus a 14-day trial of the paid features.

The catch is the flip side of that focus. TrackPlay is narrow by design: built for paid-traffic VSL conversion, it is not a general video host or a B2B content library, so it has none of the channels, SEO pages or webinar tooling of a Wistia, and it is a poor fit if the video's job is content marketing rather than a direct-response sale. If you are delivering course video at the lowest possible cost or running a paid membership, Bunny or Uscreen is the right home and TrackPlay is not for that work. It is also a very new product with thin outside proof: the testimonials are on its own site, there is little third-party review footprint yet, and signup is currently invite-only, which is what you would expect of a platform this recent. Weigh it when the sale, not the subscription or the delivery bill, is the goal.

Read our full TrackPlay review for how the attribution and split testing hold up.

Which one for you

Choose Bunny Stream if you want the cheapest, most flexible way to host and deliver a selling video and you have a developer, or the patience, to build the player, tracking and any checkout around it. Its per-gigabyte pricing is far cheaper than a membership platform for the low-bitrate video most funnels and courses serve, the security layer is bundled rather than sold up a tier, and you pay only for the traffic you use. You trade a finished storefront, a community and branded apps for a bill you can read to the gigabyte.

Choose Uscreen if you are an established creator turning a real audience into a paid membership, and you want your own branded phone and TV apps, a community space and recurring billing built in without code. Its monetization stack, its migration support and its apps are the reasons to look here, and the apps are what keep members watching. Just model the per-member fee against your margin first, and know that support is email-only, so it earns its price only once you have subscribers.

Choose TrackPlay if the video is a VSL on paid traffic and you are measured on sales: you want the play tied to the cart and the conversion fired back to the ad platforms, not a delivery log or a membership catalog.

Pricing, compared

Bunny Stream sells usage, and the bill starts at a $1 monthly minimum. Encoding and the player are free; beyond that floor you pay per gigabyte, from $0.01 a gigabyte for storage and $0.005 a gigabyte for delivery on the Standard network. A cheaper Volume network trades some points of presence for a lower delivery rate, which can cost latency in a few regions. There is no permanent free tier, but the 14-day trial needs no card, so a small or spiky audience can end up paying a few dollars a month.

Uscreen prices as a business platform, not a host. Starter is $49 a month; Growth is $149 a month billed annually plus $1.99 for every active member; App Essentials is $449 a month billed annually plus $0.99 per member and is where the branded apps live; Custom is on quote. There is a 14-day trial and no free plan. Because the per-member fee stacks on top of the base plan, the cost scales with your membership: 1,000 members on Growth is roughly $2,100 a month, so the model only pays off once subscription revenue clears it.

TrackPlay bills on a different axis again: on plays, not storage, bandwidth or members. Paid plans start at $29 a month with every feature included, there is a no-card free plan of 1,000 plays a month (watermarked), and a 14-day trial of the paid features. For a single VSL on paid traffic that is a predictable model; for a large membership library it is the wrong axis, and Uscreen's platform is the right fit.

Prices checked September 2026. Verify on the vendor site before you buy.