Is there a free plan or trial?

Check the plans above; we note any free trial and the date we last checked it.

Will the price change as I scale?

Often, yes. Read the billing basis above: metering on plays, bandwidth or storage means your bill moves with usage, so the headline price is only the starting point.

Dacast pricing

What Dacast costs, what each plan is metered on, and what to expect as your traffic grows.

By Dominic Reyes, Lead reviewer. Edited by the Play That Sells desk.

What Dacast costs

Billed annually: Starter $39/mo (500 GB storage, 2.4 TB/yr bandwidth), Event $63/mo (250 GB, 6 TB upfront), Scale $165/mo (2 TB, 24 TB/yr, plus DRM/AES, 3 seats and phone support), Custom on quote. Month-to-month carries a three-month minimum. Overage runs $0.30/GB on bandwidth and $0.15/GB on storage; extra seats are $10/user/mo. The 14-day free trial needs no card and includes 10 GB.

Prices checked 28 September 2026. Verify on the vendor site before you buy.

What works

Monetization is built in, not bolted on. Pay-per-view (TVOD), subscriptions (SVOD) and ad-based (AVOD) all ship on the platform, with promo codes, group pricing and free preview clips. If you sell entry to live broadcasts or a content library, most of the selling layer is already there.
Reliable streaming is the consistent praise. Long-term Capterra reviewers, churches and round-the-clock broadcasters among them, describe smooth, dependable streams over years of use, delivered over top-tier CDNs with unlimited concurrent viewers included.
It is a genuine end-to-end platform: live and on-demand video, a white-label ad-free HTML5 player, an OTT app layer, a full video API, DRM and AES on higher tiers, plus domain and country restriction. One vendor covers broadcast, hosting and monetization.
Real support and 16 years in market. Round-the-clock support is included on all tiers, phone support from the Scale tier up, and the company has served professional broadcasters since 2008, which is reassuring when an event cannot go down.

What to watch

It is a broadcast and OTT platform, not a direct-response tool. There is no sound-first autoplay VSL player, no per-second buyers-versus-non-buyers retention, no split test decided on sales, and nothing that attributes a play to a cart purchase. Its monetization sells access to content; it does not make a VSL convert cold traffic.
Billing catches people out, and it is the loudest complaint. Annual plans auto-renew by default, and several Trustpilot reviewers report being charged for a full extra year with refunds refused, saying they were never clearly told. Set a renewal reminder and read the terms before you commit.
The bandwidth meter can surprise you. Allowance is parcelled out and bandwidth is billed at $0.30/GB over your limit, so a bigger-than-expected audience turns into an overage bill. Model your view count against your plan's TB allowance first.
It is priced for organisations, and month-to-month has a three-month minimum. The Starter plan is $39/mo billed annually and DRM only arrives on the $165/mo Scale plan, so a solo marketer testing a single funnel is paying broadcaster money for broadcaster features they may not use.

Pricing questions

How much does Dacast cost?: Billed annually: Starter $39/mo (500 GB storage, 2.4 TB/yr bandwidth), Event $63/mo (250 GB, 6 TB upfront), Scale $165/mo (2 TB, 24 TB/yr, plus DRM/AES, 3 seats and phone support), Custom on quote. Month-to-month carries a three-month minimum. Overage runs $0.30/GB on bandwidth and $0.15/GB on storage; extra seats are $10/user/mo. The 14-day free trial needs no card and includes 10 GB.
Is there a free plan or trial?: Check the plans above; we note any free trial and the date we last checked it.
Will the price change as I scale?: Often, yes. Read the billing basis above: metering on plays, bandwidth or storage means your bill moves with usage, so the headline price is only the starting point.