See the dashboard before you pay

This is the real Enhanced IRL panel, open in your browser. No account, no card and no email: go in and click on whatever you like.

What you can see

What decides whether a service suits you does not fit in a table, so instead of describing it we let you look at it.

• The OBS desktop, working. Not a screenshot: the desktop of a real cloud OBS server, with its scenes and its sources, and a broadcast going through it. It is the part everyone wants to see before paying and the part almost nobody shows.
• Automatic scene switching, as it happens. The example signal is cut on purpose every few minutes. You will see the broadcast fall back to the offline scene on its own and come back when the signal returns — that is what keeps you on air when your phone loses coverage in the middle of the street.
• The screens you would use every day. Stream keys with their ingest regions and protocols, the code you scan to set up your phone, the numbers that arrive while you are live, and the controls of your server.
• Plans, billing and cancellation. What you would be charged, how a plan is changed and how a subscription ends. Read before you enter a card, not after.
• The panel in your language. English, Spanish and French. Switch it inside the demo and you will see the one you would actually be working in.

What you cannot do in the demo

Better written down here than discovered halfway through a click.

• You cannot broadcast into it. The demo does not accept a signal from outside. What is on air is our example clip on a loop: you are watching a broadcast, not sending one.
• Nothing you change is kept. Buttons work, forms go through, and the panel itself tells you the change was not saved. Reload and everything is back where it was.
• The OBS desktop is there to be watched. You see what OBS is doing, but you are not the one driving it. And it is a single server shared with everyone who opens this page, so you will not always find it tidy: we reset it regularly.
• There is nobody behind it. With no account there is no support ticket, no email and no history. The moment you want any of the three, what you want is an account.

Five minutes, in this order

If all you want to know is whether this is worth paying for, do this:

1. Start on the dashboard: it is the screen you would have open while you are live.
2. Go into the cloud OBS server and open its desktop. Give it a few seconds to come up.
3. Stay there until the example signal drops. The scene changes on its own — that is the anti-drop cover doing its job without anyone touching anything.
4. Go back to the stream key and read the ingest regions and the protocols: that is what you would point your phone or your camera at.
5. Finish in Plans and check what the setup you have just been looking at would cost you.

What changes when you create an account

What the demo is missing is not a feature. It is that none of it is yours.

• The server is yours. Your scenes, your sources, your files and your stream key, with nobody else inside them.
• Your video goes through it. You point your phone, your camera or whatever software you use at your ingest region, and what is on screen is your broadcast.
• Everything you touch stays. Scenes, overlays, settings and uploaded files are still there for the next broadcast.
• There is someone to ask. Support from inside the panel, by email, and a person reading it.

Questions about the demo

Keep reading

• Compare IRL streaming providers
• What an IRL streaming server actually is
• Staying on air when your connection drops