Enhanced IRL vs Streamrun: two different ways to keep an IRL stream alive

Streamrun and Enhanced IRL both sit between your phone and Twitch, and both keep your broadcast alive when your mobile connection drops. That is where the similarity ends. Streamrun is a cloud pipeline you configure in a browser editor: it ingests your feed, composes it and pushes it out to several platforms. Enhanced IRL runs a real OBS Studio for you on a GPU server, with a remote desktop you actually log into. This page compares both with their published numbers, and says plainly which one you should buy — including the several cases where that is Streamrun.

Streamrun is a cloud streaming service with two products. Streamrun Go is a flat $25/month plan: two video inputs over RTMP, SRT or SRTLA, Full HD at 60 fps, disconnect protection with automatic failover to an image or video, AI noise cancellation, 10 GB of storage and multistreaming to up to two destinations. It has a 14-day free trial with up to 2 hours of streaming per day and no credit card. Streamrun Pro is pay-as-you-go from $0.39/hour, billed per second while you are live: it opens a node-based visual editor, per-destination encoding and overlays, picture-in-picture, a REST API and unlimited multistream destinations.

What Streamrun is not is a Cloud OBS. Their own documentation is explicit about it: you encode in OBS on your own machine and send one stream to them. There is no OBS Studio instance and no remote desktop on their side — you build your layout in their browser editor instead. That single fact decides most of this comparison, in both directions.

This is what an IRL streamer is actually buying, so it is worth being precise. Streamrun's disconnect protection keeps their server connected to Twitch and YouTube while your device is reconnecting: viewers see your last frame or a placeholder image you upload, and your feed resumes automatically. Their Failover element can also cut to a backup input or a pre-recorded clip when your bitrate collapses. It is included in both plans and needs no setup.

On Enhanced IRL, if you use Cloud OBS, the protection is automatic scene switching inside OBS itself, with a preconfigured Offline scene. It ships on every Cloud OBS plan at no extra cost. Because the switch happens inside a real OBS, your fallback is a scene: text, a countdown, a chat widget, whatever you can build in OBS — not a static image slot. That is the whole difference, and whether it is worth anything depends entirely on how much you want to design that moment.

We also sell a standalone Failover relay from €9/month, but read the small print before comparing it to their $25: it exists for people who broadcast from their own OBS and want nothing else from us. If you already have a Cloud OBS plan, you do not need it and you should not buy it. And if you broadcast from your own OBS and also want multistreaming, Streamrun Go bundles both for one flat price — that is a straight win for them.

Enhanced IRL sells three separate products, monthly, in euros with VAT included and no commitment. Stream keys: Stream Key Lite (€5/month, relay only) and Stream Key (€9/month, relay plus remote control of your own local OBS), both with RTMP, SRT and SRTLA ingest up to 9,000 kbps. Cloud OBS: OBS Basic (€29/month, 720p60, no remote desktop), OBS Standard (€59/month, 1080p30, 2 stream keys, remote desktop) and OBS Pro (€89/month, 1080p60, 3 stream keys), all on a dedicated NVIDIA GPU with automatic scene switching included. Failover: €9, €19 and €29/month for 5, 10 and 15 Mbps, for people publishing from their own OBS. See full plan details.

Streamrun sells two, in US dollars with taxes added at checkout. Streamrun Go is a flat $25/month with a 14-day free trial limited to 2 hours a day. Streamrun Pro starts at $0.39/hour, billed per second while you are live; their documentation gives the example of a 2.5-hour stream costing 2.5 × $0.39 = $0.975, and notes that heavier configurations need a larger server and cost more per hour. Pro includes 1 GB of file storage, with more sold in 1 GB increments. They do not publish the price of the extra storage or of the 4K GPU add-on.

The honest summary: for a plain 1080p60 IRL broadcast with multistreaming, Streamrun Go at $25/month undercuts anything we sell. The number to compare against ours is not $25 versus €89, though — it is $25 versus €5 or €9 if a relay is all you need, and $25 versus €59–89 if what you want is a whole OBS machine of your own. Those are different purchases.