A LiveU alternative: nothing to buy, nothing to carry.
Lumbus Live is your phone, the phones around you and a production room in the cloud. Your phone is the camera and the connection, the phones beside you are the backup, and Studio keeps every platform connected when your signal drops. Here is what that means if you are comparing.
What people ask us for when they look for an alternative.
- No hardware to buy, rent or carry: your phone is the camera and the connection.
- A backup that costs nothing: the phones around you lend their connections, on their own plans.
- A studio that keeps every platform connected when your signal drops, so a drop is not the end of the stream.
- Plans that cancel any time, with every price on one page.
How Lumbus Live is sold.
Every price on this page is the price list. Plans cancel any time; nothing is added without you switching it on.
| What | How it is sold | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | A subscription that cancels any time. The complete production room with unlimited Bond: go live from your phone, with the phones around you, to every platform. Studio Plus, Pro and Max add capacity, reliability and team. | $49 a month |
| Bond on its own | For phone streamers: three sizes, by how many phones beside you lend a connection, straight to your platforms. | from $9.99 a month |
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Try it: cut a connection.
Your stream goes out over several connections at once. If one drops, it keeps going on the others.
Tap a connection to drop it, and watch the stream carry on.
Moving over, in two steps.
- 1Start your free trialEvery Studio plan starts on Studio Pro, free for seven days, card upfront. Start the trial. Cancel before it ends and pay nothing.
- 2Go liveOpen Lumbus, pick your camera, add the phones around you and go live on every platform at once.
Technical detailsHow Bond carries a stream, what each plan includes, and the billing rules
- How Bond works
- Each phone you add scans a code from your screen, keeps the Lumbus Live app open and lends its connection. Your stream is split across every connection and put back together by Lumbus before it goes out — to your studio, or straight to your platforms — so one weak network never ends the stream. One word tells you where you stand: Protected (two or more connections on different networks), Single, Weak or Lost.
- The plans
- Studio $49/mo · Studio Plus $89/mo · Studio Pro $149/mo · Studio Max $199/mo. Studio is monthly or yearly and stands on its own: it works with whatever you stream from.
- Billing rules
- Studio and Bond are monthly subscriptions. Studio has unlimited live Studio hours (fair use) and a monthly allowance of viewer hours on the public watch page; nothing is cut off when the viewer allowance runs out, and more can be added for the month. Your first Studio plan starts with seven days of Studio Pro, free. A card is taken at the start, and nothing is charged if you cancel before the trial ends. Cancelling stops the next renewal: the plan runs to the end of the month already paid. Extra recording storage is monthly. Taxes are shown separately. Nothing is preselected, and no service is added without you switching it on. Usage alerts before an allowance runs out. No surprise overage charges. An add-on you ask for is itemised and confirmed with you before it is billed.
Questions
- Do I need any hardware?
No. Lumbus uses your phone as the camera, and the phones around you as extra connections. If you already use a camera or a laptop, Lumbus takes that too; a camera sends its picture through your phone or a laptop, unless it streams by itself.
- How does Bond work?
Each phone you add runs the Lumbus Live app and lends its connection. Your stream is split across all of them and put back together by Lumbus before it goes out: to your studio, or straight to your platforms.
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Each phone you add scans a code from your screen, keeps the Lumbus Live app open and lends its connection. Your stream is split across every connection and put back together by Lumbus before it goes out — to your studio, or straight to your platforms — so one weak network never ends the stream. One word tells you where you stand: Protected (two or more connections on different networks), Single, Weak or Lost.
- Can I stream from a camera or a laptop?
Yes. Anything that sends SRT, SRTLA or RTMP points at your Lumbus address. The details live in the dashboard and the guides, not on this page.
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Yes. Lumbus gives every source its own SRT, SRTLA and RTMP address from day one. Point a laptop running your streaming software, or a camera that streams by itself, at them and the picture arrives in your studio like any other; on Studio Pro and Studio Max a second source can stand by as a backup and take over by itself, or go on screen beside the first as a second camera.
Keep reading
- What is cellular bonding, and do you need it?Bonding sends one stream over several connections at once, so one weak network cannot take you off air. How it works, what it uses, and when to skip it.
- IRL streaming backpackAn IRL backpack is an encoder box, modems, a battery and a bag. With Lumbus your phone is the encoder and the phones around you are the connection.
- SRT bondingSRT bonding sends one stream over several connections at once, so one weak network can’t take you off air. How Bond does it with the phones around you.
- IRLToolkit alternativeAn IRLToolkit alternative: Lumbus Studio, your production room in the cloud. Be right back when your signal drops, every platform at once, from $49/mo.
LiveU and LiveU Solo are trademarks of their owner. Lumbus Live is an independent company and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or a reseller of LiveU; nothing on this page describes their products.
Seven days of Studio Pro, free.
Every Studio plan starts on Studio Pro, free for seven days: unlimited phones beside you, the full production room, every Pro feature. Card upfront; cancel before the trial ends and pay nothing.
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