Your stream plan
Enter your measured, stable upload speed—not the speed advertised by your ISP.
Use a realistic measurement
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For jitter & other traffic
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Twitch
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YouTube
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Bitrates are editable examples, not official platform presets. Check current service limits for your encoder and account.
Your bandwidth estimate
DIRECT OUTPUT15.32 Mbps
Combined bitrate of all enabled direct streams
Usable bandwidth18.75 Mbps
Remaining headroom3.43 Mbps
Upload needed with reserve20.43 Mbps
Usable budget used82%
Within your planned budgetThis estimate leaves some room for network variation. Test with an actual stream before relying on it.
How this estimate works
- Each destination uses upload bandwidth. Reusing a video encoder can reduce encoding load, but does not eliminate the extra network upload required by separate outgoing streams.
- Required Mbps = sum of each enabled output's video and audio bitrates ÷ 1,000. This is an estimate, not packet-level measurement.
- Usable Mbps = measured upload speed × (1 − safety reserve). The default 25% reserve is a planning choice, not a guarantee.
Before the real stream
- Run a private or otherwise non-public test and watch OBS dropped frames, encoder performance, and each platform's ingest health.
- Check the current platform encoding recommendations and stream limits. Speed-test results alone cannot confirm route stability.
- If streaming to Twitch simultaneously with YouTube, review Twitch's simulcasting rules. In particular, don't place a merged third-party chat overlay on the Twitch broadcast.