- Starting price
- $99/month billed annually
- Free tier
- No
- Platforms
- Web control · Software and hardware encoders · Embedded player · Social platforms · Apps · Multisite decoders
- Developer
- Resi Media / Pushpay
- Launched
- 2016
- Updated
- Aug 16, 2026
The verdict
Resi is a premium answer to a specific problem: a service or campus feed matters enough that ordinary real-time protocols and volunteer troubleshooting are not reliable enough. RSP’s local buffering and verified retransmission can preserve video through temporary connectivity problems, while Studio centralizes scheduling, monitoring, analytics, web playback, social delivery, and archives. Price the complete encoder, plan, bandwidth, destination, caption, storage, and support stack; measure latency in your pastoral workflow; run real failover drills; and never confuse transport resilience with rights, accessibility, security, or audience care.
Try Resi Livestreaming by Pushpay ↗Opens resi.io
Resi is a live-video platform owned by Pushpay that serves churches, education, government, events, and other organizations. Its defining technology is Resilient Streaming Protocol, or RSP: the encoder stores video locally, verifies cloud receipt, and resends missing data instead of discarding frames during a temporary network interruption. This trades low latency for continuity.
Current annual-billing prices begin with Social Only at $99 monthly for simultaneous Facebook and YouTube delivery, 1080p60, scheduling, seven-day temporary storage, downloads, analytics, monitoring, support, and one ProPresenter Encoder license. Starter Lite is $159 and adds a white-labeled website player, simulated live, three adaptive bitrates, and 200 GB monthly web bandwidth. Pro is $299 and adds app URLs, API operation, 1 TB, and thirty-day temporary storage. Enterprise tiers are quoted.
Resi also sells separate Multisite plans: Overflow at $129 monthly, LAN + Cloud Failover at $379, and Pro at $499 on annual billing, with capacity and destination differences. On Demand begins at $49 for 1 TB storage, rises to $99 for 7 TB and three Media Sites, and $199 for 15 TB, ten sites, higher API limits, and 4K upload. Hardware encoders, decoders, Studio AI, captions, destinations, and other add-ons can materially increase total cost.
We reviewed current product, church, pricing, RSP, feature, integration, and directory materials without purchasing hardware, running an impaired-network lab, auditing infrastructure, measuring support, reviewing a customer agreement, or verifying vendor claims of 30,000 weekly streams, 99.99% uptime, 1.2 billion minutes, and sub-thirty-minute support. Exact contract, hardware, nonprofit, overage, data, and renewal terms require a written quote.
✓ The good
- Purpose-built resilience - local buffering and verified retransmission address packet loss more directly than ordinary RTMP
- Integrated live workflow - scheduling, monitoring, analytics, social, web, apps, archives, and multisite live in one system
- Useful published prices - key annual rates and capacity limits can be modeled before a sales call
- Volunteer-oriented operation - presets, automation, ProPresenter integration, and seven-day support reduce Sunday complexity
- Professional distribution - white-label players, adaptive bitrate, DASH and HLS, API access, and 4K enterprise options support scale
- Multisite specialization - local and remote destinations, cloud failover, multiple audio channels, and decoder workflows fit campus churches
- On-demand continuity - automatic saving, branded libraries, sites, playlists, cues, and analytics extend a service after Sunday
✗ Watch out
- Higher latency by design - resilience usually adds roughly ninety seconds and can approach two minutes on social platforms
- Layered cost - live, multisite, on-demand, hardware, captions, AI, destinations, bandwidth, and support terms may be separate
- Proprietary dependency - RSP benefits require Resi-compatible encoding, cloud, accounts, playback, and often decoding hardware
- Cloud and contract concentration - a vendor outage, account problem, acquisition, price change, or exit can affect the whole workflow
- Copyright remains local - Media Sites avoid social Content ID but do not create streaming, synchronization, performance, or recording rights
- Viewer data and pastoral privacy - analytics, registrations, prayer links, chat, embeds, and connected systems need explicit governance
- Reliability language can overpromise - no architecture eliminates camera, audio, power, encoder, configuration, platform, or human failure
Best for
- Churches where a stable weekly public stream justifies professional recurring cost and trained ownership
- Multisite ministries sending synchronized teaching or worship between campuses over imperfect networks
- Teams needing one managed live, website, social, app, archive, monitoring, and support workflow
- Organizations prepared to rehearse latency, failover, accessibility, licensing, privacy, and local fallback
Avoid if
- A free YouTube or Facebook stream already meets the church’s audience, reliability, support, and control needs
- Interactive prayer, chat, interpretation, or real-time coordination cannot tolerate the RSP delay
- The full quote would displace higher-priority pastoral, accessibility, safeguarding, benevolence, or production investment
- The church lacks staff ownership for audio quality, cameras, network design, encoders, licensing, moderation, captions, and incident response
What Resi Livestreaming by Pushpay is
Resi is an end-to-end video transport and publishing platform, not a camera system, music license, online church ministry strategy, caption quality guarantee, pastoral care team, or universal backup. It protects one important portion of the signal chain.
RSP intentionally creates a transmission cushion. That is excellent for one-way presentation but changes the timing of live chat, prayer responses, countdowns, interpretation, phone calls, and communication between the room and online hosts.
Why store-and-forward resilience changes the tradeoff
Traditional live protocols generally prefer immediacy and may discard data that cannot arrive in time. RSP captures video at the encoder, verifies delivery, and resends missing pieces, allowing temporary network trouble to become delay rather than visible corruption.
The church must decide whether completeness is more important than immediacy. Test the full path with deliberate packet loss, a disconnected uplink, an encoder restart, a social-platform failure, a player error, and the staff communication procedures that bridge the delay.
Resi Live and Studio: centralized recurring production
Teams can schedule destinations, monitor stream health, view analytics, deliver to social and web players, download recordings, and integrate supported encoding and platforms.
Create least-privilege roles, MFA, named Sunday ownership, configuration backups, destination checks, key rotation, incident contacts, and a preflight checklist. Automation should remove repetition without hiding accountability.
Multisite delivery: synchronized campuses need local plans
Multisite plans add LAN and remote receiving destinations, decoder workflows, cloud failover, local buffering, higher-quality options, and multiple audio channels.
Each campus still needs power, audio routing, display fallback, local leadership, communication, and a plan for a missing feed. Test actual WAN and LAN failure rather than relying on a sales demo.
On Demand, analytics, and AI: content lives longer than the event
Media libraries and sites store, organize, embed, and analyze recordings; add-ons can generate captions, transcripts, clips, titles, questions, tags, and social posts.
Approve transcription, theology, speaker identity, privacy, music, stories, images, metadata, and clip context before publication. Define retention and deletion for sermons, funerals, children, prayer moments, and copyrighted performances.
Pricing
Social Only
$99/month, annual
Facebook and YouTube streaming, 1080p60, scheduling, seven-day storage, downloads, analytics, monitoring, support, and one ProPresenter Encoder license.
Starter Lite
$159/month, annual
Adds resilient website streaming, a branded embed, simulated live, three adaptive bitrate levels, QRclick, and 200 GB monthly bandwidth.
Pro
$299/month, annual
Adds DASH and HLS app delivery, Go Live API, 1 TB monthly bandwidth, and thirty-day temporary storage. Enterprise and 4K are quoted.
Multisite / On Demand
From $129 / $49 monthly, annual
Separate plans cover overflow and campus video or permanent media storage. Hardware, destinations, captions, AI, and other add-ons may cost more.
Published figures are monthly equivalents billed annually; monthly billing, taxes, hardware, shipping, installation, bandwidth overages, and support scope need confirmation.
Live, Multisite, and On Demand are distinct product families. A church needing all three should model the combined term rather than quoting the $99 entry plan.
The current page lists On Demand from $49, Multisite from $129, website live streaming from $159, and advanced live from $299, with enterprise pricing by quote.
Ask for data export, account ownership, replacement, warranty, cancellation, renewal, price protection, deletion, service-level, and end-of-contract hardware terms in writing.
Where Resi Livestreaming by Pushpay falls behind
Publish a church-specific security and privacy package with data roles, subprocessors, regions, retention, viewer analytics, AI processing, deletion, MFA, SSO, audit logs, and incident history.
Show full total-cost examples combining software, encoders, decoders, bandwidth, destinations, captions, AI, storage, mounts, installation, support, and taxes.
Provide an explicit latency and outage matrix for every destination, including live chat synchronization and what each viewer sees during recovery.
Make accessibility first-class with caption quality targets, human correction, language support, transcripts, player keyboard behavior, and WCAG evidence.
Offer self-service configuration export, migration, archive portability, and a tested exit path from proprietary RSP hardware and services.
Resi vs. YouTube Live vs. Vimeo vs. BoxCast
YouTube Live is inexpensive and familiar but algorithmic, advertising-adjacent, and less controlled. Vimeo offers branded hosting and broad enterprise video. BoxCast packages event production and distribution for churches and organizations. Resi is most distinctive when transport integrity and multisite synchronization outweigh low latency and cost.
Choose Resi for mission-critical weekly distribution over uncertain connections or to several campuses. Choose a free social service for a simple single stream, and a general video platform when library and embed needs matter more than specialized encoding resilience.
A church can use Resi upstream and still publish to YouTube, Facebook, a church site, or apps. Test every final destination because a reliable Resi upload does not control the external platform, viewer connection, smart TV, or moderation layer.
The bottom line
Resi is expensive compared with a basic encoder and free destination, but it solves reliability and multisite problems that cheaper systems often leave to volunteers during the most visible hour of the week. The current $99 entry price is only a starting point; a realistic deployment may span several plans and devices. Buy it for measured resilience, workflow, and support—not “zero buffering” rhetoric. Engineer the whole chain, accept the delay, preserve rights and accessibility, and maintain a local no-stream fallback.
Alternatives to Resi Livestreaming by Pushpay
Church Online PlatformA free engagement layer for online services, often paired with a separate video source.OBS StudioFree open-source production and encoding with more local configuration and no managed resilient transport.Frequently asked questions
How much does Resi cost?
Current annual-billing live plans begin at $99 monthly for social, $159 for website streaming, and $299 for Pro. Hardware and add-ons are separate.
What is RSP?
Resilient Streaming Protocol buffers at the encoder, verifies cloud receipt, and retransmits missing data so temporary network disruption is less visible to viewers.
How much latency does Resi add?
Official material describes roughly ninety seconds for church web streaming and around two minutes for social destinations. Test the exact configuration.
Can Resi stream to our website and social channels?
Yes, depending on plan. Starter Lite adds website delivery, while social output is included from the entry tier and custom RTMP destinations can be added.
Does Resi include hardware?
Not automatically in every headline software price. It supports software and hardware encoding plus multisite decoders. Obtain a complete equipment quote.
Does Resi solve music copyright?
No. A private branded player may avoid automated social blocking, but churches still need appropriate performance, streaming, synchronization, and recording rights.
Can volunteers run it?
Scheduling, presets, monitoring, and support are volunteer-friendly, but churches still need trained owners, rehearsals, access controls, and failure procedures.
Sources & further reading
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