Stream Repeater vs Melon: A Relay for Any Encoder, Not a Browser Studio
An honest, detailed look at how Stream Repeater stacks up against Melon — no spin, just what each one actually does.
Melon is a browser-based live studio that also multistreams — handy if you want to produce and go live entirely in a browser tab. Stream Repeater is built the other way round: it’s a relay and control plane that works with whatever you already use to go live, from OBS to a hardware encoder to nothing at all.
Where Stream Repeater differs from Melon
Bring your own encoder — or none
Melon produces your stream in its browser studio. Stream Repeater accepts RTMP, RTSP or SRT from any source — OBS, a hardware encoder, a phone — so you keep your setup, and the free Local Agent can even broadcast your game scene and camera with no encoder at all.
Copy-first relay
Stream Repeater relays copy-first from its servers, so you upload once and adding destinations doesn’t cost you more upload — and there’s no cloud re-encode adding latency.
Engagement built in
Overlays, chat games, unified chat and moderation, giveaways and event automations are part of the platform, not a separate tool.
Monitoring and recording
Per-relay health, live viewer counts, cloud recording and VOD, and a public watch page with embed give you an operations view beyond the studio.
What you get with every Stream Repeater plan
Whatever the size of your setup, Stream Repeater is built as proper, self-contained control software — not a capped consumer app with the good bits locked away.