Creating

1. Get your key

Studio → Broadcast → Ingest settings holds the ingest URL and your stream key, each with a copy button. Treat the key like a password: anyone holding it can stream as you, so keep it out of screenshots, support threads and on-screen sources.

If it leaks, rotate it from the same panel. The old key dies immediately, so every encoder configured with it needs the new one. Rotation requires you to be offline, and stopping your broadcast also ends anyone else’s stream using the leaked key.

2. Configure your encoder

In OBS or similar, set the service to Custom, then paste the ingest URL as the server and the stream key as the key. Copy the URL from Studio rather than typing it.

• Video: AV1, any encoder. It is what Kuldron serves, and it carries the same picture in fewer bits, which is what your viewers pay for. H.264 is accepted too. Audio: AAC. HEVC disconnects on connect.
• Bitrate: up to 50 Mbps, at any resolution. Set it as your encoder’s maximum rather than only its target.
• Keyframe interval: 2 seconds. H.264 profile: high.

3. Go live

Press Start in Studio → Broadcast. Kuldron provisions a server for you, usually inside 50 seconds. When the panel reads Ready, hit Start Streaming in your encoder; your status flips to Live once video arrives. Stopping from either side finalises the broadcast, and it appears as a VOD if you are saving them.

If something is wrong

An immediate disconnect is almost always the codec: check for HEVC. A stream that starts then drops is usually bitrate over the limit, or a wallet that reached zero.

What it costs

One flat rate per minute, identical at 720p and 4K, with one viewer or a hundred thousand. The meter starts when you press Start, provisioning included, and stops when you press Stop, when your encoder disconnects, or when a system or admin action ends the broadcast. Studio shows the rate before you go live and the running cost while you are.

You need an hour of balance to start, and hitting zero mid-broadcast ends the stream. Automatic refill avoids that. Keeping VODs draws on the same wallet for storage: all three rates are on Money.

What you earn

Subscriptions and tips credit an earnings ledger separate from your wallet, after the payment processing fee and the 1% platform fee, and are paid out through Payouts. Nothing here is exclusive: stream on Kuldron and anywhere else at the same time.

Rules

The Terms of Service are the formal version: no hateful, dangerous, pornographic or illegal content. Kuldron can end a live broadcast that is breaking them. What follows a violation is on your account.