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streamerOS vs Streamer.bot
One is a free toolkit you build your automation with. One is a paid cockpit that arrives assembled. Both run entirely on your own PC — and you can run both.
The short answer
Pick Streamer.bot if you want to build your own automation and have it do precisely what you imagine. It is free, it has been doing this for years, it covers Kick as well as Twitch and YouTube, it drives an Elgato Stream Deck, and when it cannot do something you can write C# until it can. For trigger-and-action automation it is the better tool, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Pick streamerOSif you do not want to build anything. It opens as a finished cockpit: chat triage, Super Chat revenue, local AI reading your chat's mood, hype spikes marked for clipping, a searchable archive of every stream and your OBS scenes, on one screen. The trade is that it costs $29 once, does less outside that lane, and has not launched yet.
Or run both. They are both local Windows apps talking to OBS over WebSocket. Keeping your Streamer.bot actions and adding the streamerOS cockpit is a perfectly normal setup.
How they actually differ
| streamerOS | Streamer.bot | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | $29 once, after a 7-day trial | Free, with an optional Patreon |
| Works without you building anything | The cockpit is assembled already | You build your own triggers and actions |
| Unlimited custom scripting | A node editor, not a scripting language | Custom C# code in your actions |
| Runs locally, no account | No login, no backend | Connects from your PC directly |
| Platforms it watches | Twitch and YouTube | Twitch, YouTube and Kick |
| Controls OBS without plugins | OBS WebSocket v5 | OBS WebSocket v4 and v5 |
| Elgato Stream Deck integration | An on-screen deck only | Stream Deck and its own decks |
| Local AI chat sentiment | Scored on your PC via Ollama, Hinglish included | Not a built-in feature |
| Searchable chat archive | Every stream saved and searchable locally | A live multi-stream chat view, not an archive |
| Clip ranking and vertical shorts | Hype-ranked Clip Library and 9:16 export | Not what it is for |
| Sponsor pipeline and media kit | Sponsor CRM and a generated PDF | Not what it is for |
| Proven, with a community behind it | Pre-launch — no users yet | Established, with years of users and guides |
streamerOS launches February 2027; rows describing it reflect v1.0 as built. Rows describing Streamer.bot reflect what its own site documents and may change — check streamer.bot before deciding. streamerOS is not affiliated with Streamer.bot in any way.
Questions people ask
- Is Streamer.bot better than streamerOS?
- For custom automation, Streamer.bot is the stronger and safer choice today: it is free, established, supports Twitch, YouTube and Kick, and lets you write C# for anything it does not do out of the box. streamerOS is for a different person — someone who wants chat sentiment, revenue, clips and OBS control already assembled on one screen rather than built by hand, and who has not launched yet so has no community to lean on.
- Can I use streamerOS and Streamer.bot together?
- Yes. Both run locally on Windows and both drive OBS through OBS WebSocket, so you can keep your Streamer.bot actions and run streamerOS for the cockpit, chat sentiment and clip tooling. They are not mutually exclusive.
- Is Streamer.bot open source?
- Streamer.bot is free to use, but its own site does not publish the source or state an open-source licence — check streamer.bot directly if that matters to your decision. streamerOS is proprietary and says so plainly, which is why its trust page lists every claim with a way to verify it from outside the app instead of asking you to read code.
- Why would I pay $29 for streamerOS when Streamer.bot is free?
- Only if the thing you want is what streamerOS does differently: local AI sentiment scoring of your chat, a searchable chat archive, Super Chat revenue totals, hype-ranked clips with vertical export, and a sponsor pipeline — all working the moment you open it, with no actions to build. If what you need is trigger-and-action automation, Streamer.bot does that well and costs nothing, and you should use it.
If the assembled version is what you want
streamerOS v1.0 arrives in February 2027. Pre-register and your trial runs three months instead of seven days — and read the trust page first, including the part about what we cannot prove yet.
Launching February 2027