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OBS Studio

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-14 — deterministic & reproducible

Free, open source software for video recording and live streaming on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Legit.Show scored OBS Studio 72/100 on 2026-09-14, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/obsproject-com/2026-09-14

Is OBS Studio production-ready?

Legit.Show scores OBS Studio 72 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on OBS Studio (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 73/100
• Accessibility — 72/100
• Security — 90/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 45/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 35/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 682 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

Warchamp7 (@Warchamp7) · product account @OBSProject

Who it's for

Content creators · Live streamers · Video producers · Gamers · Broadcasters

Pricing

Free

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from obsproject.com's own website on 2026-08-03.

Operator

Wizards of OBS LLC, as named in obsproject.com's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-14.

Put together from public information, without OBS Studio's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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