Design & Creative
OBS Studio
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Free, open source software for video recording and live streaming on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
72/100
Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.
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 — 69/100
- Accessibility — 72/100
- Security — 90/100
- Privacy — 45/100
- 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 — 637 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 it's for
Content creators · Live streamers · Video producers · Gamers · Broadcasters
Pricing
Free