info-beamer

info-beamer is a hosted signage platform from inlua GmbH & Co. KG in Karlsruhe, registered at the Amtsgericht Mannheim as HRA 707469. You bring your own Raspberry Pi devices and manage them from a cloud dashboard, with an API that costs nothing extra and no limit on the number of devices you can manage.

Pricing is usage-based and unusually transparent: €0.25 per device per day, about €7.75 a month, plus €0.02 per GB per day for storage, deducted from a prepaid balance. Devices switched off for two days or more are not charged, and the first device and 1 GB are free, with €5 starter credit after confirming your email. There is no minimum charge. The catch is that a negative balance makes the screens go black.

On data, the privacy policy names DigitalOcean in Amsterdam for servers, Amazon S3 for files and Google Storage for backups, all stated as EU. Those providers are US-headquartered companies, and Cloudflare provides DNS and time defaults on the device. It is a tool for people who are comfortable with packages and APIs, not for a receptionist.

What info-beamer does well

• Published usage-based pricing with no minimum
• First device and 1 GB free, no card needed
• API and unlimited device management included
• Infrastructure location and subprocessors named in the privacy policy
• Devices switched off for two days are not billed

Where info-beamer falls short

• You supply and maintain your own Raspberry Pi hardware
• Prepaid balance; screens go black if it runs out
• Infrastructure runs on US-headquartered providers inside the EU
• Aimed at technical users rather than office managers

Standout feature. A per-device-per-day price with no minimum, and a privacy policy that names its server provider, city and file storage.