Detailed Pricing Calculations
Approach
All of our pricing plans and overage calculations are based solely on bandwidth consumed (inbound and outbound), storage used and encoding requests used.
We believe this approach is the most fair and transparent because it directly aligns client usage with our computing, storage and bandwidth costs and means one client does not subsidize another.
Given the flexibility of our platform regarding what streaming formats and bit-rates can be used (almost any!) and the way viewer behavior varies (e.g. how often is a video watched to completion), any calculation based on "streams" or "views" can only be an approximation.
The figures included on the pricing charts are an approximation of one basic scenario: A client that streams only in our regular SD (standard definition) format and whose viewers watch all videos until completion.
(Note: This is a vast difference relative to how views are usually measured. Some firms count as little as 3 seconds of viewing to be a view of a stream)
We believe this approach is the most fair and transparent because it directly aligns client usage with our computing, storage and bandwidth costs and means one client does not subsidize another.
Given the flexibility of our platform regarding what streaming formats and bit-rates can be used (almost any!) and the way viewer behavior varies (e.g. how often is a video watched to completion), any calculation based on "streams" or "views" can only be an approximation.
The figures included on the pricing charts are an approximation of one basic scenario: A client that streams only in our regular SD (standard definition) format and whose viewers watch all videos until completion.
(Note: This is a vast difference relative to how views are usually measured. Some firms count as little as 3 seconds of viewing to be a view of a stream)
Detailed Calculations
The calculations in the pricing chart are based on the following assumptions:1) The average video length streamed is 2 minutes (120 seconds) and is watched to completion. Client is using no inbound bandwidth (e.g. the videos were already uploaded)
2) The video is streamed at an average bit rate of 400Kb/s ( this is slightly higher than our Standard Definition bitrate of 364 Kb/s in order to be conservative and provide some margin for error)
3) That means that each video, if watched to completion, consumes 5.859 Mb of streaming bandwidth. Or put differently, each GB of streaming allows 8.74 hours of video streaming (or 174 streams)
4) Note: This includes all video streaming, whether via the API, the client GUI or embedded players
Given these assumptions, each plan produces the following maximum streaming usage without generating overages:
| Plan | GB of Streaming | Hours of Streaming | Streams |
| Silver |
25 GB |
218 |
4,369 |
| Gold |
75 GB |
655 |
13,107 |
| Platinum |
200 GB |
1,747 |
34,953 |