Transcoder API pricing

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Pricing details for the Transcoder API, in USD.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Pricing overview

When you use the Transcoder API you are charged per minute of transcoded video output. Price per minute is based on the output video resolution.

Note: Products in preview, early access, alpha, or beta may not have charges associated with usage in their current launch stage, which is subject to change.

Free usage

The Transcoder API does not have a free tier offering at this time.

Pricing table

Video class	Resolution classifier	Price per minute
SD	Less than 1280x720	$0.015
HD	1280x720 to 1920x1080	$0.030
UHD	More than 1920x1080 to 4096x2160	$0.060

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Note: Pricing for HEVC and VP9 codec usage has not been finalized.

Pricing examples

Example 1: Multiple output formats

Suppose a request is made to the Transcoder API with a 30 minute long input video file with four requested output resolutions:

• 640x480
• 1280x720
• 1920x1080
• 3840x2160

The price per output is determined by the video class of the requested video resolution. For the above example, the following video classes and price points are assigned.

Video resolution	Resolution classifier	Price per minute
640x480	SD	$0.015
1280x720	HD	$0.030
1920x1080	HD	$0.030
3840x2160	UHD	$0.060
	Total Price Per Minute	$0.135

The input video length is then multiplied by the calculated total price per minute for all requested video outputs to arrive at the total cost for the requested transcoding job.

• 30 minutes * $0.135 per minute = $4.05 billed for transcoding job.

Example 2: Trimmed video

Supposed the same video resolutions are requested as in Example 1, but the 30-minute input is trimmed during transcoding to create a 2-minute output.

Pricing is per minute of output, so only 2 minutes are billed. The video resolutions are the same as Example 1, so the per-minute pricing is the same:

• 2 minutes * $0.135 per minute = $0.27 billed for transcoding job.

Example 3: Multiple manifests

Suppose that two output manifests (one HLS, one DASH) are created, each including the same video resolutions as in Example 1.

Price per minute is calculated for each video stream encoded. In this case, since HLS and DASH manifests are repackaging the same four streams, the price per minute includes the cost of those four streams.

Video resolution	Resolution classifier	Price per minute
640x480	SD	$0.015
1280x720	HD	$0.030
1920x1080	HD	$0.030
3840x2160	UHD	$0.060
	Total Price Per Minute	$0.135

• 30 minutes * $0.135 per minute = $4.05 billed for transcoding job.

What's next

• Read the Transcoder API documentation.
• Get started with Transcoder API.
• Try the Pricing calculator.
• Learn about Transcoder API solutions and use cases.

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