Video Intelligence API pricing
Prices are per minute. Partial minutes are rounded up to the next full minute. Volume is per month.
Stored video annotation
| Feature | First 1000 minutes | Minutes 1000+ |
|---|---|---|
| Label detection | Free | $0.10 / minute |
| Shot detection | Free | $0.05 / minute, or free with Label detection |
| Explicit content detection | Free | $0.10 / minute |
| Speech transcription | Free | $0.048 / minute (charges for en-US transcription only) |
| Object tracking | Free | $0.15 / minute |
| Text detection | Free | $0.15 / minute |
| Logo detection | Free | $0.15 / minute |
| Face detection | Free | $0.10 / minute |
| Person detection | Free | $0.10 / minute |
| Celebrity recognition | Free | $0.10 / minute |
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
If you are requesting annotations for videos for over 100,000 minutes of video per month, then contact a sales representative to discuss discount pricing.
Example
If your application made the following requests in a particular month:
- 1000 label detection requests, each containing a 1m22s long video.
- 100 explicit detection requests, each containing a 1m15s long video.
Your cost would be:
Each request is 1m22s or 82 seconds long and there are 1000 such requests. Calculating in minutes, we have (82*1000)/60 = 1366.66 minutes of label detection. The first 1000 minutes are free; the additional 366.66 minutes cost $0.10 per minute, totaling $36.67.
Each request is 1m15s or 75 seconds long and there are 100 such requests. Calculating in minutes, we have (75*100)/60 = 125 minutes of explicit content detection. The first 1000 minutes per month are free, so there's no charge for these requests.
Total cost is $36.67.
Streaming video annotation
| Feature | First 1000 minutes | Minutes 1000+ |
|---|---|---|
| Label detection | Free | $0.12 / minute |
| Shot detection | Free | $0.07 / minute |
| Explicit content detection | Free | $0.12 / minute |
| Object tracking | Free | $0.17 / minute |
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
If you are requesting annotations for videos for over 100,000 minutes of video per month, then contact a sales representative to discuss discount pricing.
Example
If your application made the following requests in a particular month:
- 200 label detection requests, each containing a 9m15s200ms long video stream.
- 10 explicit content detection requests, each containing a stream of 29m15s long video.
Your cost would be:
Each request is 9m15s200ms or 555.2 seconds long and there are 200 such requests. Calculating in minutes, we have (555.2*200)/60 = 1850.66 minutes of label detection. The first 1000 minutes are free; the additional 850.66 minutes cost $0.12 per minute, totaling $102.0792.
Each request is 29m15s or 1755 seconds long and there are 10 such requests. Calculating in minutes, we have (1755*10)/60 = 292.5 minutes of explicit content detection. The first 1000 minutes per month are free, so there's no charge for these requests.
Total cost is round up to $102.08.
Google Cloud Platform costs
You may be charged for other Google Cloud Platform resources used in your project, such as Google Compute Engine instances, Google Cloud Storage, etc.
The Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator can help to determine those separate costs based on current rates.
What's next
- Read the Video Intelligence API documentation.
- Get started with Video Intelligence API.
- Try the Pricing calculator.
- Learn about Video Intelligence API solutions and use cases.