Can you help me understand the pricing?

It would be very simple if we could charge per minute and leave it at that. However, Transloadit can handle any kind of file, not just those that have a duration.

A fixed $ per GB could also be nice but that would leave some bots overpriced in our opinion. For that reason, we offer discounts that vary per Robot.

The discounts work by ignoring a percentage of your usage.

Suppose you had a 1 GB video file and wanted to extract 10 thumbnails, and each thumbnail would be a 1MB JPEG. What would the usage be in this case?

It's 1 GB + (10 * 1MB) = 1034MB. 🤖/video/thumbs has a 90% discount, so we only charge 10%. This means you will be billed for 103.4MB. Or: 0.1 GB * the price associated with your plan.

Here are some more calculation examples for your convenience.

By using plans, you can commit to a monthly usage, for which we can offer a lower GB pricing. You will still be able to process files beyond your plan limit, but we can't offer the same discount for that. We will notify you when you are close to your plan's limit, so you can always find the most economical spot for your usage.

For information on the specific usage for each month, check out the Monthly usage section under your account's Billing & Plan tab.

Video encoding

Say you have a 150 MB video and want to encode it into 3 different formats — Ogg, WebM and MP4:

Step	Charge (for the input + output files)				Total
Ogg 70% assumed compression rate	150 MB	+	45 MB 30% of 150 MB	=	195 MB
WebM 60% assumed compression rate	150 MB	+	60 MB 40% of 150 MB	=	210 MB
MP4 80% assumed compression rate	150 MB	+	30 MB 20% of 150 MB	=	180 MB
					585 MB

Discount example

Let‘s say you would like to convert files that have a combined size of 3 GB. You have already run a test and calculated that this will mean 4 GB of video encoding, 2 GB of image resizing, and 2 GB of audio encoding per month. You also want to store all uploaded files and encoding results on Amazon S3.

Since some Robots are discounted, you won't be charged 100% for all the operations:

Data	Charged	Total
4 GB of video encoding	100%	4 GB
2 GB of image resizing	100%	2 GB
2 GB of audio encoding	25%	0.5 GB
3 GB of storing the original files on S3	10%	0.3 GB
8 GB of storing all encodings/resizings on S3	0%	0 GB
		6.8 GB

In this case, you would do best to choose the Startup plan, which comes at $49 with 30GB included and $1.80 per additional GB.

If you have any questions with regard to pricing or choosing a plan, please don’t hesitate to ask!

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Video encoding

Discount example