Cloudflare Stream
Serverless live and on-demand video streaming
Create better video experiences. Stream makes hosting video effortless. Upload, store, encode, and deliver live and on-demand video with one API cost effectively.
- Low-latency video delivery
- Upload, store, encode and deliver live and on-demand video with one API
- Stream video instantly from Cloudflare’s global network
- Start streaming today in less than 5 minutes
On-demand videos
Reliable, highly performant on-demand video experience for users across the globe — regardless of connection speed, device, or video formatting.
- Upload all common video formats: Cloudflare will standardize for playback on any device or connection
- Generate thumbnail previews: In static or animated formats, with no code required.
- Monetization: Serve ads before, during or after videos using the Video Advertising Serving Template (VAST) format.
Live streaming
The features you need to deliver an exceptional live streaming experience for any number of global users, across a huge variety of connections, devices, and concurrent platforms.
- Broad compatibility: Use the same RTMP protocol as platforms like YouTube, Twitch and Instagram — or use SRT, the new emerging standard.
- Painless restreaming: Stream live to Cloudflare, and we’ll handle simulcasting to any destination that supports RTMP or SRT (nearly all video streaming platforms).
- Automatically recording: Cloudflare Stream automatically records live streams and makes it easy to watch content later
Simplified pricing of Cloudflare Stream
Streaming a library of 500 GB of HD videos over the course of one month with approximately 72,000 minutes of viewing time to a global market.
Total cost: $78.00/month
Streaming: $72.00 - Streaming costs at a rate of $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered.
Storage: $6.00 - Storage costs are based on 1,200 minutes of video content at $5 per 1,000 minutes stored.
Cloudflare Stream can save you $430.47 every month (or over $5,000 per year) when compared to a cloud provider offering.
Free player included
No additional costs to serve global users
Start using Cloudflare Stream
Video streaming costs with a typical public cloud provider
Streaming a library of 500 GB of HD videos over the course of one month with approximately 72,000 minutes of viewing time to the Americas, Europe, and Asia (accessing data centers in Brazil, US, UK, and Singapore).
Total cost: $508.47/month
Streaming: $496.97 - Total sum including encoding, CDN, and player costs.
Storage: $11.50
Significantly higher costs (6.5x higher) when building a multi-product solution in the cloud
An external open source player needs to be integrated
Unexpectedly high additional costs for data egress
Varying CDN costs for data center usage across different global regions
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