Stream pricing: minutes stored and minutes delivered
Cloudflare’s Stream pricing page explains the two billed dimensions, how delivered minutes are counted from segment requests, and how Media Transformations are billed; billing for WebRTC delivery began on October 15, 2026.
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- Stream bills on two dimensions only: minutes of video stored and minutes of video delivered, the same way for on-demand and live video. Ingress and encoding are free, and bandwidth is included in delivered minutes.
- Storage is prepaid in increments of $5 per month per 1,000 minutes and is consumed by uploaded originals, live recordings over RTMP or SRT, and the reserved maxDurationSeconds of unfinished Direct Creator and TUS uploads until they complete or expire. If storage runs out, you cannot upload new videos or start new live streams until you buy more or delete videos; Enterprise customers may continue beyond their quota.
- Delivery is post-paid at $1 per 1,000 minutes and is counted by HTTP requests for video segments: client-side preloading and buffering are billable, playback from the browser cache is not, and some mobile player libraries do not cache HLS segments by default. Web playback is rounded to the segment length (four seconds for uploaded content; for live, the keyframe interval of the broadcast).
- A live broadcast with no viewers costs $0 in delivered minutes, but its recording counts toward stored minutes until deleted. WebRTC (WHEP) playback, MP4 downloads (billed by the percentage of the file delivered) and SRT or RTMP simulcast outputs also count as delivery.
- Media Transformations share Images’ pricing: $0.50 per 1,000 monthly unique transformations with 5,000 free; a video output counts one transformation per second of output. Through the Workers binding, operations are not billed during the beta, but afterwards every operation will be billed individually rather than once per unique transformation, so the page recommends caching or storing results.
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Stream pricing: minutes stored and minutes delivered
Open original sourceCloudflare’s Stream pricing page explains the two billed dimensions, how delivered minutes are counted from segment requests, and how Media Transformations are billed; billing for WebRTC delivery began on October 15, 2026.
Changelog: Stream’s WebRTC support is generally available; usage-based billing for WebRTC began on October 15, 2026 at the standard rates for minutes of video delivered, and WebRTC delivery is now visible in Stream analytics and billable usage charts.
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