Yandex Cloud Video pricing policy
Note
Currency of Service rates (prices) depends on the company you made a contract with:
- Prices in US dollars are applicable to customers of Iron Hive doo Beograd (Serbia) or Direct Cursus Technology L.L.C. (Dubai).
- Prices in Russian roubles are applicable to customers of Yandex.Cloud LLC.
All prices in RUB and KZT are inclusive of VAT; in USD, net of VAT.
What goes into the cost of using Cloud Video
When using Cloud Video, you are charged for the following:
- Outgoing traffic: Fee for transmitting video content from the Yandex Cloud CDN servers to the internet. Such traffic means transmitting and showing video content to your audience.
- Transcoding: Fee for converting video content when uploading it to Cloud Video.
- Broadcasts transcoding: Fee for converting the stream video content.
- Video streaming storage: Fee for storing video streaming content after transcoding. When transcoding, you get multiple versions of video content with different bitrate and resolution. This is why the overall size of the video streaming content may be larger than that of the original content.
- Original files storage: Fee for storing the original video files uploaded to Cloud Video.
- Broadcasts storage: Fee for storing stream recordings.
The video content is stored in Object Storage. The data amount is measured in GBs per month. The size of video content per month is calculated as the average value based on granular per-second data. The minimum billing unit is 1 hour of storing 1 MB of data.
The minimum billing unit of outgoing traffic is 1 GB.
Note
AI features, such as auto subtitling, summarization, and AI translation, are already included in the cost of using Cloud Video and are not subject to additional charges.
Prices for the Russia region
Note
Yandex Cloud resources are priced differently in different regions. For more information about the available regions, see Regions.
Your payment currency is determined by your contracting legal entity. For more information on creating an account, see Registering an account in Yandex Cloud.
Calculation examples
Video hosting pricing
Let’s assume you need to calculate the monthly cost for using Cloud Video as per the following data:
- Number of uploaded videos:
10 items. - Duration of each video:
10 minutes. - Total video duration (to calculate the cost of transcoding):
10 items×10 minutes=100 minutes. - Overall size of the original files:
5 GB. - Overall size of the video files in streaming format (optimized, multiple versions with different bitrate and resolution):
8 GB. - Outgoing traffic (total size of the transmitted content when viewed):
50 GB.
We also assume that the videos (both the original and the streaming content) are stored for the entire month, i.e., 720 hours.
Cost of video transcoding, 100 minutes (charged once when you upload a video):
100 × $0.008999999 = $0.8999999
Cost of storing the original video, 5 GB, and streaming video, 8 GB:
5 × 720 × $0.000006687 = $0.0240732
8 × 720 × $0.000025125 = $0.14472
Cost of outgoing traffic, 50 GB:
50 × $0.008639999 = $0.43199995
The total monthly cost of the service will be:
$0.8999999 + $0.0240732 + $0.14472 + $0.43199995 = $1.50079305
Broadcasting pricing
Let's assume you need to calculate the monthly cost of broadcasting as per the following data:
- Broadcast duration:
60 minutes. - Broadcast video size:
3 GB. - Outgoing traffic (total video transmitted to viewers):
20 GB.
Cost of broadcast transcoding, 60 minutes:
60 × $0.021311472 = $1.27868832
Cost of storing a broadcast recording, 3 GB per month (720 hours):
3 × 720 × $0.000025156 = $0.05433696
Cost of outgoing traffic, 20 GB:
20 × $0.008639999 = $0.17279998
The total monthly cost of the broadcast will be:
$1.27868832 + $0.05433696 + $0.17279998 = $1.50582526