Yandex Cloud Video pricing policy
At the Preview stage, Cloud Video is free of charge.
Warning
The pricing below will become effective as of August 1, 2025.
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 below do not include 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.
- 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.
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.
Prices for the Russia region
Note
Yandex Cloud resource pricing vary by region. 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.
Storage and transcoding of video
| Service | Price, without VAT |
|---|---|
| Streaming video storage (per 1 GB per month) | $0.018090 |
| Original video storage (per 1 GB per month) | $0.004815 |
| Video transcoding (per 1 minute) | 0.009 $ |
The daily cost of storing the video streaming content and original files is calculated as Price_per_GB_per_month / number_of_days_in_month. For shorter months, the storage price per day is higher. For longer months, it is lower.
Outgoing traffic
The minimum billing unit is 1 GB.
|
Resource category |
Price of 1 GB, without VAT |
|
|
EdgeCDN provider |
Yandex Cloud CDN provider |
|
|
Outgoing traffic |
$0.008640 |
$0.008640 |
Cost calculation example
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.
Video transcoding cost — 100 minutes (charged once upon video upload):
100 × 0.009 $ = 0.9 $
Storage cost for original video — 5 GB, and for streaming video — 8 GB:
5 × $0.004815 = $0.024075
8 × $0.018090 = $0.144720
Outgoing traffic cost — 50 GB:
50 × $0.008640 = $0.432000
The total service cost for the month is:
0.9 $ + $0.024075 + $0.144720 + $0.432000 = $1.500795