Yandex Cloud Video pricing policy

All prices in RUB and KZT are inclusive of VAT; in USD, net of VAT.

What goes into the cost of using Cloud VideoWhat 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. The fee does not depend on the type of video and is the same for uploaded videos and broadcasts.
• Transcoding: Fee for converting video content when uploading it to the service.
• Broadcast video transcoding: Fee for conversion of the broadcast video stream.
• 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.
• Broadcast video storage: Fee for storage of broadcast videos.

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.

Prices for the Russia regionPrices for the Russia region

Calculation examplesCalculation examples

Video hosting pricingVideo 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. Storage is billed in GB x hour, so the formulas multiply the video size by 720 for the number of hours in a month.

Cost of video transcoding, 100 minutes (charged once when you upload a video):

100 × $0.0089999986 = $0.89999986

Cost of storing the original video, 5 GB, and streaming video, 8 GB:

5 × 720 × $0.0000072131 = $0.02596716

8 × 720 × $0.0000270492 = $0.155803392

Cost of outgoing traffic, 50 GB:

50 × $0.0086393429 = $0.431967145

The total monthly cost of the service will be:

$0.89999986 + $0.02596716 + $0.155803392 + $0.431967145 = $1.513737557

Broadcasting pricingBroadcasting 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.

Storage is billed in GB x hour, so the formulas multiply the video size by 720 for the number of hours in a month.

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 × $0.0000251557 = $0.054336312

Cost of outgoing traffic, 20 GB:

20 × $0.0086393429 = $0.172786858

The total monthly cost of the broadcast will be:

$1.27868832 + $0.054336312 + $0.172786858 = $1.50581149