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shy topaz Jan 27, 2026, 2:03 AM

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Hello, I'm curious about the pricing about Cloudflare streams, specifically live input. It charges $1 per 1000 minutes of streaming. Does this mean that if we have 3 users watching for 1 minute, that's 3 minutes of the 1000 minutes of streaming used or is that just 1 minute used for the 3 users combined?

lone orchidBOT Jan 27, 2026, 2:03 AM

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According to the Cloudflare Stream pricing documentation (https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/pricing/), the pricing is based on "Minutes of video delivered". It is stated that "Stream bills on total minutes of video delivered across all users."

In the scenario you described, if 3 users watch for 1 minute, that would be considered 3 minutes of video delivered, as each user is receiving the video for 1 minute. Therefore, 3 minutes of the 1000 minutes of streaming would be used.

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shy topaz Jan 27, 2026, 2:03 AM

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Is that true? It would cost money for every single user watching??

storm raven Jan 27, 2026, 2:04 AM

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shy topaz Hello, I'm curious about the pricing about Cloudflare streams, specifically live...

Three users watching for one minute each makes three minutes.

shy topaz Jan 27, 2026, 2:04 AM

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Yikes

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That's for live input (live streaming)?

storm raven Jan 27, 2026, 2:04 AM

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That's for content delivered, whether it's live input or not

shy topaz Jan 27, 2026, 2:06 AM

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Thank you, I'll have to look at alternative

nimble blaze Jan 28, 2026, 12:01 AM

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Literally the only service that won't charge you for users watching is YouTube (at least as far as developer friendly video platforms go). Streaming video is really expensive to deliver

shy topaz Jan 30, 2026, 12:00 AM

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that's fair, i just really wanted a pricing model where the broadcaster had to pay, not the viewer

nimble blaze Jan 30, 2026, 2:44 AM

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What do you mean? The broadcaster is the one that pays, they just get charged per user that watches. This is how every paid streaming service works from the broadcaster perspective. The idea is that your service or whatever would be adequately monetised to support the viewer numbers on your streams

shy topaz Jan 30, 2026, 3:13 AM

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I'm just not quite sure how that's possible to put it into the broadcaster's subscription

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I'm wanting to charge roughly $5/month for X mount of hours of streaming and the viewer would be free with ads. I've just never done stuff before with ads so I'm unsure how much that would generate

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