Delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18
70 points by peter_d_sherman 7 days ago | 14 comments
  • peter_d_sherman 7 days ago |
  • jauntywundrkind 7 days ago |
    $2.18 / 0.015$/GB*mo comes to 143 GB months of store data.

    This would ignore the upload costs and any API costs.

  • pjfin123 6 days ago |
    Cloudflare R2 has been huge for my open source project Argos Translate. Two years ago I was getting swamped with $250/mo+ bandwidth bills for a project with minimal revenue. Now I distribute 10TB+ per month of model weights for $0. I'm still on the free plan
  • ndiddy 6 days ago |
    The article title is somewhat misleading. The "15 terabyte" figure refers to the amount of bandwidth used, not the amount of video being stored (it's closer to 145 GB).
    • KomoD 6 days ago |
      It's not misleading at all, they are delivering 15TB of video for $2.18.

      It doesn't say they're storing 15TB for $2.18, it says they're delivering it.

  • langsoul-com 6 days ago |
    This price is solely to deliver 15tb of video.

    Don't get confused like other commenter.

  • mappu 6 days ago |
    Depending on your content, switching from `-preset veryfast` to `veryslow` could let you drop the bitrate by as much as 20-30% at the same visual quality. Your users will thank you for it,
  • john-baker-11 6 days ago |
    Good read. I thought you were talking about cloudflare stream which charges similar to other comparisons you drew in the blog.

    This works because you dont have complexity of real time encoding, muxing. It quickly becomes a complex infra to manage if we do that ourselves.

    I am curious what CDN are you using and what are rough configs?

  • Tiberium 6 days ago |
    Can anyone explain how this is possible when most other providers charge huge costs for egress? Is Cloudflare operating at a loss here?
    • jjeaff 6 days ago |
      Bandwidth is cheap. Other operators are charging enormous margins.
    • josevalerio 6 days ago |
    • bigfatkitten 3 days ago |
      Because cloud egress charges are a massive rort.

      Cloudflare, along with AWS, Google and GCP are big enough destinations that they pay almost nothing for bandwidth. Unlike the others, Cloudflare charges accordingly.

      They are such huge destinations that other network operators come to them and say "peer with me pls senpai".