Sink pricing

Non-RTC video / audio outputs

rtmp_push, srt_push, and segment are billed as:

encoding_cost + egress_cost

Encoding uses the H.264 baseline rates below (USD/min). Video tier uses the same measured resolution × fps rules as sources; audio keeps the flat audio encode rate. Audio and video lines are additive when both tracks are encoded.

Video whose measured width and height are both at most 16 pixels has no video encoding charge. Its successfully delivered bytes still incur egress charges.

Encode tier	Up to	USD/min
audio	Audio	$0.00045
video_sd	480p30	$0.002
video_hd	720p30	$0.004
video_fhd30	1080p30	$0.008
video_fhd60	1080p60	$0.012
video_uhd30	4K30	$0.02
video_uhd60	4K60	$0.03

Codec multipliers

The baseline above is H.264. Anything else multiplies it:

Codec	×
H.264 / AVC / VP8	1
VP9	1.5

So a given tier costs half again as much in VP9 as the H.264 rate in the table above.

Successful egress

Every sink bills successfully delivered transport or storage bytes at $0.12/GB:

egress_cost = successful_egress_bytes / 1,000,000,000 × $0.12

Failed writes and dropped or queued data are excluded. WebSocket counts successful PCM writes; RTMP/SRT and mux sinks count successful packet writes; segment/image count successful uploads. RTC sinks read cumulative transport statistics. Daily integrates sendBitsPerSecond over each sampling interval.

Multi-target transfer

Multiple URLs on one rtmp_push sink share one encoder. Encoding is billed once; egress is already the sum of each destination’s successful writes. Billing does not apply another output-count multiplier.

Separate sinks with equivalent inputs, filters, and encoding config may share one compiler-generated encoder. Their successful destination writes still contribute independently to egress.

WebSocket audio

With raw PCM input, websocket does not incur the audio encoding-duration rate. With an audio_encoder input, the encoded audio duration is billed once. Both modes bill payload bytes successfully written to the external WebSocket:

egress_cost = successful_payload_bytes / 1,000,000,000 × $0.12

The byte counter already aggregates every per-track connection, so sinkOutputCount is not applied again. At 16 kHz mono pcm_s16le, one continuous track sends about 1.92 MB/minute, or $0.0002304/minute.

RTC outputs

whip, livekit, jitsi, daily, and agora use the same video/audio tier rates above and also bill successful WebRTC transport egress. Raw I420/PCM bytes submitted to an RTC SDK are not treated as encoded payload or egress.

image

Per 1000 images (not per minute):

Tier	Resolution	USD / 1000
image_sd	≤480p	$0.10
image_hd	≤720p	$0.20
image_fhd	≤1080p	$0.40
image_uhd	≤4K	$1.00

Example: 1080p JPEG every 10s for 1 hour → 360 images → 360 × $0.40 / 1000 = $0.144.