Cloudflare Stream

Video hosting and streaming

PaidImages, video & filesdevelopers.cloudflare.com

What it is

End-to-end video: upload or push RTMP, Cloudflare encodes to adaptive bitrate, stores it and delivers over its own network with a bundled player. Pricing ignores file size and resolution entirely — you are billed on minutes stored and minutes watched.

Why it earns a slot

Resolution-independent pricing is the differentiator: a 4K upload costs the same per minute as 720p, unlike Mux. Ingest and encoding are free, so re-uploading or re-encoding a back catalog carries no processing charge.

Know before you commit

No free tier at all, and storage is prepaid in $5 blocks of 1,000 minutes. The bundled player and signed-URL scheme are Cloudflare-specific, so moving off means re-embedding every video.

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Pricing snapshot

$5 per 1,000 minutes stored/mo, prepaid in $5 blocks; $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered. Ingest and encoding always free. No free tier

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Evaluate Cloudflare Stream (https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Video hosting and streaming. End-to-end video: upload or push RTMP, Cloudflare encodes to adaptive bitrate, stores it and delivers over its own network with a bundled player. Pricing ignores file size and resolution entirely — you are billed on minutes stored and minutes watched.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): Resolution-independent pricing is the differentiator: a 4K upload costs the same per minute as 720p, unlike Mux. Ingest and encoding are free, so re-uploading or re-encoding a back catalog carries no processing charge.
Watch out for: No free tier at all, and storage is prepaid in $5 blocks of 1,000 minutes. The bundled player and signed-URL scheme are Cloudflare-specific, so moving off means re-embedding every video.
Pricing: $5 per 1,000 minutes stored/mo, prepaid in $5 blocks; $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered. Ingest and encoding always free. No free tier
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