Cloudflare Stream
Serverless live and on-demand video streaming
- Upload, store, encode and deliver live and on-demand video with one API
- Stream video instantly from Cloudflare’s global network
- Start streaming today in less than 5 minutes
Build video into your website or app
No format, protocol, or encoding expertise required
Seamless viewer experiences
Stream works with all of the most widely used video players, and provides an integrated web player, allowing you to create your ideal viewer experience, without having to start from scratch.
Integrates with any device
Stream uses industry standard protocols with wide compatibility, allowing you to stream video to websites, native iOS and Android apps, and media streaming devices like Apple TV and Roku.
Adapts to your viewers’ bandwidth
Stream automatically encodes and delivers the ideal quality for each individual viewer, whether they’re on 4G on their phone or watching on the big screen at home.
APIs that don’t require video expertise
Stream provides simple APIs that every engineer on your team already knows. You never need to learn about new protocols, video formats or encoding pipelines — we optimize all of this for you.
Served by Cloudflare’s global CDN
Cloudflare’s network is within ~50ms of 95% of the Internet connected population. Unlike other platforms, we operate our own network and hardware, ensuring optimal performance and delivery.
No charges for encoding or bandwidth
Pay only for minutes of video delivered and minutes of video stored. We never charge for encoding, bandwidth or any other metric, and you pay only one provider for all video needs.
On-demand videos
Reliable, highly performant on-demand video experience for users across the globe — regardless of connection speed, device, or video formatting.
- Upload all common video formats: Cloudflare will standardize for playback on any device or connection
- Generate thumbnail previews: In static or animated formats, with no code required.
- Monetization: Serve ads before, during or after videos using the Video Advertising Serving Template (VAST) format.
Live streaming
The features you need to deliver an exceptional live streaming experience for any number of global users, across a huge variety of connections, devices, and concurrent platforms.
- Broad compatibility: Use the same RTMP protocol as platforms like YouTube, Twitch and Instagram — or use SRT, the new emerging standard.
- Painless restreaming: Stream live to Cloudflare, and we’ll handle simulcasting to any destination that supports RTMP or SRT (nearly all video streaming platforms).
- Automatically recording: Cloudflare Stream automatically records live streams and makes it easy to watch content later
Wide-ranging playback options
Play video on any device using standard protocols
Play video using HLS or DASH, the same protocols used by the biggest live and on-demand video streaming services in the world, supported by all your viewers’ devices.
Automatically serve the right resolution with adaptive bitrate streaming
Stream automatically makes multiple resolutions of your video available, and works with adaptive bitrate streaming standards to select the ideal resolution based on the viewer’s device and bandwidth.
Use our player or bring your own
Stream provides an embedded web player that requires zero engineering work to use, and lets you integrate with any web or native iOS or Android video player that supports HLS or DASH.
Features that put you in control
Control access
- Enable private, authenticated or time-bound access
- Prevent or allow downloads on a per-video basis
- Restrict access by IP or Geo
Editing
- Add captions in multiple languages
- Apply custom, reusable watermarks
- Clip videos without having to re-upload
User-generated content
- Let your users upload videos directly
- Allow your users to go live from your app via RTMP or SRT
- Track video analytics on a per-creator basis
Analytics
- Client-side analytics with detailed user filtering
- Server-side analytics of viewing pattern
- Live viewer counts
Simplified pricing of Cloudflare Stream
Streaming a library of 500 GB of HD videos over the course of one month with approximately 72,000 minutes of viewing time to a global market.
Total cost: $78.00/month
Streaming: $72.00 - Streaming costs at a rate of $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered.
Storage: $6.00 - Storage costs are based on 1,200 minutes of video content at $5 per 1,000 minutes stored.
Cloudflare Stream can save you $430.47 every month (or over $5,000 per year) when compared to a cloud provider offering.
Free player included
No additional costs to serve global users
Start using Cloudflare Stream
Video streaming costs with a typical public cloud provider
Streaming a library of 500 GB of HD videos over the course of one month with approximately 72,000 minutes of viewing time to the Americas, Europe, and Asia (accessing data centers in Brazil, US, UK, and Singapore).
Total cost: $508.47/month
Streaming: $496.97 - Total sum including encoding, CDN, and player costs.
Storage: $11.50
Significantly higher costs (6.5x higher) when building a multi-product solution in the cloud
An external open source player needs to be integrated
Unexpectedly high additional costs for data egress
Varying CDN costs for data center usage across different global regions
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