Stream millions of minutes for tens of dollars.
AntCDN delivers your videos fast, reliable, and 30× cheaper — millions of minutes streamed globally, with no hidden costs and no locking you into a single player or platform.
Built for serious workloads. Engineered for predictability.
When video is core to your product, “mostly works” is not a strategy. AntCDN is designed to give your team control over the critical path: delivery, security, analytics, and cost—without a black box.
Estimate your delivery costs across AntCDN and common alternatives.
Put in monthly minutes delivered + max playback quality. We’ll estimate delivery cost across AntCDN and common alternatives. Rates are sourced from public pricing pages and applied with explicit assumptions.
Notes: Mux includes 100k free minutes/month; Cloudflare delivery is $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered; AWS IVS uses North America output rates.
Public playback when you want it. Signed playback when you need it.
Keep sensitive content private with signed URLs and expirations, while maintaining the simplicity of standard HLS playback. No proprietary player required.
Integrate in minutes, not sprints.
Upload with a signed URL or ingest directly from your bucket. Serve with standard HLS across the players you already use.
import requests
import os
import mimetypes
API_BASE = "https://api.antcdn.net/v1"
API_KEY = os.environ["ANTCDN_API_KEY"]
def upload_via_presign(file_path: str) -> None:
filename = os.path.basename(file_path)
content_type = mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0] or "application/octet-stream"
# 1) request a signed upload URL
resp = requests.post(
f"{API_BASE}/videos/upload-url",
headers={"X-Api-Key": API_KEY},
json={"fileName": filename, "allowPublicAccess": False},
timeout=60,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
signed_url = resp.json()["body"]["signedURL"]
asset_id = resp.json()["body"]["assetId"]
# 2) PUT the file directly to storage
with open(file_path, "rb") as f:
put = requests.put(
signed_url,
data=f,
headers={"Content-Type": content_type},
timeout=60,
)
put.raise_for_status()
# That's it. We will process your video and make it ready for delivery.
print("assetId:", asset_id)
upload_via_presign("/path/to/video.mp4") Quality is a product decision. Keep control.
AntCDN gives you two levers: a quality preset (caps bitrate and resolution), and FFmpeg controls (encoding speed vs quality trade-offs at a given bitrate).
Reliability your customers can feel.
AntCDN includes a 100% video delivery SLA on every plan. We also maintain external monitoring so you can verify availability independently.
Three tiers to match your stage.
- Delivery
- $0.00012 / minute
- Storage
- $0.025 / GB-month
- Transcoding (4K)
- $0.07 / minute
- HLS VOD delivery
- Signed URLs
- Edge-cached segments
- Basic analytics
- Community support
- Soft cap on delivery (manual review after threshold)
- No custom playback domains
- No SLA
- Delivery
- $0.00010 / minute
- Storage
- $0.019 / GB-month
- Transcoding (4K)
- $0.012 / minute
- Everything in Seed
- Custom playback domains
- HLS encryption
- Token-based access control
- Advanced caching (pre-warm + early hints)
- Email / priority support
- Delivery
- Negotiated
- Storage
- Volume-discounted
- Transcoding
- Negotiated
- SLA (uptime + performance)
- Dedicated cache strategy
- Multi-region redundancy
- Optional DRM integration
- Account manager
- Custom analytics exports
Storage cost comparison
Standardized to $ / GB-month. Choose a representative bitrate to convert providers that price per-minute.
| Platform | $ / GB-month |
|---|---|
| AntCDN Storage | — |
| Mux Storage | — |
| Cloudflare Stream Storage | — |
| Bunny Stream (Video Library) | — |
Encoding cost comparison
Prices are per minute. Use this to sanity-check profile economics at scale.
| Profile | Total bit-rate (bps) | GB/s | Mux (per min) | AntCDN (per min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 720 p | 2,384,000 | 0.000298 | $0.003 | $0.0022 |
| Standard 1080 p | 5,140,000 | 0.000643 | $0.004 | $0.0035 |
| High 720 p | 2,384,000 | 0.000298 | $0.0024 | $0.0024 |
| High 1080 p | 6,204,000 | 0.000776 | $0.003 | $0.00264 |
| High 1440 p | 11,024,000 | 0.001378 | $0.0045 | $0.00396 |
| High 4 K | 19,344,000 | 0.002418 | $0.009 | $0.008 |
| Ultra 720 p | 2,384,000 | 0.000298 | $0.0036 | $0.003 |
| Ultra 1080 p | 7,704,000 | 0.000963 | $0.0045 | $0.004 |
| Ultra 1440 p | 14,024,000 | 0.001753 | $0.00675 | $0.006 |
| Ultra 4 K | 26,344,000 | 0.003293 | $0.0135 | $0.012 |
Get predictable performance and pricing in one afternoon.
Start with public playback, then lock down private content with signed URLs as you scale. Your team keeps control of players, encoding, and instrumentation.