Designed for high-throughput video delivery

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.

Predictable cost
Flat delivery pricing
Forecast spend with pricing that doesn’t punish HD/4K usage.
Fast playback
Optimized for time-to-first-frame
Built to start quickly—even when a viewer is far away or cache is cold.
Control
Public or signed playback
JWT-signed URLs, API keys, and analytics built for production teams.

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.

Security
Signed playback (JWT)
Restrict private videos with RS256-signed URLs and expirations.
Access
Environment-scoped API keys
Keep production keys server-side and rotate with confidence.
Observability
Analytics built for operators
Understand segments served, resolution distribution, and usage trends.
Player freedom
HLS on your terms
Use Shaka, hls.js, native playback, or our iframe—your choice.
Operator-first promise
Designed for the on-call reality
Predictable spend at scale
Flat delivery pricing means your finance team isn’t surprised by resolution mix.
Performance you can measure
Instrumentation and benchmarks are first-class—prove improvements, don’t guess.
Security without DRM complexity
Signed playback makes casual sharing and link scraping dramatically harder.
Pricing calculator

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.

Monthly minutes delivered
Approximate “watch minutes” across your audience.
1,000,000 minutes
10k 20M
Quality
AntCDN tier
Pick the public delivery rate to model.
Estimated monthly delivery spend
Updates live
AntCDN
$0
Mux
$0
Cloudflare Stream
$0
AWS IVS
$0

Notes: Mux includes 100k free minutes/month; Cloudflare delivery is $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered; AWS IVS uses North America output rates.

Security model

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.

JWT-signed playback
Sign URLs with RS256 and set expirations to reduce link sharing and scraping.
Server-side API keys
Authenticate API requests via X-Api-Key headers. Keep keys out of the browser.
Built-in analytics
Inspect segments served, daily usage, storage, and resolution distribution.
Integration

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.

Upload
Pre-signed URL flow
Keep credentials off clients while allowing direct uploads.
Ingest
Bring your own bucket
Ingest from a URL (gs:// or https://) to fit existing data pipelines.
Example upload flows
python
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 control

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).

Preset
Resolution + bitrate caps
Set ceilings that match your brand and device mix.
FFmpeg
Speed vs quality
Choose faster encodes or higher compression efficiency.
Why it matters
Ship consistent playback everywhere
Control quality, control cost, and control user experience—without losing player compatibility.
Reliability

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.

SLA
Delivery guarantee
A simple promise: if we say the video is deliverable, it must deliver.
Visibility
Independent monitoring
Don’t take our word for it—verify with a third party.
Pricing

Three tiers to match your stage.

Seed
Validate your idea
Base fee
$0 / month
Usage rates
Delivery
$0.00012 / minute
Storage
$0.025 / GB-month
Transcoding (4K)
$0.07 / minute
Includes
  • HLS VOD delivery
  • Signed URLs
  • Edge-cached segments
  • Basic analytics
  • Community support
Limits
  • Soft cap on delivery (manual review after threshold)
  • No custom playback domains
  • No SLA
Growth
Scale a real business
Most popular
Base fee
$49 / month
Usage rates
Delivery
$0.00010 / minute
Storage
$0.019 / GB-month
Transcoding (4K)
$0.012 / minute
Includes
  • Everything in Seed
  • Custom playback domains
  • HLS encryption
  • Token-based access control
  • Advanced caching (pre-warm + early hints)
  • Email / priority support
Scale
High volume, predictable traffic
Base fee
Custom contract
We’ll align pricing to your throughput, regions, and SLA requirements.
Usage rates
Delivery
Negotiated
Storage
Volume-discounted
Transcoding
Negotiated
Includes
  • SLA (uptime + performance)
  • Dedicated cache strategy
  • Multi-region redundancy
  • Optional DRM integration
  • Account manager
  • Custom analytics exports
Pricing details

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)
Pricing details

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
Ready to ship video

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.