Enterprise-grade
video infrastructure.
Reinvented.
Built on a fundamentally different architecture that delivers dramatically better economics without compromising reliability.
Traditional video platforms keep adding servers.
We redesigned the economics.
Video is entering a new era.
Every company is becoming a video company. AI products ship video. Education runs on it. Media, fitness, commerce and internal tooling all depend on it.
Infrastructure cost is becoming one of the largest barriers to growth. AntCDN changes the economics behind video delivery.
Better economics create better infrastructure.
Traditional providers built their platforms around expensive cloud architectures. AntCDN was engineered differently.
That architectural difference allows us to deliver video at a fraction of the cost while maintaining the reliability production teams expect.
Why AntCDN costs less.
Not because we charge less.
Because we built differently.
Traditional platforms inherit infrastructure decisions made a decade ago. AntCDN was designed from day one around a more efficient architecture, allowing us to pass those savings directly to customers.
Because pricing is downstream of architecture. Matching our economics would mean rebuilding the delivery path every one of their customers depends on, and unwinding a decade of infrastructure commitments made around it. We started with none of that to defend, and we are still making it more efficient.
What a real month costs.
A million minutes delivered, a hundred thousand minutes in the library, five hundred minutes transcoded to 4K. Here is the whole invoice, itemised.
- Delivering 1,000,000 minutes1,000,000 min at $0.0001
- $100.00
- Storing a 100,000 minute library4,653 GB at $0.019 / GB-month
- $88.41
- Transcoding 500 minutes to 4K500 min at $0.012
- $6.00
- Growth plan base feeMonthly
- $49.00
Run your own numbers.
The architecture above is why these numbers look the way they do. Put in your monthly minutes delivered and playback quality, and compare AntCDN against common alternatives. Rates come from public pricing pages and are applied with the assumptions stated.
Notes: Mux includes 100k free minutes/month; Cloudflare delivery is $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered; AWS IVS uses North America output rates.
Private video. Same speed, same price.
Lock down sensitive content with signed URLs and expirations, and keep the simplicity of standard HLS playback. Securing a video does not slow it down, and it does not cost more.
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).
Three tiers to match your stage.
Usage based, with no bandwidth caps and no overage cliffs. Start on Seed for free and move up when the volume justifies it.
- Delivery
- $0.00012 / min
- Storage
- $0.025 / GB-month
- Transcoding (4K)
- $0.07 / min
- Live encoding
- $0.04 / min
- HLS VOD delivery
- Signed URLs
- Edge-cached segments
- Basic analytics
- Community support
- No custom playback domains
- Delivery
- $0.00010 / min
- Storage
- $0.019 / GB-month
- Transcoding (4K)
- $0.012 / min
- Live encoding
- $0.02 / min
- Everything in Seed
- Custom playback domains
- HLS encryption
- Token-based access control
- Advanced caching
- Email and priority support
We align pricing to your throughput, regions and SLA requirements.
- Delivery
- Negotiated
- Storage
- Volume-discounted
- Transcoding
- Negotiated
- Live encoding
- Negotiated
- SLA (uptime and 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 |
Point a player at us and watch the first frame.
Seed is free and needs no card. Upload one video, compare the numbers against your current bill, and decide from there.