Video encoding and delivery at Cloudflare edge — flat per-minute pricing
Cloudflare Stream bundles video encoding, adaptive streaming, and delivery into a single product priced as one number per minute stored and per minute delivered. The Cloudflare CDN backbone means delivery latency is among the best in the world. API surface intentionally minimal. Best fit: teams already on Cloudflare who want video as one more product in their bundle, or teams at high volume where Mux pricing starts to bite. Trade-off: feature surface narrower than Mux. No native live streaming as polished as Mux. Analytics less detailed.
One CDN, one bill, one DNS. Stream fits because the rest does.
We were already on Cloudflare Workers + R2. Stream just slotted in. iframe embed for video, R2 for thumbnails, Workers for upload signing. All one provider, one auth, one bill.
At 10M minutes/mo we are paying less than half what Mux would charge.
Flat $1 per 1K minutes delivered is the killer feature at scale. For a video-heavy product the ROI is months.
Switched back to Mux for analytics. Cost savings did not justify the visibility loss.
Cloudflare Stream is cheap. Mux Data shows engagement curves, drop-off, errors per CDN. We need that for product decisions. The Mux premium is worth it for us.
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