Total cost
$0
per month
Per stream hour
—
0 hrs/mo
Per viewer
—
0 viewers
Annual projection
$0
extrapolated × 12
Encoding & transcoding
Live encoder channels
Hardware or cloud encoder per live stream
2
$380
Cloud transcoding
Ladder outputs / hours per month
$200
VOD transcoding
Minutes encoded per month
500
$30
CDN & delivery
CDN bandwidth
TB delivered per month
10
$90
Concurrent viewers
Peak concurrent streams
500
$60
Multi-CDN failover
Secondary CDN + routing logic
$0
Platform & tooling
Video player licence
Branded / analytics-enabled player
$250
DRM / content protection
Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady
$0
Live captions / subtitles
AI-powered real-time captioning
$0
Analytics & QoE platform
Mux, Conviva, or similar
$190
Origin storage
S3 or equivalent, VOD assets
$0
Ops & labour
Engineers / operators
Broadcast ops headcount
1
$7,500
24/7 NOC support
Managed network operations centre
$0
Estimates only. Prices vary by vendor, region, and contract. Use as a planning guide — verify quotes with suppliers before budgeting.
