You subscribe to a monthly plan, that includes a preset set of encoding, hosting and delivery minutes. Once you consume these minutes, we will bill you only for any additional overage minutes you might have used within the month. You can always view your up to date usage in your Dashboard, to help you track your consumption and how many minutes you have used for the month.

We measure the minutes of videos that you upload (encoding), that you store (hosting), and that your viewers watch (delivery) as follows:

• Encoding: The total duration of all the videos you upload

• Hosting: The total duration of video minutes stored

• Delivery: The total duration of video that has loaded and is available for viewing by a viewer.

Here is an Example: Let’s assume you upload a video of 1 minute that is viewed for 30 seconds by 1 viewer. We will measure 1 minute for Encoding, 1 minute for Hosting and 34 seconds for Delivery (30 seconds viewed and 4 additional seconds that was loaded).

Don’t worry! We have already predefined for you the minutes that you will need based on your selected monthly plan. Once you start using our API, you can access your consumption to date information at any time via the Dashboard, so you know when you are running low and how your usage evolves based on your activities.

You can either move to the next plan that includes more minutes, or simply continue with your current plan and pay for any overage minutes consumed. Note however that as you move up the monthly plans the lower the pricing per minute will be, and the lower your overage usage cost will be!

Yes you can. Once your account created, you have access to our sandbox to make unlimited tests. The content will be watermarked and automatically deleted after 24 hours. To access the Production environment, you need to add a payment method in your account.

No - if you ingest a two minutes video, you pay for two minutes, even if api.video delivers that same video in 5 different qualities. 


You can always test our the APIs by signing up for a completely free sandbox account.

Once you're ready to go into production, you'll need to select one of our paid plans.

Tax is not included in the prices. Tax will be added in your invoices.

The first day of every month, you will receive your bill, that will include your monthly subscription fee and any overage usage from the prior month.

You can use your debit card, credit card or Paypal account.

Yes! As you grow and increase your use of our API, you can request to change your plan. Simply do so by sending us a chat message, or an email at help@api.video.

Yes! Simply send us a chat message. We will charge only for any overage usage consumed within the month of cancelation.