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.

We have a simple pricing model that is based on usage. Each plan includes a specific amount of encoding, hosting, and delivery usage. But don't worry, if you use more than the included amount you'll simply pay for extra minutes of usage at the rate dictated by your plan.

You can see your up-to-date usage in the dashboard at all times to keep track of what you've used so far during your billing period.

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.

Yes. Serving videos in China is possible. Our CDN delivers videos worldwide.