Cloudflare R2 has been huge for my open source project Argos Translate. Two years ago I was getting swamped with $250/mo+ bandwidth bills for a project with minimal revenue. Now I distribute 10TB+ per month of model weights for $0. I'm still on the free plan
Depending on your content, switching from `-preset veryfast` to `veryslow` could let you drop the bitrate by as much as 20-30% at the same visual quality. Your users will thank you for it,
The article title is somewhat misleading. The "15 terabyte" figure refers to the amount of bandwidth used, not the amount of video being stored (it's closer to 145 GB).
Cloudflare R2 has been huge for my open source project Argos Translate. Two years ago I was getting swamped with $250/mo+ bandwidth bills for a project with minimal revenue. Now I distribute 10TB+ per month of model weights for $0. I'm still on the free plan
Do you have any documentation of this endeavor? Or some bulleted tips? I'd like to do something similar.
Good read. I thought you were talking about cloudflare stream which charges similar to other comparisons you drew in the blog.
This works because you dont have complexity of real time encoding, muxing. It quickly becomes a complex infra to manage if we do that ourselves.
I am curious what CDN are you using and what are rough configs?
Depending on your content, switching from `-preset veryfast` to `veryslow` could let you drop the bitrate by as much as 20-30% at the same visual quality. Your users will thank you for it,
This price is solely to deliver 15tb of video.
Don't get confused like other commenter.
The article title is somewhat misleading. The "15 terabyte" figure refers to the amount of bandwidth used, not the amount of video being stored (it's closer to 145 GB).
$2.18 / 0.015$/GB*mo comes to 143 GB months of store data.
This would ignore the upload costs and any API costs.
Related:
https://x.com/steve_tenuto/status/1857523923509981437