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How Transcodely compares

An honest look at Transcodely next to Mux, Cloudflare Stream and Bunny Stream — plus Coconut as a transcode-only reference. The free-encoding hosts win real workloads, and we show it.

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One workload, five bills. Pick a scenario or enter your own numbers — the cheapest option is named honestly, whoever it is.

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A growing library on the universal codec with real delivery.

Currency

What does your workload need? Price is only half the question — vendors that can’t run it are ruled out below.

Bunny Stream is cheapest here — $110.00/mo. That is on price alone. Capability needs — AV1, DRM, bring-your-own storage, 4K — can rule a vendor out entirely; add what your workload needs above to see who can actually run it.
  • Bunny Stream Cheapest
    $110.00/mo
    1.0×
  • Transcodely
    $178.20/mo
    1.6×
  • Mux
    $220.15/mo
    2.0×
  • Cloudflare Stream
    $351.53/mo
    3.2×
  • Coconut transcode only
    $90.00/mo
Line-item breakdown & pricing sources

Bunny Stream

Encoding
$0.00
Storage
$10.00
Delivery
$100.00
  • H.264 up to 1080p encodes free
  • HEVC/AV1, VP9 & >1080p need premium encoding (extra $/min)
  • ≈$0.01/GB storage & delivery (EU/NA rate; other regions higher)
  • DRM (MediaCage) is an enterprise add-on
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Transcodely

Encoding
$48.60
Storage
$21.60
Delivery
$108.00
  • Full codec, profile, CRF & ladder control
  • Encoding billed per rendition (3-rung ladder)
  • Storage & egress metered per GB — no per-request fees
  • Each job gets an encoding machine to itself while it runs; starting one carries a flat processing fee (€0.05–€0.50 by size class) added to every job an encoder picks up — negligible at monthly volumes like these
  • Failed jobs bill nothing at all; a canceled job bills the processing fee plus whatever outputs finished first
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Mux

Encoding
$0.00
Storage
$47.08
Delivery
$173.07
  • Basic-quality encoding is free (fixed ladder, no codec choice)
  • First 100k delivered minutes/month are free (3,662 GB here)
  • Per minute of video: $0.0010/delivered, $0.0030/stored·mo at this resolution
  • Cold-storage discount up to 60% after 30d inactivity (not modelled)
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Cloudflare Stream

Encoding
$0.00
Storage
$78.47
Delivery
$273.07
  • Free encoding — but a fixed ladder, no codec/profile choice
  • Billed per minute of video, not per GB
  • High-bitrate content is cheap here; low-bitrate is relatively pricey
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Coconut

Encoding
$90.00
Storage
—
Delivery
—
  • Transcode only — no hosting, storage or CDN
  • $0.015 per output minute (3 renditions here)
  • Bring your own storage + CDN (added cost, not shown)
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How this is calculated

Ladder 480p · 720p · 1080p (3 renditions). Cloudflare and Mux free tiers are per minute of video, converted at an assumed 5.0 Mbps delivered (1080p (Full HD) / H.264 / AVC) — so Mux’s free allowance is ≈ 3,662 GB here. Capability filtering comes from our verified feature matrix; DRM add-ons ($100/mo Mux, $99/mo Bunny Enterprise) are the vendors’ own list prices (per-license fees excluded). Transcodely bills in EUR; converted at €1 = $1.08 (as of July 2026). Competitor list prices verified July 2026; negotiated/committed volume discounts are not modelled. Estimates, not quotes — every meter bills on actual bytes.

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