Delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18

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,

$2.18 &#x2F; 0.015$&#x2F;GB*mo comes to 143 GB months of store data.<p>This would ignore the upload costs and any API costs.

This price is solely to deliver 15tb of video.<p>Don&#x27;t get confused like other commenter.

Good read. I thought you were talking about cloudflare stream which charges similar to other comparisons you drew in the blog.<p>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.<p>I am curious what CDN are you using and what are rough configs?

The article title is somewhat misleading. The &quot;15 terabyte&quot; figure refers to the amount of bandwidth used, not the amount of video being stored (it&#x27;s closer to 145 GB).

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Can anyone explain how this is possible when most other providers charge huge costs for egress? Is Cloudflare operating at a loss here?