Standard
First 10 TB / month
€0.080/GB
Applies to the volume in this band only.
Delivery — ads priced separately
Pricing
€0.080 per GB, falling to €0.050 as you grow.
Pay only for the bytes you deliver. No contracts, no minimums. Credit is prepaid, so a traffic spike draws down your balance — it never produces an invoice you did not expect. Ad insertion is a separate, flat rate, so you are never charged for it on streams that carry no ads.
Volume
10 TB – 50 TB / month
€0.060/GB
Applies to the volume in this band only.
Delivery — ads priced separately
Scale
Beyond 50 TB / month
€0.050/GB
Applies to the volume in this band only.
Delivery — ads priced separately
Add-on · optional
Ad insertion
€1.35/ 1,000 ads
Live and on-demand, one rate. Charged only when an ad is actually inserted.
- Packaging
- Transcoding
- Delivery
- Reporting
€1.35 one rate
Tiers are marginal, not flat.
You are never charged one blended rate. At 100 TB you pay €0.080 on the first 10 TB, €0.060 on the next 40 TB, and €0.050 on the rest — a real effective rate of about €0.057/GB.
10 TB / month
€800.00
= €0.080/GB effective
30 TB / month
€2,000.00
= €0.067/GB effective
100 TB / month
€5,700.00
= €0.057/GB effective
What would you pay?
Bytes and ads are two separate dials — move each one. Both figures come from the same rate card that bills you.
1 TB100 TB200 TB
None2.5M5M / month
Delivery
€800.00
Ad insertion
€0.00
Total / month
€800.00
Effective rate
€0.080/GB
Compared with list prices
List prices for AWS CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN and Azure Front Door are published in USD and converted here at 0.92 EUR/USD. Those are delivery rates, so the bars compare delivery only — none of them insert ads at all.
How CDNLive compares
CDNLive vs. the alternatives
Most live delivery is bought in pieces: a CDN, an ad-insertion service, a packager, a reporting stack — each with its own contract and its own invoice. CDNLive is one service, one balance and one spend ceiling.
| Capability | CDNLive | AWS CloudFront | Cloudflare Stream | Budget CDNs Bunny.net, Gcore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HLS, DASH and CMAF | Yes | Yes | HLS and DASH, via their own player pipeline | Yes |
| Server-side ad insertion | Built in, one flat rate per 1,000 ads | A separate service, billed separately | No | No |
| SCTE-35 markers, VAST/VMAP | Yes | Through the separate ad service | No | No |
| Hard spend ceiling | Yes — prepaid; you cannot be billed past your balance | No — post-paid, billed in arrears | Subscription plus overage | No — post-paid |
| Billing unit | Per GB delivered | Per GB delivered | Per minute delivered | Per GB delivered |
| Delivery price | €0.080 → €0.050/GB | $0.085/GB list, Europe | Per minute, not per GB | Cheaper per GB than CDNLive |
| Contract or minimum | None | None | Subscription | None |
Where CDNLive loses
CDNLive is not the cheapest way to move bytes. Budget CDNs deliver a gigabyte for less, and if raw egress price is the only thing you are buying, they will win. What they do not give you is ad insertion in the same product, ad-marker handling, or a balance that delivery physically cannot exceed. CDNLive is for teams who want those three things together and would rather not assemble them from three vendors.
Competitor figures are each vendor's published list price at the time of writing and change without notice. AWS CloudFront is quoted in USD. Verify current pricing with the vendor before making a decision.
July usage
€620.40
Monthly budget€1,000
UsedWarningProtection point
Remaining€379.60
Recent estimate€84.00
Estimated month-end€912.20
Why can delivery pause before the full balance is used?
Usage reports can arrive after traffic occurs. CDNLive keeps a small safety buffer to help protect the budget you set.
Predictable streaming costs
Stay in control when audiences grow.
Preload your balance, set a monthly budget, track usage, and get warned before your limit is reached.
01
Add credit
Fund only what you are comfortable spending.
02
Set a monthly budget
Choose the maximum you want to use each month.
03
Get early warnings
Receive alerts as usage approaches your limit.
04
Stay protected
Automatic safeguards can pause delivery before the budget is exceeded.
Questions and answers
Straight answers before you hand us a stream.
Still unanswered? Ask us directly.
Pricing
How much does CDNLive cost?
CDNLive charges per GB delivered, on marginal tiers: €0.080/GB on the first 10 TB each month, €0.060/GB on the next 40 TB, and €0.050/GB beyond 50 TB. Tiers are marginal, so each rate applies only to the volume inside its band — at 100 TB a month you would pay €5,700.00, an effective €0.057/GB. Server-side ad insertion is priced separately, at a flat €1.35 per 1,000 ads inserted, and is charged only on streams that carry ads. There are no contracts and no minimums.
Can CDNLive send me a bill I was not expecting?
No. Credit is prepaid. You load a balance, set a monthly ceiling, and delivery draws that balance down at the per-GB rates above. If usage approaches your limit you are warned, and automatic safeguards can pause delivery before the budget is exceeded. You cannot be invoiced for more than you have loaded.
How does CDNLive compare with AWS CloudFront for live streaming?
AWS CloudFront lists $0.085/GB for delivery in Europe, and it does not insert ads at all — that is a separate service, billed separately again, usually across several line items. CDNLive starts at €0.080/GB, falls to €0.050/GB at volume, and offers ad insertion built in at a flat €1.35 per 1,000 ads, covering packaging, transcoding, delivery and reporting together. Comparisons on this site convert published USD list prices to euros, so the delivery figures are like for like.
Costs and analytics
How many concurrent viewers can CDNLive handle?
Delivery capacity comes from the Amtecco global edge network — 4,200+ edge servers across 130+ countries — so concurrency is bounded in practice by your origin and packaging, not by the edge. Note that CDN request counts are not a viewer count: one viewer makes many manifest and segment requests, switches bitrate, and may retry. Accurate audience numbers need player-side measurement.
How do prepaid credit and monthly spend limits work?
You add credit, choose a monthly budget, and set alerts before delivery starts. Usage reports can arrive after traffic occurs, so a small safety buffer may cause delivery to pause before the full displayed balance is used. The dashboard will show the available balance, current estimate, and protection point clearly.
Are live CDN analytics available in real time?
Stream health can be checked quickly, but complete traffic and billing data may arrive later. CDNLive shows when each view was refreshed and whether recent figures are still updating, ready for reporting, or matched to billing.
Which live streaming analytics will I see?
Delivery views can include traffic, data transfer, requests, errors, locations, origin behaviour, and cache performance. When you use CDNLive-managed SSAI, available advertising and SSAI operational insights can be shown alongside delivery information.
Do CDN requests tell me how many viewers I have?
Not exactly. One viewer can make many manifest and segment requests, change bitrate, retry a request, or use more than one playback session. Accurate audience size, startup time, buffering, and other quality-of-experience measures require player-side information in addition to CDN traffic.