Pricing - Streaming Cost Calculator
It’s All About the Bits
Data Transfer Calculation formula: There are three variables; desired data rate, program length and number of viewers.
For a 10-minute program with 100 viewers at 1000Kb/s the calculation is:
- 1000 Kilobits per second divides by 8 into 0.125 Megabyte second
- 0.125 Megabyte per second multiplied by 60 seconds equals 7.5 Megabyte per minute
- 7.5 Megabyte per minute multiplied by 10 minutes equals 75 Megabyte per viewer
- 75 Megabyte per viewer times 100 viewers equals 7,500 Megabyte for the program
- 7,500 Megabyte divides by 1000 to equal 7.5 Gigabytes of data transfer for the program
- Multiply data transfer by service package rate (i.e. $0.50/Gigabyte for Limited Direct)
Your program will cost $3.75 ((Data rate/8)x seconds)) x (Program Length x Viewers)) / 1000 = Data Transfer