Designed for high-throughput video delivery

Stream millions of minutes for tens of dollars.

Ant CDN delivers your videos fast, reliable, and 30× cheaper — millions of minutes streamed globally, with no hidden costs and no locking you into a single player or platform.

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Predictable cost

Flat delivery pricing

Forecast spend with pricing that doesn’t punish HD/4K usage.

Fast playback

Optimized for time-to-first-frame

Built to start quickly—even when a viewer is far away or cache is cold.

Control

Public or signed playback

JWT-signed URLs, API keys, and analytics built for production teams.

Built for serious workloads. Engineered for predictability.

When video is core to your product, “mostly works” is not a strategy. AntCDN is designed to give your team control over the critical path: delivery, security, analytics, and cost—without a black box.

Security

Signed playback (JWT)

Restrict private videos with RS256-signed URLs and expirations.

Access

Environment-scoped API keys

Keep production keys server-side and rotate with confidence.

Observability

Analytics built for operators

Understand segments served, resolution distribution, and usage trends.

Player freedom

HLS on your terms

Use Shaka, hls.js, native playback, or our iframe—your choice.

Operator-first promise

Designed for the on-call reality

edge • hls • jwt • analytics

Predictable spend at scale

Flat delivery pricing means your finance team isn’t surprised by resolution mix.

Performance you can measure

Instrumentation and benchmarks are first-class—prove improvements, don’t guess.

Security without DRM complexity

Signed playback makes casual sharing and link scraping dramatically harder.

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Security model

Public playback when you want it. Signed playback when you need it.

Keep sensitive content private with signed URLs and expirations, while maintaining the simplicity of standard HLS playback. No proprietary player required.

Private videos (JWT guide) API keys

JWT-signed playback

Sign URLs with RS256 and set expirations to reduce link sharing and scraping.

Server-side API keys

Authenticate API requests via X-Api-Key headers. Keep keys out of the browser.

Built-in analytics

Inspect segments served, daily usage, storage, and resolution distribution.

Integration

Integrate in minutes, not sprints.

Upload with a pre-signed URL or ingest directly from your bucket. Serve with standard HLS across the players you already use.

Upload

Pre-signed URL flow

Keep credentials off clients while allowing direct uploads.

Ingest

Bring your own bucket

Ingest from a GCS URL to fit existing data pipelines.

Example upload flows

python

import requests

API_BASE = "https://api.antcdn.net"

def upload_via_presign(file_path: str) -> None:
    # 1) request pre-signed URL from Antcdn
    resp = requests.post(f"{API_BASE}/v1/uploads/presign", json={"filename": file_path})
    resp.raise_for_status()
    presign = resp.json()["url"]

    # 2) PUT the file to the returned URL
    with open(file_path, "rb") as f:
        put = requests.put(presign, data=f)
        put.raise_for_status()

    # 3) notify Antcdn that the upload is complete (optional)
    # requests.post(f"{API_BASE}/v1/uploads/complete", json={"presign": presign})

upload_via_presign("/path/to/video.mp4")

import requests

API_BASE = "https://api.antcdn.net"

def submit_gcs_url(gcs_url: str) -> None:
    # Tell Antcdn to ingest from your GCS bucket
    resp = requests.post(f"{API_BASE}/v1/uploads/gcs", json={"gcs_url": gcs_url})
    resp.raise_for_status()

submit_gcs_url("gs://your-bucket/video.mp4")

Quality control

Quality is a product decision. Keep control.

AntCDN gives you two levers: a quality preset (caps bitrate and resolution), and FFmpeg controls (encoding speed vs quality trade-offs at a given bitrate).

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Preset

Resolution + bitrate caps

Set ceilings that match your brand and device mix.

FFmpeg

Speed vs quality

Choose faster encodes or higher compression efficiency.

Why it matters

Ship consistent playback everywhere

Control quality, control cost, and control user experience—without losing player compatibility.

Reliability

Reliability your customers can feel.

AntCDN includes a 100% video delivery SLA on every plan. We also maintain external monitoring so you can verify availability independently.

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SLA

Delivery guarantee

A simple promise: if we say the video is deliverable, it must deliver.

Visibility

Independent monitoring

Don’t take our word for it—verify with a third party.

Pricing

Three tiers to match your stage.

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Seed

Validate your idea

Base fee

$0 / month

Usage rates

Delivery: $0.00012 / minute
Storage: $0.025 / GB-month
Transcoding (4K): $0.07 / minute

Includes

HLS VOD delivery
Signed URLs
Edge-cached segments
Basic analytics
Community support

Limits

Soft cap on delivery (manual review after threshold)
No custom playback domains
No SLA

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Growth

Scale a real business

Flat delivery pricing that scales with you.

AntCDN bills $0.0001 per minute delivered, regardless of resolution. No hidden multipliers when your audience watches in HD or 4K.

Monthly delivery volume

1,000,000 minutes

Cost comparison

Updates live

Compare on a like-for-like basis. Costs are computed from per-minute rates.

Pricing details

Storage cost comparison

Standardized to $ / GB-month. Choose a representative bitrate to convert providers that price per-minute.

Profile

Platform	$ / GB-month
AntCDN Storage	—
Mux Storage	—
Cloudflare Stream Storage	—
Bunny Stream (Video Library)	—

Pricing details

Encoding cost comparison

Prices are per minute. Use this to sanity-check profile economics at scale.

Profile	Total bit-rate (bps)	GB/s	Mux (per min)	AntCDN (per min)
Standard 720 p	2,384,000	0.000298	$0.003	$0.0022
Standard 1080 p	5,140,000	0.000643	$0.004	$0.0035
High 720 p	2,384,000	0.000298	$0.0024	$0.0024
High 1080 p	6,204,000	0.000776	$0.003	$0.00264
High 1440 p	11,024,000	0.001378	$0.0045	$0.00396
High 4 K	19,344,000	0.002418	$0.009	$0.008
Ultra 720 p	2,384,000	0.000298	$0.0036	$0.003
Ultra 1080 p	7,704,000	0.000963	$0.0045	$0.004
Ultra 1440 p	14,024,000	0.001753	$0.00675	$0.006
Ultra 4 K	26,344,000	0.003293	$0.0135	$0.012

Ready to ship video

Get predictable performance and pricing in one afternoon.

Start with public playback, then lock down private content with signed URLs as you scale. Your team keeps control of players, encoding, and instrumentation.

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