What is Transloadit?

Transloadit is a file uploading & encoding service for developers. Customers from 135 different countries like The New York Times and Coursera have been loving our clever API, reliability, and fantastic customer support since we launched in 2009. We recently celebrated our 12th petabyte encoded. That's 12 million gigabytes.

As the first company to run Node.js in production our founders have shaped much of the early ecosystem. Transloadit also built Uppy and Tus, both open source projects that are redefining how people share files on the internet.

We offer a free plan with 5GB of monthly traffic included, additional free service for students, teachers, open source projects, and charities. Sign up today and discover the power of our platform.

Are there any discounts?

Yes!

Uploading and importing of files is totally free.
Exporting conversion results (to S3, SFTP, etc.) is free.
Video concatenation is discounted by 75%.
All audio Robots are discounted by 75%.
Extracting video thumbnails is discounted by 90%.
Exporting uploaded files is discounted by 90%.

Transloadit offers the "Startup" plan free of charge to open source projects and nonprofits. Please reach out.

If you are a student or an educator, you can use Transloadit for free through GitHub Education programs. Find out more about our student plan, and our teacher offer.

We offer sizable discounts for commercial initiatives that link back to us with: Uploading & encoding powered by <a href="https://transloadit.com">Transloadit.com</a>. It can be subtle, but needs to be visible and not tucked away in a dead area of your website . Reach out.

Here are some calculation examples for your convenience.

Video encoding example

Say you have a 150MB video. You want to encode it into 3 different formats - ogg, webm and mp4:

Step	Charge
Ogg - 70% assumed compression rate	150MB for the input file + 45MB for the output file (30% of 150MB)
WebM - 60% assumed compression rate	150MB for the input file + 60MB for the output file (40% of 150MB)
MP4 - 80% assumed compression rate	150MB for the input file + 30MB for the output file (20% of 150MB)
Total: 3 * 150MB + 45MB + 60MB + 30MB = 585MB

Example for discounts

Let's assume you would like to convert files that have a combined size of 3 GB. You have already calculated that this will mean 4 GB of video encoding, 2 GB of image resizing and 2 GB of audio encoding per month. You also want to store all uploaded files and all encoding results on Amazon S3.

Charge	Reason
4 GB of video encoding	100% of the gigabytes are charged
+ 2 GB of image resizing	100% of the gigabytes are charged
+ 0.5 GB of audio encoding	Audio encoding only charges 25% of your calculated 2 GB
+ 0.3 GB of storing the uploaded files on s3	Exporting uploaded files only costs 10% of your 3 GB worth of uploaded files
+ 0 GB of storing all encodings/resizings on s3	Storing conversion results is free
= 6.8 GB

In this case, you would do best to choose the "Startup" plan, which comes at $49 with 10 GB included and $6 per additional GB. For 10.8 GB you would pay $49 + (10.8 - 10) * $6 = $53.8.

If you have any questions with regard to pricing or choosing a plan, please let us know.

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Are there any discounts?

Calculation examples

Video encoding example

Example for discounts