What is Transloadit?

Transloadit is a file uploading & encoding service for developers. Customers from 135 different countries, such as Coursera and The New York Times, have been loving our clever API, reliability, and fantastic customer support since we launched in 2009. We recently celebrated our 36th petabyte encoded. That's 36 million gigabytes.

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

We offer a free plan with 5GB of monthly traffic included, and an 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! Certain robots are lighter on our infrastructure and we can offer them at large discounts, or even for free:

Handle Uploads or Import Files — free
Concatenate audio — 75% discount
Encode audio — 75% discount
Loop audio — 75% discount
Merge audio files into one — 75% discount
Serve files to web browsers — 75% discount
Decompress archives — 20% discount
Filter files — free
Concatenate videos — 75% discount
Extract thumbnails from videos — 90% discount
Export original files — 90% discount
Export converted files — free

Here are some calculation examples for your convenience.

Students and teachers can use Transloadit for free through our GitHub partnership.

Open source projects and nonprofits can use Transloadit for free by placing a "powered by Transloadit" link on their website. Reach out.

Video encoding example

Say you have a 150MB video and want to encode it into 3 different formats — Ogg, WebM and MP4:

Step	Charge (for the input + output files)				Total
Ogg 70% assumed compression rate	150MB	+	45MB 30% of 150MB	=	195MB
WebM 60% assumed compression rate	150MB	+	60MB 40% of 150MB	=	210MB
MP4 80% assumed compression rate	150MB	+	30MB 20% of 150MB	=	180MB
					585MB

Discount example

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

Data	Charged	Total
4GB of video encoding	100%	4GB
2GB of image resizing	100%	2GB
2GB of audio encoding	25%	0.5GB
3GB of storing the original files on S3	10%	0.3GB
8GB of storing all encodings/resizings on S3	0%	0GB
		6.8GB

In this case, you would do best to choose the Startup plan, which comes at $49 with 10GB included and $6 per additional GB.

If you have any questions with regard to pricing or choosing a plan, please don’t hesitate to ask!

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Are there any discounts?

Calculation examples

Video encoding example

Discount example