AWS Elemental MediaConvert Pricing

With AWS Elemental MediaConvert, you can choose from on-demand pricing, reserved pricing, or a combination of the two, depending on your workload and video transcoding requirements.

• On-Demand pricing: You pay only for what you use and there are no minimum fees. Charges are based on a simple fee per minute of video in each output. On-demand pricing has two tiers: Basic, which is lower cost and supports a limited set of features, and Professional, which supports the full set of features. No long-term commitments or upfront payments are needed.
   

• Reserved pricing: Purchase one or more reserved transcode slots for a fixed monthly charge (additional fees for Dolby Audio and Audio Normalization usage minutes), with a minimum 12-month commitment. Each slot runs a single job at a time, with access to all available encoding features, and can process jobs continuously one after the other. See the documentation pages for more information.

On-demand pricing is ideal for customers who are building applications with short-term or unpredictable workloads requiring fast turnaround times and scalability, and for new applications or workflows being developed with AWS Elemental MediaConvert.

With on-demand pricing, you are charged per minute of video in each output, with rates that depend on the features that you use. The duration of each output is calculated in one second increments and then converted into fractional minutes to determine the total charge for the output. For example, an output with a duration of 45 seconds would be 45/60, or 0.75 of a minute. The minimum duration for billing is 10 seconds, so an output with a duration of less than 10 seconds will be billed for 10 seconds.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert offers two pricing tiers with on-demand pricing that differ based on the encoding capabilities each support. The first is the lower cost Basic tier, which is intended for simple web distribution use cases with limited AVC, VP8, and VP9 outputs. The second is the Professional tier, which supports a full suite of professional video processing features designed for broadcast and multiscreen delivery of high-quality outputs. A detailed comparison of capabilities supported by the Basic and Professional tiers can be found here.
 

The Basic tier in on-demand pricing supports outputs with the AVC codec and single-pass encoding or the VP8 and VP9 codecs with speed optimized multi-pass encoding, with capabilities like clipping, stitching, and static overlays, among others. MP3 audio output is also supported in this tier. Basic tier is the best option for processing user-generated content or other short-form content that is primarily meant for distribution over the web. The per-minute rate offered under the Basic tier varies based on the resolution and frame rate of the output.

The Professional tier in on-demand pricing supports a full suite of premium OTT multiscreen delivery features for the AVC, HEVC (up to 8K), AV1, VP8, and VP9 codecs such as dual-pass and high-quality encoding; Accelerated Transcoding; a wide range of caption formats; digital rights management (DRM); ad signaling; advanced pre-processors; and multiple track audio processing. The Professional tier also includes the Apple ProRes, MPEG-2, AVC-Intra, XAVC, and VC-3 mezzanine video codecs, which are used for archiving, editing, or exchanging broadcast-quality content. The per-minute rate offered under the Professional tier varies based on the resolution, frame rate, quality setting, and codec of the output. The Professional tier also offers a number of optional add-on features including Dolby Vision, HDR10+, Dolby Audio, Audio Normalization, InSync FrameFormer frame rate conversion, Nagra watermarking, Nielsen watermarking, and Kantar watermarking integration, each available for an additional charge.