Run the numbers
Back-of-envelope calculators for media infrastructure decisions, with every assumption stated and every price sourced.
Bandwidth & CDN cost Viewers × watch time × quality: how much egress you will serve, and what five providers charge for it. Storage & codec savings What a video library weighs in H.264, HEVC and AV1, and what it costs to keep per month.
Prices are public list rates, checked against each provider's own pricing page and dated on the calculator. Nobody pays list at scale, so treat the output as a defensible upper bound rather than a quote.