Every file stays in your account
Processing starts in your storage and writes the result back there.
Zero-custody video infrastructure. Your bucket, start to finish.
It shouldn't have. Nulx runs video processing inside your own S3 or R2 account. You pay AWS or Cloudflare directly. We take 0% of storage and bandwidth.
$55/month flat, plus processing you actually use. That's the whole invoice. We can charge 0% markup because we never hold your files — source in, output out, all inside your bucket.
Built for teams past a few thousand viewing hours a month — or teams that can't hand their files to a third party. Smaller than that? A managed platform is probably cheaper. Our calculator will tell you.
- 0% markup on storage and bandwidth
- Your files stay in your bucket
- Export anytime
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- 1 Upload Source stays in your storage
- 2 Transcode HLS · DASH
- 3 Deliver Play from your CDN
HLS + DASHAdaptive streaming
Up to 5Subtitle languages
DRM ReadyYour license server
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What would Nulx actually cost you?
Compare CF Stream, Bunny Stream, and Nulx BYOC side by side. No signup needed. Storage and delivery are billed straight by your own cloud, not by us.
Based on 8,000 hours of monthly viewing
| CF Stream | Bunny Stream | Nulx Nulx + Cloudflare R2 | Nulx Nulx + Backblaze B2 (+ Bunny CDN) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform & processing | — | — | $91.00 | $91.00 |
| Storage | $150.00 | $16.50 | — | — |
| Delivery | $480.00 | $60.00 | — | — |
| Captions & translation | — | $240.00 | $120.00 | $120.00 |
| Your cloud (storage + delivery) | — | — | $24.75 | $69.90 |
| Total cost of ownership | $630.00 | $316.50 | $235.75 | $280.90 |
63% lower than CF Stream $394.25/mo saved
Break-even: about ~2,000 monthly viewing hours vs. CF Stream
About ~8,000 vs. Bunny Stream (captions off — turning captions on brings this forward)
Storage and delivery are billed by your cloud provider, not by us. Nulx adds $0 in between.
How we calculated this
These use each provider's publicly listed pricing, checked 2026-07 — not a quote. Verify against your own cloud and vendor bill.
- 1 hour of delivered 1080p HLS video ≈ 1.5GB.
- Storage is billed on source + renditions combined, using a 2.2x multiplier for a 1080p rendition ladder. Archiving originals and trimming renditions can cut this by roughly 30–40%.
- Displayed currency amounts are an approximate conversion for reference only — actual billing is always in USD.
Nulx + your cloud
- Platform + encoding: $55/mo flat, includes 20 encoding hours; overage is billed at $1.80/hour on managed workers, quoted on request for BYO workers and the desktop encoder
- Captions: $0.02/min transcription + $0.03/min per translated language
- Your cloud: storage + delivery at your chosen provider's list rates
Nulx + Backblaze B2 (+ Bunny CDN)
- Platform + encoding: $55/mo flat, includes 20 encoding hours; overage is billed at $1.80/hour on managed workers, quoted on request for BYO workers and the desktop encoder
- Captions: $0.02/min transcription + $0.03/min per translated language
- Storage: $0.006/GB-month on B2. Delivery: $0.005/GB via Bunny CDN (B2→CDN transfer is $0 under the Bandwidth Alliance)
Backblaze B2 public pricing + Bandwidth Alliance (B2→CDN egress free), Bunny CDN delivery. Verified 2026-07.
CF Stream
- Storage: $5 per 1,000 minutes stored
- Delivery: $1 per 1,000 minutes streamed
- Captions: not offered by CF Stream
CF Stream bills stored minutes of source video, not source+rendition GB like the other columns — shown as published, not adjusted.
Bunny Stream
- Storage: $0.01/GB-month (source + renditions)
- Delivery: $0.005/GB (EU/NA volume tier)
- Captions: $0.10 per language-minute (or per minute if no translation)
All rates above are publicly listed pricing, checked 2026-07.
Grow views, not platform fees
More plays. Still 0% platform markup.
Storage and delivery are billed straight to your own cloud account — Nulx's cut is zero. We bill the platform fee and only the video processing you use.
Ready after one upload
A durable queue handles renditions, thumbnails, captions, and playback readiness.
Advanced only when selected
Choose AI restoration, modern codecs, and DRM per video. Off means no charge.
Upload once. Choose the work
Nulx runs each selected step in order.
Captions, translation, restoration, DRM, and live. Enable only what each video needs.
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Automatic captions
Turn speech into captions and translate up to five tracks.
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Picture restoration
Choose light cleanup or GPU-backed AI restoration.
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HEVC and AV1
Produce smaller DASH outputs with modern codecs.
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BYO DRM
Keep your license provider for encrypted playback.
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BYO live
Ingest RTMPS and play HLS through your gateway.
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Cost-aware scaling
Add workers only when queued work needs them.
Failures happen. Neglected jobs should not
A stalled job should not stall operations.
Leases, heartbeats, and idempotency keys find interrupted work and restart it safely.
Retry only stalled work
Unresponsive jobs return to the queue safely.
Process each video once
Completion checks prevent duplicate work and billing.
Secrets stay server-side
Storage and DRM keys never reach the browser.
Start with one worker
Add workers only when the queue grows, within your limit.
Built on open standards
- HLS
- MPEG-DASH
- WebVTT
- HEVC
- AV1
- RTMPS
- Widevine
- PlayReady
One base price. 0% delivery markup
$55 a month. Processing only when used.
Pay storage and delivery providers directly. Nulx adds no fee in between.
AI features are optional line items too — you pay only when you run them. Off means $0, not a higher base price.
BYO platform
Start without a card
$55/ month
$55 is what most teams pay on their first invoice — no surprise line items until you actually process video.
- Uploads, library, and player
- Encoding 20 hours/month included (1080p basis)
- Autoscaling and job recovery
- Free desktop encoder
- Data export
Optional processing
Enable per video and pay only for processed duration.
Multilingual package
Captions + 4 languages, bundled
$0.11/min
$0.13/min bought separately
The same hour elsewhere: platforms charging $0.10/min per language bill $24 for 5 languages — Nulx bills $6.60, 3.6× less. Based on publicly listed per-language caption rates, verified 2026-07.
- Automatic captionsspeech recognition
- $0.02/min
- Caption translationper target language
- $0.03/min
- Picture cleanupdenoise and sharpen
- $0.005/min
- AI restorationGPU processing
- $0.12/min
- BYO DRM packaginglicense provider billed directly
- $0.005/min
- Live channelcontrol plane only — gateway and delivery billed directly
- $5/channel/mo
Prices exclude VAT/GST where applicable.
How encoding is priced
Compute, unbundled from the platform fee
Pick the worker for each job. Same output, a different bill.
Managed worker
$1.80
per video hour
Runs on our infrastructure — zero setup.
BYO worker
Early accessContact us
per video hour
Runs in your own cloud.
Desktop encoder
Contact us
on your machine
Encode locally, then upload the finished file.
Resolution multipliers: 720p ×0.6 · 1080p ×1.0 · 4K ×3.0 · AV1 output ×2.5
Priced per hour of video, not machine time.
Our managed encoding is not the cheapest. Cloudflare Stream and other managed platforms encode for free — in exchange, your files live in their warehouse and you pay for every gigabyte delivered. What's free with us is delivery, because we never touch it. And on most bills, the big number is delivery, not encoding. Want encoding cheaper too? Ask us about running a BYO worker in your own cloud.
See it before you sign up
Your bill, before you sign up
Three real usage patterns, priced with the same rates as the calculator above.
Case A — Small team
Platform (20h encoding included)$55.00
Encoding used: 15h / 20h included$0.00
Total to Nulx$55.00
Plus your R2 bill, paid directly to Cloudflare: ~$8
Case B — Growing team
Platform (20h encoding included)$55.00
Extra encoding: 20h × $1.80$36.00
Captions: 2,400 min × $0.02$48.00
EN translation: 2,400 min × $0.03$72.00
Total to Nulx$211.00
Plus R2 ~$29. Same month on Cloudflare Stream: ~$630.
Case C — High-volume uploads (managed)
Platform (20h encoding included)$55.00
Extra encoding: 80h × $1.80$144.00
Total to Nulx$199.00
100 hours of uploads this month. Plus your cloud bill, paid directly to your provider.
Four ways to run video
Why teams switch to BYOC
| Build it yourself | Managed platform | Bunny Stream | Nulx (BYOC) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first playback | Weeks | Minutes | Minutes | ~3 min |
| Monthly fixed cost | Servers + your salary | $0 – $$$ | $0 (usage-based) | $55 |
| Bandwidth markup | None | Yes, scales with traffic | Yes — per-GB delivery pricing | 0% |
| Who gets paged | You | Vendor | Vendor | Nulx |
| File ownership | Yours | Vendor account | Vendor account | Yours |
| Cost to leave | — | High (re-encode + re-host) | High (re-encode + re-host) | $0 — files already yours |
| Cross-border transfer | None | Likely | Likely | None |
Competitor pricing from public price pages, verified 2026-07.
Where a managed platform genuinely wins for you, our calculator says so.
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