AIOZ Stream Pricing for Storage, Delivery and Transcoding

AIOZ Stream pricing has three rates: storage at $0.02 per GB per month, delivery at $0.02 per GB, and transcoding at $0.01 to $0.05 per minute depending on resolution. You pay from a wallet funded with AIOZ tokens, and usage is deducted hourly.

TL;DR:

• AIOZ Stream charges for storage ($0.02 per GB per month), delivery ($0.02 per GB) and transcoding ($0.01 per minute up to HD, $0.02 for 2K, $0.05 for 4K).
• Billing runs hourly against a prepaid wallet you fund with AIOZ tokens, with a 0.01 AIOZ minimum deposit.
• A library with 500 GB stored, 2 TB delivered and 600 minutes transcoded up to HD costs about $56 a month.
• Storage costs about what AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage charge, while AWS internet egress at $0.09 per GB is 4.5 times the AIOZ Stream delivery rate.
• Before you transcode, the GET /media/cost endpoint quotes the price in USD and tells you whether your balance covers it.

Updated Oct 19, 2026: rates rechecked against the Payment docs, a cost diagram, a corrected 4K example, the transcoding cost endpoint, and a References section.

How much does AIOZ Stream cost?

According to the AIOZ Stream Payment docs, your bill has exactly three parts:

• Storage: $0.02 per GB per month. The monthly rate is divided by the number of hours in the month, so you pay for each hour a file is stored.
• Delivery: $0.02 per GB of data delivered to your viewers.
• Transcoding: $0.01 per minute of video up to HD, $0.02 per minute for 2K and $0.05 per minute for 4K.

Here is a worked month to make the three numbers concrete. Say you store a 500 GB library, your viewers play 2 TB of it, and you transcode 200 new videos of 3 minutes each up to HD. That comes to $10 for storage, $40 for delivery and $6 for transcoding, or about $56 in total.

The split matters more than the total, and in this example delivery is 71% of the bill, because each stored gigabyte gets watched about four times. If your library is mostly archive that few people watch, storage will lead instead. Your own ratio of delivered to stored data is the first number to work out.

How does AIOZ Stream billing work?

AIOZ Stream doesn't send you a monthly invoice. When you create an account, the platform generates a wallet for you, and you fund it by sending AIOZ tokens to that wallet's address. The minimum deposit is 0.01 AIOZ; smaller deposits are recorded but only credited once your cumulative deposits reach that amount.

Your credit is the number of tokens you deposit multiplied by the AIOZ/USDT rate at the time of the deposit. Usage for storage, delivery and transcoding is then deducted from that balance every hour. A "History Usage" tab in your account shows the daily breakdown by service, which gives you more detail than most monthly cloud invoices.

Two consequences follow from this model. Your dollar credit is fixed once a deposit lands, but the number of tokens you need for the next top-up moves with the market. And since deductions happen hourly, a traffic spike shows up in your balance the same day. Our guide to wallet top-ups and token billing covers deposits, token networks and balance monitoring in full.

How is transcoding priced?

Storage and delivery cost the same per gigabyte whatever the content is, but transcoding is the one charge that depends on resolution as well as length. A 10-minute video costs $0.10 to transcode up to HD and $0.50 to transcode to 4K, five times as much.

In the worked month above, moving a third of the 200 videos to 4K would lift transcoding from $6 to about $14. That is still far below the $50 for storage and delivery, but the 4K files are larger, so they also add to both of those lines. Before you add a 4K rung to your bitrate ladder, check how many of your viewers watch on screens that can show it.

The Payment page gives one rate per resolution tier, but it doesn't say whether a ladder with several renditions is charged once at its top tier or once per rendition. The cost endpoint in the last section answers this for your exact ladder, so use it rather than guessing. For the encoding side, see our guide to encoding 4K and 8K video with the API.

Where delivery pricing differs from cloud egress

Storage is close to commodity pricing at every major provider: AWS S3 Standard starts at $0.023 per GB per month. Google Cloud Storage Standard in a single region is about $0.02, the same as the AIOZ Stream rate.

Delivery is where the numbers split. AWS charges $0.09 per GB for data sent to the internet after the first 100 GB each month, 4.5 times the AIOZ Stream delivery rate. For a video platform, egress usually outweighs storage, as the worked month shows. We cover when the savings hold up, and when they don't, in Is Decentralized Video Delivery Cheaper Than a CDN? The tier-by-tier transcoding comparison lives in AIOZ Stream Transcoding Pricing vs AWS and Google Cloud.

Questions to answer before you commit

Flat rates only help once you know your own usage shape, so answer these three questions first:

• What is your split between storage and delivery? An archive that few people watch depends on the storage rate, where AIOZ Stream is close to other providers. A library with heavy repeat viewing depends on delivery, where the gap is largest.
• How many resolution rungs do you need? A 4K rung costs five times the HD rate per minute, plus the storage and delivery of larger files.
• How spiky is your traffic? Hourly deductions show a spike the same day, so keep a buffer in your wallet sized to your busiest day.

What isn't priced separately

The Payment docs list only storage, delivery and transcoding. They show no per-request API fee, no charge for creating or deleting a video, and no volume tiers, so the $0.02 rates apply at any size. The published delivery rate is also one number, with no regional price list of the kind AWS and Google Cloud publish for egress.

AIOZ Stream delivers through the AIOZ DePIN network of edge nodes, run by independent operators, rather than a few owned data centers. If you plan very large volumes, confirm with AIOZ support that no separate terms apply to you.

How AIOZ Stream handles it

You can price a transcode before you run it. The Calculate transcode price endpoint takes the duration in seconds and the qualities you want, and returns the cost in USD for all of them. This is the request from the Video API docs, for a 60-second video at 360p and 1080p:

curl --location 'https://api.aiozstream.network/api/media/cost?duration=60&type=video&qualities=360p%2C1080p' \
  --header 'stream-public-key: your_public_key_here' \
  --header 'stream-secret-key: your_secret_key_here'

In the documented response below, the price is in USD, and is_enough tells you whether your current balance covers it:

{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "price": 1.23,
    "is_enough": true
  }
}

After the fact, GET /payment/usage returns your storage in bytes, delivery in bytes and transcoding in seconds for any time window, each with its cost. The Payments API needs a Bearer JWT rather than API keys. Next step: read the AIOZ Stream Payment docs for the current rates and deposit rules.

FAQ

Do I need a credit card to use AIOZ Stream?
No. You fund a wallet with AIOZ tokens, and usage is deducted from that balance as you go.

What happens if my wallet balance runs out?
The Payment docs don't describe what happens at zero. The user API returns a debt field next to balance, which suggests a balance can go below zero, so watch the daily usage history and top up before you reach zero.

Is the $0.02 per GB delivery rate the same worldwide?
The Payment docs publish a single delivery rate with no regional table, unlike the egress price lists from AWS and Google Cloud.

Does the transcoding charge include storing the output?
The docs list transcoding and storage as separate charges: the per-minute price covers encoding, and the resulting files count toward your storage at $0.02 per GB per month.

Why does AIOZ Stream bill hourly instead of monthly?
Usage comes straight out of a prepaid balance, so the platform deducts it every hour and gives you a daily usage history by service in return.

Do storage costs stop when I delete a video?
Storage is charged per hour for what you store, so a deleted file stops adding to the bill once the deletion is processed. The docs don't state how long processing takes.

Related reading

• How On-Chain Wallet Top-Ups and Token Billing Work
• AIOZ Stream Pricing Explained: A Full Cost Breakdown
• AIOZ Stream Transcoding Pricing vs AWS and Google Cloud
• Is Decentralized Video Delivery Cheaper Than a CDN?
• What Is AIOZ DePIN? How Its Nodes Power Video Delivery
• How to Build a Video Bitrate Ladder: A Practical Guide

References

• AIOZ Stream Docs: Payment: the storage, delivery and transcoding rates, hourly billing, 0.01 AIOZ minimum and AIOZ/USDT conversion
• AIOZ Stream Docs: Video API, Calculate transcode price: the cost endpoint, its parameters and the price and is_enough fields
• AIOZ Stream Docs: Payments API: usage, top-up and billing records
• AWS: Amazon S3 Pricing: S3 Standard storage and data transfer out to the internet
• Google Cloud: Cloud Storage Pricing: Standard storage rates by region