RTMP ingest for live streams

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Hi,

I’m evaluating Livepeer Studio for a live streaming feature in my app (interactive hosts on a separate real-time SDK, pushed via RTMP into Livepeer for delivery to a passive viewing audience — not using Livepeer for the interactive/host side, only for ingest + HLS delivery to viewers).

I have a few questions about the Pay As You Go pricing:

  1. Is the Delivery fee ($0.03/60 minutes) billed per viewer-minute (i.e., multiplied by how many people are watching), or per minute of the source stream regardless of audience size?
  2. Do you support standard RTMP ingest for live streams (from a third-party RTMP push, not just your own SDK/browser capture)?
  3. Does the $100/month minimum spend apply from the very first month, or only once usage would otherwise exceed it?
  4. Roughly, for a live stream with ~100 concurrent viewers running ~40 hours/month, what would you estimate the total monthly cost to be (transcoding + delivery, no storage needed since we don’t need VOD from your side)?

Trying to compare this accurately against other providers before committing. Thanks for your help!

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Hi @wdiaz22, thanks for reaching out.

Rich here, Co-Director of the Livepeer Foundation. Ill be upfront about what I can and cant answer: the Foundation doesn’t operate Studio, so Im not the right person for the PAYG billing specifics in your questions 1, 3 and 4.

What I can give you is an honest heads up: Studio is no longer as actively maintained as it once was, so I wouldnt want you building a provider comparison on pricing that may not reflect where things are going.

The better option for your use case is Frameworks, who are actively building on the Livepeer network. Third party RTMP push in, HLS out to a passive viewing audience is exactly the kind of workload theyre set up for, and they can give you real numbers for ~100 concurrent viewers at ~40 hours/month rather than me guessing at them here.

@stronk please can you pick this up and walk @Wiser through ingest support and what the cost profile would look like? :folded_hands:

Happy to connect you both directly if thats easier - keen to see you land somewhere that works. :ok_hand:

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