Why we don't charge for bandwidth
Ask anyone who's run video at scale what surprised them about the bill, and they'll say the same thing: bandwidth. You upload a few hundred gigabytes, a video goes mildly viral, and the egress line item dwarfs everything else. The platform makes more money the more your audience watches — which is exactly backwards from what you want.
The model is flipped
Reelm meters one thing: storage. Streaming and views are unlimited (fair-use). Your bill is predictable because it's tied to a number you control — how much you store — not to how popular your content is.
How we can do it
We deliver from object storage with $0 egress, and gate playback at the edge with a signed token before serving a byte. No egress cost to pass on means no egress line on your invoice. You pay $0.015/GB-month of storage; that's the whole story.
Storage 50/250/1024 GB across Starter/Pro/Business, plus a free starter credit to try it with no card. Upload a file, get adaptive HLS and an embeddable player, and never think about a bandwidth bill again.