Video egress
Video egress is the data sent out from a server to viewers when they watch a video. It is the bandwidth that leaves your host's network, and it is the line item that dominates most video hosting bills because it scales with how much your content is watched.
Why egress matters
Most video platforms bill for egress, either directly per gigabyte or indirectly per minute delivered. Because egress grows with viewership, your cost rises every time a video is watched. A video that goes viral can produce a bill far larger than the cost of storing it.
As a rough sense of scale, one hour of 1080p video to 1,000 viewers moves about 2.7 TB of egress. At common rates that is real money, and it climbs from there.
How to avoid egress fees
The only way to make a video bill predictable is to stop pricing on egress. Reelm meters storage instead and delivers streaming at $0, so your bill is tied to how much you store, not how much you are watched. You can compare egress-based pricing against a flat model in the cost calculator.
Reelm is video hosting with $0 egress fees. Pay for storage, stream unlimited.
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