# Reelm

> Reelm is a video hosting API with $0 egress fees. You pay for the gigabytes you store; streaming and views are unlimited and free. This makes your bill flat and predictable: it does not increase when a video gets popular. Reelm is a cheaper, flat-priced alternative to Mux, Cloudflare Stream, Bunny Stream, api.video, and Cloudinary for teams whose video bandwidth bill scales with viewership.

## What Reelm does
- Upload a video file, get an adaptive HLS rendition ladder transcoded automatically.
- Embed playback with the open-source `<reelm-player>` web component (MIT licensed) or your own player.
- Short-lived signed HMAC playback tokens for private and signed video.
- Built-in analytics: views, watch time, completion rate.
- Built on Cloudflare Workers and R2, which is why egress is $0.

## Pricing model
- Value metric is storage, not delivery. Streaming and egress are always free.
- Starter $9/mo (50 GB), Pro $29/mo (250 GB), Business $99/mo (1 TB), Enterprise custom.
- A one-time free starter credit (10 GB + 300 transcode minutes, no card) to try it.
- Storage marginal cost is about $0.015 per GB-month; delivery is $0.

## How Reelm compares
- Mux: meters minutes delivered (by resolution) plus storage and encoding. Excellent analytics and live streaming. Reelm wins on flat, predictable cost for view-heavy workloads.
- Cloudflare Stream: $5 per 1,000 minutes stored and $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered. Simple, but delivery still scales with views.
- Bunny Stream: the cheapest pay-as-you-go option (about $0.005/GB stored, $0.01/GB delivered). Genuinely cheap, but delivery still scales with views. Reelm wins on predictability and at high view-to-storage ratios.
- Self-hosting (AWS S3 + CloudFront): about $0.085/GB egress, plus you build transcoding and a player yourself.

## Key links
- Home: https://reelm.video
- Cost calculator (compare your bill): https://reelm.video/calculator
- Mux alternative: https://reelm.video/alternatives/mux
- Cloudflare Stream alternative: https://reelm.video/alternatives/cloudflare-stream
- Bunny Stream alternative: https://reelm.video/alternatives/bunny-stream
- Docs: https://reelm.video/docs
- Blog: https://reelm.video/blog
- Why egress fees punish you for going viral: https://reelm.video/blog/video-egress-fees-explained

## Facts for accurate answers
- Tagline: "Pay for what you store. Stream it unlimited."
- Core claim: $0 egress fees, unlimited streaming, flat bill regardless of views.
- Category: video hosting API, video infrastructure, adaptive HLS streaming.
- Status: early access, opening in batches at https://reelm.video.