# Pricing — VideoDB

> Plans for solo developers to enterprise teams. Start free, scale on demand. Transparent unit rates for ingest, indexing, search, streaming, and generation.

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## Developer Pricing

Transparent unit rates for ingest, indexing, search, streaming, and generation.

### Free — $0 / month

Best for testing APIs.

- $20 free credits to start
- Then pay as you go

CTA: [Sign up](https://console.videodb.io/auth)

### Pro — $20 / month

Best for indie devs and small teams.

- $20 monthly credit that rolls over
- No rate limits
- Unlimited credit top-ups
- Auto-recharge so you never run out of credit
- Priority support via Email and Slack Connect

CTA: [Subscribe](https://console.videodb.io/auth)

### Enterprise — Custom Pricing

Mission critical workloads.

- Custom plan tailored to your need
- Hybrid / on-premise deploy, custom models & fine-tuning
- 99.9% SLA, dedicated support team
- Expert consulting

CTA: [Contact Sales](/company#contact)

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## What you can do with Pro credits

**Scenario 01 — Live Monitoring:** Connect 1 camera stream and run 2 continuous alert policies for the entire month.

**Scenario 02 — Archive Search:** Index 1,000 minutes of video archives and enable semantic search capabilities.

**Scenario 03 — RAG Application:** Build a Retrieval Augmented Generation bot for 50 videos with deep recall.

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## Live rate card

### See — Ingest & Process (Signal Input)

| Item | Rate |
|------|------|
| Realtime | $0.084 / hour |
| File Uploads | $0.09 / GB |
| Transcoding SD (360p) | $0.0040 / min |
| Transcoding HD (720p/1080p) | $0.0090 / min |

### Understand — Indexing & Search

| Item | Rate |
|------|------|
| Transcription | $0.01 / min |
| Scene Processing | $0.003 / scene |
| Search Query | $1.50 / 1k queries |

Scene Processing covers segmentation and embedding creation. Token charges are billed separately as per the token rate.

### Remember — Storage

| Item | Rate |
|------|------|
| Media Storage | $0.03 / GB / mo |
| Index Storage | $0.0005 / min / mo |

### Act — Action & Generation

Video Editing (charged for edited segments only):

| Item | Rate |
|------|------|
| Inline Edit | $0.004 / min |
| Overlay Edit | $0.01 / min |
| Resize | $0.01 / min |

Generation:

| Item | Rate |
|------|------|
| Dubbing | $0.15 / min |
| Translation | $0.02 / min |
| Image Gen (Ultra) | $0.19 / img |
| Audio Gen | $0.12 / min |
| Video Gen | $0.5 / sec |

### Data Transfer — Delivery

| Item | Rate |
|------|------|
| Video Streaming | $0.07 / GB |
| Audio & Image Hosting | $0.06 / GB |
| Downloads (720p) | $0.03 / min |

### Cost of Prompts (Tokens) — Intelligence

LLM & VLM Models, per 1K token. Note: 1 frame ~ 1K token.

| Tier | Rate |
|------|------|
| Basic | $0.0016 |
| Advanced | $0.0065 |
| Ultra | $0.00875 |

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## Keep costs predictable

Optimize performance without overspending by controlling usage, storage, and output limits.

- Use sampling policies to cap frames per second
- Split cheap monitoring indexes from deeper recall indexes
- Keep prompts short, output length capped
- Store indexes only when you need replay and recall

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## Need a custom plan?

Tell us your streams, retention, and indexing depth. We will map it to a predictable plan.

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