How Do I Estimate the Traffic Consumption?

By default, downstream traffic is billed:

Consumed traffic = Live video bitrate/8 x Length of a live video x Average number of viewers

Traffic fee = Consumed traffic x Price per GB in the corresponding traffic tier

If 200 viewers have watched a livestream (bitrate: 1 Mbit/s) for one hour, the consumed traffic is:

1 (Mbit/s)/8 x 3600s x 200 = 90,000 MB = 87.89 GB

If you use 87.89 GB of traffic from 00:00:00 to 01:00:00 on January 15 and the accumulated traffic in this month is 1 TB, you need to pay USD2.64 = USD0.03/GB × 87.89 GB.

By default, only output is billed. If the ratio between the number of livestreams and number of viewers is greater than 1:50, input is also billed. The unit prices for input and output are the same. For example, if the input traffic is 10 GB and output traffic is 20 GB in a billing period, the traffic fee includes both the input and output: USD0.9 = USD0.03/GB × 10 GB + USD0.03/GB × 20 GB.