What does a Roku channel cost?
Building a Roku channel with Instant TV Channel can be surprisingly inexpensive.
Here are several example break-downs of the monthly recurring costs for a typical Roku channel.
| For this "Free" Roku channel Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides 1GB of streaming bandwidth per month: |
| Item |
Monthly Cost |
Description |
| Instant TV Channel |
$0.00 |
"Free" Channel Type |
| Amazon Web Services |
$0.00 |
S3 buckets used for video content streaming and poster hosting. Pricing is based on 5 GB of storage and 1 GB of streamed bandwidth under Amazon's Free Usage Tier. |
| Total |
$0.00 |
|
| For this "Unlimited" Roku channel Vimeo provides unlimited streaming bandwidth: |
| Item |
Monthly Cost |
Description |
| Instant TV Channel |
$4.95 |
"Unlimited" Channel Type |
| Amazon Web Services |
$0.50 |
S3 buckets used for configuration storage and poster hosting. |
| Vimeo |
$16.59 |
"Pro" account, $199/year, unlimited streaming bandwidth |
| Total |
$22.04 |
|
| For this "Commercial" Roku channel Vimeo provides unlimited streaming bandwidth: |
| Item |
Monthly Cost |
Description |
| Instant TV Channel |
$49.95 |
"Commercial" Channel Type |
| Amazon Web Services |
$0.50 |
S3 buckets used for configuration storage and poster hosting. |
| Vimeo |
$16.59 |
"Pro" account, $199/year, unlimited streaming bandwidth |
| Total |
$67.04 |
|
| For this "Commercial" Roku channel Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides 500GB of streaming bandwidth per month: |
| Item |
Monthly Cost |
Description |
| Instant TV Channel |
$49.95 |
"Commercial" Channel Type |
| Amazon Web Services |
$48.00 |
S3 buckets used for video content streaming, configuration storage, and poster hosting. Pricing is based on 100 GB of storage at $0.03 per GB and 500 GB of streamed bandwidth at $0.09 per GB. |
| Total |
$97.95 |
|
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the availability of services,
pricing,
or compatibility
of any CDN or storage provider.
Don't want to use Amazon or Vimeo to host your video content?
Visit this link
Where Do I Put My Video Content?
for other video hosting options for your Roku channel.
