CC Encode

GPU video transcoding over a REST API. H.264 and HEVC HLS land in your S3 or R2 bucket.

Free trial: encode the first 5 minutes of a video at 720p. No card.

FFmpeg HLS/DASH Streaming AWS

Competitive per-minute pricing

Pack

Price

Credits

Starter

500

Basic

$10

1,000 + 100 bonus

Plus

$25

2,500 + 500 bonus

Professional

$50

5,000 + 1,750 bonus

Work

Credits

USD

SD transcode (360p, 480p)

0.75 / minute

$0.0075 / minute

HD transcode (720p–1440p)

1.0 / minute

$0.01 / minute

4K transcode (2160p)

2.5 / minute

$0.025 / minute

Transcription

1.5 / minute

$0.015 / minute

Audio transcode

0.01 / minute / quality

$0.0001 / minute / quality

Images

from 0.20 / variant

from $0.002 / variant

Why CC Encode?

Queue a video. The worker writes an H.264 HLS ladder and calls your webhook when it finishes. HEVC can sit beside that ladder. A progressive H.264 MP4 of the largest rung is optional.

The API key holds the S3 or R2 credentials. Outputs upload to that bucket. A key without its own bucket uses our storage.

For developers

Bearer token on POST /api/transcode. Leave the extra fields off and the job is the H.264 ladder, capped at 30 fps.

curl -X POST https://services.closedcircuit.io/api/transcode \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"source_path": "videos/source.mp4", "qualities": ["1080p", "720p", "480p"], "webhook_url": "https://yourapp.com/webhooks/transcode"}'

PHP, Laravel, TypeScript, and JavaScript versions: CC Encode examples.

After the trial

The free trial encodes the first 5 minutes of a video at 720p. No card. After that, prepaid packs from $5. One credit is $0.01. Credits do not expire.

SD (360p, 480p): 0.75 credits per minute
HD (720p, 1080p, 1440p): 1.0 credit per minute
4K (2160p): 2.5 credits per minute

A source above 30 fps is capped at 30 unless the request sets fps. Keeping a higher rate multiplies the encode charge by ceil(fps / 30). That multiplier does not apply to product detection.

What you can request

Rungs: 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p
H.264 HLS, optional HEVC, optional progressive H.264 MP4
AAC audio
Thumbnails, a sprite sheet, loudness normalization, a logo watermark, HDR to SDR
A clip, with start_time and duration
Subtitles from a VTT or SRT you already have. Burn-in takes one track.
AES-128: a key file next to the HLS playlist. This is not Widevine, PlayReady, or FairPlay.
A DASH manifest that lists the HLS renditions already encoded

Dashboard

Create a key, buy credits, and watch the job. The extra encode options are set on the API request.

Prepaid credit packs

Buy credits in the dashboard, then spend them on jobs. Packs and per-job rates are in the table above.