Calculate bandwidth for video delivery from bitrate and concurrent viewers.
Video has two distinct capacity questions: peak bandwidth from concurrent viewers, and monthly volume from total views. Peak drives infrastructure while volume drives cost. Video bandwidth costs scale linearly with viewership and dwarf all other asset types, which is why adaptive bitrate delivery matters so much.
Video Bandwidth
Peak Mbps = viewers × bitrate; data per view = bitrate × seconds ÷ 8,000
Peak Mbps = viewers × bitrate; data per view = bitrate × seconds ÷ 8,000 Video has two distinct capacity questions: peak bandwidth from concurrent viewers, and monthly volume from total views. Peak drives infrastructure while volume drives cost.
Video bandwidth costs scale linearly with viewership and dwarf all other asset types, which is why adaptive bitrate delivery matters so much.
This calculator takes 5 inputs: Peak concurrent viewers, Average bitrate per viewer, Average watch time, Monthly views, Bandwidth cost per GB. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.