This topic describes the billing of live editing.
If the pricing of the features described in this topic differs from the pricing on the official website, the pricing on the official website prevails. For more information, visit the Intelligent Media Services (IMS) Pricing page.
Live editing
You are charged for live editing on a pay-as-you-go basis based on the video editing edition configured when you submit a live editing task. Live editing fees vary based on the editions.
Billing rule: You are charged for live editing based on the duration and resolution of output videos. The total duration of the videos is calculated in seconds and billed by minute. If video production fails, no fees are charged.
Billing cycle: The billing cycle is 1 hour. Alibaba Cloud calculates your service usage and generates the bill of the previous hour in the current hour. The actual time when bills are generated is determined by the system.
You are charged for live editing based on the value of the MediaProduceConfig parameter configured when you call the SubmitLiveEditingJob operation. Different values of the MediaProduceConfig parameter correspond to different video editing editions. Valid values of the MediaProduceConfig parameter:
RoughFast: specifies fast rough editing. The value corresponds to Basic Edition.
Accurate or AccurateFast: Accurate specifies accurate editing, and AccurateFast specifies fast accurate editing. The values correspond to Professional Edition.
If you submit a live editing task, the minimum granularity of rough editing or fast rough editing is Transport Stream. If the MediaProduceConfig parameter is set to Rough or RoughFast, the duration of the output video may be greater than the duration that you set.
Live editing is supported in the following regions: China (Beijing), China (Shenzhen), and China (Shanghai).
The following prices are for reference only. The actual prices on the official website prevail.
Editing edition | Output video resolution | Unit price (CNY per minute) |
Basic Edition | All resolutions | 0.007 |
Professional Edition | Standard definition 480p (shorter side ≤ 480 pixels) and lower | 0.225 |
High definition 720p (shorter side ≤ 720 pixels) and lower | 0.3 | |
Full HD 1080p (shorter side ≤ 1,080 pixels) and lower | 0.375 | |
2K (shorter side ≤ 1,440 pixels) and lower | 0.4 | |
4K (shorter side ≤ 2,160 pixels) and lower | 0.48 |
Billing example
You use the API operation for live editing to process two video files in a region in the Chinese mainland from 08:00:00 to 09:00:00 on the current day. The video editing edition is Professional Edition. The durations of the output videos are 4 minutes and 2 seconds, and 5 minutes and 10 seconds. The resolution of the output videos is 480p. The total live editing duration is calculated in seconds by using the following formula: 4 × 60 + 2 + 5 × 60 + 10 = 552 seconds. In this case, the total live editing fees can be calculated by using the following formula: 552/60 × 0.225 = CNY 2.07.