The FFmpeg API with usage-based pricing.
Production-grade infrastructure, no monthly minimum, no surprise bills.
99.99% uptime · No credit card to start
curl -X POST https://verygoodffmpeg.com/api/ffmpeg \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"input_files": {
"input": "https://your-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/input.mp4"
},
"output_files": ["output.mp4"],
"ffmpeg_command": "-i {{input}} -c:v libx264 -crf 23 {{output.mp4}}"
}'Run FFmpeg commands on our infra. Pay by the gigabyte. That’s it.
Very Good FFmpeg is a REST API that runs your exact FFmpeg commands on high-performance cloud infrastructure — and bills you per GB processed, with volume discounts that kick in automatically as you grow.
100% FFmpeg compatible
Your existing commands, filter graphs, and complex pipelines work unchanged. No DSL. No proprietary syntax. No relearning.
Usage-based pricing
Starts at $0.50/GB and drops to $0.07/GB at scale. Pay nothing on quiet months. No subscription floor.
99.99% uptime SLA
Every job runs on a dedicated 16 vCPU / 32 GB RAM instance. No cold starts, no 15-minute Lambda timeouts, no noisy-neighbor slowdowns on heavy jobs.
Auto-scaling, async by default
Webhooks, polling, and stable output URLs. Handles thousands of concurrent jobs without you tuning a queue.
Long jobs welcome
4-hour transcodes? GPU-accelerated encodes? Multi-hour audio pipelines? Run them on dedicated hardware that doesn’t time out.
No hidden fees
The price you see is the price you pay.
If you’re shipping video, we built this for you.
Video SaaS platforms
User uploads land, transcodes fan out, you don’t run a worker fleet.
UGC and creator tools
Spiky weekend traffic, quiet weekdays. Your bill follows the curve.
Podcast and audio pipelines
Multi-hour episodes, normalization, format conversion, no Lambda timeout.
AI video startups
Frame extraction, format wrangling, GPU encoding for generated output.
Agencies and freelancers
Client deliverables in any codec. Pay for the project, not a yearly seat.
Education and e-learning
Lecture recordings, captions, multi-bitrate exports — process a course catalog without standing up a render farm.
How it works
- Step 1
Sign up
Get an API key in 30 seconds. No credit card required.
- Step 2
POST your FFmpeg command
Same flags, same filter graphs, same syntax. We run it on dedicated high-CPU/GPU infrastructure.
- Step 3
Get a webhook (or poll)
Output lands at a stable URL, ready to serve or pipe into the next stage.
Usage-based pricing that rewards you for growing.
No monthly minimum. Discounts apply automatically as your volume increases.
| Volume | Price per GB | Discount |
|---|---|---|
| 0 – 10 GB | $0.50 | — |
| 10 – 100 GB | $0.25 | 50% off |
| 100 – 500 GB | $0.15 | 70% off |
| 500 GB – 2 TB | $0.10 | 80% off |
| 2 TB+ | $0.07 | 86% off |
Same FFmpeg, but good-er.
| Very Good FFmpeg | Rendi (Pro) | ffmpeg-api.com (Starter) | FFHub | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Usage-based / GB | Subscription | Subscription + quota | Prepaid credits |
| Entry price | $0.50/GB | $25/month | $11/month | $5 for 5,000 credits |
| Monthly minimum | $0 | $25 | $11 | $0 (credits roll over) |
| Quota model | None | 100 GB/mo cap | 2,000 GB-seconds | Credits per second |
| Volume discount | Auto, to $0.07/GB | Tier upgrade | Tier upgrade | Larger credit packs |
| Job time limit | 6 hrs | 10 min | Not published | Not published |
| Dedicated hardware | 16 vCPU / 32 GB | 4 vCPU shared | Not published | Not published |
| Pure FFmpeg syntax | Yes | Yes | Not published | Yes |
Frequently asked questions
Why not give it a try?
Get an API key in 30 seconds. Your first 2 GB are free. No credit card required.
99.99% uptime · Pay only for what you process