Convert viewers, duration, and bitrate into exact GB & TB bandwidth usage, and see what your stream will cost, before you go live.
Grab both numbers from your analytics: total unique viewers or sessions per month, and average session/watch duration.
Quality presets fill in a typical bitrate for you. Know your encoder settings? Just type your exact bitrate. Using adaptive bitrate? Enter your mid-ladder rendition. Not sure what bitrate to pick? Find it with the bitrate calculator.
Based on your average bitrate and how long viewers stay, a safe upper bound.
Bandwidth is the single biggest cost in live streaming, and the easiest one to get surprised by. This free calculator converts your audience size, event length, and video bitrate into total data delivered, so you can budget your stream the same way CDN engineers do. When you're ready to go live, Livepush delivers your stream over Akamai's global edge network with bandwidth included in flat monthly plans.
Teams from local stations, global networks, sports organisations, and Fortune 500 companies plan and deliver their streams with Livepush.
Every second your stream is live, each viewer downloads your video bitrate's worth of data. The math is simple: bitrate (kbps) ÷ 8 gives kilobytes per second, multiplied by event duration and audience size gives your total delivery bandwidth.
A 2,000 kbps stream sends 250 KB per second to each viewer, roughly 0.9 GB per viewer-hour. Fifty viewers watching a one-hour show is 45 GB. Push the same show to 1,000 viewers at 1080p (4,500 kbps) and you're at 2 TB, which is why estimating bandwidth before an event matters as much as testing your encoder.
One-off webinar, weekly church service, or a 24/7 linear channel, the calculator handles any streaming routine. Pick your schedule, set your audience and bitrate, and it converts everything into total data delivered per month.
// data each viewer downloads per second bytes_per_sec = bitrate_kbps ÷ 8 × 1000 // total delivery bandwidth bandwidth = bytes_per_sec × seconds × viewers // example: 50 viewers, 60 min, 2000 kbps 250 KB/s × 3600s × 50 = 45 GB
Bitrate is the lever that moves your bandwidth bill most. Doubling resolution can triple data usage, so knowing the GB-per-viewer-hour cost of each quality tier helps you pick the right trade-off between picture quality and delivery cost.
Per-GB CDN pricing punishes success: the bigger your audience, the scarier the invoice. Livepush includes bandwidth in flat monthly plans delivered over Akamai's global edge network, so the calculator's plan recommendation is the number you'll actually pay.
Your estimate assumes every viewer pulls your full bitrate, but with adaptive bitrate, phones on 4G and viewers on slow Wi-Fi automatically drop to lighter renditions. Livepush generates the full ABR ladder from your single source stream, so real usage typically lands 10–30% under the calculator's worst case.
Anyone paying for stream delivery needs the same number: how many GB will this audience actually consume?
Quote clients accurately by estimating delivery costs for conferences, product launches, and hybrid events before signing the contract.
Budget weekly services and holiday peaks, when attendance can triple, without overpaying for capacity the rest of the year.
Size bandwidth for match days at 1080p, where high bitrates and long durations make estimates matter most.
Model always-on delivery, 740 streaming hours a month, to compare flat-rate hosting against per-GB CDN billing.
Check whether your registration count fits your plan before opening the stream to a bigger audience.
Build defensible bandwidth line items into client proposals using the same formula CDN engineers use.
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