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How much does Remotion Lambda cost?

This page shows estimations to help you better expect how much Remotion Lambda will cost.
All renders are done with the following Lambda configuration:

  • 2048 MB RAM (default)
  • 10GB Disk size (default from Remotion 5.0)
  • Default concurrency
  • us-east-1 region
  • Remotion version 4.0.381

Prices may also vary based on the region, heaviness of your bundle, fluctuations in latency.
We always recommend to measure the cost of your composition yourself.

Rendering the Hello World project​

Rendering the HelloWorld composition of our default template.

Warm Lambda: $0.001, 7.56sec
Cold Lambda: $0.001, 11.02sec

Rendering a 1 minute Video in the same S3 bucket​

OffthreadRemoteVideo.tsx
tsx
import React from 'react';
import {Video} from '@remotion/media';
import {CalculateMetadataFunction, Composition, staticFile} from 'remotion';
// https://www.remotion.dev/docs/mediabunny/metadata
import {getMediaMetadata} from './get-media-metadata';
 
const src = staticFile('bigbuckbunny.mp4');
 
export const calculateMetadataFn: CalculateMetadataFunction<Record<string, unknown>> = async () => {
  const {durationInSeconds, dimensions, fps} = await getMediaMetadata(src);
 
  return {
    durationInFrames: Math.round(durationInSeconds * fps!), // 1440
    fps: fps!,
    width: dimensions!.width,
    height: dimensions!.height,
  };
};
 
export const Component = () => {
  return <Video src={src} />;
};
 
export const VideoFromFileComp = () => {
  return <Composition component={Component} id="VideoFromFile" calculateMetadata={calculateMetadataFn} />;
};
 
// In Root.tsx:
// <VideoFromFileComp />

This is the video file used.

Warm Lambda: $0.017, 18.91sec
Cold Lambda: $0.021, 15.52sec

Rendering a video inside your video increases the cost significantly.

Rendering a 10 minute Remote HD Video​

OffthreadRemoteVideo.tsx
tsx
import React from 'react';
import {Video} from '@remotion/media';
import {CalculateMetadataFunction, Composition} from 'remotion';
// https://www.remotion.dev/docs/mediabunny/metadata
import {getMediaMetadata} from './get-media-metadata';
 
const src = 'https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4';
 
export const calculateMetadataFn: CalculateMetadataFunction<Record<string, unknown>> = async () => {
  const {durationInSeconds, dimensions, fps} = await getMediaMetadata(src);
 
  return {
    durationInFrames: Math.round(durationInSeconds * fps!), // 14315
    fps: fps!,
    width: dimensions!.width,
    height: dimensions!.height,
  };
};
 
export const Component = () => {
  return <Video src={src} />;
};
 
export const NewVideoComp = () => {
  return <Composition component={Component} id="NewVideo" calculateMetadata={calculateMetadataFn} />;
};
 
// In Root.tsx:
// <NewVideoComp />

Cold Lambda: $0.108, 60.98sec
Warm Lambda: $0.103, 56.09sec

Rendering a 10 second Remote 4K Video​

OffthreadRemoteVideo.tsx
tsx
import React from 'react';
import {Video} from '@remotion/media';
import {CalculateMetadataFunction, Composition} from 'remotion';
// https://www.remotion.dev/docs/mediabunny/metadata
import {getMediaMetadata} from './get-media-metadata';
 
const src = 'https://videos.pexels.com/video-files/5530402/5530402-uhd_3840_2160_25fps.mp4';
 
export const calculateMetadataFn: CalculateMetadataFunction<Record<string, unknown>> = async () => {
  const {durationInSeconds, dimensions, fps} = await getMediaMetadata(src);
 
  return {
    durationInFrames: Math.round(durationInSeconds * fps!),
    fps: fps!,
    width: dimensions!.width,
    height: dimensions!.height,
  };
};
 
export const Component = () => {
  return <Video src={src} />;
};
 
export const NewVideoComp = () => {
  return <Composition component={Component} id="NewVideo" calculateMetadata={calculateMetadataFn} />;
};
 
// In Root.tsx:
// <NewVideoComp />

Cold Lambda: $0.014, 53.09sec
Warm Lambda: $0.013, 45.28sec

Increasing the resolution to 4K does significantly increase the time to render and therefore the cost.

Additional cost​

The calculation above only factors in Lambda computation cost.
This is usually the majority of the cost.
However, you also incur additional cost for:

  • Bandwidth: Pulling in assets happens always over HTTP and incurs S3 egress cost.
  • Storage: Storing the sites and renders in S3 incurs S3 storage.
  • CloudWatch Logs: Renders are logged to CloudWatch by default.
  • Remotion Licensing: Teams of 4+ people also need to acquire a Remotion Company License in addition to the AWS cost.

See also​