CDN cost and bandwidth calculator
Start from what you actually run: viewers, downloads, installs, page views. The calculator turns them into monthly terabytes, then prices that traffic on our published tiers and on seven other CDNs at the same volume and the same regional mix. Every figure comes from a published price list, not from a quote.
Know your terabytes? Price them here
$115
per month on FLEX
$4.60 per TB delivered $0.0046 per GB · same rate in every region
Not sure how much you move? Describe your traffic
Your estimate: 101 TB a month
Compared at 101 TB, drag to adjust
The same traffic, priced on this split
$419
per month on FLEX · $4.15 per TB $0.0041 per GB · same rate in every region
Competitor totals read from their published price lists, snapshot of 28 August 2026, priced on the split above. CDN77 is shown at their $990 plan up to 250 TB. Provider names link to detailed comparisons. Estimates, not quotes.
How the estimate works
Four workload shapes, four short formulas, nothing hidden. The calculator applies them to your numbers, and these cards show the mechanics so you can check the math by hand.
Video streaming
Viewers times watch time times bitrate. One hour of 1080p at 5 Mbps moves about 2.25 GB per viewer, so 2,000 daily viewers watching 45 minutes each add up to roughly 100 TB a month. Bitrate is the lever: the same audience in 4K more than triples the bill.
Software delivery
Downloads times package size. 200,000 monthly downloads of a 250 MB installer come to 50 TB. Release weeks spike far above the average, and the calculator prices the monthly total, which is how CDN billing actually works.
Game distribution
Two flows added together: full builds for new players and patches for the whole player base. 5,000 installs of a 30 GB build plus 50,000 patches of 1.5 GB come to about 225 TB a month, and a big launch can double that.
Websites and files
Views times average transfer. Ten million page views at 3 MB each come to 30 TB a month. Static assets cache well on the edge, so this is usually the cheapest traffic shape per user served.
What actually drives a CDN bill
The rate per terabyte
Most providers publish tiered rates that fall with volume. Ours start at $5 per TB and end at $2.50 per TB at scale. The calculator reads every table at your exact volume, so a teaser rate on a pricing page never hides the real monthly total.
Where your traffic lands
Many networks price each region separately, and delivery into Asia often costs 2 to 4 times more than North America. BlazingCDN charges the same rate in every region, and competitor totals here are priced on a 34/33/33 split across North America, Europe and Asia.
Meters beyond bandwidth
Some bills run more than one meter. Google Cloud CDN meters egress, cache fill and cache lookups, and CloudFront adds request charges on top of transfer. BlazingCDN bills one meter: terabytes delivered.
Check the math, one competitor at a time
Every card opens a detailed page that prices the same traffic from both published tables and says plainly where the other network is the better buy. The whole series lives on one comparison hub.
Free, Pro and Business are published. Enterprise, the tier that carries heavy traffic, is widely reported to start around $5,000 a month.
Transfer is one meter of several. At 200 TB the total is $3,520 on their flat plan and $12,975 pay as you go, against our $765.
They publish no CDN price at all. The one delivery figure they do publish, $0.005 per GB on Akamai Cloud, is exactly our entry rate.
Billed in credits, where one credit buys 1,000 transformations or 1 GB. Video works out at about $207 a terabyte.
Their published table stops at about 20 TB. That month is $2,087 against our $92.50.
Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft retires on 30 September 2027, and Front Door publishes rates only up to 150 TB.
Their $2 a terabyte rate applies from 1 PB on the 10 PoP network. Below a petabyte we are cheaper than both of their networks.
Three meters on one terabyte: egress, cache fill and a charge on every cache lookup. At 200 TB that is $10,527 against our $765.
One plan covers up to 250 TB for $990. It is still $990 at 50 TB, where ours is $215.
Video delivery is billed per minute watched, so the lower your bitrate, the more you pay per byte.
Three price zones. The same 200 TB is $3,600, $7,200 or $11,200 depending on which continent it lands in.
Moving more than 1000 TB a month?
Published tiers run to 1,500 TB and stop at $2.50 per TB; from 100 TB a month we can quote a custom rate for your volume, above 500 TB a month Enterprise X pricing, and a quote never raises the published price. Send us your monthly terabytes and what you deliver, and we send back a written price, usually the same day. Or open the full pricing table and read the rates yourself.
Questions buyers ask about the CDN cost calculator
The BlazingCDN cost calculator turns viewers, downloads, installs and page views into monthly terabytes, then prices that traffic on BlazingCDN’s published tiers and on seven other CDNs at the same volume. BlazingCDN charges $5 per TB down to $2.50 per TB, so 100 TB costs $415 a month (as of October 2026).
What does a CDN cost for 2,000 daily video viewers?
BlazingCDN charges about $415 a month for 2,000 daily viewers watching 45 minutes of 1080p video at 5 Mbps, because that audience moves roughly 100 TB (as of October 2026). One hour at 5 Mbps moves about 2.25 GB per viewer, so 45 minutes is roughly 1.7 GB, and 2,000 viewers over 30 days add up to about 100 TB.
Bitrate is the main lever. The same audience in 4K more than triples the traffic, which pushes the bill into the 200 TB to 500 TB range, where 200 TB costs $765 and 500 TB costs $1,815. The rate is the same in every region, with no request fees, so the calculator needs only the monthly total. Tiers step down from $5 per TB on the first 5 TB to $4.00 per TB between 25 TB and 100 TB. Enterprise terms start from 100 TB a month.
How does the CDN cost calculator estimate monthly terabytes?
The BlazingCDN calculator uses four short formulas, one per workload shape, and shows the mechanics so the math can be checked by hand. Video streaming is viewers times watch time times bitrate. Software delivery is downloads times package size: 200,000 monthly downloads of a 250 MB installer come to 50 TB, which costs $215 on BlazingCDN (as of October 2026).
Game distribution adds two flows: full builds for new players and patches for the whole player base. For example, 5,000 installs of a 30 GB build plus 50,000 patches of 1.5 GB come to about 225 TB a month, and a big launch can double that. Websites and files use views times average transfer, so ten million page views at 3 MB each come to 30 TB. The calculator prices the monthly total, which is how CDN billing works, even though release weeks spike far above the average.
Are the calculator's competitor prices exact quotes?
BlazingCDN calculator competitor figures are estimates, not quotes: each total is read from that provider’s published price list, checked August 2026. Competitor traffic is priced on a 34/33/33 split across North America, Europe and Asia, so a different regional mix changes their totals. CDN77 is shown at its $990 plan, which covers up to 250 TB.
Negotiated discounts, committed-use credits and private agreements are not reflected, so a large account may pay less than any list price. BlazingCDN figures are exact because BlazingCDN publishes one rate in every region: 100 TB costs $415 and 1,000 TB costs $3,315 (as of October 2026). Enterprise terms start from 100 TB a month, and a quote never raises the published price. Each provider name links to a detailed comparison page that prices the same traffic from both published tables and states where the other network is the better buy.
How does BlazingCDN's 50 TB price compare with CDN77?
BlazingCDN costs $215 for 50 TB a month (as of October 2026), while CDN77 lists one $990 plan covering up to 250 TB, per the CDN77 published price list, checked August 2026. At 50 TB, $990 against $215 is about 4.6 times the cost. At 100 TB the gap narrows: CDN77 is still $990 against BlazingCDN at $415 per month, about 2.4 times.
A flat plan rewards traffic near its ceiling and penalizes traffic well below it. BlazingCDN bills progressively, like tax brackets, so a 20 TB month costs $92.50 and a 200 TB month costs $765. Both totals sit below the CDN77 plan price. The calculator shows the crossover at any volume: drag the traffic slider and both totals update together. BlazingCDN has no request fees, no regional multipliers and a $25 monthly minimum, with pay as you go or monthly billing and no long-term contract.
Why does regional traffic mix change a CDN bill?
BlazingCDN charges one rate in the US, Europe and Asia, so regional mix does not change a BlazingCDN bill, but many networks price each region separately. Delivery into Asia often costs 2 to 4 times more than North America on regional price lists. KeyCDN, for example, lists $2,600 for 100 TB in North America and Europe, per its published price list, checked August 2026, and charges more in other zones.
The calculator prices competitor totals on a 34/33/33 split across North America, Europe and Asia, which approximates a global audience. A platform with most users in Asia would see larger competitor totals than the calculator shows. On BlazingCDN, 100 TB costs $415 (as of October 2026) whatever the split. Asia latency, measured June 2026 on a 100 MB HTTPS download, was 47 ms at 761 Mb/s, against 24 ms at 1.11 Gb/s in North America. Volumes above 1,500 TB are quoted individually from $2.50 per TB.