specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Ant Media
providerId: ant-media
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-02'
generated: '2026-09-02'
method: searched
source: https://antmedia.io/pricing/
supersedes: >-
  The 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that invented free/professional/enterprise API-request
  quotas. Ant Media does not sell API requests at all — it sells server licences. Every number
  below is read from the published pricing page.
description: >-
  Ant Media licenses the Enterprise Edition per server instance — hourly, monthly, annual or
  perpetual — or by the hour through the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud marketplaces. The
  Community Edition is free and open source. There is no per-API-call pricing, no request
  quota and, per Ant Media's own FAQ, no connection or concurrent-viewer limit; capacity is a
  function of the customer's own infrastructure.
pricing_model: per-instance licence
metered_on: server uptime (hourly plans) or instance count (monthly/annual/perpetual)
plan_count: 8
plans:
  - id: community-edition
    name: Community Edition
    type: free
    price: '0'
    currency: USD
    period: perpetual
    description: >-
      Free, open-source streaming server. WebRTC ingest only (no WebRTC playback), 8-12 second
      end-to-end latency, RTMP/SRT/RTSP ingest, HLS and MP4 recording, community support.
    limits:
      webrtc_playback: false
      adaptive_bitrate: false
      clustering: false
      latency: 8-12 seconds
    source: https://docs.antmedia.io/
    elements: [Open source, Community support (forum, Slack), REST API, Web management dashboard]
  - id: self-hosted-hourly
    name: Hourly License
    type: paid
    price: '0.24'
    currency: USD
    period: hour
    unit: per instance per hour of uptime
    signup_fee: '1'
    description: >-
      Enterprise Edition billed on server uptime only. Ant Media positions it for event-based
      and variable workloads.
    elements: [No connection limit, Transcoding, SDKs included, Standard support, Free software upgrade]
  - id: self-hosted-monthly
    name: Monthly License
    type: paid
    price: '109'
    currency: USD
    period: month
    unit: per instance per month
    description: Enterprise Edition monthly subscription with flex scalability charging. Positioned for always-on streaming.
    elements: [No connection limit, Transcoding, Flex scalability charging, SDKs included, Standard support, Free software upgrade]
  - id: self-hosted-annual
    name: Annual License
    type: paid
    price: '89'
    currency: USD
    period: month
    unit: per instance per month, billed annually
    description: Enterprise Edition annual subscription with advanced scalability.
    elements: [No connection limit, Transcoding, Advanced scalability, SDKs included, Standard support, Free software upgrade]
  - id: self-hosted-perpetual
    name: Perpetual License
    type: paid
    price: '2799'
    currency: USD
    period: one-time
    unit: per instance
    description: >-
      Lifetime Enterprise Edition licence including standard support and upgrades for the first
      year. Offline licence support is included, which is what makes air-gapped deployment
      possible.
    renewal:
      name: Standard Support/Upgrade after year 1
      price: '449'
      currency: USD
      period: year
    elements: [Lifetime usage, No connection limit, Transcoding, Advanced scalability, SDKs included, Offline license support]
  - id: cloud-aws
    name: AWS Marketplace
    type: paid
    price: '0.33'
    currency: USD
    period: hour
    unit: starting from, per hour
    description: >-
      Enterprise and Community Editions launched from the AWS Marketplace, hourly or annual.
      Includes a 7-day free trial. Infrastructure is billed separately by AWS.
    trial: 7 days
  - id: cloud-azure
    name: Azure Marketplace
    type: paid
    price: '0.44'
    currency: USD
    period: hour
    unit: starting from, per hour
    description: Enterprise and Community Editions from the Azure Marketplace, hourly or annual. Infrastructure billed separately.
  - id: cloud-gcp
    name: Google Cloud Marketplace
    type: paid
    price: '0.56'
    currency: USD
    period: hour
    unit: starting from, per hour
    description: Enterprise Edition from Google Cloud Marketplace, hourly. Infrastructure billed separately; up to $300 in GCP trial credits.
support_plans:
  url: https://antmedia.io/support/
  detail: >-
    All licence owners receive Standard Support at no extra cost. Priority and dedicated plans
    are sold separately.
published_statements:
  - claim: No connection or viewer limit
    quote: >-
      "Ant Media Server licensing does not impose fixed limits on connections or concurrent
      viewers. Actual capacity depends on your infrastructure resources, server configuration,
      and scaling architecture."
    source: https://antmedia.io/pricing/
  - claim: Cloud pricing excludes infrastructure
    quote: >-
      "Cloud marketplace pricing covers only the Ant Media Server license. Infrastructure costs
      — including compute, storage, and bandwidth — are billed separately by the cloud provider."
    source: https://antmedia.io/pricing/
calculator: https://antmedia.io/pricing/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com