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Glossary

Apple Silicon media terms, defined honestly.

Short definitions for the words RenderMac uses in docs, bakeoffs, and buyer/host pages — so SEO pages and engineers share one vocabulary.

Control-plane terms

• Service ID — Named workload contract such as remotion.render.v1 or ffmpeg.stitch_export.v1.
• Estimate / quote — Pre-create price and ETA band for a specific service, pool, and input shape. Beta buyer fee ceiling is $0.
• Idempotency key — Client key that makes create-job retries safe. See idempotent media jobs.
• Lease — Time-bounded claim of host capacity for a job phase.
• Pool — Capacity class (private_first_party, org_private; public remains gated). Private pools guide.
• Webhook — Signed terminal/progress delivery to your backend. Webhooks explained.
• Artifact — Verified output object with checksum/content-type checks before publish.

Bakeoff labels

• MEASURED — Finished wall-clock or $ from a completed run.
• PROJECTED — Linear scale from progress% or duration ratio; verify later.
• ABS package Wh — SoC package energy during the job; not wall-outlet; idle not subtracted when idle samples are missing.
• Rate-card estimate — Published cloud list prices × runtime; not an invoice.

Methodology: benchmark methodology. Calculator: cost calculator.