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Remotion cost: Mac power cents vs cloud container rate-card dollars.

For a measured 3-minute kinetic Remotion job, M2 Max package electricity was about ~$0.00017 while Cloudflare Containers standard-1 rate-card math landed near ~$0.0435 for 2175 s of wall (~36 minutes for a 3-minute video). Time is the product cost; Mac electricity is not the buyer floor. RenderMac buyer pricing stays quote-first.

~$0.00017Mac package electricity · Remotion 3 min (ABS)
~$0.0435CF Containers rate-card · same job measured
~$0.29 PROJECTEDCF rate-card · Remotion 20 min
~$0.0010Mac package electricity · Remotion 20 min (ABS)

Cloud compute dollars vs Mac electricity

PathJobWall usedEst. compute $
CF liveLightMotion 5 s54.12 s~$0.00108
CF liveLongKinetic3m2175.3 s measured~$0.0435
CF liveLongKinetic20m14502 s PROJECTED~$0.290 PROJECTED
Mac package electricityLongKinetic3m (ABS Wh)111.5 s~$0.00017
Mac package electricityLongKinetic20m (ABS Wh)679.5 s~$0.00102

CF $ uses published Workers Paid memory/CPU rate-card math (~$0.00002/wall-s upper bound for standard-1). Mac elec = ABS package Wh × $0.1883/kWh. Not an invoice. Not a RenderMac public rate card. Method: benchmark methodology.

What this means for buyers: the expensive part of a tiny-container Remotion path is time-on-box and product latency, not host watt slogans. RenderMac buyer pricing is quote-first. See pricing and Apple Silicon vs cloud containers.

Also read Remotion vs cloud containers, vs Lambda honesty, Remotion rendering, and the interactive Remotion cost calculator.

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