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Remotion cost calculator (measured bakeoff math).

Compare Cloudflare Containers standard-1 rate-card dollars to Mac ABS package electricity for the compositions we actually ran. RenderMac’s free buyer beta fee ceiling stays $0 — this tool does not invent a public RenderMac rate card.

Conceptual diagram: Mac package electricity versus tiny container wall-clock cost story
Story diagram for the calculator: time-on-box drives tiny-container rate-card dollars; Mac package electricity is cents, not the buyer floor. Exact cells are in the table below.
~$0.00017Mac ABS elec · Remotion 3 min
~$0.0435CF rate-card · same 3 min
$0RenderMac buyer beta fee ceiling
Quote-firstPost-beta buyer pricing model

Remotion / encode cost calculator

Pick a measured 2026-07-22 bakeoff preset, or enter custom wall-seconds. Cloudflare dollars use the published Workers Paid standard-1 rate-card upper bound (wall_s × $0.00002). Mac dollars use ABS package Wh × $0.1883/kWh. Neither number is a RenderMac invoice.

Methodology

Source: CF Remotion cost bakeoff · Mac power bakeoff · What changes a quote. Lambda fan-out is intentionally absent until a same-composition AWS bakeoff exists.

Static bakeoff table (crawler-friendly)

JobLabelCF wallCF rate-card $Mac wallMac ABS elec $
LightMotion 5 sMEASURED54.12 s~$0.001083.47 s~$0.0000028
LongKinetic3mMEASURED2175.3 s~$0.0435111.5 s~$0.00017
LongKinetic20mCF PROJECTED14502 s~$0.290679.5 s~$0.00102
ffmpeg 20m x264MEASURED encode2371.1 s~$0.0474102.8 sWh not sampled

Same dataset as Remotion cost comparison and big-job cost duel. Do not treat Mac electricity as a buyer price floor.

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