5centsCDN
Reliable & Affordable Content Delivery Solutions·5centscdn.net
5centsCDN is a cloud content delivery network (CDN) and edge platform for live streaming, video-on-demand delivery, website acceleration, and stream monetization. It offers global point-of-presence delivery, adaptive bitrate transcoding, server-side/server-guided/client-side ad insertion, a FAST channel builder, cloud storage, DNS, and traffic-steering tools, all manageable through a dashboard and REST API. It is aimed at broadcasters, OTT/media publishers, and web/SaaS businesses that need predictable, usage-based delivery pricing.
What it's for
Features 20
- Ad Manager (own ad server for direct inventory sales)
- Analytics and usage/bandwidth reporting
- Client-side ad insertion (CSAI)
- Cloud storage for origin content and media assets
- DVR (record, rewind, replay live streams)
- FAST Channel Builder for 24/7 linear channel scheduling
- Live streaming delivery over a global edge network
- Live transcoding / adaptive bitrate (ABR) encoding
- Multistreaming to 30+ platforms from one dashboard
- RESTful API for zones, streams, DNS, transcoding, and analytics
- SCTE-35 marker pass-through and CDN-level marker insertion
- Server-guided ad insertion (SGAI)
- Server-side ad insertion (SSAI) for live and VOD
- SimpleDNS DNS hosting
- SRT ingest for secure, ultra-low-latency streaming
- Stream scheduler for live and 24/7 broadcasts
- Token-based security and geo/IP access controls
- Traffic Director traffic steering
- Video-on-demand (VOD) CDN delivery
- Website/web acceleration with caching, edge routing, and DDoS protection
At a glance
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Pricing
A Bandwidth Cost Calculator is offered to forecast usage-based costs. The Custom/Enterprise plan starts at $3,000/year and requires talking to sales; many features (advanced ingest protocols, ad insertion, ad manager, transcoding presets, dedicated multistreaming) are only available on Custom plans. A 15-day free trial is offered.
Focused on web acceleration/CDN; described as the 'Popular Plan'.
1 TB CDN Bandwidth, NA & EU Delivery (Extended), 20+ PoPs, Unlimited Zones
Focused on live streaming and VOD delivery.
1 TB CDN Bandwidth, NA and EU Delivery, 10+ PoPs, Unlimited Zones, 1 Stream Name
Starts from $3,000/year; requires annual contract; sales-assisted. Ideal for ultra-low-latency delivery, advanced OTT setups, custom storage, TV-guide video players, satellite downlink/IPTV.
All CDN+ and CDN features, AV1 Codec (30-50% bandwidth saving), Ad Insertion & Ad Manager, all advanced features included
Save up to 17% with an annual contract on Enterprise/Custom plans.