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What Your Video Bill Actually Adds Up To: Minutes, Egress, Recording, TURN and Storage

The rate card shows one number. The bill has five lines: minutes, egress, relay, recording and storage, and they behave differently depending on whether you buy per minute or run the media yourself. Here is one workload, 100 people in calls all working day, added up line by line.

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Usage-Based vs Flat Licensing: Showing the Crossover Math

Everyone says flat licensing gets cheaper than per-minute video pricing somewhere around 100 to 200 concurrent users. Nobody shows the arithmetic. Here it is, from published rates: per-minute, per-user, per-gigabyte and flat, at identical usage, plus what moves the line.

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The Per-Participant-Minute Trap: Why the Bill Multiplies Before the Call Does

A four-person, thirty-minute call costs $0.20 on one published price list and $1.92 on another. Same people, same half hour. The difference is not the rate; it is what each provider counts. Here are the three multipliers inside per participant minute pricing, worked through.

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