# Theta Video Services

## Overview

Simple Video API for developers. Decentralized. Web 3.0

Build video into any application with a few lines of code. No hassle and video stack development needed. Simple. Cost-effective. Powered by Theta.

1. **Upload video**
2. **Play anywhere**
3. **Optimize with Theta P2P**

## Step 1: Upload video

Upload a video file via Theta video API. Theta will automatically encode and process it for streaming. No work on your end.

### API Request

**POST** `https://api.thetavideoapi.com/video`
```json
{
  "input": "https://tva-demo.s3.amazonaws.com/world.mp4",
  "playback_policy": "public"
}
```

## Our Pricing

### Video Ingest
- $0.015/min (based on video file length)

### Video Transcode
- $0.015/min (based on compute time)

### Video Delivery
- $0.024 (based on video data delivered)

### Monthly Cost Example
- **Video length**: 5 MINUTES AVERAGE - $75/mo
- **Videos uploaded**: 500 VIDEOS PER MONTH - $5/month
- **View count**: 50,000 VIEWS PER MONTH - $150/month

### Estimated cost with existing solutions:
- $230/month

Enable Theta edge network and pay in **TFUEL**

$97.65/month (~376.54 TFUEL) (57% savings)

## Additional Links
- [FAQs](https://www.thetaedgecloud.com/faqs/edgecloud-agents)  
- [Terms of Use](https://www.thetaedgecloud.com/terms)  
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.thetaedgecloud.com/privacy-policy)