Bring Your Own Bucket (BYOB)
Direct-to-cloud media output delivery. Save thousands on bandwidth egress by transcoding directly into your own Cloudflare R2, AWS S3, or Backblaze B2 storage buckets.
The Bandwidth Egress Tax
Traditional cloud transcoding platforms act as middlemen for your files. They download your raw videos, transcode them, store them temporarily on their servers, and charge you heavy markup fees (often up to **$0.09 per GB**) when you transfer those files back to your own storage or delivery CDN.
For high-volume video platforms, course builders, and social networks, egress bandwidth fees quickly outgrow the cost of the actual transcoding compute.
Standard Cloud APIs
How Xora BYOB Works
Xora writes output files directly to your cloud network, bypassing our servers entirely for final delivery.
Authenticate
Provide secure, read/write scoped access credentials to your bucket (such as AWS IAM roles or S3 API keys) via credential variables.
Submit Job
Send a standard cURL payload defining your custom FFmpeg arguments and specify your bucket destination in the delivery block.
Direct Write
Our execution engine writes final transcoded files directly to your storage. Egress bandwidth remains internal to your cloud provider ($0.00 egress).
The $0.00 Egress Guarantee
See how bandwidth savings scale as your media application grows.
| Monthly Output Volume | Standard Video API Egress Cost ($0.09/GB) | Xora BYOB Egress Cost | Annual Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 TB (~1,000 HD Videos) | $92.16 | $0.00 | $1,105.92 |
| 10 TB (~10,000 HD Videos) | $921.60 | $0.00 | $11,059.20 |
| 100 TB (~100,000 HD Videos) | $9,216.00 | $0.00 | $110,592.00 |
Delivery Configuration
Configure the target delivery bucket directly in your JSON API payload. You can target specific paths, set access control headers, and define public caching settings.
No files are locked on our server, ensuring full data compliance, maximum privacy, and instant availability on your user-facing CDN (such as Cloudflare CDN or Amazon CloudFront).
{
"mode": "ffmpeg",
"input_files": {
"in_1": "https://example.com/raw-video.mp4"
},
"output_files": {
"out_1": "optimized.mp4"
},
"ffmpeg": {
"args": ["-i", "{{in_1}}", "-c:v", "libx264", "-crf", "23", "{{out_1}}"]
},
"delivery": {
"provider": "s3",
"credentials": {
"access_key_id": "env:S3_ACCESS_KEY",
"secret_access_key": "env:S3_SECRET_KEY"
},
"bucket": "my-media-bucket",
"region": "us-east-1",
"path": "processed/uploads/"
}
}Ready to stop paying the egress tax?
Configure a free Xora account and transcode your first 1,000 seconds directly into your S3 or R2 bucket.