Video infrastructure for every developer

What we do

Transcodely is a developer video platform with two products. Our transcoding API encodes video into your own storage — H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1 with HLS, DASH, and MP4 output. Video Hosting is the same encoder with the storage, the CDN and the player attached: send one request, we transcode it, store it, deliver it, and hand you an embeddable player. Pick one or use both — usage-based pricing, no monthly fees.

We built two products because developers kept asking for two different things. Some already have S3 and CloudFront and just want reliable transcoding. Others want to stop thinking about video infrastructure entirely. Both are legitimate — so we offer both, on the same platform, at prices that scale with use.

Why we built this

Every managed option made you give up the files. Your source goes in, a player comes out, and the encoded renditions live somewhere you cannot name, on a path you did not choose, behind an API you would have to re-export from to leave. Every self-hosted option made you build the queue — the retries, the concurrency limits, the packaging, the storage lifecycle, the bandwidth math.

Transcodely is the third option. The encoder runs on our fleet and the output lands in your bucket, at a path you wrote down before the job started — or in ours, if owning the storage is the part you wanted to skip. We built it because we needed exactly that and could not buy it.

Cast & crew

Transcodely is a one-person company. Every decision is deliberate, every feature ships because it matters, and when you write to support you're talking to the person who wrote the encoder. The credits below are accurate.