Priority Minutes

Videos on Snipp can stream through adaptive bitrate for fast seeking and multiple quality levels. Every account gets a monthly budget of priority minutes that route video to streaming, while everything keeps working once the budget is spent.

Plan Allowances

  • Free: 10 minutes per month, with faster seeking and multiple quality levels.

  • PLUS: 100 minutes per month, with faster seeking and multiple quality levels on more of your videos.

  • Ultra: 300 minutes per month, with faster seeking and multiple quality levels on nearly everything you upload. Contact us for more priority minutes.

How the Monthly Reset Works

  • Your account has a fixed reset date and time, assigned when you sign up. It comes around every 30 days, whether or not you stream anything.

  • At that moment your entire budget returns to zero. Unused minutes do not carry over.

  • Example: if your reset lands on the 3rd at 9:00 AM, all of your priority minutes are restored every 30 days at that same time.

What Uses Priority Minutes

  • Only videos count. Images, screenshots, and other files never use priority minutes.

  • A video's duration is what's measured, not its file size. A short clip uses few minutes regardless of how large the file is.

  • A per-video length cap also applies: 60 minutes per video. Videos longer than the cap always play in standard quality, no matter how much budget you have left.

When You Run Out

  • Nothing breaks. Videos still upload and play, just in standard quality served straight from storage without adaptive bitrate. It's a graceful fallback, not a block.

  • Check how many priority minutes you have left from billing settings.

  • Our Discord bot doesn't support video uploads. Upload videos through the website or API instead.

Need more minutes?

Running a project that needs more streaming minutes than your plan includes? Reach out and we'll work out a plan that fits.

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