Streaming Data & Storage Calculator

Estimate daily, monthly and annual data transfer for listeners, or the storage required to archive one encoded audio stream.

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Encoded stream bitrate

Streaming / recording hours per day

Average simultaneous listeners

Used for listener data-transfer mode. Archive mode stores one copy of the stream regardless of audience size.

Delivery overhead

Applied to listener transfer. Archive storage uses the encoded audio bitrate itself.

Monthly data footprintLive

Enter bitrate and usage to estimate transfer or archive storage.

How the calculation works

Data = bitrate × time ÷ 8

Listener-transfer mode multiplies the per-stream data by the average simultaneous audience and delivery overhead. Archive mode stores only one encoded copy of the stream.

Worked example

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