Private by design
Originals stay private. Short-lived signed URLs and domain rules gate every delivery.
Media infrastructure, without the servers
Your media.
Stored once.
Streamed everywhere.
Upload a video or an image, copy an embed code, and move on. Lanternaut handles adaptive playback, private storage and global delivery without servers to run or bandwidth bills to fear.
Beta · plans start at $5 a month · free sandbox · cancel any time
Upload your next fileMP4, MOV, JPG or PNG · resumable
+course-introduction.mp4420 MB · PrivateReady
product-launch.mp4180 MB · PrivateProcessing
UploadEncodeDeliver
$0Surprise bandwidth bills
1 uploadFrom source to live URL
Every size240p to 4K, and image variants
1 lineTo embed on your site
A quieter kind of infrastructure
The hard parts disappear behind one clean surface.
Lanternaut is for site owners and developers who want the control of their own media stack without becoming their own media infrastructure team.
Generous delivery
Flat plans include bandwidth, so a popular page does not become a surprise bill.
Your site stays yours
Use the dashboard, the API or a simple embed without giving up your audience.
The pipeline
Upload to playback, without the infrastructure detour.
01
Upload
Send a video or an image from the dashboard or your application. Resumable uploads keep moving through an interrupted connection.
02
Process
Video becomes a 240p–1080p adaptive HLS ladder, or up to 4K on plans that include it; images get the sizes and formats your pages ask for. The original stays private either way.
03
Deliver
Signed URLs and domain rules protect every file while the global edge does the heavy lifting.
One small integration
Paste one line. That is the integration.
Upload in the dashboard, then copy a responsive embed for video or a plain image URL. Both work wherever HTML does—including WordPress.
View your dashboard<!-- video -->
<iframe src="https://play.lanternaut.com/e/asset_01?a=…&s=…"
title="Course intro" allow="fullscreen" />
<!-- image -->
<img src="https://play.lanternaut.com/i/asset_02/1200.webp"
alt="Cover" />Simple monthly plans
Pick a plan. Stop watching the bandwidth meter.
Storage, delivery and processing are visible separately. Prepaid top-ups cover the occasional busy period.
Starter
$5/month
Plus any tax. Monthly, cancel any time.
- 100 GB storage
- 750 GB delivery a month
- 75 min encoding a month1080p adaptive minutes
- Adaptive HLS streaming
- Signed links and allowed domains
- Embed player, API and webhooks
About 65% more usage than paying with credits
Choose StarterHobby
$12/month
Plus any tax. Monthly, cancel any time.
- 250 GB storage
- 1.5 TB delivery a month
- 250 min encoding a month1080p adaptive minutes
- Everything in Starter
- Room for a growing library
About 83% more usage than paying with credits
Choose HobbyCreatorMost popular
$39/month
Plus any tax. Monthly, cancel any time.
- 750 GB storage
- 5 TB delivery a month
- 1,000 min encoding a month1080p adaptive minutes
- Everything in Hobby
- Built for regular publishing
About 99% more usage than paying with credits
Choose CreatorPro
$79/month
Plus any tax. Monthly, cancel any time.
- 1.5 TB storage
- 12 TB delivery a month
- 1,500 min encoding a month1080p adaptive minutes
- Everything in Creator
- For busy sites and course libraries
About 78% more usage than paying with credits
Choose ProScale
$149/month
Plus any tax. Monthly, cancel any time.
- 3 TB storage
- 20 TB delivery a month
- 3,000 min encoding a month1080p adaptive minutes
- Everything in Pro
- Grow past your storage allowance, billed daily from your wallet
About 81% more usage than paying with credits
Choose ScaleEnterprise
Custom
Allowances and price to fit your volume.
- Custom allowances and volume pricing
- A direct line to the team
Past your plan: the wallet
- Delivery: a free 20% on top of your allowance (150 GB on Starter), then $3.00/TB from your wallet.
- Encoding past your included minutes: $0.04/min per standard minute, times the weight below.
- Captions: $0.006/min, from your wallet.
- Storage past the allowance on Scale and Enterprise: $0.03/GB-month, charged daily. On other plans uploads pause at the allowance; nothing is ever deleted for it.
Top-ups
- $10 / $25 / $50 / $100, or any amount from $10.
- Credit lasts 12 months from your most recent top-up; every top-up renews the whole balance.
- An unused top-up can be refunded within 14 days. Spent credit cannot.
- With the wallet empty, playback keeps going: delivery past your plan slows to 10% and new encodes wait for a top-up.
With a paid plan, buy any custom amount between $10 and $500 in Usage & billing.
Buy custom creditsFree sandbox
- Test the API and the player without paying.
- Clips up to 30 seconds, watermarked, deleted after 24 hours.
Encoding, in standard minutes
Your plan’s encoding minutes are standard minutes: one minute of adaptive video up to 1080p. Other encodes weigh more or less, per minute of video: the resolution multiplier times the mode factor. Your plan’s minutes are used first; past them, each standard minute is $0.04 from your wallet. Every plan includes 2K and 4K, and every video is quoted before it encodes.
| Largest stream | Adaptive (×1) | Single stream (×0.75) |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 1080p ×1 | 1 standard minute$0.04/min from the wallet | 0.75 standard minutes$0.03/min from the wallet |
| 2K (1440p) ×2 | 2 standard minutes$0.08/min from the wallet | 1.5 standard minutes$0.06/min from the wallet |
| 4K (2160p) ×3 | 3 standard minutes$0.12/min from the wallet | 2.25 standard minutes$0.09/min from the wallet |
- The resolution multiplier goes by the largest stream a video actually gets, measured on its short side, so a vertical 1080×1920 video counts as 1080p. A video is never charged for a size it does not get.
- Billed per second, with a 60-second minimum per video, applied before the weight.
- Switching a single stream to adaptive later costs the difference: 0.25 × the resolution multiplier per minute of video.
- For example, 10 minutes of 4K adaptive is 10 × 3 = 30 standard minutes.
Start today
Your media, without the server room.
Create an account, pick a plan, and upload your first video in minutes.