Cost, plus a published fee
Live streaming billed like the infrastructure it actually is. Your video is passed through untouched — never re-encoded — and you pay the bandwidth it moves plus one fee we print on the wall. About 5¢ an hour at 1080p. A dollar buys 20 hours and never expires, and $5 buys 100.
原価 gen·ka /ɡeŋka/ noun · accounting
The cost price of a thing — what it actually took to produce, before anyone adds a margin on top. Ordinary Japanese business vocabulary.
Every other streaming platform treats this number as confidential. We named the company after it, printed it on the pricing page, and put it on your receipt. It is the only promise here that matters.
$5 buys 100 hours at 1080p60 — 2.70 GB/hr, so 2.70¢ bandwidth + 2.00¢ fee
You pick the quality — the player never switches it behind your back. Change the rung above and watch the hours move. That is the entire product.
Nobody subsidises anybody. The person uploading pays what uploading costs — which is nearly nothing, because we do not re-encode — and the person watching pays what the bandwidth costs, plus one published fee on the watching side only.
If you watch
If you stream
Watching costs money, so botting costs money. Nobody here can buy ten thousand fake viewers, because ten thousand fake viewers would have ten thousand real bills.
Memberships, tips, ad revenue — none of it. Every other platform takes a cut of what your audience gives you. Our entire income is the per-hour fee on the watching side, printed on the pricing page, and creators keep everything else.
Our CDN charges $0.01 a gigabyte and publishes that rate. 1080p is 2.7 GB an hour. You can check our prices against their price list.
Not a rounded marketing number — the two line items we are charged and the one we add, which is what appears on the pricing page and on your bill.
2.70¢ bandwidth + 2.00¢ platform fee = 5¢ an hour
Bandwidth is Bunny CDN at $0.01/GB against 1080p60 at 2.7 GB/hr, checkable against their public rate card. The fee is 2¢ an hour on every quality — not a percentage of your bandwidth. It covers what the platform costs per viewer-hour, and on the cheap rungs it sits deliberately above cost, because the price of the cheapest rung is the price of a fake viewer. Drop a rung and your bandwidth falls; the 2¢ does not. When our costs drop, yours drop, and every change goes in a dated public log.
Twitch is free and we are not. If you watch a lot and never subscribe to anything, this costs you money that Twitch does not. We are not going to pretend otherwise. What we will say is that the only ad-free thing Twitch sells is $5.99 a month, per channel, recurring — and 47 hours a month here, which is the average, is $2.35 across every channel on the platform.
This is also version one. Video runs about 10–15 seconds behind live, which is Twitch's own range with low-latency mode off, and it is the trade for delivery that bills by the gigabyte rather than by the minute. That is what keeps an hour at 5¢ instead of something nearer 13¢.