The core is free and self-hosted forever. Every tier runs the same pipeline — you pay for fleet ceiling, from one worker to an unlimited floor.
One master, one worker. The full pipeline on your own hardware — no card, no clock, nothing held back.
Create a free account →The same product with room to grow: pick the worker ceiling that matches the machines in the room.
Choose a size →Facility-scale ceilings, a second master on the top sizes — and on Studio Plus, no worker cap at all.
Choose a size →At $29 a month for two workers, Team costs about what one busy day of 4K output runs on a per-minute cloud meter — the math is below. Wrong size? 7-day money-back guarantee on the first month of any paid plan.
Payments are handled by Stripe — checkout and billing run on Stripe's hosted pages, and card details never touch TRNSCODE.
Cloud transcoding bills per minute of output, every month, forever. A worker ceiling is flat. Here is the same month, both ways.
| Monthly output | Per-minute meter | TRNSCODE flat |
|---|---|---|
| 50 hours of 4K | ~$144/mo | Team 10 — $99/mo |
| 150 hours of 4K | ~$432/mo | Studio 25 — $249/mo |
| 500 hours of 4K | ~$1,270/mo | Studio Plus — $999/mo, unlimited workers |
Meter column: AWS Elemental MediaConvert's published on-demand rates (US East, Professional tier — $0.012 per normalized minute in the first bracket, volume brackets after it; 4K ≤30fps = 4× minutes), retrieved September 2026. That is the meter's floor: HEVC, high frame rates, multi-pass and quality modes multiply it — and next month the meter starts at zero again. The flat fee buys the same fleet every month, on hardware you already own.
Fleet-scale encoding used to be a hardware budget. Here it is the machines you already own and a monthly ceiling — count the boxes that sit idle, pick the size that fits.
A freelance editor or creator with one machine to spare: the deadline export runs there while you keep cutting, verified before it ships. That is Solo — free forever, no card.
A small post team with two to ten machines between the bays — spare desktops, a retired tower, the assistant's box after hours. That is Team: $29 to $99 a month by worker ceiling.
Twenty-five to fifty workstations that go dark at 7 PM can drain the day's queue before morning. That is Studio 25 or Studio 50 — $249 or $479 a month, with a second master on Studio 50.
Blades render all night while one or two servers crawl through ingest for days. Put a worker on every blade and the whole rack encodes. That is Studio Plus — $999 a month, no worker cap, three masters, Slack support on a 3-hour SLA.
Everything else ships in every tier. The one thing sold separately is the review room.
The review & approval platform on your own master: scrubbable previews, approve/reject gates with comments, and per-deliverable sign-off before anything ships. Added or removed à la carte from the account dashboard on any paid plan, billed with the subscription through Stripe.
The preset library, verification and forensics, watch folders, NLE round-trip and localization delivery are not upsells — every tier, Solo included, runs the complete pipeline. The tiers differ by fleet ceiling alone.
| Feature | Solo | Team | Team 5 | Team 10 | Studio 25 | Studio 50 | Studio Plus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $0 | $29 | $59 | $99 | $249 | $479 | $999 |
| Workers | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 25 | 50 | Unlimited |
| Master activations | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Unlimited jobs | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Full preset library | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Verification & forensics | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Watch folders | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| NLE round-trip | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Localization delivery | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Client Review add-on | Not included | +$29/mo | +$29/mo | +$29/mo | +$29/mo | +$29/mo | +$29/mo |
| Support | Community | Slack · 3-hour SLA |
Solo carries no fee, no time limit and no card. Create an account and it is provisioned automatically: one master, one worker, the full pipeline — presets, verification, watch folders — on hardware you own.
Fleet ceiling. Every tier runs the same product; the paid tiers raise how many workers can register — Studio Plus removes the cap entirely — and Studio 50 and Studio Plus allow a second master. Nothing else is held back.
One worker daemon on one machine. A box with four GPUs is still one worker unless you run four daemons.
One installed master service bound to your account. Most tiers include one; Studio 50 includes two and Studio Plus three, for extra rooms or a standby coordinator.
No. TRNSCODE is self-hosted. Files never leave your network — there is no upload step and no cloud dependency. The only thing that talks to us is the license check.
Evaluation is what Solo is for — the full pipeline, free forever, no card. If you then buy the wrong size, the first month of any new paid subscription carries a 7-day money-back guarantee: email info@trnscode.com from your account address within 7 days of the first charge and it is refunded and cancelled. Downgrades and cancellations are self-service any time after that.
Any time, from your account dashboard — upgrades and changes go through Stripe's own checkout and billing portal, and card details never touch TRNSCODE. A running master picks the new ceiling up at its next license revalidation, or immediately with Re-validate now in the console.
Install the master, join a worker, submit a job. Self-hosted and free to run on hardware you already own.