Streaming Incident Cost Calculator
Directional estimate · plug in your numbers

What are streaming incidents
costing you?

Plug in the numbers you actually know — monthly viewing hours, typical incident duration, monthly incident rate, engineering response time, revenue per viewer-hour — and see a directional annual cost breakdown plus the savings Streamwake could recover for your platform. Numbers stay in your browser until you choose to save them. Not a financial commitment or industry benchmark — your mileage will vary.

Live estimate

Drag the sliders. See the delta.

Updates on every change — revenue exposure, engineering hours lost, viewer-hours affected — summed monthly then annualised, with Streamwake's modelled reduction in the second card. The defaults below are sensible starting points; replace anything that doesn't match your reality.

Your numbers

Plug in what you actually know.

Defaults are reasonable starting points for a mid-sized streaming platform; drag a slider or type a value to override. Leave the rest where they are.

hrs/mo

Total hours streamed per month — the denominator for revenue exposure.

viewers

The audience in flight when an incident overlaps a stream.

/mo

Stick to the rate your team has logged — not your gut.

min

Mean time to recovery from first detection to full playback.

min

Mean time an on-call engineer actively spends per incident — before handing off to fix.

$/vhr

Ads + subscription share combined. $0.05 is a sensible default for ad-funded streams.

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Live estimate
Your current incident cost

$8,284/ mo · ≈ $99,413 / yr

Your current incident cost

Estimated $ / year$99,413
Engineering hours lost10/yr
Viewer-hours affected20,833,333/yr
Estimated revenue exposure$83,333/yr
Revenue exposureAds + subscription at risk.
$6,944/mo
Engineering costEng time + triage + postmortem.
$1,340/mo

Directional
Not a financial commitment or industry benchmark — your mileage will vary. Plug in numbers you actually know; leave the rest at the defaults.

With Streamwake

Three potential figures below are projected at conservative Streamwake trial-cohort reduction factors (not contract figures — treat them as potential).

With Streamwake

Potential incident minutes avoided360min/yr
Potential engineering hours recovered6hrs/yr
Potential viewer-hours protected10,416,667vhrs/yr

Streamwake is modeled at conservative reduction factors [50%, 60%, 50%]. See Sources & assumptions for the math.

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