Pricing

Built for production scale.

Dedicated YouTube and Spotify ingestion infrastructure. Every tier includes direct cloud delivery (S3 / GCS / R2 / Azure), zero egress fees and founder Slack, pricing scales with your volume.

Starter

Stop maintaining proxies. Ship to production this week.

$499/ month
1 TB/month included
Then $0.80/GB beyond included
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What's included
YouTube module
Direct cloud delivery (S3 / GCS / R2 / Azure), zero egress fees
Webhook all-jobs-complete
Founder Slack channel (1-on-1 access)
SLA 99.5% uptime contractual
Response < 24h business hours
Monthly 15-min office hour with founder
White-glove migration from yt-dlp included
Guarantee
30-day money-back if our 99.5% SLA is not met.
Most popular
Medium

Run YouTube video data at production scale (5M reqs/month) with zero infra to manage.

$2,999/ month
5 TB/month included
Then $0.35/GB beyond included
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What's included
Everything in Starter
Extended SLA 99.7% uptime
Priority bug fixes 12h business hours
Monthly office hour extended to 30 min
Quarterly business review with founder (1h, proactive)
Custom anti-bot rules, 1-2 sites included
White-glove migration from Apify / Bright Data / Oxylabs included
Guarantee
30-day money-back if 99.7% SLA missed.
Advanced

Hit 50M reqs/month sustained on YouTube. Zero downtime tolerated. Compliance-ready for your enterprise customers.

$4,999/ month
25 TB/month included
Then $0.15/GB beyond included
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What's included
Everything in Medium
SLA 99.9% uptime contractual
GDPR DPA pre-signed Common Paper templates
SOC 2 in-progress attestation letter
Monthly office hour extended to 1h
Monthly business review with founder
Dedicated infra slot, physical (not shared)
Premium support 24/7 phone + Slack included
White-glove migration included
Guarantee
60-day opt-out, full prorated refund if 99.9% SLA missed any quarter. Plus performance bonus credits at scale.
Business

YouTube + Spotify pipeline at any scale. Fortune 500-ready, founder-level partnership.

Custom
Custom volume / month (negotiated)
As low as $0.05/GB beyond included
Book a 30-min call
What's included
Everything in Advanced
Multi-platform support: YouTube + Spotify + custom platforms on request
SOC 2 Type 2 attestation
SSO / SAML
Dedicated CSM (assigned day 1)
Custom MSA + DPA negotiated (vs Common Paper standard)
On-premise / VPC deployment option
Guarantee
100% money-back if not in production within 90 days post-signature. Plus performance bonus credits at scale.
Every plan starts with a free 100 GB trial, 30 days.

Questions, answered.

Something else on your mind? Talk to the founder, 30 minutes, no sales script.

Billing & commitment
Do unused terabytes roll over to the next month?+

No. Your monthly commitment reserves guaranteed network capacity, like a dedicated lane: the capacity exists whether you use it or not, which is exactly what lets us guarantee throughput at peak. If you consistently use less, downgrade to a smaller tier; if you’re bursty, talk to us and we’ll size it right.

What happens if I exceed my monthly volume?+

Nothing breaks. Jobs keep running and the extra volume is billed at your tier’s overage rate. You’ll get a usage alert at 80% and 100% so it’s never a surprise.

Can I change tiers mid-month?+

Upgrades apply immediately, the higher capacity kicks in right away, prorated. Downgrades take effect at your next billing cycle.

Is there a long-term commitment?+

No annual lock-in. Plans are monthly and you can cancel anytime. Annual commitments with discounted rates are available for enterprise volumes.

How is my usage measured?+

Total bytes delivered to your storage, that’s the only meter. Failed jobs are never billed, and we don’t charge for bandwidth, requests, retries, or webhooks.

Is there a free trial?+

Yes, 100 GB free for 30 days. Five minutes from signup to first delivered file.

Product & integration
Which platforms can I ingest from?+

YouTube and Spotify at full scale. Need a source we don’t list? Ask, adding platforms is a roadmap conversation, not a no.

Which formats and qualities are available?+

Video (MP4, MKV) up to source quality, audio-only extraction, and metadata. Tell us your pipeline’s expected input and we’ll match it.

How does direct cloud delivery work?+

You include your bucket credentials in the request. Tornado downloads the source, processes it on our workers, and streams the result directly to your bucket. Your file never touches our long-term storage.

Which clouds are supported?+

AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2, Alibaba OSS, and any S3-compatible endpoint (MinIO, DigitalOcean Spaces, Backblaze B2, Wasabi).

How fast is a typical delivery?+

First file lands in your bucket within minutes of the API call. Sustained throughput scales with your tier, our measured network peak is 38.4 Gbps.

Can you handle one-off massive volumes, datasets, back-catalogs?+

Yes, that’s our managed delivery service: we’ve shipped a ~100,000-video research dataset (~32 TB) straight into a customer’s S3, reconciled and verified. If you have a large ingestion project, book a call and we’ll scope it.

Reliability & performance
What’s the failure rate?+

Below 0.002%, measured across the whole pipeline. Failed jobs auto-retry and webhook with the failure reason, and failures are never billed.

How does your network avoid getting blocked?+

Every session runs on a dedicated network we own and operate ourselves, not rented proxies. An automatic feedback loop reroutes around blocks in real time, so they never reach your jobs. Full architecture details are shared on founder calls.

Do you have an SLA?+

Contractual uptime SLAs per tier: 99.5% on Starter, 99.7% on Medium, 99.9% on Advanced, each backed by a money-back guarantee.

Legal & compliance
Is using Tornado API legal?+

Tornado API is transport infrastructure: we move publicly accessible content from A to B, the way a CDN or ISP carries traffic. What you do with the content, and the rights required for your use case, is your responsibility. Most of our customers run legal-reviewed workflows (AI training under licensing agreements, analytics, creator-authorized repurposing).

Can I download private or paywalled content?+

No. Tornado only handles publicly accessible URLs. Customers are responsible for ensuring their use complies with applicable laws and platform terms.

Do you retain the content you deliver?+

Delivered files stream to your bucket and never touch our long-term storage. A short-lived cache may hold frequently requested items to speed up repeat deliveries, then expires automatically.

Are you GDPR-compliant?+

Yes, we’re a French company operating under EU law. A DPA is available on request.

Working with us
Do you offer invoicing and wire payment?+

Yes. Card self-serve for standard tiers; invoicing (net 30) and wire transfer for enterprise volumes.

What support is included?+

Email support on all plans, shared Slack channel and priority response on enterprise tiers. You’ll talk to the person who built the system, not a ticket queue.

Can I talk to someone before committing?+

Anytime, 30 minutes with the founder, no sales script. Come with your hardest technical question.