Hi HN, I'm building a short form video app(avg clip length 40 seconds, expecting 10-50,000 plays per day, growing, with 20% of traffic outside the US,80% in the US, mostly mobile). I'm deciding between:

1.) CloudflareStream + Backblaze(B2): Pros: Simple product, minutes viewed pricing(possibly cheaper than GCP for video streaming), built in transcoding. Concern: not sure if their ABR quality will match the quality of say GCP's which was really good in prior use.

2. GCP(GCS+TranscoderAPI+MediaCDN) Pros: I used this set up previously and it was robust, storage was cheap, network costs were low and the streaming quality was excellent. And the console was fairly easy to navigate(especially compared to AWS) I left GCP because of non Video Streaming related issues(Video Intelligence API was exceptionally expensive) but considering going back just for Video storage and streaming Cons: There were some issues configuring the transcoder API and also concerned there may be gotcha prices as I get more users

So if you've used Cloudflare Stream or GCP's video streamin services I'd love your take on: Real world playback quality for short videos especially 1080p/720p behaviour and bitrate ladders on CloudStream.

Any gotchas in pricing when it comes to either CloudStream or GCP Video Streaming services

Reliability/Operational issues you've run into.

I'm currently leaning on Cloudflare Streaming as it seems cheaper/better deal but concerned about reliability and quality of video streams. So maybe going back to GCP for video streaming wouldnt be so bad.

So looking forward to your thoughts, thank you