The ladder
EidoOS prices delivered video by quality, and the bitrate includes audio (what actually crosses the network):
| Quality | Per hour |
|---|---|
| 240p | $0.021 |
| 360p | $0.045 |
| 480p | $0.073 |
| 720p | $0.149 |
| 1080p | $0.264 |
| 4K HDR | $0.863 |
Derived from a base transfer cost of $0.09/GB with a 1.5× platform margin = $0.135/GB. 70 % of every payment goes to the creator.
The finding that changed the design
Pay-per-use wins decisively for the occasional viewer — four films a month at 720p is about $1.19, against a €14.99 subscription. It loses for the heavy viewer: three hours a day at 4K is about $77.68 a month, 3.5× a subscription. Without protection, the users who watch most discover they pay most and leave. That is why no incumbent has tried pay-per-use, and why the model cannot stand alone.
The cap
A monthly spending cap set by the viewer, with three behaviours when reached: stop; continue with ads (default); or drop to the cheapest quality. With the cap, the promise is complete and communicable: cheaper than a subscription if you watch little, never more expensive if you watch a lot. Any pay-per-use product in the ecosystem — PhoonoS included — is meant to carry the same mechanism.
Billing what was delivered
A second finding: the platform had been billing the nominal bitrate of a quality rung (the encoder's ceiling) rather than the bytes actually delivered. With constant-quality encoding the real bitrate sits 2.7–3.2× below the ceiling; viewers were being charged 1.8× too much on average. Billing now uses measured size over duration (billingBasis: measured), falling back to nominal only for titles not yet transcoded, and marking them estimated.
Live events specifically
A stream has no pre-transcoded size; billing is by measured delivered bytes as they flow, at the viewer's rung, under the same cap. The creator's 70 % accrues live.
Status
Studio, channel format and billing logic complete and tested. App in internal testing. No public backend (eidoos.com does not resolve). No live event has been streamed to a paying viewer. The page this replaces described a live-event platform on another chain; this one describes a price list derived from a cost and a cap derived from a finding.
Based on the EidoOS pay-per-use economics (2026-08-21/22).