Project the data transferred through an edge network from active users, per-user throughput, daily activity time, and billing period. The calculator reports total transfer, average sustained load, and an optional delivery-cost estimate without assuming a provider’s current pricing.
Cost equals decimal terabytes multiplied by the entered price per TB.
Total transfer is the billing-period volume implied by the activity assumptions. Average throughput spreads that transfer evenly over every hour in the period.
Providers may bill in decimal or binary units and may separate regional transfer, requests, and cache-fill traffic.
1,000 users averaging 1.5 Mbps for 2 hours per day over 30 days transfer 40,500 GB, or 40.5 TB. At $20 per TB, delivery is estimated at $810.
It uses the inputs, formula, units, and independence assumptions shown on this page. Change the inputs to match your own system or experiment.
Use representative averages for planning, preserve headroom where applicable, and test multiple plausible scenarios instead of relying on one point estimate.
No. The result is a planning estimate. Validate it with measured data, monitoring, load tests, or an experiment-design review as appropriate.
The calculator checks values required by the formula and displays an error instead of returning NaN or Infinity. Valid zero values remain available where they are meaningful.
Tools may use different statistical approximations, unit conventions, rounding rules, priors, confidence definitions, or operational headroom assumptions.
| Variable | Unit | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Active users | users | Average population represented |
| Traffic rate | Mbps/user | Mean rate during active time |
| Price | $/TB | User-entered effective delivery rate |