Patreon native video: 720p/1080p, 100 hours a month, 10 min on iOS

Patreon's native video is uploaded at 720p or 1080p, and viewers default to 720p. Drafts are deleted after 6 months, creators get 100 hours of media per month, and a mobile upload is up to 10 minutes on iOS and 2 minutes on Android. Details are from Patreon Help, read 2026-10-01.

What does Patreon list for native video?

How do I render a 1080p file for Patreon?

1920x1080 is inside Timeline's even-integer range of 256 to 2160, and audio.duration_seconds runs 1 to 1800, so one render can be as long as 30 minutes. Timeline 1.0 (POST /v1/timeline-1.0/render) takes output.width and output.height as even integers from 256 to 2160 and output.fps of 24, 25, 30 or 60, or omits fps to match the sources. It needs an Idempotency-Key, accepts only media.sume.com sources, and returns one MP4 at $0.10 per output minute, rounded up. The unbilled POST /v1/timeline-1.0/plan previews the cost first.

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/timeline-1.0/render \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: patreon-1080p-001" \
  -d '{
    "audio": { "mode": "silence", "duration_seconds": 600 },
    "output": { "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "fps": 30 },
    "video": [
      { "source_url": "https://media.sume.com/artifacts/artf_demo/shot.mp4",
        "start": 0, "duration": 600, "fit": "cover" }
    ]
  }'

How do I stay inside the 100 hours?

Count output minutes, not requests. The Timeline plan response includes duration_seconds and billable_minutes, and the plan call is unbilled, so you can total a batch against Patreon's quota before rendering.

Does Patreon's page give file size or codec rules?

The part I read does not, so this post does not state any. Check Patreon's page before an upload, then probe the result. Probe the finished file with Video inspect 1.0. With frames: false it is a probe only, it is unbilled, and it reports width, height, container, fps and duration_seconds. It does not report file size, codec or bitrate, so check those with a local tool before you upload.

What about a phone upload?

The 10-minute iOS and 2-minute Android limits apply to mobile uploads. A file you render with Sume and upload from a computer is not described by those two numbers in this source.