Comparison
Every video host
bills you differently.
There are only two models. You either pay a flat price for a shelf, or you pay a meter that runs while people watch. Here is what each one charges, read off their own pricing pages on 1 October 2026.
Flat plans
You buy an amount of storage. What happens after that is the difference between them.
| Host | From | Storage | What counts as storage | Bandwidth | Transcoding | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fastmotion | $19 a month | 250 GB to 10 TB | Every quality we produce | Unlimited | None | Not charged per seat |
| Vimeo | $12 per seat a month | 2 TB to 7 TB | The file you upload | 2 TB a month on self serve plans | None | 1, 5 and 10 seats by plan |
| Wistia | $79 a month, billed annually | From 250 GB | The file you upload | Not published | None | From 3 users |
| SproutVideo | $15 a month | 150 GB to 2 TB | The file you upload | 1.8 TB to 24 TB a month | None | 2 to 50 seats by plan |
Metered platforms
No plan to pick. You are billed for what is stored and for what gets watched.
| Platform | Storage | Delivery | Encoding | Billed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Stream | $5 per 1,000 minutes stored, each month | $1 per 1,000 minutes delivered | Free | Minutes of video |
| Mux | From $0.0024 per minute stored, each month | From $0.0008 per minute delivered, first 100,000 free | Free on basic quality | Minutes of video, multiplied by resolution |
| Bunny Stream | From $0.01 per GB stored, each month | From $0.005 per GB delivered | Free | Gigabytes |
One library, priced seven ways
Rates are hard to compare in the abstract, so here is a single case costed on each one. Assumptions: a library of 100 hours of 1080p video, and 2,000 hours watched a month, which is about 2.25 TB delivered at an average of 2.5 Mbps. Storage works out at roughly 200 GB of source, or 361 GB once every quality is produced.
| Host | Monthly | How it lands there |
|---|---|---|
| Bunny Stream | about $15 | 361 GB stored at $0.01, then 2.25 TB delivered at $0.005, at the cheapest regional rate. |
| Mux | about $30 | 6,000 minutes stored at $0.0024, then 20,000 chargeable minutes at $0.0008. Multiply by 1.25 for 1080p. |
| SproutVideo | $45 a month | The 400 GB plan holds the source files and its 4.8 TB of bandwidth covers the viewing. |
| fastmotion | $49 a month | The 1 TB plan holds every quality we produce. Viewing is not billed, so this number does not move. |
| Wistia | $79 a month | The Business plan, billed annually. Storage fits. |
| Cloudflare Stream | about $150 | 6,000 minutes stored at $5 per thousand, then 120,000 minutes delivered at $1 per thousand. |
| Vimeo | Plan change needed | Storage fits the $12 plan, but 2.25 TB of viewing is over the 2 TB monthly bandwidth limit on self serve plans. |
These are estimates from published rates, not quotes. Change the viewing figure and the order changes with it: at a tenth of the traffic the metered platforms are the cheapest things on the page, and at ten times it they are the most expensive.
Which one to actually pick
If you are building a product and video is one feature inside it, look at Mux or Cloudflare Stream. They are APIs first, the documentation is written for engineers, and you will be assembling the experience yourself. You will also be watching a meter.
If video is your marketing and you need lead capture, CTAs in the player and a CRM integration, Wistia and Vimeo are built for that team and we are not.
If you already run infrastructure and just want cheap parts, Bunny Stream is hard to beat on raw price. You will do more of the wiring.
If you want a link that works and a bill that stays still, that is us. You upload a file, we produce every quality, and you get an address that plays everywhere. Nothing is public unless you say so, and the invoice does not change when a video takes off.
We are not the cheapest host on this page and we do not claim to be. We are the one where you already know what next month costs.
Questions
- Why do the storage numbers not line up?
- Because hosts count different things. Vimeo, Wistia and SproutVideo count the file you upload. We count every quality we produce from it, which is roughly twice the source for a 1080p file. Cloudflare Stream and Mux ignore bytes entirely and count minutes of video instead.
- Is a meter always more expensive?
- No. If almost nobody watches your videos, a meter is cheaper, sometimes much cheaper. The meter gets expensive exactly when a video does well, which is the moment you least want a surprise.
- What is a transcoding fee?
- A charge for turning your upload into the versions a player can stream. Some platforms bill it per minute of input. Nobody in this table charges it any more, but it is worth checking before you sign anything.
- How current are these numbers?
- Every rate here was read off the provider's own pricing page on 1 October 2026, and each row links to the page it came from. Prices change. Check the link before you make a decision.
Sources, all read on 1 October 2026: vimeo.com, wistia.com, sproutvideo.com, developers.cloudflare.com, www.mux.com, bunny.net.