Vimeo vs Wistia

Vimeo

• Hosting and embedding videos without ads or suggested videos
• Creative teams sharing cuts for time-coded review
• Businesses running webinars and livestreamed events on the Advanced plan

Wistia

• Marketing teams embedding branded, ad-free video on their own site
• Companies that want leads and viewing data from video in their marketing tools
• Teams running webinars and reusing the recordings as on-demand video

Vimeo

• The Free plan is capped at 1 GB of storage for the life of the account; the allowance does not reset or renew.
• Livestreamed events and webinars need the Advanced plan at $75 a month billed annually, or Enterprise.
• Self-serve plans have a bandwidth limit of 2TB a month; accounts that expect more are asked to talk to sales.
• Vimeo's help center also describes newer Core, Professional and Studio plans, with Professional rolling out gradually, so the plans an account is offered may differ.

Wistia

• The Free plan is limited to 1 user, 25 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth, and keeps Wistia branding on the player.
• Marketing automation integrations and lead scoring need Business + Signals, a webinar plan or Enterprise.
• Business includes 3 users and each extra user costs $25; SSO and playback protection are Enterprise-only.
• Dubbing and AI audio descriptions are a paid add-on below Enterprise, and cancellations are not refunded.

Vimeo

Ad-free hosting up to 4K

Videos stream at up to 4K with HDR and Dolby Vision support, and Vimeo places no ads before, during or after them on any plan.

Customizable, embeddable player

Embed videos on any site. Paid plans unlock player customization, and Standard adds your own branding, calls to action and lead capture forms.

Privacy and access controls

Paid plans add password protection, unlisted links and embed domain-level privacy. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM and custom permissions.

Review and collaboration

Share cuts for review, collect time-coded comments, track versions and keep work in shared folders across team seats.

Browser recorder and editor

Record your screen, webcam or both in the browser and trim on a timeline. Text-based editing and AI teleprompter scripts start on Standard.

Live events and webinars

Advanced adds hosted livestreamed events with Q&A, polls and chat, streaming to multiple destinations and event-level analytics.

Wistia

Hosting and embedding

Videos are stored in one library and played through an ad-free, customizable player that embeds on any site. Paid plans add collections, channels and playlists.

Recording studio

Record the screen, a webcam or both in the browser, or invite guests by link. Each participant is recorded locally on a separate track with a cloud backup.

Editing and AI clips

A timeline editor plus transcript-based editing, AI background-noise removal and silence trimming. Remix turns a prompt into highlight reels, cut-downs and social clips.

Analytics and lead capture

Paid plans add heatmaps, engagement graphs, A/B testing and CSV export, along with calls to action and in-video forms that collect leads.

Webinars

Webinar plans cover live, simulive and pre-recorded events with registration pages, chat, Q&A and polls, and up to 9 presenters on screen.

Automation Suite

Puts video and webinar engagement on contact records in HubSpot, Adobe Marketo Engage and Pardot for lead scoring, segmentation and triggered campaigns.

Vimeo

• Free$0

  1 GB of total storage, one seat, ad-free playback, basic viewer analytics and recordings of up to 30 minutes each.

• Starter$12

  per month, billed annually ($144); $20 billed monthly

  1 user and 2TB of storage, with a customizable player, password privacy and unlisted links, review tools and engagement analytics.

• Standard$25

  per month, billed annually ($300); $41 billed monthly

  5 users and 4TB of storage. Adds player branding, a custom watermark, branded video galleries, lead capture and calls to action.

• Advanced$75

  per month, billed annually ($900); $125 billed monthly

  10 users and 7TB of storage. Adds hosted livestreamed events with Q&A, polls and chat, multi-destination streaming and marketing integrations.

• EnterpriseCustom

  More users, storage and bandwidth, plus SSO and SCIM, custom permissions, advanced AI capabilities and dedicated support.

Wistia

• Free$0

  1 user, up to 25 GB of storage, 200 GB of bandwidth, basic video analytics and Wistia branding on the player.

• Business$79

  per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)

  3 users with more at $25 each, 250 GB of storage, no Wistia branding, collections and playlists, CTAs and forms, heatmaps and A/B testing.

• Business + Signals$329

  per month, billed annually ($412 billed monthly)

  Business plus the Automation Suite: HubSpot, Marketo and Pardot integrations, lead scoring, triggered campaigns and revenue attribution.

• Webinars$429

  per month, billed annually ($537 billed monthly)

  Everything in Business plus live webinars for up to 500 attendees, 1.5-hour streams, registration pages and the Automation Suite.

• Webinars Plus$829

  per month, billed annually ($1,037 billed monthly)

  1,000 attendees, 3-hour streams, webinars embedded on your own site, simulcast to social platforms and Wistia branding removed.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Storage from 1 TB, custom users, team accounts, SSO, video playback protection and a dedicated customer success manager.

Vimeo

• Annual discount

  Save about 40% with annual billing

  Starter is $12 a month billed annually against $20 billed monthly. Standard is $25 against $41, and Advanced is $75 against $125.

Wistia

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with annual billing

  Wistia's pricing page labels annual billing as saving 20%: Business is $79 a month billed annually against $99 billed monthly, and Business + Signals is $329 against $412.

• Nonprofit

  Discount for nonprofit organizations

  Wistia's help center says it offers a discount to nonprofits that email its support team with documentation of their status. The size of the discount is not stated.