# Kinescope review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Video hosting with DRM and live streaming for courses and teams Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Kinescope is a video hosting platform that stores and delivers video through its own player, with encryption, DRM, analytics and live streaming. It is aimed at online courses, corporate training, webinars and developers who need a video API. Pricing is based on the storage, delivery and processing a team uses rather than on seats. - **Category:** Courses & Communities - **Made by:** Kinescope (since 2014) - **Website:** https://kinescope.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, as it stops at 100 minutes and has no DRM. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Kinescope has a free plan, and paid plans start at €10 per month, plus pay-as-you-go usage. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 100 minutes of stored video, 200 GB of monthly traffic, 2 workspace members and 2 restreaming destinations. No DRM. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | €0 | 100 minutes of video, 200 GB monthly traffic, 20-minute HD live streams for 20 attendees, 2 workspace members. | | Super | €10 per month and up, plus usage | Unlimited storage, members and restreaming, DRM and 4K. Final cost depends on usage billed per GB and per minute. | | Mega | Custom | Adds SSO, dedicated support, an SLA, multi-CDN and S3-compatible storage. Sold through sales. | Read from https://kinescope.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Kinescope before buying. ## Key features - **Ad-free branded player:** An embeddable player without ads or third-party branding, with open-source SDKs for web, React, Vue, Angular, Flutter, iOS, Android and React Native. - **DRM and content protection:** Widevine and FairPlay DRM on paid plans, plus encryption, domain restrictions, signed links and watermarks to limit copying and sharing. - **Live streaming:** Live streams to a branded player with restreaming to other destinations. The Free plan caps streams at 20 minutes and 20 attendees. - **Analytics:** Viewing statistics including retention, engagement and audience device and location, shown in the dashboard and available through the API. - **LMS and CMS plugins:** Integrations listed for WordPress, Moodle and Open edX, plus Vimeo and YouTube import and Zoom live streams and recordings. - **Video API:** A REST API for upload, transcoding, playback security, live streams, webhooks and analytics, with an MCP server in public beta. ## Good for - Course sellers and schools that need protected lesson video - Teams hosting video for an LMS such as Moodle or Open edX - Developers adding video to an app through an API ## Worth knowing - Prices are shown in euros, and the paid cost is usage-based: from €0.03 per GB of traffic and €0.03 per GB stored. - The Free plan has no DRM and is limited to 100 minutes of video. - Video processing is billed once at upload, from €0.01 per minute of video. - SSO, an SLA and dedicated support are limited to the custom Mega plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Kinescope is video hosting with a branded player, DRM, live streaming and an API, with a free plan and paid plans from €10 a month plus usage. The free plan has 100 minutes and no DRM. - **Value for money: B.** Super starts at €10 a month, plus usage from €0.03 per GB of traffic and per GB stored. It is a video host, so we weigh it on its own. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The free plan has 100 minutes of stored video, 200 GB of monthly traffic and 2 members, with no DRM. - **Features: C.** Video hosting with a branded player, DRM, live streaming, analytics and an API. It does that smaller job fully and is not a course platform. - **Ease of use: C.** A web app where you upload and embed video, with no store rating on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with WordPress, Moodle, Open edX, Zoom, YouTube and Vimeo on the list, plus an API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Kinescope's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among course and community platforms - Kinescope's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 66 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 79 of 98) and worst on features (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at about $11.17 a month, against a middle price of $36 for the category: 3 of the 65 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Kinescope you would be making live video to hundreds of people at once. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 66 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade. It costs $134.06 a year. - You could not: Live video to hundreds of people at once. - You could not: One live stream sent to several platforms at once. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Moodle and Open edX among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, Moodle, Open edX, Zoom, YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, Dropbox **Tags:** Webinars, Multistreaming, Public API ## Alternatives - [Spotlightr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/spotlightr): Encrypted video hosting with a course module for creators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kinescope-vs-spotlightr) - [Uscreen](https://toolgpa.com/tools/uscreen): Video membership platform with a catalog, live streaming and apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kinescope-vs-uscreen) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://kinescope.com/pricing - https://kinescope.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/kinescope Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).