Vimeo Pricing Overview

They had Unlimited good streaming service and I was with them from their beginning.

We are a nonprofit that had been using a Premium Unlimited account since they began some years ago. The problem is that Vimeo has fine print in their Terms of Service that say that it is NOT UNLIMITED. It says that if you are among the top 10 percent of users they have the right to push you into their Enterprise systems at a much greater cost. So I got this email from an account manager Jason who informed me that I was in the top ten percent and their compliance team gave me 1`1 days to pay $5400 or be shut off. I know it's hard to believe but it's true and I will glady share the email chain with anyone who is interested. They put us in an unbelievable squeeze play that cost us thousands for us to move 1400 videos in 1`1 days and reconnect them all. Vimeo has no way for us to tell how much bandwidth we are using and they also have no way for us to tell if we are among the top 10 percent or even close. IT'S A TRAP! Be forewarned. There is NO integrity here. UPDATE: Do not trust these people. After having an Unlimited account for years they told me I exceeded their limit as stated in their terms of service. They have a system that grinds the top users into their much more expensive "Enterprise" level all under the guise of an Unlimited account. As mentioned above they gave me 11 days to pay them $5000.00 or be shut off. Apparently, we used too much bandwidth but we had no way of knowing when the line was crossed. It was all a secret. They have a real system here that offers good, cheap streaming but if you use it they push you into higher costing services. If they would have been forthright about this we could have watched our usage, but we were told it was unlimited and they had no way to showing us how much bandwidth we used. I spent those 11 days moving all of my videos to a safer hosting platform. Then, I filed a false advertising complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Affairs. I went to the Better Business Bureau and all the rest. I feel it my duty to warn people. They now have recently placed a little asterisk next to the word Unlimited and explains below that if you use too much bandwidth they may charge you an extra fee. DO NOT TRUST THESE PEOPLE! If it's not false advertising then it is at least bait and switch. There are other great services out there.

There is no trust with Vimeo and I am going after you with a formal False advertising complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

We used Vimeo for 2 years during the pandemic, first for recorded classes and then latterly for live streaming. The quality is excellent, as is the storage and ease of use. We particularly liked that it is a clean interface for the user as there are no adverts before or after and so the attention of the viewer is not directed away after they have watched our content. This was particularly important to us as we are offering people meditation classes and wanted it to be a peaceful, non-distracting experience. It was helpful to be able to schedule live streams with unique links to send to people and to change the visibility of the links as needed. Eg to make private after a week. The one downside was the price, so as our needs changed, and we streamed less we could no longer justify the cost as a charity and now meet all our streaming needs with zoom. If it wasn't for that we would have loved to continue with vimeo.

That they did not offer charity discounts and that the price is so high for livestreaming.

It helped us solve the problem of being locked down and unable to have physical in person classes and enabled us to reach a wide geographic area in the North of Scotland.

Large storage space, clean interface, ease of use, and no ads. The password protection is very helpful.

The cost of the pro account feels fairly high, especially as a non-profit. I would like a feature that allows comments at specific points in the video, similar to what Soundcloud has for audio.

We use it to upload private video content that we are in various stages of refining. Not ready for public consumption yet, and allows our staff to review and give feedback.

Publishing videos works instantly, no need to worry about many details which are unimportant in 90% of all cases

Admin user interface can be improved. It is sometimes hard to find options

We use vimeo to quickly get videos online. In many cases we need to include videos in our projects very quickly and do not want to worry abouT unimportant details requiring a lot of attention in other products. We don't want to worry about costs per video but appreciate the flat fee of our premium plan.

We can a good amount of space to host our initial videos after signing up. The pricing is reasonable and affords us many great organization and marketing features that allow our videos to be found more easily. The design of the Vimeo is very professional and doesn't contain lots of clutter or many ads like several other popular platforms do. The quality of the picture and audio in the videos we upload are excellent. I can't notice any quality reduction from compression. I like that users can also download the videos with a button click.

The price is higher compared to YouTube. I would like there to be as many features as standard YouTube accounts have. In order to get the storage capacity that we are given at YouTube and other video services, we have to pay a subscription fee. Also, it would be good if there were more ad options, if that's the way we want to go so we can better monetize video views.

Vimeo has been a solid video hosting platform that we have used to upload videos to websites and social media. It can also be used as a standalone video storage outlet that allows us to access videos for presentations at any given moment. Since videos often take up lots of storage space, hosting our videos on Vimeo allows us to free up space in our local hard drives and makes the videos easier to access for groups of people.

Vimeo gives users an extremely affordable way to store and share videos. I appreciate that they have several tiers of pricing to fit different needs. It has a number of options for public broadcast or private sharing, and I find myself using different ones when I want to share a video securely, to a small group of clients, or to make a general public announcement. Over the last few years, I have seen the company make continuous improvements to functionality and interface, keeping it ahead of other video services.

I think the next step would be to create functions that allow easy video creation and 1-to-1 sharing in the platform. That's not what Vimeo was originally designed for, but it's something newer services do that I think could be useful. I appreciate the live video services Vimeo offers. Their live video is high-quality and reliable, but it comes at a much higher cost.

I currently use Vimeo to store all of our company's video projects, from training videos, to internal meetings, t marketing videos. I also use the extensive sharing functionality, whether it's embedding a video in a public web page, or sharing a private "showcase" of product videos to select clients. It's very organized, the layout is intuitive, the sharing options are great, and the price is excellent for what you get.

Vimeo is by far the best value for money when it comes to storage and delivery of video files. From SD to 4K Vimeo has me covered and when you look at the annual pricing tiers plus the zero (0) streaming fees it makes a wonderful 'back end' for online education, video on demand, and subscriber based platform networks.

Vimeo's interface can get a bit of getting used to. It's great for folks who plan to upload and stream a documentary or create a small portfolio of films for their resume or business, but when you get into the hundreds or thousands of clips online you need to make sure (as I have done) that you create an archiving system for your films. Unfortunately this means that searching for clips involves the clip title as Vimeo does not allow hidden file names so you have to get used to seeing numerical elements in your titles if you plan to go that route. Otherwise it's a great product with great streaming quality. Also -- due to Vimeo being used extensively by documentary film producers where the subject matter can be controversial or negatively seen from political regimes, it is often blocked in 3rd world countries such as Indonesia so bear this in mind if you plan to service those markets -- you would be better off using Youtube which although has it's own sets of pro's and con's is available for viewing in more markets than Vimeo.

We deliver streaming video to artists around the world. The front end is an online platform, which was developed by a UK based company, the payment gateway is Paypal, and the 'back end' or video archive is Vimeo. It is a robust solution.

I love how intuitive it is to make adjustments to access, share with reviewers, monetize video content, and grow an audience. Every tool is available, without a single ad. Its well worth the money spent.

The fees to upgrade to the OTT system are significant because it provides a service unlike any other. I would upgrade if we could prove the value to our community. But the cost is prohibitive for us.

Vimeo is helping us host video content behind a paywall and feature live content in a way that is always excellent. It is also helping us reach new audiences and grow our community.