6 Uscreen alternatives, and what each one really costs
Videas, Vimeo OTT, Patreon, Dacast, Brightcove and Kajabi: what each one takes from your sales, what it does well, and what it doesn’t replace.
Uscreen costs $149 a month on its Growth plan with annual billing, plus $1.99 per active subscriber, and $449 a month for apps under your own name. The alternatives run from commission only, at Videas and Patreon, to a three-figure plan, at Brightcove and Kajabi. Videas charges €10 a month for the channel and a 15% commission on your sales, payment included: the bill follows what you take in, never how many people signed up.
Ranked by relevance, from the one doing Uscreen’s own job to the one aimed at an entirely different customer: how each gets paid, and what it doesn’t do. Uscreen, at $149 a month plus $1.99 per subscriber, sits between Dacast and Kajabi.
Our platform
Videas
A channel under your brand: subscriptions, outright purchases and rentals, billed on commission and never per subscriber.
Best for: anyone from a creator or a gym to a media company running thousands of hours, with a bill that follows sales, €10 a month for the channel and a 15% commission, payment included, and AI captioning in more than 100 languages in the same place.
Where it falls short: native mobile and TV apps are still in development, the channel plays in the browser, on every screen; and there is no built-in community space like the one Uscreen sells with its platform.
Vimeo’s video storefront, and where Vimeo points its Vimeo On Demand sellers: subscriptions, one-off purchases and rentals.
Best for: sellers starting with a handful of subscribers who want a cheap way in, $1 per subscriber per month, with no three-figure plan to sign.
Where it falls short: it is a per-subscriber price, which catches up with a flat plan as the audience grows, 10% plus $0.50 is added on every one-off sale, card fees not included, and the entry plan stays web-only; branded apps come with Enterprise, on quote.
The support subscription, with no plan at all: your members pay every month for your videos, your posts and your community.
Best for: creators whose community pays to support as much as to watch, and who want to pay nothing in the months they take nothing in.
Where it falls short: a 10% fee for creators who joined after August 2025, card fees not included; you publish on your Patreon page, not on a site under your brand, and it isn’t a VOD catalog: no rentals, and one-off purchases stay secondary.
Dacast
Live and on-demand streaming with a built-in paywall: pay-per-view, subscriptions, more than 135 currencies.
Best for: organizers and broadcasters who mostly sell paid live events, conferences, shows, competitions, with their replay, from $39 a month.
Where it falls short: plans are billed yearly, the paywall and the delivery volume depend on the plan, a commission is added to sales, and the tool is built for the broadcaster more than for a subscriber community to keep.
Brightcove
The video suite for large organizations: hosting, live, multi-brand management and DRM, with dedicated support on every deployment.
Best for: groups and broadcasters with a technical team, several brands to run and security or live requirements a creator platform doesn’t cover.
Where it falls short: pricing on quote with an annual commitment, a catalog of third-party modules that adds a cost to every need, a deployment counted in months, and a bill that starts well above Uscreen’s.
The expert’s turnkey online business: courses, coaching, community, sales funnels and email under a single plan.
Best for: coaches, trainers and consultants who sell a transformation rather than a catalog, and want the sales page, the email sequence and the checkout in one place.
Where it falls short: it costs more than Uscreen, $179 a month on Basic and $143 billed yearly since the January 2026 increase; and video is lesson material there, with no catalog to browse, no rentals and no TV app.
A video subscription to grow on a site under your name, without paying more for every new signup.
Vimeo OTT
A handful of subscribers to start with, and a wish to stay with Vimeo.
Patreon
A community that pays to support you every month.
Dacast
Paid live streams, events sold per view.
Brightcove
Several brands, DRM, a technical team and a yearly budget.
Kajabi
A course and a sales funnel, more than a video catalog.
What the platform costs you, by audience size
For a subscription sold at 10 a month: what the platform takes each month, at Videas and at Uscreen, on its Growth plan.
Subscribers
Your sales per month
Videas
Uscreen Growth
100
1,000
€160
$348
500
5,000
€760
$1,144
1,000
10,000
€1,510
$2,139
Videas: €10 a month for the channel and a 15% commission, payment included; storage, delivery and the custom domain are added on usage. Uscreen: $149 a month and $1.99 per subscriber, prices taken from its website in November 2026, card fees not included. Each in its own currency, with no conversion.
They sell their subscription on a channel of their own
Sporty Forme sells a €10-a-month subscription that extends its gym, Solyluna runs a monthly and yearly subscription, Cardioballet sells single videos and bundles to its Instagram community: three catalogs sold on a Videas channel.
Its Growth plan is listed at $149 a month with annual billing, $199 month to month, and adds $1.99 per active subscriber as well as 5% on one-off purchases and rentals. The Starter plan caps at 100 subscribers and 20 hours of video, and mobile and TV apps under your name need the App Essentials plan, from $449 a month. Prices taken from its website in November 2026, card fees not included.
At what subscriber count does the bill get heavy?
The plan matters less than the per-subscriber price: at 500 subscribers, Growth takes $1,144 a month, that is the $149 plan plus $995 in subscriber fees. The table above runs the same math at 100, 500 and 1,000 subscribers, for a subscription sold at 10 a month.
Which alternative doesn’t charge per subscriber?
Videas and Patreon get paid through a commission on what you sell, Dacast and Kajabi through a flat plan whatever the number of members, Brightcove through a negotiated yearly contract. Vimeo OTT charges for every subscriber instead, as Uscreen does: the bill grows with your audience, even when your subscription price doesn’t move.
Can a catalog already published on Uscreen be moved over?
Yes. You pull your files from your Uscreen account, our team takes them over for free, titles and descriptions included, and hands you a mapping table from every old link to its new one. You then set your prices and arrange the catalog in the channel, in the order and categories you choose.
What happens to my current subscribers?
A subscription doesn’t transfer from one platform to another: your members have to sign up again with you. Announce your channel’s address by email and on your social accounts, then, once they have created an account, open a free access for them from their customer record for as long as the period they already paid for runs.
Which alternative offers mobile and TV apps?
That is Uscreen’s strong point, and what its App Essentials plan pays for. With Vimeo OTT, branded apps come with Enterprise, on quote. Brightcove builds them too, in projects negotiated by the year, where Kajabi stops at a course app. With Videas, they are in development: the channel is a website, which opens in the browser of a phone, a tablet or a connected TV. If your project depends on an app, tell us before you start.
What about selling courses rather than videos?
Look at the course platforms instead: Teachable from $39 a month, Thinkific from $54, Podia from $49. They sell a curriculum, modules, quizzes and progress tracking, rather than a video catalog, which is why they are not on this list. A Videas channel files videos into categories and series and sells them by subscription or outright, which covers most programs, but it doesn’t replace a course tool when you need graded exercises.
Which platforms did you leave out, and why?
Kaltura and Panopto, because they fit universities and corporate intranets, not creators selling a subscription. Muvi and Vodlix, because they start at $399 a month and on a per-subscriber model respectively, for brands you will not run into anywhere else. And YouTube, because a free channel on a service that sells advertising is not a platform under your brand.
Where are the videos hosted?
With Videas, in the EU, on infrastructure we run ourselves, with no advertising cookie in the player. Uscreen, Vimeo OTT, Patreon, Dacast, Brightcove and Kajabi are US services: check their terms if your subscribers are in Europe.
How much does a Videas channel cost?
€10 a month per channel, and a 15% commission on what you sell, payment included; €10 more a month to publish it on your own domain. Storage and delivery are pay-as-you-go, and signing up is free, with €5 in credits on signup and every month after.
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