Frame.io vs Videas
Timecoded comments, drawings on the frame and stacked versions, as in Frame.io. And behind them, the hosting, the branded player and the viewing analytics.
Frame.io and Videas both get an edit reviewed: timecoded comments, drawings on the frame, stacked versions and an approval status, with no account for the reviewer to create. The difference comes after sign-off. Frame.io keeps the video in its workspace, billed per seat. Videas hosts it, publishes it in a branded player, subtitles it and measures its audience, billed by usage.
Try it free
Once the cut is approved it stays in the workspace: no public channel, no branded page, no catalog an audience can open.
$15 per member per month on Pro (5 members maximum), $25 on Team (15 maximum): everyone who needs in adds a seat.
2 GB free, 2 TB on Pro, 3 TB on Team. Past the cap: a banner, a grace period, then the account is locked.
A share link opens on a Frame.io page. Anywhere else it is an iframe: no brand colors, no domain restriction, no thumbnail of yours.
Who opened it, who commented, and nothing more: no watch time, no second where the audience drops off, no click on a button.
Camera to Cloud covers the shoot, not the broadcast. An all-hands, a webinar or a conference falls outside the tool.
Moving a large library out happens file by file: it is the complaint from teams trying to take their catalog elsewhere.
Media sits in Amazon S3 buckets, and Storage Connect requires the us-east-1 region. GDPR rests on standard contractual clauses.
In Frame.io, the approved cut stays filed in the project used to review it, next to the intermediate versions. Videas gives it a permanent home: folders, tags, custom fields, search by keyword, topic or format, shared spaces across departments, and a permanent link with no expiry date to watch. The final cut stops being a deliverable to hunt down and becomes a video the whole team can publish again.
The Videas player carries your colors, your logo and your thumbnail, and embeds into a site, an intranet, an LMS or a blog post. Embedding can be restricted by domain, so a video placed on your pages is not copied elsewhere. And when the content deserves its own address, a Videas channel publishes the catalog on a domain of yours, with no ads and no suggested videos at the end.
Videas Scribe transcribes and translates with AI, then lets you correct every line in an editor that shows the waveform and the segments. The subtitle stays attached to the video, with no file to export and re-import, and travels with it to the audience. Frame.io's transcription, still in beta, supports the internal review round: it is not the same object.
Views, watch time and device, but also heatmaps showing the second your audience drops off, click-through rates on call-to-action buttons, and per-video exports you can share without a screenshot. Enough to budget the next shoot on audience numbers rather than on review comments.
| Feature | videas.Try it | Frame.io |
|---|---|---|
| Review: timecoded comments, annotations, versionsReview: timecoded comments, annotations, versions | Yes | Yes |
| Approval status and feedback threadApproval status and feedback thread | Yes | Yes |
| Review with no account for the reviewerReview with no account for the reviewer | Yes | Yes |
| Panel inside Premiere Pro and After EffectsPanel inside Premiere Pro and After Effects | No | Yes |
| Camera to Cloud during the shootCamera to Cloud during the shoot | No | Yes |
| Long-term video hostingLong-term video hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Media library (folders, tags, search)Media library (folders, tags, search) | Yes | Production projects |
| Embeddable branded playerEmbeddable branded player | Yes | No |
| Public channel on your own domainPublic channel on your own domain | Yes | No |
| Reviewed subtitles attached to the videoReviewed subtitles attached to the video | Yes | Transcription in beta |
| Live streamingLive streaming | Yes | No |
| Viewing analytics (heatmaps, clicks)Viewing analytics (heatmaps, clicks) | Yes | Link opens |
| Monetization (sales, subscriptions)Monetization (sales, subscriptions) | Yes | No |
| Pricing modelPricing model | Pay as you go | Per seat |
| Storage cap per planStorage cap per plan | None | 2 GB to 3 TB |
| GDPR complianceGDPR compliance | Yes | Standard contractual clauses |
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On review, yes: comments pinned to a timecode, drawings on the frame, threaded replies and an approval status, with versions stacking on the same media so feedback follows the edit from v1 to v4. The reviewer creates no account, the link is enough. What Frame.io keeps: the panel inside Premiere Pro and After Effects, and Camera to Cloud during the shoot.
Only if your edit pipeline depends on the Premiere Pro panel or on Camera to Cloud. Otherwise review and delivery happen in the same place, and the approved cut never has to change platform to be published.
Not really. Share links and presentation pages are built for reviewers and clients, on a Frame.io page. There is no branded player to embed in your site, no public channel on your domain and no catalog open to the public.
They measure different things. Frame.io charges per seat: $15 per member per month on Pro, $25 on Team, with a member cap and a storage cap on each plan. Videas charges for usage: €0.20 per hour of video stored per month and €0.02 per GB delivered, with no seat to buy for someone who publishes two videos a year.
A banner flags the overage and a grace period opens. If it runs out without being resolved, the account is locked until support steps in. Videas has no cap: storage is billed as you use it and nothing locks.
It has automatic transcription, still in beta, exportable as SRT or VTT and mainly useful for review. Videas Scribe transcribes, translates, lets you correct every line in an editor and attaches the result to the video you publish, in as many languages as you need.
No. Frame.io covers the shoot through Camera to Cloud, not the broadcast. Videas live streaming is in production: RTMP ingest from OBS or vMix, adaptive delivery, and an automatic replay filed in the media library when the broadcast ends.
Frame.io stores media in its Amazon S3 buckets, and its Storage Connect option asks for a bucket in the us-east-1 region; transfers rely on standard contractual clauses. Videas data is hosted in Europe, with no transfer outside the European Union.
Yes. Videas offers assisted migration: our team handles the transfer of your files and their organization in the media library, which is precisely what the file-by-file export makes painful.
Yes. The public Videas API feeds the library, reads and updates media along with their text, tags and custom fields, and publishes them to channels. An OpenAPI 3.1 contract is downloadable to generate a client, and large uploads use the resumable tus protocol.
