Vimeo alternatives

A Vimeo alternative with unlimited uploads.
Nobody sells one. Read the meter instead.

Vimeo no longer counts your videos; it counts a lifetime storage total that never resets. Here, plans include storage and team seats, with paid add-ons available. There is no per-view charge or bandwidth cap in the published Terms. The difference is what the meter measures and whether it can grow.

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Video hosting for filmmakers · 5 GB free · Paid plans from USD 9/month

By uncompressed.io · Updated September 2026

The honest version

Nobody sells unlimited uploads.
Everybody sells a meter.

The search phrase promises a host where uploading stops being a decision. That host does not exist. Vimeo meters storage; so do we. What separates the two is what the meter counts, what it ignores, and what happens at the end of the dial.

Vimeo, accounts since 17 June 2024
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What iscounted
Total storage in gigabytes,a lifetime cap per tier
Stored bytes, hot and cold,by plan and by block
Uploads andvideo count
No limit on the numberof videos; storage is the limit
Unlimited uploads;no video count on paid plans,free holds one film at a time
The figureby tier
Free 1 GB, Starter 2 TB,Standard 4 TB, Advanced 7 TB
Starter 5 GB; Lite 100 GB hot + 100 GB cold,Pro 250 GB + 750 GB, Max 500 GB + 2.5 TB,Studio 1 TB hot + 8 TB cold
Does itreset
Never: the total doesnot reset or renew
Capacity, not an allowance;it grows by the block
How to freespace
Delete videos
Delete, or archive to coldat half the hot rate
How to getmore
Move up a tier; past 7 TB,Studio at 10 TB orEnterprise through sales
A block on any paid plan:$50 per TB hot, $25 per TB cold, a month
Bandwidthand views
2 TB a month on theself-serve tiers; plays draw on it
Not metered: unlimited viewsand viewers on every plan

Vimeo figures from its plans page and help center, fetched 2 September 2026, for accounts created on or after 17 June 2024; uncompressed.io figures from its pricing page, verified the same day. US dollars.

Vimeo’s meter

A lifetime total,
not an allowance that comes back.

The old story, that a Vimeo plan buys you a fixed number of videos, describes accounts opened before 17 June 2024. Everything since runs on one number: total storage, granted once.

Older accounts were metered by count: the legacy Starter plan was capped at 60 videos of up to 250 GB each, and legacy Plus and Pro had a weekly quota that reset every seven days. The current meter counts bytes, with one per-video rule, 300 GB and 24 hours on every plan, and the word lifetime does the work: nothing comes back on a renewal date.

When the total is spent there are two doors: delete videos, which frees storage, or move up a tier, 2 TB to 4 TB to 7 TB, and past that the listed options are Studio at 10 TB or Enterprise, through sales. When a paid plan ends, videos above the 1 GB free cap are restricted, not deleted, most recent first; stored source files survive only while the paid membership does and, in the help center’s words, may be deleted and may not be recoverable.

Bandwidth is a second meter, 2 TB a month on the self-serve tiers, with its own page: a Vimeo alternative with no bandwidth cap.

The meter is changing again

Vimeo is rolling out new tiers gradually, prices not yet published. Creator, Core and Professional each carry 7 TB total plus a second figure, managed storage for embeddable and non-public videos: 50 GB, 300 GB and 7 TB. Creator’s monthly bandwidth is 1 TB, the others 2 TB. Studio, $400 a month billed annually, carries 10 TB and 36 TB of bandwidth a year. Your plan page decides which meter you are on.

The meter here

Choose your storage,
without a per-view charge.

We will not write unlimited storage here, because it is not true. Every plan carries a hot storage figure, two carry a cold pool, and past the plan the figure grows in blocks. Plans also include team seats and caption-generation allowances. Paid storage and seat add-ons are available. The Terms state no bandwidth caps and no per-view charge. Hot vs cold storage for footage has the cold mechanics.

Counted

Stored bytes. Starter: free, 5 GB hot, one film. Lite: $9 a month or $99 a year, 100 GB hot plus 100 GB cold. Pro: $39 or $429, 250 GB hot plus 750 GB cold. Max: $99 or $1,089, 500 GB hot plus 2.5 TB cold, 2 seats. Studio: $219 or $2,409, 1 TB hot plus 8 TB cold pooled, 5 seats; extra seats $15 a month on any paid plan.

Never counted

Views and viewers, on every plan including the free one. Uploads are never counted on a paid plan; free holds one film at a time. No delivery threshold. The player streams the exact bytes you uploaded, no transcode anywhere: the file that counts against storage is the file people watch.

How it grows

Every paid plan adds blocks: $50 per TB hot, $25 per TB cold, a month. Cold is for finished work: archiving frees hot space immediately, a cold master does not stream, embed or review until restored, and restores are capped at twice the cold pool per calendar month. The gap between the two meters is temperature: on Vimeo every byte sits at the tier's rate for as long as it exists.

The arithmetic

One 20 GB master a month,
on both meters.

One 20 GB HEVC master a month, roughly 18 minutes at 150 Mbps, every one kept online: 240 GB a year, 720 GB after three years, 1.2 TB after five, 2.4 TB after ten. Here is where each meter stops and what the library costs along the way.

Vimeo Starter, 2 TB
Vimeo Standard, 4 TB
Vimeo Advanced, 7 TB
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Year 112 masters,240 GB
Fits: 1.76 TB left
Fits: 3.76 TB left
Fits: 6.76 TB left
Pro, $39: all 12 hot,10 GB spare
Year 336 masters,720 GB
Fits: 1.28 TB left
Fits: 3.28 TB left
Fits: 6.28 TB left
Max, $99: newest 25 hot,oldest 11 cold, 2.28 TB cold spare
Year 560 masters,1.2 TB
Fits: 0.8 TB left;full at master 101
Fits: 2.8 TB left
Fits: 5.8 TB left
Max, $99: newest 25 hot,oldest 35 cold, 1.8 TB cold spare
Year 10120 masters,2.4 TB
Full since master 101:delete or move up
Fits: 1.6 TB left
Fits: 4.6 TB left
Max, $99: newest 25 hot,oldest 95 cold, 600 GB spare
Published rateat year 5
$12/seat/month listed;confirm term and total
$25/seat/month listed;confirm term and total
$75/seat/month listed;confirm term and total
$99 month to month,$1,089 a year

Vimeo prices in US dollars and caps from its plans page and help center, fetched 2 September 2026. Terabytes as each vendor labels them. Max holds 500 GB hot plus 2.5 TB cold; keeping the newest masters hot and the rest cold is a choice, not a rule. Blocks beyond a plan are $50 per TB hot and $25 per TB cold a month, on any paid plan.

The storage arithmetic and the bill are separate. Starter holds this library for eight years; Standard holds all ten. Vimeo lists prices per seat, so confirm the full total and billing term for your team. The example here uses Max at $99 month to month or $1,089 billed yearly, with the oldest films in cold archive rather than ready to play.

The higher price buys masters that stream as uploaded rather than on a ladder that tops out at 22 Mbps for 4K H.264, the argument of uncompressed.io vs Vimeo, plays that are never counted, and a meter that keeps growing by the block where Vimeo’s ladder ends at Studio’s 10 TB and then a sales conversation. Year ten of this library has already forced a deletion on Starter, still fits Standard and Advanced, and sits on Max here at $99 with the oldest 70 masters cold.

Honest framing

Who should stay on Vimeo,
and who should move.

Stay: a team that needs seats and showcases

Standard carries 5 seats and Advanced 10, plus showcases and marketing tools. Here, Max includes 2 seats and Studio 5, and extra seats are $15 a month on any paid plan. If five people publish marketing video, Vimeo is built and priced for that.

Stay: small compressed files, far from the cap

A ten-minute 1080p file at Vimeo's own 20 Mbps upload guidance is about 1.5 GB; the Starter cap holds more than 1,300 of them. If that is your library, the lifetime total is a wall you will never meet.

Move: masters kept online for years

The Starter cap holds 100 of our 20 GB masters, ever, and a studio delivering four a month reaches it in about two years. If delivered work stays clickable and the library only grows, a meter that grows by the terabyte, with a cold rate for the back catalogue, beats a deletion schedule.

Move: plays you cannot predict

A festival month, a client's campaign, a reel that travels. On Vimeo those plays draw on a 2 TB monthly threshold and, twice in a year, a sales conversation. Here nothing but storage is metered.

If you move

Import first,
then cancel last.

Connect Vimeo once and the library appears; files move server to server, never through your connection, and nothing is re-encoded. Where your plan exposes originals through Vimeo’s API the importer pulls the file you uploaded; otherwise the largest file Vimeo serves, or the master you drop in. Masters under 3 GB move in one pass; larger ones run as a chunked, resumable job that survives a closed laptop.

The step-by-step is at move Vimeo videos without re-uploading; the exit order, files first and cancel last, is the spine of Leaving Vimeo. To size a master before deciding what stays hot, the bitrate calculator turns minutes and megabits into gigabytes, and video bitrate explained says why the export number is the meter number.

Vimeo prices depend on the selected billing term and team seats. Check current Vimeo pricing and allowances before choosing or changing a subscription.

Questions

Frequently asked

Does Vimeo limit how many videos I can upload?

Not on accounts created on or after 17 June 2024: the plans page says there are no limitations on the number of videos, only on storage, 2 TB on Starter, 4 TB on Standard, 7 TB on Advanced. Older accounts were metered by video count or weekly quota.

Does Vimeo's storage reset every year?

No. The help center is explicit: the total storage does not reset or renew. Deleting videos frees space; moving up a tier raises the cap.

Does uncompressed.io have unlimited uploads?

Views and viewers are unlimited on every plan and bandwidth is never metered. Uploads are unlimited on the paid plans; the free Starter plan holds one film at a time, and you can delete it and upload another as often as you like. Storage is not unlimited and this site never says it is: each plan has a hot figure, every paid plan includes a cold pool and can add to it, and blocks cost $50 per TB hot and $25 per TB cold a month.

Is bandwidth metered on either side?

On Vimeo, yes: 2 TB a month on Starter, Standard, Advanced and Core, and 1 TB on Creator, with a conversation and seven days to respond after two overages in twelve months, or 10 TB once. Here, no: the Terms state that no per-view charges apply and there are no bandwidth caps.

Is Vimeo cheaper than uncompressed.io for storage?

Per terabyte, yes, while the library fits a tier: Standard holds 4 TB for $25 a month billed annually; 4 TB here is $149 a month mostly cold or $299 all hot. The extra buys masters streamed as uploaded, uncounted plays, and a meter that keeps growing past 7 TB.

Pick the block, not the tier

Max includes 500 GB hot and 2.5 TB cold for $99 a month; Studio includes 1 TB hot and 8 TB cold for $219. Past that, blocks of $50 per TB hot and $25 per TB cold, a month. Uploads, views and viewers are never counted. Plans include storage, team seats and caption-generation allowances. Paid storage and team-seat add-ons are available.

Sources

  1. 1.Vimeo plans and pricing: Starter, Standard and Advanced prices, storage and users; FAQ on video count and the 300 GB per-file limit (fetched 2 September 2026)
  2. 2.About Vimeo plans, Vimeo Help Center: storage per tier, 2 TB monthly bandwidth, seats (fetched 2 September 2026)
  3. 3.How storage is counted, Vimeo Help Center: lifetime total storage cap for accounts created on or after 17 June 2024; the total does not reset or renew (fetched 2 September 2026)
  4. 4.Legacy Starter plan, Vimeo Help Center: capped at 60 videos, up to 250 GB per video (fetched 2 September 2026)
  5. 5.Legacy Plus and Pro weekly upload quota, Vimeo Help Center: resets every seven days (fetched 2 September 2026)
  6. 6.Bandwidth on Vimeo, Vimeo Help Center: 2 TB monthly threshold, contact after two overages in twelve months or 10 TB once, seven days to respond (help article updated 29 June 2026)
  7. 7.What happens when a paid plan ends, Vimeo Help Center: 1 GB free cap, restricted videos not deleted, most recent first (fetched 2 September 2026)
  8. 8.Store your source files on Vimeo, Vimeo Help Center: source files kept only while the paid membership lasts (fetched 2 September 2026)
  9. 9.Vimeo Creator plan, Vimeo Help Center: 7 TB total, 50 GB managed storage, 1 TB monthly bandwidth (fetched 2 September 2026)
  10. 10.Vimeo Core plan, Vimeo Help Center: 7 TB total, 300 GB managed storage, 2 TB monthly bandwidth (fetched 2 September 2026)
  11. 11.Vimeo Professional plan, Vimeo Help Center: 7 TB total, 7 TB managed storage, 2 TB monthly bandwidth, 10 seats (fetched 2 September 2026)
  12. 12.Vimeo Studio plan, Vimeo Help Center: $400 a month billed annually, 10 TB total, 36 TB yearly bandwidth with no monthly cap (fetched 2 September 2026)
  13. 13.Guidelines for determining playback resolution, Vimeo Help Center: maximum bitrates per rung, 4K H.264 at 22 Mbps (fetched 2 September 2026)
  14. 14.Upload bitrate guidance, Vimeo Help Center: 1080p at 10 to 20 Mbps, 4K at 30 to 60 Mbps (fetched 2 September 2026)
  15. 15.uncompressed.io pricing: plans, hot and cold storage, blocks and seats; no per-view charges apply, no bandwidth caps, unlimited views and external viewers on every plan (verified 2 September 2026)