Can you use Frame.io as a portfolio site?
Partly, and here is where it stops.

Our verdict is that it still is not a portfolio, and we want to be precise about what kind of claim that is. No official Frame.io page positions Shares as a portfolio product. No official Frame.io page rules it out either. So the conclusion below is our argument, built on published facts, and you are free to weigh it differently. What follows is the reasoning, with every premise sourced.

The published definition is the first premise. Frame.io describes the feature this way: “Shares are how you create external links to send media to collaborators, clients, producers, stakeholders, and more for review.” That sentence is not a marketing accident. Everything around a Share follows from it: viewer permissions exist to decide whether someone may comment or download, and a Share can carry an expiration date that removes access at a set time. Those are the controls of a deliverable that is meant to stop being available. A portfolio is meant to stay up.

The second premise is the bill. Frame.io is priced per member, not per plan. Pro is $15 per member a month and Team is $25 per member a month. A portfolio does not have members. It has an audience, and an audience of one is you.

Enterprise is custom priced. Annual billing is advertised on the pricing page as 13 percent off, and no annual dollar figure is published, so we are not going to compute one for you.

Per-Share customisation goes further than most people expect: a custom icon or uploaded image, a header background, a creator description, light or dark mode, accent colours, thumbnail display, and how the fields are sorted. Set that up once and a Share looks deliberate rather than administrative.

Two limits belong in the same paragraph, in fairness to both sides. The pricing page lists custom-branded shares as a Pro-tier feature, so this is not what a free account gets. And removing Frame.io’s own branding entirely is not documented anywhere we could find, which is different from saying it is impossible. Where the documentation is silent, we say it is silent.

One naming point that will save you an hour of confusion. If you are reading about “Presentation pages”, that is legacy V3 terminology and the article for it now lives on the separate legacy support domain. Current documentation calls the feature Shares. An article that still says Presentations is describing a product generation you are probably not using.

The honest way to hold both ideas at once is this. Frame.io is priced and built around the people who work on a film with you. A portfolio is aimed at people who have never worked with you at all. Using one product for both means paying a per-member rate for an audience that will never log in, and pointing strangers at a page whose own definition ends with the words “for review”.

One caveat we would rather you hear from us than discover on your own. Every upload starts Hidden. A brand new profile is an empty page until you set a film to Public and give it a layout tag. That is deliberate, because an upload in progress is not a thing you want a client stumbling onto, but it does mean the page is blank for your first ten minutes.

Layout is four tags, not a canvas. Hero runs full width. Featured places two films side by side, and a single Featured film renders centred at half width. Standard runs three across. Hidden keeps a film off the page. You drag the rows into the order you want, and the page assembles itself from the tags. There is no drag-and-resize editor to learn, and there is no design work to get wrong at eleven at night before a pitch.

Each film’s address is generated from its title, not from a random string, so uncompressed.io/yourname/the-film is what you get without doing anything. You can rewrite that tail in the Share panel and it saves as you type. One rule to respect: changing the address retires the old one. There is no redirect, so update any link you have already sent.

The player carries nothing of ours. No wordmark, no badge, no watermark, on the player and on the embed, on every plan including the free one. Upload your own logo and it sits bare on the frame. Set your accent and background colours and they travel with the embed. This is not an upgrade you buy, and we are not going to pretend it is a premium feature.

And the limit, stated plainly rather than buried: there is no custom domain. Your page is on our subdomain and your embeds are served from ours. If your brand requires the address itself to be yours, a site builder with an embed is the honest answer, and Frame.io does not document a custom-domain share link either.