Video portfolio website
without Vimeo branding.

There is a third thing worth separating out. Vimeo’s Starter plan lists the ability to remove the Vimeo watermark from videos made in the Vimeo editor. That is a watermark burned into a rendered video, not the logo drawn by the player over any video you upload. Copy that quotes the editor watermark as proof that Starter gives you an unbranded player is describing a different thing.

Colours are a fourth. Vimeo’s player colour customisation covers four elements: primary colour, accent colour, icons and text colour, and background colour, entered as hex codes or RGB values. Vimeo’s own comparison table is worth reading before you buy, because those colours apply to the private or unlisted video page and to the embed, but not to the public video page. The custom logo and the Vimeo logo control apply to all three surfaces.

The branding claim is worth stating precisely, because precision is the point of this page. There is no entitlement check anywhere in the branding path: the settings that dress your player verify that you are signed in and nothing else, and the file that governs plan limits contains no branding entitlement at all. It governs storage, the free plan’s one-film-at-a-time cap, and caption allowances. That is a different arrangement from a two tier gate, and it is the honest headline of this page.

The logo overlay is off until you switch it on, and it renders on the embed and on your film pages at yourname.uncompressed.io. The identifier-based address, uncompressed.io/v/ followed by the video id, is a fallback link and does not carry it. Nothing is drawn over the video except your own file: read the control bar and you find play, progress, captions, volume, AirPlay, cast, share and fullscreen, and nothing else. No advertising code, no recommendation query, no up-next rail, no end screen.

The trade that comes with serving the exact file deserves the same plainness. There is no rendition ladder here, which means there is no lower quality for the player to fall back to. On a slow connection it buffers and waits. A platform that re-encodes every upload into several formats degrades instead, which is a better experience for a viewer on a train and a worse one for a colourist checking your grade. Pick the failure you would rather have.

The other trade is decoding. What plays in a browser is what that browser can decode. H.264, HEVC and AV1 stream. ProRes and DNxHR masters are stored and downloaded at full fidelity rather than played in a tab, so a portfolio page wants a browser-compatible export of the film, with the master kept for the client who asks for it.

If you want a site on your own domain with no platform mark, Vimeo Portfolios answers it at Standard or higher, with the custom domain worded for Pro members and higher, and you accept a re-encode with a documented 4K delivery ceiling of 22 Mbps in exchange.

If you want an unbranded page and an unbranded embed without paying for a tier to get there, and you can live on a subdomain of ours, this is cheaper and the picture is the one you exported. The free plan holds 5 GB and one film at a time, which is enough to put a single reel up and look at it on a phone before any money changes hands. Paid plans differ in storage and nothing else: the plans are here.

If you want both the domain and the untouched file, the combination is a site builder on your domain with our embed on the page. Nobody sells that as one product, including us, and saying so is more useful than pretending the question has a single winner.