THE VAULT · ONE FLAT RATE
Hollywood-grade security. One published price.
Screen-capture blocking, session and per-person forensic watermarks, encryption at rest, a tamper-evident audit chain — everything included, at $250 a month, regardless of volume, regardless of how much gets watched. No sales call, no quote, no minimum seat count. The rest of the field sells this category by negotiation; we publish the number. Nobody else does this.
THE VAULT
For the masters nobody sees before their time
Vault a master and the web goes dark: no playback, no share pages, no downloads. Review happens in the dedicated macOS app — the file sits encrypted at rest (AES-256), the window is excluded from screen captures and Zoom/Teams shares, and every frame carries two watermarks that trace to a person: a session mark, and an invisible forensic one that survives re-encoding — even when copies are combined to wash it out (validated to three combined copies).
- ✓End-to-end encrypted vault — a copied file is useless anywhere else
- ✓Secured review in the macOS app only
- ✓Screen-capture and recording blocking
- ✓Session watermark on every frame
- ✓Invisible forensic watermark — per person, collusion-resistant
- ✓Live-from-camera ingest (cameras that support Wi-Fi or Ethernet)
- ✓Team seats — each with their own identity, their own watermark
Additional seats: $175/month each — and every seat adds 1 TB hot + 1 TB cold. Every person carries their own identity and their own watermark.
One number. Not a negotiation.
Hollywood-grade security is normally an enterprise purchase: quote-only tiers, per-member pricing, seat minimums, contact-sales capabilities. Here is what each platform lists on its own vendor pages, read in August 2026 — nothing is estimated.
Read from vendor pages, August 2026 (MediaSilo re-read 2026-08-31). ¹ Frame.io's standard tiers are Pro $15 · Team $25 per member/mo (annual published as a per-year amount: $156 and $264 per member) — but DRM capture blocking and forensic watermarking are Enterprise Prime only and the session watermark is an Enterprise Select paid add-on, so the like-for-like tier is quote-only. ² MediaSilo's published per-user prices: Team $15/user with a 5-seat minimum (watermarking not listed); Pro — the tier that includes visual + forensic watermarking — $25/user with a 10-seat minimum, i.e. $250+/month; the billing term isn't stated. ³ Frame.io publishes no usage limits for forensic watermarking — if any exist, they live in the unpublished Enterprise contract. What its docs do state: the watermark is applied to Frame.io proxy files — never your originals — and downloads are limited to watermarked proxies. ⁴ Flow Capture debits “Forensic Watermarking minutes” per viewer per asset at the asset's full length regardless of how much is watched; MediaSilo (SafeStream) debits a pre-purchased bundle of watermarking minutes per unique viewer at first play — read from their help pages, 2026-08-31. What Vault ships, at a published flat price: capture blocking, session and forensic watermarks — the forensic one invisible, per person, built to survive re-encoding and up to three combined copies — encryption at rest and an audit log. One honest note: a camera pointed at the screen degrades the forensic trace from evidence to investigative lead.
And the price does not move with volume: streaming, viewers and plays are never counted — storage is the only meter, across the whole platform. Forensic watermarking is never metered either: elsewhere it is sold in “watermarking minutes” debited per viewer — at the full length of the asset, even for 15 seconds watched — or in pre-purchased bundles you top up by emailing customer success. Here, every vault stream carries the mark. Always. Included.
Everything the flat rate buys.
Six layers, all shipped, all verifiable today — the full technical detail lives on the security page.
Screen capture blocked at the OS
The playback window is excluded from the capture stream itself — screenshots, screen recordings, Zoom and Teams shares all composite black, fullscreen included.
Session watermark, burned in
The viewer's identity on every frame — in the frame, not overlaid on a page. The answer to the one attack no software can block: a phone pointed at the screen.
Invisible forensic watermark
A per-person fingerprint woven into the pixels — survives re-encoding, downscaling, recompression and a re-grade; collusion-resistant up to three combined copies, with a mathematically bounded false-accusation rate.
AES-256 encrypted at rest
Footage is encrypted before it ever rests on the viewer's machine — and a copied vault file is useless anywhere else. There is never a plaintext copy of your file on their disk.
Short-lived signed links
Signed URLs expire in minutes, so a forwarded link is dead long before it reaches anyone it was not meant for.
A tamper-evident audit chain
Sign-ins, opens, plays and capture attempts are recorded in a tamper-evident log — altering or deleting a record is detectable, so the record stands as evidence.
And security does not cost quality: Vault review happens in the macOS app, which plays R3D, BRAW, N-RAW and ProRes up to 8K 4:2:2 HQ at 60 fps — at up to 15,000 Mbps, with no transcode. The full model — including what we do not claim — is on the security page, and the watermarking duel on vs NexGuard.
The questions buyers ask.
What exactly does $250/month include?+
Everything on this page: screen-capture blocking, a session watermark on every frame, an invisible per-person forensic watermark, AES-256 encryption at rest, short-lived signed links, the tamper-evident audit chain, live-from-camera ingest, and 2 TB hot + 2 TB cold storage — plus every feature of the tiers below it. Additional seats are $175/month each, and each seat adds 1 TB hot + 1 TB cold.
Is the price really flat, regardless of volume?+
Yes. Storage is the only meter on the whole platform — streaming, viewers and plays are never counted. There is no per-member fee for review: clients review through an email invitation and are never billed. When you need more storage, à la carte blocks are +$40/TB hot and +$20/TB cold.
How does everyone else sell this?+
By sales call. NAGRA's NexGuard publishes no pricing of any kind — every button on the product pages leads to a contact form. Frame.io gates forensic watermarking and DRM capture blocking behind Enterprise Prime and the session watermark behind an Enterprise Select paid add-on — all quote-only tiers. MediaSilo's watermarking tier (Pro) is $25 per user with a 10-seat minimum — $250+/month, and per-user from there. Flow Capture publishes no price — and meters the capability in “Forensic Watermarking minutes”, debited per viewer at the asset's full length. Vault publishes the number, with no meter.
Does securing the footage lower the quality?+
No. Vault review happens in the macOS app, which plays camera originals natively — R3D, BRAW, N-RAW and ProRes up to 8K 4:2:2 HQ at 60 fps — at up to 15,000 Mbps, with no transcode. Security and full-bitrate review are the same pipeline.
What do you not claim?+
Three honest edges. Nothing stops a camera pointed at a screen — capture blocking defeats software recording, not physics; that is what the watermarks are for, and a phone-of-screen capture degrades the forensic trace from evidence to investigative lead. A downloaded original is attributable through the audit chain, not marked. And FairPlay DRM is still on the roadmap, not shipped — everything above is in the product today, and you can verify it yourself in about a minute: vault a clip, then try to screenshot it.
Verify every claim before you pay.
Subscribe, vault a clip, try to screenshot it. It takes about a minute — and the price you read is the price you pay.