Flowplayer vs Vimeo
Flowplayer
flowplayer.com
Vimeo
vimeo.comSide by side
| Figure | Flowplayer | Vimeo |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $12/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 13 |
| Spec score · Video Hosting Platforms | 8.6 (#8) | 8.7 (#5) |
| Analytics | Flowplayer offers engagement, popularity, and advertising metrics and says customers can use its analytics or integrate their existing analytics stack. | Starter, Standard and Advanced include basic viewer, engagement and social analytics; event analytics begin with Advanced and team analytics are Enterprise-only. |
| Founded | 2004 | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Flowplayer lists its Stockholm address as Sveavägen 34, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden. | New York, United States |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, comScore, WordPress, Drupal, and EZDRM. | Vimeo lists integrations including Adobe Premiere Pro, Dropbox, Figma, Google Drive, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Slack, Shopify, TikTok, Webex, WordPress, YouTube and Zoom. |
| Self-hosting | Flowplayer Native can be self-hosted as a standalone player or used with the full platform. | Vimeo describes its product as a hosted platform and its Enterprise service as hosted on Google Cloud Platform, with no self-hosted deployment option described. |
| Support | The pricing page lists a self-service knowledge base, email support, dedicated SLA and support plans, and a customer success manager among support options. | All listed paid plans include email support; Enterprise adds phone support and a 99.9% uptime SLA. |
| Video quality | The player supports adaptive-bitrate streaming profiles up to 1440p (4K). | The service supports playback from 360p through 8K, with 4K playback requiring at least 22 Mbps bandwidth. |
Plans
Flowplayer
- Video Platform Growth Plan$99, paid once
- Player Only PlanPriced on request
- Video Platform EnterprisePriced on request
Vimeo
- FreeFree
- Starter$12 a month
- Standard$25 a month
- Advanced$75 a month
- EnterpriseFree
- EnterprisePriced on request
- FreeFree
- Starter$12 a month
- Starter$12 a month
- Standard$25 a month
In their own words
Flowplayer
Flowplayer has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Vimeo
Vimeo is a video platform for making, managing, and sharing video, with tools for hosting, creation, collaboration, and live events. Paid plans include an ad-free player with 4K, HDR, and Dolby Vision support, video embedding, templates, trimming, timeline editing, and GIF creation. They also include transcription and subtitle translations, with additional AI tools on higher tiers. Teams can use shared folders, video review, configurable review links, and downloadable comments. The Advanced plan adds virtual events and webinars, simulcasting, Q&A, polls, audience chat, and stream health information. Vimeo offers web, Android, iOS, and API access, along with integrations such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Figma, Google Drive, Slack, and Zoom. Free accounts do not expire, but can upload or create up to 1 GB of content over the account’s lifetime. Paid plans include email support. Starter costs $12 a month for one user, with 2 TB of storage and 2 TB of monthly bandwidth; higher listed plans add users, storage, and event capacity. Enterprise pricing is custom.