Comparison
The Vidyard alternative with prices you can read before you call
Vidyard is a sales-video platform: reps record, send and track prospecting videos, and the paid tiers are quoted rather than published. DynTube is a hosting and delivery platform with its price list on the page — protected playback on your own site, priced on stored library and monthly delivery, with no charge per seat. If what you actually need is hosting, this comparison is short.
What decides it
Four things to compare before you request a Vidyard quote
These two products are aimed at different jobs, so start from the job rather than the feature grid.
- Who the video is for
- One-to-one prospecting video and one-to-many published video are different products with different economics.
- On DynTube — Built for published video: adaptive HLS playback embedded in pages you control, with the surrounding design and funnel entirely yours.
- How viewer identity reaches your workflow
- Sales-video platforms exist to tell a rep who watched, for how long, and when to follow up. That is the core of the product.
- On DynTube — DynTube reports aggregate performance and can connect playback to a user ID your application supplies on Plus and larger plans. It does not provide Vidyard’s prospecting recorder or automatic CRM workflow.
- How the bill grows
- Seat-shaped pricing tracks headcount; usage-shaped pricing tracks the work being done.
- On DynTube — Priced on stored library and monthly delivery only, with no per-seat charge and published per-terabyte rates above the bands.
- Whether you can compare before you commit
- A quote-only price list means you cannot evaluate the cost until you are in a sales process.
- On DynTube — Every plan price, storage figure and delivery figure is on the pricing page, read from the live catalogue, and the amount is shown again at checkout.
Side by side
What Vidyard publishes, and what each platform is for
Vidyard rows are read from its own pricing page; DynTube rows come from our live plan catalogue. Where a price is not published, this page says so rather than guessing.
| Criterion | Criterion | Vidyard | DynTube |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | — | A free plan with a limited number of videos per month, editing and sharing tools, and limited integrations.Official pricing | A free trial rather than a permanent free tier, so you can test a real library before choosing a band. |
| Paid plans | — | Custom quote. The team and revenue tiers are shown with a talk-to-sales action rather than a price, and are positioned for teams of five or more.Plan details | Starter USD 24, Plus USD 50 and Pro USD 100 per month, billed monthly, with the storage and delivery included on each plan shown on the pricing page. |
| What the plan is sized on | — | Video volume, users and integration depth, with the specifics set in the quote.Plan details | 300 GB storage with 1 TB monthly delivery, 1 TB with 2 TB, and 2 TB with 4 TB. The published custom estimator uses USD 20 per terabyte delivered and USD 23 per terabyte stored. |
| Team members | — | A per-user product by design — the paid tiers are described for teams, with seats part of the quote.Plan details | No per-seat charge on any plan, so a growing team never changes the price. |
| What it is built for | — | Sales and revenue teams: recording, sending and tracking prospecting video inside a revenue workflow.Plan details | Published video on your own pages: product pages, help centres, course libraries and members areas, embedded in your own layout. |
| Protecting gated video | — | Sharing and privacy controls are part of the platform; confirm the specifics in your quote.Plan details | Encrypted on-demand delivery on every plan, playback keys restricted to your origin allowlist, signed expiring private links you can rotate or revoke, and dynamic watermarking. |
| API and automation | — | An API and CRM integrations are available; scope is set by tier and quote.Plan details | REST API access on every published plan: resumable upload sessions, videos, projects, captions, private links, webhook endpoints with delivery retries, and nine analytics report endpoints. |
Vidyard does not publish a self-service price for its paid tiers, so no figure is printed here and none should be inferred. Ask Vidyard for a quote and compare it against the DynTube figures above, which come from our live plan catalogue.
Where another platform may fit better
- If the job is one-to-one sales video — a rep recording, sending and being told who watched — Vidyard is built for it and DynTube is not a substitute at any price.
- Vidyard’s CRM integrations put viewing behaviour where a revenue team already works. DynTube can record a user ID you supply, but connecting that data to a sales workflow remains your integration.
- Vidyard’s free plan is a genuinely useful way to start if prospecting video is what you want to test.
Worked method
How to cost a Vidyard quote against a published plan
Use the published DynTube total as one side of the comparison, then add the Vidyard quote for the same team size and contract term.
- Count the people who would need a login today, and the people you expect to add over the next year. On DynTube that number is irrelevant to price, so it is the fastest way to see whether seat pricing is what is costing you.
- Measure your stored library and a busy month of delivery, then read the matching band off the pricing page — those two figures are the only inputs to our price.
- Ask for a quote that names the seat count, the video volume and the contract term, so you end up with a total rather than a rate.
- Multiply that total over the term, then add the cost of every colleague you expect to onboard before it renews.
- Set the two totals side by side and ask one question: is per-prospect tracking worth the gap? If reps live in the tool every day, it usually is. If the videos mostly sit on web pages, it usually is not.
| People needing a login | DynTube price effect | What does move the price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | None | Stored library and monthly delivery |
| 10 people | None | Stored library and monthly delivery |
| 50 people across departments | None | Stored library and monthly delivery |
| Adding people mid-term | None | Stored library and monthly delivery |
Our own bands are public — USD 24, USD 50 and USD 100 a month — and the published custom estimator uses USD 23 per terabyte stored and USD 20 per terabyte delivered. The DynTube column can therefore be filled in before you contact anyone; the quote-only column is the one you still need to request.
Fit
Choosing between Vidyard and DynTube
Stated in both directions, because the job decides it.
Choose DynTube — published video that has to be protected
Course libraries, members areas, client portals and help centres where playback must be encrypted, restricted to your domains and shareable only through links you can expire.
Choose DynTube — teams that keep growing
Seats are not a billing dimension, so support, marketing, education and product can all have logins without a new quote.
Choose DynTube — a price you can read today
Every plan, allowance and per-terabyte rate is published, so you can size and budget the whole thing without entering a sales process.
Choose Vidyard — one-to-one sales video
If reps need to record and send prospecting videos with viewing signals flowing directly into the CRM, Vidyard is the purpose-built purchase. DynTube can track a user ID supplied by your application, but does not provide that sales workflow.
Migration
Moving published video off a sales-video platform
The usual pattern is a split rather than a switch: keep the sales motion, move the library.
- 01
1. Separate prospecting video from published video
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2. Export sources and caption files
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3. Decide where viewing signals will come from
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4. Set access rules before the swap
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5. Swap embeds page by page
Common questions
Questions people ask when comparing Vidyard and DynTube
Is DynTube a good alternative to Vidyard?
Yes for published video, no for a ready-made prospecting workflow. DynTube hosts and protects videos on your own pages and can map playback to a user ID your application supplies on Plus and larger plans. It does not provide Vidyard’s one-to-one recording, sending and automatic CRM hand-off.
How much does Vidyard cost compared with DynTube?
Vidyard publishes a free plan and quotes its paid tiers, so there is no official paid figure to compare against and this page will not invent one. DynTube publishes Starter at USD 24, Plus at USD 50 and Pro at USD 100 a month, while its custom estimator uses USD 23 per terabyte stored and USD 20 per terabyte delivered. Ask Vidyard for a quote naming seats and term, multiply it out, and compare the totals.
Can I avoid per-user fees by switching?
Seats are not a billing dimension on DynTube, so adding colleagues never changes the price — the bill is set by stored library and monthly delivery only. Whether that saves you money depends on the quote you are currently on, which is why the comparison should be done on totals over a term rather than on headline rates.
Will I still know who watched my videos?
Yes, when your application supplies the identifier. On Plus and larger plans, add your own user ID to the embed and DynTube analytics can map playback back to that user. DynTube does not identify viewers for you or provide Vidyard’s built-in prospecting and CRM workflow.
What protection do I get for gated video?
Each HLS segment is encrypted as it is packaged, playback keys are issued only to the origins on your allowlist, private links are signed and can be expired, rotated or revoked per video, and dynamic watermarking attributes a copy that escapes. Populate the allowlist and leave the account-level exemptions off, and an embed copied to another site stops playing in a browser.
How do I migrate?
Split the library into prospecting video and published video, export sources and caption tracks, decide which published embeds should pass your own user ID, set the origin allowlist and private-link rules, then swap embeds page by page. Large libraries can be uploaded through the REST API using resumable upload sessions.
Read the price, then decide
Our plans, allowances and per-terabyte rates are all on the pricing page. Size yours in a few minutes, and only enter a sales process if you actually need one.