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Brightcove pricing
Brightcove publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the video production tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Brightcove pricing is on request. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
Brightcove plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brightcove | On request | 5 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Brightcove feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Video Cloud
- Live streaming
- Brightcove Player
- Monetisation
- DRM and content protection
- Brightcove Beacon
- Audience insights
- APIs and CMS integration
People bring Brightcove in for a broadcaster or publisher running paid or ad-supported streaming who needs server-side ad insertion and studio-acceptable drm rather than a basic player paywall., a sports body streaming live fixtures to a global audience where redundancy, latency and geo-restriction matter more than the monthly platform fee., a large corporation putting all product, training and internal communications video behind central governance with viewer-level analytics feeding a marketing automation system., an organisation launching branded streaming apps across roku, apple tv and smart tvs without building and maintaining device clients in-house.. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Brightcove are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Video Production
Too few video production tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brightcove (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| Nuke | On request | quote | - | vs Brightcove |
| VEED | Free | Per user per month | - | vs Brightcove |
| ScreenFlow | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs Brightcove |
| Muvi One | $399/month | Per month by storage and bandwidth tier | - | vs Brightcove |
| HitFilm | Free | Per user per month | - | vs Brightcove |
| Avid Media Composer | On request | Per user per month | - | vs Brightcove |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Brightcove badges page.
Before you pay for Brightcove
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at On request. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Brightcove against the tools that do have one before committing.
Brightcove runs on web, ios, android, roku, apple tv, smart tv, and is published by Brightcove, Inc., a Bending Spoons company of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The full record is on the Brightcove review, and the rest of the category is under best video production tools.
Brightcove pricing questions
- How much does Brightcove cost?
- Brightcove publishes a single tier, Brightcove, at On request.
- Does Brightcove have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Brightcove is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which video production tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 video production tools listed alongside Brightcove have a free tier: VEED, HitFilm, Hedra.
- What am I actually paying for with Brightcove?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a broadcaster or publisher running paid or ad-supported streaming who needs server-side ad insertion and studio-acceptable drm rather than a basic player paywall., a sports body streaming live fixtures to a global audience where redundancy, latency and geo-restriction matter more than the monthly platform fee., a large corporation putting all product, training and internal communications video behind central governance with viewer-level analytics feeding a marketing automation system..
- Does Brightcove charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Brightcove prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Brightcove against before paying?
- The closest video production tools in this directory are Nuke, VEED, ScreenFlow, Muvi One. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Brightcove covering price, platforms and features.