Dropbox vs Gumlet Comparison 2026
Both cover media storage & review. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
File delivery and video review clients can open
Video hosting priced by bandwidth, with DRM on top
At a glance
- Gumlet starts cheaper, at $6.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Dropbox | Gumlet | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $9.99 | From $6 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | 30 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Everything, in an open format | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | Not stated |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Dropbox
File delivery and video review clients can open
Dropbox is how a finished cut reaches a client who will not install anything, and Replay adds timestamped comments on top so the notes come back attached to the frame. Two terabytes on the personal plan is roughly a year of 4K projects. Frame.io is the better review tool; this is the better place to put the files.
Only on this side
- Covers project management
Gumlet
Video hosting priced by bandwidth, with DRM on top
Gumlet is video infrastructure for somebody who wants their own player on their own site rather than a channel on somebody else's. It transcodes, delivers, and will lock a video down with DRM if the content is worth stealing, which is the feature that usually forces a jump to enterprise pricing elsewhere. Image optimisation runs on the same account. The dashboard assumes you know what a bitrate ladder is, and does not apologise for it.
Our note
Price this on bandwidth rather than on the plan name, because a single popular video can move you two tiers in a month. If the content does not need protecting, the cheaper video hosts do the same delivery job without the DRM machinery you are partly paying for.
Ratings are the average of reviews readers left. The facts are stated by each tool’s own listing and are not verified by CloutStack. How we make money.