Gumlet vs Vidyard Comparison 2026
Gumlet is video infrastructure: your own player, adaptive delivery and DRM at $99 a month on top of any plan, free for 100GB of bandwidth. Vidyard is built for sales and marketing, reporting which named viewer watched and how far they got, free for a capped number of videos and $24 per seat a month billed annually beyond that. Pick Gumlet to host and protect video at scale. Pick Vidyard when a play needs to become a lead you can follow up with.
Video hosting priced by bandwidth, with DRM on top
Video hosting that reports who watched what
At a glance
- Gumlet starts cheaper, at $6.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Gumlet | Vidyard | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $6 | From $24 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
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.
Only on this side
- Covers media storage & review
Vidyard
Video hosting that reports who watched what
Vidyard hosts video for people who need to know what happened after the embed loaded: which viewer watched, how far they got, and what to do about it. That is a sales and marketing shape rather than an audience one, and it is the reason to choose it over a general host. For a creator it earns its place on a course page, a pitch to a sponsor, or anywhere a play is a lead rather than a view. There is a free tier with a video cap.
Why people weigh these two
- Vidyard instead of Gumlet
- Vidyard hosts video too but centers the pitch on tracking who watched what and for how long, freemium from $24 a month, useful when viewer analytics matter more than DRM.
- Gumlet instead of Vidyard
- Gumlet prices by bandwidth with DRM on top, from $6 with a free tier.
Which one should you pick
Pick Gumlet if the job is hosting and protecting video, a course, a product, anything behind a paywall. The free plan covers 100GB of bandwidth and 60 minutes of live streaming a month, and paid plans start at $6 a month billed annually, with DRM available at $99 a month on any plan.
Pick Vidyard if a video view needs to become a record of who watched and how far they got, a sales pitch, a follow-up sent to one person. The free plan caps videos per month rather than features, and the entry paid tier is $24 per seat a month billed annually, rising to $59 for fuller analytics and integrations. Neither figure is published as a monthly rate, so paying month to month is not an option stated on the page.
Common questions
- Do Gumlet and Vidyard solve the same problem?
- Not really. Gumlet hosts and protects video at scale, with DRM and adaptive delivery. Vidyard reports on named viewers, who watched and how far, which is a sales and marketing job rather than a hosting one.
- Which one is cheaper?
- They are priced on different bases, so the sticker prices are not directly comparable. Gumlet is billed on bandwidth from $6 a month. Vidyard is billed per seat from $24 a month billed annually, with no monthly rate published.
- Does Gumlet track who watched a video, the way Vidyard does?
- No. Gumlet's features are delivery, transcoding, image optimisation and DRM, not per-viewer reporting. Vidyard exists specifically to name the viewer and measure how far they watched.
- Is Vidyard worth it for a creator publishing to a public audience?
- Usually not. Its per-seat analytics only pay off when somebody acts on the viewer data, a sales follow-up or a lead list. A creator publishing to an anonymous audience gets nothing from that reporting and should look at a general host like Gumlet instead.
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