Loom vs Tella Comparison 2026
Both cover screen recording and video hosting. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Screen recordings that go out as a link
Screen recordings that look designed, not captured
At a glance
- Tella starts cheaper, at $13.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Loom | Tella | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $18 | From $13 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Not stated | Web, macOS |
| Covers | Screen Recording, Video Hosting |
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.
Loom
Screen recordings that go out as a link
Loom records your screen and your face together and hands you a link the moment you stop, so the thing you would have written three paragraphs about arrives as a two minute video instead. Viewers can reply on a timestamp rather than describing where they got confused. Editing is trimming and little else, so a cut that needs more than that belongs somewhere else.
Our note
Loom is for the video nobody would otherwise have made. Buy it for correspondence rather than publishing, and check the free plan's length limit against the way you actually explain things before paying for anything.
Tella
Screen recordings that look designed, not captured
Tella records a screen and a camera and then does the thing that usually takes an editor: backgrounds, rounded corners, zooms that follow the cursor and clean cuts between takes. A product demo comes out looking like it was made on purpose rather than grabbed in one sitting. The output is a hosted video with its own link. Somebody who needs frame-level control will find the constraints exactly as constraining as they sound.
Our note
Buy Tella for the thing it refuses to let you do badly, which is ship an ugly demo. If your videos are already going through an editor, this replaces nothing and adds a subscription.
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