# When an annual video plan is the wrong choice · Play That Sells

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## The hosts to pick if you might cancel within the year

Paying monthly, or paying for what you use, fits better if you will not keep the host for twelve months.

By [Dominic Reyes](/authors/dominic-reyes), lead reviewer. Edited by the Play That Sells desk. Updated 23 October 2026.

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Paying for a full year is the wrong choice if you might leave early, or if the host has no annual discount. The four hosts below offer other ways to pay. [Panda Video's pricing page](https://www.pandavideo.com/pricing) lists only monthly fees. [WebinarJam's billing policy](https://webinarjam.com/billing-policies/) states the refund window on an annual charge.

Pricing for hosts that offer an annual discount, including webinar software, is in the [guide to what a yearly plan saves](/reviews/video-hosting-annual-plan/pricing).

Quick answer

Choose Panda Video for a public monthly price with no annual option. Choose Bunny Stream or Mux for pay-as-you-go usage with no subscription. An annual price is for a tool you will keep.

[Compare the alternatives](#ranked-alternatives)

### The shortlist

1. 1. [Panda Video](#alt-panda-video), when you want a public monthly price  
Panda Video fits when you want the published fees to stay monthly, with no annual price on the page.
2. 2. [Bunny Stream](#alt-bunny-stream), when you want storage and delivery without a subscription  
Bunny Stream bills for storage and for the gigabytes delivered, and there is no annual contract.
3. 3. [Vidalytics](#alt-vidalytics), when you want a sales-video host you can pay for month to month  
Vidalytics fits when you want a paid-traffic player and can stay on the monthly price.
4. 4. [Mux](#alt-mux), when you want usage-based delivery with no subscription  
Mux bills by the minute when a developer adds video to a product.

### Compare the alternatives

__Feature comparison across 4 tools__
| Tool            | Billing shape              | From      |
| --------------- | -------------------------- | --------- |
| 1. Panda Video  | Monthly prices only        | $17.90/mo |
| 2. Bunny Stream | Usage only, no annual plan | $1/mo     |
| 3. Vidalytics   | Monthly and annual prices  | Free tier |
| 4. Mux          | Minutes, nothing to prepay | Free tier |

### The ranked alternatives

#### 1. Panda Video, when you want a public monthly price

Bronze, Silver and Gold are billed monthly. That page has no annual price, so a seasonal banner would be a separate offer.

#### 2. Bunny Stream, when you want storage and delivery without a subscription

You pay for what is stored and delivered. There is no annual plan to discount. Estimate the traffic in the hosting cost calculator.

#### 3. Vidalytics, when you want a sales-video host you can pay for month to month

Both prices are published, and the annual option puts the year's plays on the account at the start. Pay month to month if a full year is longer than you will keep the embed.

#### 4. Mux, when you want usage-based delivery with no subscription

Delivery is metered. This price list does not get cheaper because you pay a year ahead.

Monthly rates for Yearly prepay, plus yearly rates where the vendor publishes an annual plan, are on the [Yearly prepay pricing page](/reviews/video-hosting-annual-plan/pricing).

### How we ranked the alternatives

These four hosts are grouped by how they bill. One publishes only monthly fees. One is a sales-video host that publishes both monthly and annual prices. Two charge for usage and have no subscription to prepay. We took the figures from each vendor's pricing page and from long-term user reports. [Panda Video's pricing page](https://www.pandavideo.com/pricing) lists Bronze, Silver and Gold as monthly fees. [WebinarJam's billing policy](https://webinarjam.com/billing-policies/) states the refund window on an annual charge. Read [how we rate tools](/methodology) for the method behind these figures.

### Frequently asked questions

Who should skip prepaying annually? 

Anyone who might cancel inside the year, and anyone whose host has no annual discount.

Which of these has no subscription? 

Bunny Stream and Mux charge for usage. Panda Video sells a monthly plan. Vidalytics sells both a monthly price and an annual price.

### Sources

* [WebinarJam billing policy](https://webinarjam.com/billing-policies/)
* [Panda Video pricing](https://www.pandavideo.com/pricing)
* [Vidalytics pricing](https://www.vidalytics.com/pricing)

### Related reading

* [What a yearly plan saves on each video host](/reviews/video-hosting-annual-plan/pricing)
* [Annual or monthly video hosting](/reviews/video-hosting-annual-plan)
* [Open the VSL hosting cost calculator](/compare/vsl-hosting-cost-calculator-what-your-traffic-costs-on-each-video-player)
* [The best video sales tools, ranked](/best)

[Compare the alternatives](#ranked-alternatives)

Written by

Dominic Reyes

Lead reviewer

Dominic Reyes is the lead reviewer at Play That Sells. He covers VSL players, video hosting and the attribution stack behind paid-traffic funnels, reading vendor documentation, pricing pages and years of user threads before he writes a verdict. He pays most attention to retention, conversion tracking and page-load speed. When a vendor's claims go further than what buyers report, he says so.

[dominic.reyes@playthatsells.com](mailto:dominic.reyes@playthatsells.com)

Last checked 2026-10-23

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