Is there a free plan or trial?

Check the plans above; we note any free trial and the date we last checked it.

Will the price change as I scale?

Often, yes. Read the billing basis above: metering on plays, bandwidth or storage means your bill moves with usage, so the headline price is only the starting point.

SproutVideo pricing

What SproutVideo costs, what each plan is metered on, and what to expect as your traffic grows.

By Dominic Reyes, Lead reviewer. Edited by the Play That Sells desk.

What SproutVideo costs

Four plans, paid yearly: Seed $12/mo, Sprout $35/mo, Tree $72/mo, Forest $195/mo. Paid monthly, each is higher ($15/$45/$95/$295). Storage and bandwidth are not hard-capped; usage past the plan allowance is billed per GB ($0.25 Seed to $0.06 Forest), and you can cap usage to avoid surprises.

Prices checked 27 September 2026. Verify on the vendor site before you buy.

What works

The privacy controls are the deepest in this roundup. Password protection, domain-locked embeds, viewer logs and two-factor come on every tier, with dynamic watermarks, viewer SSO and geo or IP limits higher up. If your video must stay private, start your shortlist here.
The analytics actually help. Engagement heatmaps and per-viewer tracking show exactly how far each person watched, what they rewatched and where they dropped, which is genuinely useful for telling whether the footage holds attention.
It is a mature, well-supported company. SproutVideo has run since 2010, carries a deep review base (Capterra 4.8 across roughly 188 reviews, G2 about 4.6 across 187) and staffs support with real people, not a bot queue. On reliability it is one of the safer picks here.
Fair starting price and a real trial. Seed is $12 a month on annual billing with white-label, ad-free playback and the marketing tools included, and the 30-day trial needs no card up front.

What to watch

Bandwidth is metered. Storage and bandwidth are not hard-capped, so a clip that takes off bills per GB beyond your allowance, from $0.25 down to $0.06 depending on plan. Cap your usage before you launch anything public.
The gaps between plans are large. A single missing feature or a little more bandwidth can force an expensive upgrade. One G2 reviewer's words for it were that the jump to the next pricing tier is steep.
It is a host, not a conversion-first sales player. It has no retention split between buyers and non-buyers, no sound-first autoplay tuned for a pitch video, and no cart-verified sale attribution posted back to the ad platforms. A cold-traffic offer still needs a conversion player on top.
Public-facing customization is shallower than some want. Reviewers ask for per-video and per-playlist styling the platform does not expose, and changing settings across a big library one video at a time is slow.

Pricing questions

How much does SproutVideo cost?: Four plans, paid yearly: Seed $12/mo, Sprout $35/mo, Tree $72/mo, Forest $195/mo. Paid monthly, each is higher ($15/$45/$95/$295). Storage and bandwidth are not hard-capped; usage past the plan allowance is billed per GB ($0.25 Seed to $0.06 Forest), and you can cap usage to avoid surprises.
Is there a free plan or trial?: Check the plans above; we note any free trial and the date we last checked it.
Will the price change as I scale?: Often, yes. Read the billing basis above: metering on plays, bandwidth or storage means your bill moves with usage, so the headline price is only the starting point.