
Kaltura Video Cloud
- Features
- Ease of use
- Ease of management
- Quality of support
- Affordability
- Market presence
- Professional services (engineering, legal, consulting, etc.)
- Education and training
- Public sector and nonprofit organizations
What is Kaltura Video Cloud
Broad video workflow coverage
Configurable and API-driven platform
Enterprise governance and delivery options
Not event-first ticketing suite
Implementation can be complex
Costs vary with scale and modules
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (Base plan + usage)\nFree tier/trial: Limited trial — $100 credits for 30 days for $1 (trial offer). No permanently free commercial plan published.\nHow it’s sold: Developer / Media Services are offered as a base plan (one-time annual fee) plus usage-based charges. Many higher-level products (Virtual Classroom, Events, Webinars, Enterprise bundles) are sold via custom/Contact Sales and do not show public fixed monthly/annual list prices.\nAnnual credit / discount tiers (published):\n- Base plan + Pay as you go: $20 one-time annual fee + monthly usage fees (no discount).\n- Base plan + $500 credits: 8% discount → $20 + $460 annually.\n- Base plan + $6,000 credits: 10% discount → $20 + $5,400 annually.\n- Base plan + $12,000 credits: 12% discount → $20 + $10,560 annually.\n- Base plan + $24,000 credits: 20% discount → $20 + $19,200 annually.\n- > $24,000: Contact Kaltura for a custom offer.\n\nExample unit prices (published on Kaltura official site - Media Services pricing page):\n- Active unique IDs (monthly): $0.55 per Unique ID\n- Managed content entries (monthly): $0.11 per Entry\n- Delivered video streams (each start): $0.001 per Stream\n- Transcoding output: $2.25 per Transcoding Output GB\n- Outbound bandwidth: $0.17 per GB\n- Managed storage (monthly): $0.25 per GB\n- Interactive branched video projects (monthly): $50 per Project\n\nVirtual Classroom / Recording example fees (published in Kaltura Knowledge Center):\n- Each plan includes 2 hrs Kaltura Cloud Recording. Overages billed per hour: Any plan base overage rate $3.00/hr.\n- Recording add-on plans (examples): rec_10 (10 hrs/month) overage $2.40/hr; rec_30 (30 hrs/month) overage $2.13/hr; rec_50 (50 hrs/month) overage $2.00/hr.\n\nOther notes (from official site):\n- Kaltura Media Services: Pay-as-you-go with a limited trial option and published per-unit prices (as above).\n- Many product suites (Events, Webinars, Virtual Classroom capacities/features, Enterprise bundles) are presented on Kaltura’s official site but require contacting sales for pricing / custom quotes.\n\nDiscounts / guarantees:\n- Annual credit pre-purchase tiers as listed above provide discounts.\n- Kaltura publishes a 30-day money-back guarantee on the media services page.