New PlayPause Plans: More Storage, Visibility, and Security

I have a confession. I used to think pricing pages were boring. Then I watched a four person studio get a bill that doubled because they added two freelancers and a client to their old review tool for one project. That is the moment pricing stops being boring and starts being personal.

So we rebuilt our plans around a simple idea. You should pay for the workspace, not for every human who needs to look at a cut. Today I want to walk through the new PlayPause plans, what the extra storage and visibility and security actually buy you, and how to pick the right tier without overthinking it.

The seat trap, and why we refuse to charge that way

Here is the contrarian take. Most review tools quietly punish collaboration. Frame.io charges per seat, so every client and freelancer you add raises the bill. The more people you loop in, the more it costs to do the exact thing the tool is for. That is backwards.

And the alternatives people reach for when the seat math gets ugly are worse. Email, WeTransfer, Google Drive, and Dropbox are file transfer, not review. They move bytes from A to B. They do not give you a frame-accurate comment, a version stack, or an approval you can trust. You end up reading feedback like "around the middle, the cut feels weird" and guessing what that means.

PlayPause is built the opposite way. Flat pricing per workspace. Free is 0 dollars, Creator is 9 dollars a month, Agency is 15 dollars a month, and Enterprise is 27 dollars a month. Add the whole team, add the client, add the colorist you only use twice a year. The price does not move.

More storage, so the archive stops fighting you

Storage sounds like the least exciting upgrade until you are mid project and a deliverable bounces because you hit a wall. The new plans give you more room to keep versions, proxies, and finished masters in one place instead of scattering them across drives and download folders.

This matters more than raw gigabytes suggest, because of how PlayPause uses that space. Version stacks let you pile every cut of a video under one link, so v1 through v9 live together and reviewers always land on the latest. Side-by-side compare lets a client see two versions next to each other and point at the exact difference. Camera-to-Cloud proxies land from set, so dailies are reviewable before anyone is back at a desk.

More storage means you keep all of that without deleting history to make room. Your centralized assets stay centralized. When a client asks for the version you showed three weeks ago, it is right there, not gone.

More visibility, so you stop guessing who watched

Feedback is only half the picture. The other half is knowing whether anyone actually watched. Did the client open it? Did they bail at the thirty second mark? Did the version you stayed up to finish even get viewed before the call?

Viewer analytics answer that. You can see engagement on a share link instead of refreshing your inbox and hoping. That changes how you chase approvals. Instead of a vague "any thoughts?" follow up, you can send a pointed nudge because you can see the review was opened and skimmed but never finished.

Visibility lives inside the review too. Frame-accurate comments pin feedback to the exact frame, with drawing on top so a reviewer can circle the thing they mean. @mentions pull the right person in without a separate email. Comments thread in one place, attached to the footage, not buried in a chat log nobody can find next week.

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More security, because a share link is a door

A share link is a door into your work. Most file tools hand you one key and call it a day. We treat that door seriously, because client footage, unreleased campaigns, and embargoed launches are not things you want loose on the open web.

Secure share links come with real controls. Set a password. Set an expiry so a link dies after the review window. Restrict to a domain so only people at the client's company can open it. Add watermarking so every viewer sees a traceable overlay, which quietly discourages the screen recording that ends up somewhere it should not.

Approval locks close the loop. Once a version is signed off, it is locked, so there is a clear record of what was approved and no confusion about whether the green light actually happened. That is the difference between "I think they approved it" and knowing.

• Password protect the link
• Set an expiry date
• Restrict to the client domain
• Turn on watermarking
• Lock the approved version

A quick scenario, start to sign off

Picture a small agency delivering a launch video. The editor uploads v1 to PlayPause and shares one secure link with the client, password on, expiry set for the review week.

No new seat was purchased to bring the client in. Guest upload meant they needed no account to weigh in. The whole exchange lived on one link, with one history, at a flat price. That is the workflow the new plans are built to protect.

How to pick your plan in under a minute

Do not overthink the tiers. Match the plan to where you are right now and move up when you feel a ceiling, not before.

Start on Free at 0 dollars if you are testing the waters or running a solo project. Move to Creator at 9 dollars a month when you are delivering regularly and want more storage and the full review toolkit. Step up to Agency at 15 dollars a month when clients and freelancers are constant and you want the visibility and security controls working hard. Choose Enterprise at 27 dollars a month when you need the most room and the strongest sharing controls across a busy team. Every tier is flat per workspace, so growing your reviewer list never changes the price.

And the connective tissue stays the same everywhere. Premiere Pro and After Effects panels keep editors in their timeline. Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zapier push updates where your team already works. Centralized assets keep every project in one home.

Bottom line

The new plans are not just bigger numbers on a pricing page. More storage means your version history and proxies stay put. More visibility means you know who watched and where they stopped. More security means a share link behaves like a locked door, not an open one. And it all sits on flat per workspace pricing, so collaboration never costs you extra.

If your current tool charges by the seat, or if you are still stitching reviews together with file transfer apps that were never built for feedback, this is the easy switch. Try PlayPause free, invite your whole team and your client at no extra cost, and run a real review through it. You will feel the difference on the first approval.