Vimeo Basic, Plus, and Pro members have a weekly quota, which is a cap on the amount of video that can be uploaded to their accounts each week.
Upload quotas reset every 7 days, at midnight Eastern Time. You can monitor your current quota usage, as well as find your reset date and time, in the lower left-hand corner of the upload page. You can also see this in the lower left-hand corner of the video edit page. To see the date and time of your next reset, hover over the Info button.
In this article:
- Total storage limits
- Replacing videos
- Running out of quota or total storage
- Estimating total video storage
- Factors affecting the storage quota
Total storage limits
Vimeo Business, Premium, and Enterprise accounts do not have a weekly quota. Instead, there is a total storage limit. Total storage is a fixed, lifetime storage cap which does not reset or renew each year. You can fill your total storage amount in any way you like, without worrying about spacing out your uploads to stay within a weekly quota.
See the chart below for a breakdown of the weekly quota and total storage limits for each membership level:
|
Membership level |
Weekly upload quota |
Total storage limit |
|
Basic |
500MB per week (limited to 10 uploads every 24 hours) |
5GB |
|
Plus |
5GB per week |
No total storage limit |
|
Pro |
20GB per week |
No total storage limit |
|
Pro Unlimited |
No weekly quota |
3TB |
|
Business |
No weekly quota |
5TB |
|
Premium |
No weekly quota |
7TB |
Both weekly upload quota and total storage usage are determined by the size of the original source file at the time of upload (for example, a 200MB source file will use 200MB of the weekly upload quota or total storage limit).
If you use Vimeo Create: Create videos do not count towards the upload quota. However, Basic members are limited to creating 10 videos, up to 30 seconds each.
Replacing videos
When replacing a video, the amount of space used will depend on when the original source file was uploaded and your account type.
- Basic and Plus Members:
The previous version of your video will be deleted during the replacement process.- If the original source file was uploaded within the current quota week, then only the difference in source file sizes will count against your weekly quota.
- If the original source file was uploaded outside of the current quota week, then the full size of the replacement source file will count against your weekly quota.
- Pro, Business, Premium, and Enterprise members:
We'll automatically store all previous versions of your video instead of deleting them. As a result, the full size of the replacement file will be applied to your current weekly quota or total storage limit.
Running out of quota or total storage
If you reach the end of your weekly quota or total storage cap and still have videos to upload, you have several options:
- Upgrade to Vimeo Plus to get 5GB each week, Vimeo Pro to get 20GB/week, Vimeo Business to get 5TB total storage with no weekly upload quota, or Vimeo Premium to get 7TB total storage with no weekly upload quota.
- Delete or replace videos uploaded since your last quota reset date
- Compress your video files (e.g by using a lower bit rate or resolution) to reduce file size –https://vimeo.com/help/compression
- Pro, Business, or Premium members – delete previous versions of your videos uploaded during the current week within version history.
Estimating total video storage
To get an almost accurate calculation of the video file size, it can be approximately determined by the bitrate rather than just the video resolution.
Bitrate is the most important factor in determining a video file size. Technically speaking, you can have a 4K video with a lower bitrate than a 720p video. However, in this instance, the 4k video quality would appear poor but take less space on the disk when compared to a 720p video. And if your video contains audio? That track has its own bitrate as well.
Here is a chart for your reference:
The above table is for heuristic estimation and references only. There are a lot of other factors that influence the actual video file size such as compression ratio, variable bitrate, color depth.
Factors affecting the storage quota
Video length alone isn’t a reliable determinant of how many GB it’ll eat up; it can be impacted by:
a. the quality of the footage,
b. whether the footage files have supplementary metadata files attached to them
c. the amount and quality of audio tracks in editing timeline prior to export as a singular file
The size of a video file itself is largely impacted by however it’s being edited and exported. Each video editing software has a myriad of different export settings, all of which have complex impacts on the quality, size, and playback speed of the final file that is ultimately exported.