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The amount of video data you can store in your Vimeo account varies depending on which plan you are subscribed to. This article answers the most common questions we get about upload quota and total storage for our legacy plans (Basic, Plus, Pro, Pro Unlimited, Business, and Premium).
In this article:
- What is the difference between weekly quota and total storage?
- What is the weekly quota or total storage my plan allows?
- How much quota or storage do I have left? When does my quota reset?
- I want to upload a lot of videos now. Can you temporarily increase my weekly upload quota, or reset my upload quota early?
- Does deleting a video free up upload storage on my Vimeo account?
- Does replacing a video impact my weekly quota or total storage?
- What happens if I reach my plan's upload limit?
- I can't upload because I see a message saying I have or will exceed my upload limit. What should I do?
- What happens to my upload limit and stored videos if I lapse from a paid plan to Basic?
- How much storage will my video use?
- How do I estimate my file size? What factors impact my file size?
What is the difference between weekly quota and total storage?
Basic, Plus, and Pro plans grant a specified amount of video storage you can upload per week. This quota resets every seven days, starting with the day you subscribed to the plan.
- If you reach your upload limit within that seven-day period, you will not be able to upload until your quota resets.
- There is no total storage limit for the lifetime of Plus and Pro plans.
- The Basic plan has additional limitations, detailed below.
Pro Unlimited, Business, and Premium plans are granted a lifetime total storage cap. This means you can upload as much as you want in any timeframe until you reach your plan's total limit, as long as you are still subscribed to the plan.
- You will not be able to upload any more videos once your account reaches the total storage limit.
- The total storage does not reset or renew.
What is the weekly quota or total storage my plan allows?
Weekly upload quota is granted as follows:
- Basic: 500MB/week, limited to 10 uploads every 24 hours
- Plus: 5GB/week
- Pro: 20GB/week
Total storage is granted as follows:
- Basic: 5GB
- Pro Unlimited: 3TB
- Business: 5TB
- Premium: 7TB
How much quota or storage do I have left? When does my quota reset?
There are a few places on Vimeo where you can keep track of your weekly upload quota or total storage. Check the tracker in the bottom left corner of your home page (after logging in) or your library page.
Hover over the (i) icon to see more information, such as what day your weekly quota resets.
If your account has total storage, you will be able to see the amount of storage used out of the total amount.
I want to upload a lot of videos now. Can you temporarily increase my weekly upload quota, or reset my upload quota early?
The weekly quota and reset day for Plus and Pro plans cannot be adjusted. Our recommendation is to compress your video file(s), spread out the number of videos you upload over the course of a few weeks, or upgrade your account to get more storage.
Does deleting a video free up upload storage on my Vimeo account?
The answer depends on your plan type:
- If you have Basic, Plus, or Pro, you can delete a video that was uploaded since your last quota reset to free up space in your current quota week. Deleting videos that were uploaded prior to that reset will not free up space for your current quota.
- 💡Tip for Pro users: You can also delete previous versions of videos you’ve replaced since the last quota reset date.
- If you have Pro Unlimited, Business, or Premium, then deleting videos–including previous versions–will free up storage space on your account.
Does replacing a video impact my weekly quota or total storage?
The answer depends on your plan type:
- Basic: When you replace a video, the previous version of that video is deleted. Only the difference in the source file sizes will count against your weekly quota.
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Plus: When you replace a video, the previous version of that video is deleted. Only the difference in the source file sizes will count against your weekly quota.
- ⚠️Note for Plus: If you uploaded a video during your previous weekly cycle and then try to replace that video in the current week, it will be considered as a new video and storage will be used from the current week.
- Pro: Because the previous version of the video remains stored, the full size of the replacement file does count against the current weekly quota.
- Pro Unlimited, Business, and Premium: Because the previous version of the video remains stored, the full size of the replacement file does count against your total storage limit. Deleting old versions from version history will free up storage.
What happens if I reach my plan's upload limit?
You won’t be able to upload any more videos. Your next steps depend on your plan type:
- Basic, Plus, and Pro: You will be able to upload more videos when your weekly quota resets. Hover over the tracker in the lower left corner of your library page to see when that occurs. Alternatively, you can upgrade your account.
- Pro Unlimited, Business, and Premium: You can delete previous versions of videos via version history to free up storage. Alternatively, you can upgrade your account.
I can't upload because I see a message saying I have or will exceed my upload limit. What should I do?
Your next steps depend on your plan type.
Weekly quota plans (Basic, Plus, Pro) can do any of the following:
- Compress your source file to reduce the file size (e.g. use a lower bitrate or resolution).
- Wait for your weekly quota to reset (check the tracker to see when that will occur).
- Delete videos uploaded since your last quota reset. Deleting older videos will not impact your current quota.
- 💡Tip for Pro users: You can also delete previous versions of videos you’ve replaced since the last quota reset date.
- Upgrade your account to get more storage.
Total storage plans (Pro Unlimited, Business, Premium) can do any of the following:
- Compress your source file to reduce the file size (e.g. use a lower bitrate or resolution)
- Delete previous versions of videos you’ve replaced using version history.
- Upgrade your account to get more storage.
What happens to my upload limit and stored videos if I lapse from a paid plan to Basic?
Downgrading from a paid membership to Basic allows you to keep 10GB of the videos you uploaded during your most recent membership on your Vimeo account.
Any storage above the 10GB cap will be moved to our archive storage for up to one year after you lapse, starting with the earliest videos you uploaded to Vimeo as a paid subscriber. If you renew your paid membership within that timeframe, you will regain access to those videos.
How much storage will my video use?
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 to make or edit videos: Videos made with Vimeo's editor do not count towards the upload quota. However, Basic users are limited to creating 10 videos, up to 30 seconds each.
How do I estimate my file size? What factors impact my file size?
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, and color depth.
Video length alone isn’t a reliable determinant of how many GB it’ll eat up; it can be impacted by:
- The quality of the footage.
- Whether the footage files have supplementary metadata files attached to them.
- The amount and quality of audio tracks in the editing timeline prior to export as a singular file.
The size of a video file itself is largely impacted by how 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.