PlayerAd-free, 4K, yours to brand An embeddable video player: ad-free, 4K, yours to brand
Fast, customizable and ad-free video player for websites, CMS and platforms.
Video hostingFor content you can’t afford to lose Secure video hosting for content you can’t afford to lose
Secure video storage, processing and global delivery with high performance.
DRMWidevine and FairPlay on paid plans Multi-DRM video hosting: Widevine and FairPlay on every paid plan
Encryption, with watermarks and access rules that turn it into a full protection stack.
AnalyticsTurns views into insights Video analytics that turns views into insights
Real-time video analytics: views, retention, engagement and audience behavior.
StreamingLive and on demand, at any scale Low latency streaming for enterprise: live and on demand, at any scale
Stable low-latency live streaming for events, webinars and product launches.
ManagerVideo CMS built for teams Video content management system built for teams
Central dashboard for upload, organization, access control and permissions.
CDNFast delivery worldwide Video CDN, built in: fast delivery for your video, worldwide
Global infrastructure for reliable storage and fast playback — at the cost of rented servers.
Video API Developer hub, MCP server and 8 SDKs Video infrastructure for the agentic era
One video streaming API for resumable upload, parallel transcoding, Widevine and FairPlay DRM, live streaming, CDN delivery and analytics.
curl -X POST https://uploader.kinescope.io/v2/video \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KINESCOPE_API_TOKEN" \
-H "X-Parent-ID: $PARENT_ID" \
-H "X-Video-Title: Lesson 1" \
-H "X-Video-URL: https://example.com/lesson-1.mp4"
API reference REST API with one Bearer token API reference
Send REST requests with JSON to api.kinescope.io/v1, passing your API token as a Bearer header.
Player docs Iframe, IFrame API and playlists Player docs
Paste the iframe, or drive the player from JavaScript with the IFrame Player API.
<iframe src="https://kinescope.io/embed/VIDEO_ID"
allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; encrypted-media;"
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen
width="560" height="315"></iframe>
SDKs 8 open-source player SDKs Eight open-source SDKs for the same player
Integrations WordPress, Moodle, Zoom and more Integrations
MCP server For AI agents, in public beta Connect your AI agent to Kinescope
Kinescope MCP Server, now in public beta, lets Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other MCP clients work with your workspace in plain language. It uses your API token and your account’s access rights, and delete operations are turned off.
"Kinescope MCP": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://api.kinescope.io/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer …"
}
}
BlogGuides and product updates Video BlogShort tutorials and tours 
Customer storiesHow six teams switched 
Mathijs de RuiterJoJoschool 
Whole catalogue · within a week ~8×lower projected video costs “…a human touch, stable performance, and fair prices” 
Denis KorovkinEBAC 
16 TB · a couple of weeks ~60%lower video costs “Kinescope's affordable, scalable, and accessible video solution has been a game-changer…” 
Eriky KunitakeAda 
Around 700 hours · under two months 
Glossary25 terms in plain English 
Knowledge base Guides, API and player docs Getting startedMigrating from other platformsContent protectionPlayer setup and embeddingLive streamsAPI reference Search the docs or ask AI right inside the help center.
Kinescope vs Wistia:
Wistia’s security page lists password protection, domain restrictions and private sharing, with SSO on Enterprise — Widevine and FairPlay DRM aren’t among them. Kinescope encrypts the stream itself with both on every paid plan, blocks downloading, and blocks screen recording wherever the operating system allows it.
Kinescope burns the viewer’s email or ID into the frame as a moving watermark, so a recording that leaks shows who shared it. Wistia doesn’t list watermarking among its protection features.
Kinescope B.V. is based in the Netherlands, and all video data is stored in EU data centres by default, on every plan. Wistia stores and processes the personal information it collects in the United States, per its privacy policy. More on GDPR-compliant video hosting.
Wistia plans come with fixed allowances: 25 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth on Free, 250 GB and 1 TB on Business, from 1 TB and 2 TB on Enterprise (wistia.com). Kinescope’s paid plans have no storage or bandwidth caps — the library grows without a plan change.
Wistia’s Free plan has one user and Business includes three, with every extra user billed on top. Kinescope charges no per-seat fees, so adding editors, marketers and developers doesn’t change the plan.
Kinescope ships open-source player SDKs for iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), Flutter and React Native, plus JavaScript, React, Vue and Angular. Wistia’s docs cover its web player, a React component and the Data API; in native apps you’re left with a web view or community packages — the WistiaKit iOS library was last released in 2018.
Share read access to your Wistia library, and our team pulls the videos over with titles, descriptions, thumbnails and folder structure intact — transcoding on our side, included on the Super and Mega plans. Typical libraries move within a week, and we coordinate the embed-code swap so nothing goes dark on your site.
Pick the colour of the play button, progress bar and control panel, round the corners and add your logo with a link. A player template applies to one video, a folder or the whole project, on every plan, including Free.
A leadgen CTA collects the viewer’s details without leaving the video and sends them to your URL. Buttons, banners and overlays that pause playback work the same way — see the player docs.
Video analytics show how far people watch and where they leave. A click on a player button fires the CallAction event, which you can send to Google Analytics or your CRM.
A white-label player with no third-party ads and no suggested videos at the end, so nothing competes with your offer for the viewer’s attention.
Generate subtitles in the video’s language and chapter markers from the video page, then edit them before publishing.
Stream a live event, and the recording turns into a regular on-demand video when it ends.
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