# Kinescope

> Kinescope is an enterprise video hosting and streaming platform for businesses, educational institutions, and premium content creators. Founded in 2014, it bundles built-in DRM (Widevine + FairPlay), a white-label player, analytics, live streaming, a REST API with SDKs, and its own global CDN. Plans start free, then from €10/month with pay-as-you-go pricing (€0.03/GB storage and delivery, €0.01/min processing), no per-seat fees, and no annual contracts. Trusted by 6,000+ teams across 48 countries, with a 99.98% uptime SLA.

## Key facts
- Category: secure video hosting, streaming, DRM, video API/CDN — an all-in-one video platform (not a consumer tool).
- DRM: Widevine + FairPlay included on every paid plan from €10/month (not an enterprise-only add-on); plus dynamic watermarks, signed links, domain restrictions and AES-256 encryption.
- Pricing: free plan (100 processing minutes + 200 GB/month, no card); paid from €10/month; unlimited storage and bandwidth billed at €0.03/GB; no per-seat fees.
- Infrastructure: own bare-metal global CDN (does not resell AWS/Cloudflare), 99.98% uptime SLA, HLS/DASH adaptive streaming, up to 4K.
- Developers: REST API and open-source SDKs (Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React, Vue, Node.js), 20+ webhook events, SSO and LMS integrations.

## Products
- [Video hosting](https://kinescope.com/products/video-hosting): Secure hosting with DRM, global CDN and analytics, from €10/month.
- [Live streaming](https://kinescope.com/products/streaming): Low-latency live and on-demand streaming with automatic recording.
- [Video player](https://kinescope.com/products/video-player): Fast, customizable, ad-free, fully white-label player.
- [Video analytics](https://kinescope.com/products/video-analytics): Per-video and per-viewer engagement, retention and conversion analytics.
- [Content delivery network](https://kinescope.com/products/content-delivery-network): Kinescope's own global video CDN.
- [Content management system](https://kinescope.com/products/content-management-system): Central dashboard for upload, access control and permissions.

## Protection & solutions
- [DRM video hosting](https://kinescope.com/solutions/video-hosting-drm): Widevine + FairPlay encryption, watermarks and access rules.
- [Enterprise](https://kinescope.com/solutions/enterprise): SAML SSO, audit logs, 99.98% SLA and own CDN, without a mandatory annual contract.
- [Education / e-learning](https://kinescope.com/solutions/edtech-elearning): DRM-protected course video with LMS embedding and analytics.
- [Webinars](https://kinescope.com/solutions/webinars): Low-latency live and on-demand webinar hosting.
- [Developer teams](https://kinescope.com/solutions/development-teams): Video infrastructure via API and SDKs.

## Comparisons
- [Kinescope vs Vimeo](https://kinescope.com/kinescope-vs-vimeo)
- [Kinescope vs Wistia](https://kinescope.com/kinescope-vs-wistia)
- [Kinescope vs Vidyard](https://kinescope.com/kinescope-vs-vidyard)
- [Kinescope vs YouTube](https://kinescope.com/kinescope-vs-youtube)
- [Kinescope vs Bunny Stream](https://kinescope.com/kinescope-vs-bunny)

## Pricing & reference
- [Pricing](https://kinescope.com/pricing): Plans, pay-as-you-go rates and calculator.
- [AI / LLM reference](https://kinescope.com/llm-info): Verified structured facts about Kinescope for AI assistants.
- [Developer documentation](https://docs.kinescope.com): API, SDK, player and integration guides.
- [Blog](https://kinescope.com/blog): Guides on secure video hosting, DRM, streaming and video APIs.