Stillhaven or Wistia?

The short version

If you want video to capture leads, run A/B tests and feed your CRM, use Wistia. That is what it is built for, and we have not built any of it.

If you want a private, dependable place to host video, a player that carries your brand, and a bill made of two numbers you can predict, that is us. You will pay less for the same room.

Where Wistia is the better choice

You want video to do marketing work. Wistia builds lead capture forms and calls to action into the player, runs A/B tests, shows per-viewer heatmaps, and pushes that data into HubSpot, Marketo or Pardot. Stillhaven has none of this and is not trying to. If your video is the top of a funnel, Wistia is the better tool and it is not close.

You run webinars or a podcast. Wistia hosts webinars with Q&A and polling, and distributes podcast episodes to Apple and Spotify. We do neither.

You want the most generous free plan. Wistia Free gives 25 GB of storage and 200 GB of bandwidth a month. Ours gives 10 GB and 50 GB. If you are only kicking the tyres, theirs holds more.

Where Stillhaven is the better choice

You want the same room for less. Creator is $24 a month billed annually and includes 250 GB of storage, 1 TB of monthly bandwidth, 3 seats and no Stillhaven branding on the player. The nearest Wistia plan with those allowances and unbranded playback is Business at $79.

Your team is going to grow. Seats are $10 a month here and $25 per user there. Viewers who only watch are a separate, larger pool on our side, so an audience does not cost you seats at all.

You want two numbers, not a feature matrix. You are billed on storage and bandwidth. From Creator up, every feature is included: the branded player, channels, captions, analytics, embeds. We only ever sell more room, never a feature you already expected to have.

You want embed control that reports back. Allowed domains, on every paid plan: list the domains where a video may be embedded, per video or as a default for the whole library, and turn off its public page so your embeds are the only way in. When a site you did not allow tries anyway, your analytics name it. Site names only, nothing about the viewer.

You want quiet software. No feed, no recommendations, no advertising anywhere in the product, including on the free plan. Your video plays and the software stays out of the frame.

Side by side

Creator against Wistia Business, because those two include almost exactly the same room and are the cheapest plan on each side that plays unbranded.

Wistia figures checked against wistia.com/pricing and wistia.com/features on 3 August 2026. Prices move; if you are reading this much later, check theirs before you decide. Ours are on our pricing page.

What both of us do

Adaptive streaming, captions, and a player you can brand.

Private, signed delivery and control over who can watch.

Your original upload is kept, and either platform will hand it back to you.

Embeds that work on any site, and analytics on how far people watched.

Downloads are worth calling out, because it is a claim we make loudly elsewhere and it is not a difference here: both platforms keep your original upload and will give it back. Ours is downloadable on every plan, including Free.