Loom vs VEED
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentVEED compared with Loom
Loom is built for the video you record and send in ninety seconds, with instant links, a team library, and viewer analytics. VEED is built for the video you make. The overlap is only the recorder, and VEED's recorder is a way to get footage into the editor rather than a messaging tool. Most teams need Loom for one and VEED or a peer for the other.
Choose Loom if
Distributed teams that want to replace status meetings, code walkthroughs, design feedback, and support explanations with recordings, especially teams already inside Atlassian tools, plus solo operators and small companies who can live inside the free 25-video allowance.
Choose VEED if
Marketing, social, and content teams that produce a steady volume of short video, need subtitles and translation constantly, and want everyone editing in a browser without installing software or learning a professional editor.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Loom | VEED |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Video | Video |
| Starting price | $0 (Starter), then $18 per user per month billed monthly (Business) (free plan available) | $10 per user per month (Creator, billed annually) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Freemium per-seat subscription with three published tiers and a quote-only Enterprise tier, discounted roughly 17 percent for annual billing. | Per-seat subscription with AI credit allowances, storage caps, seat counts, and export resolution stepping by tier. Credits expire rather than rolling over. |
| Free plan | Starter includes 25 videos per person, a hard five-minute cap per recording, 720p, transcriptions, comments, and emoji reactions, for workspaces of up to 50 members. | Browser editor and recorder with 720p watermarked exports, a ten minute maximum video length, 20 AI generations a month, 2GB storage, and one seat. |
| Free trial | Free Starter plan serves as the evaluation path; paid tiers can be trialed from within the product | No fixed paid trial; the free plan serves as the evaluation path |
| Best for | Distributed teams that want to replace status meetings, code walkthroughs, design feedback, and support explanations with recordings, especially teams already inside Atlassian tools, plus solo operators and small companies who can live inside the free 25-video allowance. | Marketing, social, and content teams that produce a steady volume of short video, need subtitles and translation constantly, and want everyone editing in a browser without installing software or learning a professional editor. |
| Setup time | Under ten minutes. Install the Chrome extension or desktop app, sign in with Google or your work account, grant screen and microphone permissions, and record. There is nothing to configure before the first useful video. | Minutes. Open the browser, sign up, and record or upload. There is nothing to install and no permissions beyond the browser's own camera and screen access prompts. Brand kit setup takes an hour and is worth doing before anyone produces their first published video. |
| Learning curve | Near zero for recording. The part teams get wrong is cultural rather than technical: async video only replaces meetings if people agree to watch recordings instead of asking for a call, and that convention has to be set explicitly. | Low. The editor is designed for people who are not editors, and the subtitle and resize workflows are close to one-click. The learning that does take time is credit management: understanding which actions consume credits and how quickly a translation or avatar habit burns through an allowance. |
| Platforms | Chrome extension, macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS, Android, Web | Web browser (desktop and laptop), No native desktop application required, No mobile recording support |
| Compliance | SOC 2, GDPR, Covered by Atlassian's enterprise security and compliance program | GDPR as a UK and EU headquartered company; no SOC 2 status prominently marketed on the self-serve tiers |
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | London, United Kingdom |
| Ownership | Owned by Atlassian (NASDAQ: TEAM) | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Loom
Strengths
- The recording experience is still the best in the category: parallel upload means the link is ready instantly, and the extension and desktop app are both genuinely reliable under load.
- Embedding is unmatched, with the player unfurling natively across more than 400 tools including the entire Atlassian suite, Notion, Slack, Figma, and GitHub.
- Transcription and closed captions in more than 50 languages are included on the free tier rather than paywalled.
- Atlassian ownership means real security engineering, SSO and SCIM, custom retention policies, and an uptime SLA, which is more compliance surface than any independent vendor in this category offers.
Limitations
- Zero dynamic personalization: no per-prospect backgrounds, no animated GIF thumbnails generated per contact, no bulk generation from a CSV, and no per-prospect landing pages.
- CRM logging is minimal, and the only first-party CRM connector is Salesforce on the quote-only Enterprise tier, so HubSpot users get nothing native.
- The free tier's five-minute recording cap is much tighter than Vidyard's 30 minutes or Bubbles' unlimited screen recordings, and it stops most real use cases dead.
- Editing is shallow: trim, stitch, text, arrows, and boxes. No multi-track timeline, no zoom and pan, no b-roll.
VEED
Strengths
- Runs entirely in a browser with nothing to install, which is the deciding factor in organizations where people cannot install software.
- Automatic subtitles are fast, accurate on clean audio, editable, and stylable. This is the feature the company was built on and it still works better than most alternatives.
- Translation and dubbing across 50 or more languages turns one recording into a localized set without re-shooting.
- Creator at $10 a seat for unwatermarked 1080p with unlimited stock media and unlimited video length is aggressive pricing.
Limitations
- AI credits expire rather than rolling over, and the allowances are annual on annual plans, which makes uneven usage expensive.
- Storage below Studio is small: 5GB on Creator and 50GB on Pro. Teams working at 4K will be managing space rather than making video.
- Per-seat pricing means the headline numbers understate team cost by a factor of three to five.
- Nothing for sales outreach: no personalized landing pages, no email thumbnails tied to a prospect, no CRM push, no view alerts.
Pricing compared
Loom
Freemium per-seat subscription with three published tiers and a quote-only Enterprise tier, discounted roughly 17 percent for annual billing.
- Starter$0
- Business$18
- Business plus AI$24
- EnterpriseCustom
Business at $18 monthly is priced as the category default rather than as a bargain, and after the Atlassian acquisition it stopped being cheap. What you get for it is the most reliable recorder in the category, the best embedding story anywhere, transcription in 50-plus languages, and no usage meter to model. For an internal communication use case that is good value, particularly if you already run Jira and Confluence and can use the bug report flow. For a sales use case it is poor value, because the personalization and CRM machinery that justifies a higher price elsewhere simply is not here, and the one CRM connector Loom does ship is locked behind a quote. Buy it for the team, not for the pipeline.
VEED
Per-seat subscription with AI credit allowances, storage caps, seat counts, and export resolution stepping by tier. Credits expire rather than rolling over.
- Free$0
- Creator$10
- Pro$21
- Studio$35
- EnterpriseCustom
Creator at $10 a seat is one of the cheapest ways to get an unwatermarked 1080p editor with automatic subtitles into the hands of a marketing team, and for that specific job VEED is excellent value. Pro at $21 is where the AI features stop being a demo, and it competes directly with Descript Creator at $24. The value case gets murky at the top: Studio at $35 a seat is a large annual credit pile that many teams will not exhaust, and the per-seat structure means a modest team on Pro or Studio is paying real money. Buy the tier that matches your credit and storage consumption, not the one whose feature list looks best.
Editorial verdict on each
Loom
Category LeaderLoom is still the best pure recorder in async video, and the reason is unglamorous engineering: it uploads while you talk, so the link is always ready. Add transcription in 50-plus languages on the free tier, embedding across more than 400 tools, and Atlassian's security program behind it, and it remains the safe default for a team that wants to stop holding meetings. Buy it for internal communication, support explanations, and design and code review, ideally on Business plus AI where filler word removal quietly makes every recording watchable. Do not buy it for sales. There is no dynamic personalization, no per-prospect landing page, and the only CRM connector is Salesforce behind an Enterprise quote. The five-minute free cap and post-acquisition price increases also mean Loom is no longer the cheap option it once was, and buyers who care mainly about price should look hard at Bubbles.
Read the full Loom profileVEED
VEED is the right tool for a team that produces video rather than one that sends it. The browser-only architecture means everyone can use it including people who cannot install software, the subtitling and translation are genuinely best in class, and Creator at $10 a seat for unwatermarked 1080p is hard to argue with. Pro at $21 is where the AI toolkit becomes real and where it competes directly with Descript. The things to check before you buy are unglamorous: AI credits expire rather than rolling over, storage below Studio is tight enough to become an operational chore, and every price is per seat so a small team costs several times the headline. Understand that VEED gives you almost no viewer analytics and nothing at all for sales outreach, buy it for the marketing and content job it does well, and pair it with a dedicated async messaging tool for the videos you simply need to send.
Read the full VEED profileLoom profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; VEED last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.