Vimeo Can Decide To Change Your Plan and Force You to Pay 5x More | PetaPixel

Vimeo users probably believe they are the right people to determine what type of account they need. Vimeo disagrees and has begun switching some users to a new, significantly more expensive subscription tier at its own discretion. As is increasingly the case with subscriptions these days, Vimeo’s offerings aren’t all that clear-cut. There are Starter, Standard, and Advanced offerings for “Individuals,” each with reasonably straightforward pricing and features. But then there’s “Enterprise,” which doesn’t have a price at all and requires customers to talk to Vimeo directly to settle on a price. A third tier, “Studio,” is rolling out now for $400 a month. It’s not directly available for purchase, though. This new Studio subscription came to PetaPixel‘s attention because of a discussion on Threads, the origin of which has since been deleted for factual inaccuracies, about a huge Vimeo price hike. While some details weren’t quite correct, the basic complaint was: Vimeo determined the user was no longer eligible for an individual plan and needed to be moved to the new, much pricier Studio tier. Advanced, which includes support for 10 users and 7TB of storage, is $75 per month when billed as part of an annual subscription. It
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