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Build Video Apps Without Worrying About Infrastructure

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Shotstack - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Shotstack overview

What is Shotstack?

Shotstack is a platform for creating video applications. Use the video editing API to quickly build media centric apps and workflows that help businesses scale video automation goals.

Shotstack's hosted API and video hosting CDN will save development time. As a fully managed service users will not need to worry about maintaining complex video rendering infrastructure.

Use pre-built templates, JSON editor and SDK's to integrate Shotstack in to applications.

Key benefits of using Shotstack

Editing features allows for creative video designs.
Scalable infrastructure lets users create 1000's of videos at once.
Fully hosted
Managed and supported by a dedicated team.

Starting price

49flat rate /
per month

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Shotstack’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Shotstack reviews

Overall rating

4.8

/5

12

Positive reviews

100

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9.25/10
Rating distribution

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4

3

2

1

10

2

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Pros
“They go to great lengths to build what is needed and support those using the platform. The platform is an amazing tool that has performed as expected and been a key component in workflows.”
KM

Kevin M.

Founding Producer

“My overall experience with Shotstack has been fantastic. The product is amazing and it exactly addresses our needs of generation movies based our input medias and instructions.”
BY

Bo Y.

CTO

“I like how easily it can be integrated in any software and most importantly it's documentation in so well that you can learn to code so easily , yes it's very easy to use as well.”
CS

Chinmaya S.

Founder

Cons
“Some of the documentation. It could also be user error.”
KM

Kevin M.

Founding Producer

“Inability to get stills from the video (at the time - may have changed since).”
JC

John C.

Director

“Once our integration was setup we could leave it do it's thing and have not had any real problems since.”
JC

John C.

Director

Who uses Shotstack?

Based on 12 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Computer Software
Animation
Consumer Services
Information Technology and Services
Others

Use cases

Video Editing

Shotstack's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Shotstack users:

Video editing
Animations & transitions
Multiple format support

All Shotstack features

Features rating:

Activity dashboard
API
Brand overlay
Generative ai
Image editing
Preview functionality
Split/Merge
Supports HD Resolution
Text editing
Text overlay
Third-Party integrations
Watermarking

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Shotstack pricing

Value for money rating:

Starting from

49

Per month

Flat Rate

Pricing details
Subscription
Free trial
Free plan
Pricing range

User opinions about Shotstack price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Shotstack's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“They go to great lengths to build what is needed and support those using the platform. The platform is an amazing tool that has performed as expected and been a key component in workflows.”
KM

Kevin M.

Founding Producer

“My overall experience with Shotstack has been fantastic. The product is amazing and it exactly addresses our needs of generation movies based our input medias and instructions.”
BY

Bo Y.

CTO

Shotstack integrations (2)

Top integrations

Shotstack support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base

Training options

Documentation

Shotstack FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Shotstack offer?

Shotstack has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $49.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of Shotstack?

Shotstack has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Shotstack support?

Shotstack supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Shotstack offer an API?

Yes, Shotstack has an API available for use.


Q. What other apps does Shotstack integrate with?

Shotstack integrates with the following applications:
Make, Zapier


Q. What level of support does Shotstack offer?

Shotstack offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base

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