# Frame IO alternatives **URL:** \ **Category:** Applications\ **Created:** [March 8, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436 "2025-03-08T19:35:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![stephengpope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@stephengpope](https://forum.logik.tv/u/stephengpope)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/21 "2025-04-03T03:56:49Z")
> [@vkastrup](#): > > Since the Frame IO v4 API only is available for enterprise customers, I am looking for an alternative. > We are a small team, on a pretty tight budget. > We don’t need a lot of fancy functions and features, just client review,comments and such. > Anyone here got something they’re happy with? I have built a free [Frame.io](http://Frame.io) replacement It’s part of this project here – [GitHub - stephengpope/no-code-architects-toolkit: The NCA Toolkit API eliminates monthly subscription fees by consolidating common API functionalities into a single FREE API. Designed for businesses, creators, and developers, it streamlines advanced media processing, including video editing and captioning, image transformations, cloud storage, and Python code execution.](https://github.com/stephengpope/no-code-architects-toolkit) But I don’t have docs yet, I have a YT video coming out tomorrow. https://www.loom.com/embed/3cd0f97610784a6e962a04db041cbdd5 ---
**Author:** ![vkastrup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/vkastrup/32/13015_2.png) [@vkastrup](https://forum.logik.tv/u/vkastrup)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/22 "2025-04-03T07:12:11Z")
Oh cool. Looking forward to seeing more about this. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![stephengpope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@stephengpope](https://forum.logik.tv/u/stephengpope)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/23 "2025-04-03T18:23:47Z")
@vkastrup check this out here, would love your feedback [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/thedepartmentofexternalservices/original/2X/1/1b22b49f868503cb1e3a7a1bf66fefd134ba976d.jpeg "FREE Tool—10X Team Efficiency (Frame.io Replacement)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uATLW-dsZ5Q) ---
**Author:** ![ALan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@ALan](https://forum.logik.tv/u/ALan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/24 "2025-04-03T18:41:51Z")
I find it pretty amazing, that a YouTube spammer, found this community and posted actually contextual bait. ---
**Author:** ![stephengpope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@stephengpope](https://forum.logik.tv/u/stephengpope)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/25 "2025-04-03T20:15:04Z")
I’m not a YouTube spammer, I built a free tool for people suffering from Frame API issues and costs and built a free tool. So I was search in Google for people that were having issue to let them know. ---
**Author:** ![ALan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@ALan](https://forum.logik.tv/u/ALan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/26 "2025-04-03T20:21:55Z")
Yup… your YT page seems super relavent to the M&E market. ![Screenshot 2025-04-03 at 1.21.17 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/thedepartmentofexternalservices/original/2X/b/b809ef1086db33251e6cada1b354a7c8c3663369.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![cnoellert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/cnoellert/32/559_2.png) [@cnoellert](https://forum.logik.tv/u/cnoellert)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/27 "2025-04-03T20:34:37Z")
Be nice @ALan, we have guests. ---
**Author:** ![randy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/randy/32/6122_2.png) [@randy](https://forum.logik.tv/u/randy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/28 "2025-04-03T20:43:55Z")
@stephengpope your post has been restored as it is of course relevant to those in our community seeking DIY [Frame.io](http://Frame.io) alternatives. ---
**Author:** ![stephengpope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@stephengpope](https://forum.logik.tv/u/stephengpope)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/29 "2025-04-03T20:51:25Z")
@ALan checkout the tool, it’s pretty cool and free. ---
**Author:** ![stephengpope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@stephengpope](https://forum.logik.tv/u/stephengpope)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/30 "2025-04-03T20:52:56Z")
> [@ALan](#): > > M&E what is the M&E market? ---
**Author:** ![stephengpope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@stephengpope](https://forum.logik.tv/u/stephengpope)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/31 "2025-04-03T20:56:49Z")
> [@allklier](#): > > I think you’re right, API v2 served both app version v2 & v3. > > Did you reach out and ask why the endpoints stopped working? > > The only reports out there of automation breaking is folks that somehow ended up on V4 and are told to go back to V3. v2 endpoints are still working AS LONG as you don’t upgrade to v4. Then it will break. ---
**Author:** ![cnoellert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/cnoellert/32/559_2.png) [@cnoellert](https://forum.logik.tv/u/cnoellert)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/32 "2025-04-03T20:58:58Z")
Media and Entertainment – typically in the long form, episodic and commercial markets although those traditional lines are definitely blurring. ---
**Author:** ![stephengpope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@stephengpope](https://forum.logik.tv/u/stephengpope)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/33 "2025-04-03T21:08:26Z")
got it thanks. I am in the M&E market then, just heavily in the automation side. I’ve also create a free tools that move around large files in the cloud s3, google drive, and transcribe content, captions, cut/merge video/audio, etc. > **[GitHub - stephengpope/no-code-architects-toolkit: The NCA Toolkit API eliminates monthly...](https://github.com/stephengpope/no-code-architects-toolkit)** > > The NCA Toolkit API eliminates monthly subscription fees by consolidating common API functionalities into a single FREE API. Designed for businesses, creators, and developers, it streamlines advanced media processing, including video editing and captioning, image transformations, cloud storage, and Python code execution. happy to answer questions. ---
**Author:** ![allklier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/allklier/32/4309_2.png) [@allklier](https://forum.logik.tv/u/allklier)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/34 "2025-04-03T21:39:54Z")
Won’t have time to check it out until after NAB. I assume you have to bring your own cloud infrastructure? Which cloud platforms does it work with? How does the pricing compare to FrameIO once you bring your own Cloud infrastructure, given that we don’t get the big discounts, but can use it metered rather the peanut buttered? ---
**Author:** ![ALan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@ALan](https://forum.logik.tv/u/ALan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/35 "2025-04-03T21:44:42Z")
This is going nowhere guys, but have fun. I’ll ignore this thread now. ---
**Author:** ![stephengpope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@stephengpope](https://forum.logik.tv/u/stephengpope)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/36 "2025-04-05T04:30:37Z")
@ALan bye @allklier you do need your own cloud server, or docker host. But it works on any of them, Digital Ocean is one of the easiest to setup. Then you only pay the raw costs of the services, for the server (can be the smallest one) it’s just a front end. And then you just pay for the space you use (no markup like on frame). And there is obviously no per user fee. The toolkit also has a bunch of other hosted APIs to manipulate audio/video. Happy to answer any other questions. ---
**Author:** ![allklier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/allklier/32/4309_2.png) [@allklier](https://forum.logik.tv/u/allklier)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/37 "2025-04-05T10:32:17Z")
Yes, the key is a apples-apples comparison. If you have a busy month with big client uploads and large reviewer count, what does that raw cost amount to? You have to keep the instance up and scaled because you never know when someone is ready to look and leave notes. Sometimes you may come out ahead, other times not. Our raw cost rates are higher than what Adobe pays. And you have factor in admin time. I remember during the pandemic hosting a homegrown solution for an agency shoot. And while shooting on location, I had to take breaks and be IT support because one of the agency folks had problems with their browser. Imagine, you’re in a client session for Flame and some other client sends you urgent texts because something is wrong with the instance, or you guessed capacity wrong. You can pick which client you piss off, but it will be at least one. And you can’t blame it on Adobe then. I think the savings would have to be substantial for this to make sense IRL. Which is why we would need to see those numbers. It’s cool to have options, but outside curiosity and ultra-low budget fliers, I’m very skeptical. ---
**Author:** ![allklier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/allklier/32/4309_2.png) [@allklier](https://forum.logik.tv/u/allklier)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/38 "2025-04-05T11:10:32Z")
And @randy, I was just checking the API docs, and this toolkit has APIs to transcode videos and audio files, add captions, etc. It’s not a solution for replacing FrameIO unless you put some serious coding effort in, which may include these APIs but also a lot more. So it’s not a crypto scam or the like, but it’s also not really relevant to this discussion or our community for the most part. It is a legit effort to share APIs, but also a bit more of a carpet bombing sales tactic rather than understanding our specific use cases and being actually helpful. Do with that whatever seems reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![vkastrup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.logik.tv/vkastrup/32/13015_2.png) [@vkastrup](https://forum.logik.tv/u/vkastrup)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/39 "2025-04-05T11:50:18Z")
> [@stephengpope](#): > > check this out here, would love your feedback Thanks Stephen. It looks like one would have to put in quite a bit of work to get a reasonable frontend for browsing projects and viewing / commenting on more than one clip in a session. one would also have to manage multiple accounts for all the online tools (and potentially pay for some of those), so for a small team or single user, this is maybe going to take up too much time to manage. Hard to tell if it would be worth the savings, if any. I think the convenience of not having to manage the backend, is what makes Frame io great. Just sad that all my automation went away when the cut API access. ---
**Author:** ![stephengpope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@stephengpope](https://forum.logik.tv/u/stephengpope)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436/40 "2025-04-07T04:57:57Z")
@allklier you can look up the numbers on the given platform you might use on their pricing page. You’re mistaken that any work or coding would need to be done, it’s already fully built out, ready to roll. @vkastrup yea sure, happy to help. How much it takes to manage depends on your automation skills, you could deploy it for \< $5. It is designed for those with some tech skill, I can see how it would be harder for some, and then maybe not worth it. But we run a very heavily automated Frame solution and the lack of an API totally breaks. [Previous page](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forum.logik.tv/t/frame-io-alternatives/12436.md?page=3)