Old way
Add member
$25 – $50 / user / mo
Web browser proxy streaming
Closed AI search ($30/seat add-on)
Egress & bandwidth caps
Cloud-only storage limits
Claude
Not connected
$0.00 seat tax — unlimited seats & guest reviewers
Native NLE virtual drive mount
Open MCP server (bring your own AI)
$0.00 egress
Hybrid NVMe caching
Files, Art Uncharted
Upload 4K ProRes instantly. Proxies stream from Cloudflare R2, while raw camera masters stay safely on your local storage.
Review, Dictators FEAR
Timestamp comments, replies, and guest review in one player. Effortless for clients, creatives, and execs. No account required.
Library, metadata
Tag, sort, and group assets by assignee, due date, and status. Powered by metadata, not a seat count.
Drive, Art Uncharted
Granular permissions, custom-branded shares, and crystal-clear proxies that load at the edge.
Tag, sort, group, and navigate assets by assignee, due date, status, and any field your house actually uses.
Comments, versions, and statuses live with the cut. Internal teams and external guests work from the same page.
Find a take with a full sentence. Local Whisper and vision tagging, no cloud vendor reading the dailies.
Instant edge playback, zero transcode queues.
Ingest runs as a Resolve page. Proxies land on the CB track. Markers drag back onto the cut.
Tag, sort, and group assets using out-of-the-box and custom fields. Share a data-rich view with the team.
No cloud queues. FFmpeg generates proxies locally on Apple Silicon before uploading to R2. Uploads land in seconds; egress is always $0.
Scrubbable proxies for ProRes, R3D, MXF, and BRAW. Drag markers into your NLE. No downloading the master.
Enterprise speed without the per-seat paywall.
Precise feedback on the frame. Draw on the glass. Range comments for a wave crash or a line read. Guests leave a name, never an account.
Start a conversation directly on the cut. Mentions, replies, and a clean player with zero UI bloat. Spacebar, draw, send.
Consolidated comments that follow the version they were born on. Internal and external, same page.
Frame-accurate markers into Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut, or Avid. Not an Adobe-only leftover.
Simple, guest-friendly links mean directors, clients, and execs actually finish reviews on time.
Camera to Cloud
Dailies off the card, proxies locally, review links before the sun goes down. Execs on the other side of the world can watch before wrap.
See camera to cloudIngest runs as a Resolve page. Proxies land on the CB track while the camera original stays on set storage.
FFmpeg, sprite sheets, and Whisper run locally. Only lightweight proxies and JSON ever leave the room.
Share a passphrase-protected review link. Execs watch from the edge. No account. No seat. No queue.
Dailies
Scene, slate, take, circle. Versions stack automatically under the take: proxy, LUT, selects. Never a messy date-dump folder.
Local Whisper on Apple Silicon. Timecoded, speaker-labelled, searchable. The stem never hits a cloud vendor.
Forensic watermarking, passphrase protection, and no-download edge links. Execs on the other side of the world can review before wrap.
Sending large files? No problem.
Creator Bay mounts like a drive. Drag MXF, R3D, MP4, and BRAW into your NLE without downloading the camera original.
The bay tricks your machine into treating cloud proxies like a local SSD. No extra devices. No shuttle drives.
Drag MXF, R3D, MP4, and BRAW directly into Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut, or Avid. No downloading required.
AI search
Ditch tag-based search. Find a take with a full sentence, a face, a transcript, or a color. Local vision and Whisper — the cloud never reads the dailies.
Explore AI featuresMCP
Creator Bay is an MCP server on your library. Agents query takes, transcripts, scripty notes, and review comments. The media never leaves the bay.
Open the MCPWhich take has the cup line. Circle takes from scene 11. What scripty marked. Answers come back with timecode.
Cursor, Claude, Grok, and anything that speaks MCP. Same tools the ingest module already runs locally.
Connectors stay local. Whisper stays local. Agents see metadata and proxies, not a cloud dump of the camera original.
Yeah... we didn't stop there.
Local vision clusters faces across every take. Search a performer without uploading the dailies to a vendor.
Local Whisper on Apple Silicon. Timecoded, speaker-labelled, searchable. The stem never hits a cloud vendor.
Scrubbable proxies for ProRes, R3D, MXF, and BRAW. Drag markers into your NLE. No downloading the master.
Scene, slate, take, circle, LUT, status. Filter the bay the way the scripty actually logged it.
Find a take with a full sentence. Close-up of a red sports car at sunset, tagged on your silicon.
Cursor, Claude, and Grok query takes, transcripts, and notes. The camera original stays in the bay.
Remote creative teams
Work together from anywhere with zero transcode downtime. Streamline the workflow and connect a distributed team without a per-seat tax.
Proxies at the Cloudflare edge. Masters on local storage. Instant access as if you were on the same SSD, without uploading the camera original.
Drag markers from the bay directly into your NLE. Resolve, Premiere, FCP, Avid. No Creative Cloud lock-in.
Streamline review and invite with granular permissions. Passphrase, expiry, no download. Unlimited guests.
Manage internal and external collaboration. View, comment, download, expiry, passphrase. Toggle per link.
Your background, colors, logo, header, so the share looks like the house.
Edge-cached review pages. Sub-second load anywhere in the world. Guests never need a seat.
“We used to pay $30/seat just for executives to watch a 2-minute cut once a week. Now I send a password-protected link, and notes come back in minutes.”
Maya Chen
Director, Northwake Pictures
“4K ProRes used to wait in a cloud transcode queue during awards season. Proxies finish while I make coffee. The dailies never leave the building.”
Jonas Hale
Post supervisor, Harbor & Gold
“Clients used to get lost in V4. Creator Bay is a player, a timeline, and a comment. Spacebar, draw, send. Our brand directors actually finish reviews.”
Lin Park
ECD, Red Lantern
The killer angle
You keep the cut, the silicon, and the client relationship. They keep the per-seat ledger.
| Feature | Frame.io V4 | Creator Bay |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Expensive per-seat + storage add-ons | Flat / self-hosted + zero-egress R2 |
| Client access | Complex navigation, login friction | Instant review links, unlimited reviewers |
| Processing | Slow cloud queues, costly GPU passes | Instant local processing, $0 egress |
| Ecosystem | Adobe lock-in, dropped Resolve features | NLE-agnostic via open APIs |
| AI privacy | Cloud media tagging on unreleased cuts | 100% private local transcription & vision |
Freelancers & small crew
$49/ month
Independent post houses
$199/ month
Commercial agencies & studios
$499/ month
One flat engine. Unlimited reviewers. Local proxies. Review links that load in milliseconds, no account, no seat, no egress.