Loom alternatives: from $18/seat to $29 once
A 5-person team on Loom Business pays $1,080 a year. The alternatives run from open source free to one-time licenses — here's the sourced math.
Updated 2026-08-28 · prices verified against official pages
What Loom actually costs a team
Loom Business is $18 per seat per month — $1,080/year for a five-person team, before the AI tier at $24/seat. The free Starter plan caps at 25 videos of 5 minutes each, which is a taste, not a tool. Our scenario prices every alternative at the same 5-seat team so the comparison is honest.
Same job, radically different price models
Cap is the open-source Loom: $8.16/seat/month billed yearly for Cap Pro, or self-host it and pay nothing recurring — it even imports your Loom library. Tella ($13/seat) and Zight ($9.95/seat) undercut Loom on the same async-video model. Komodo's free tier claims no watermarks and no time limits.
The capture-editor camp changes the model entirely: CleanShot X is $29 once for the Mac app, ScreenCharm $79 lifetime, Screen Studio $9/month on yearly billing, and Screenity is a genuinely free open-source Chrome extension. If your recordings are for polish rather than team messaging, a one-time license beats a per-seat subscription within months — our subtype labels keep the two camps from being compared as drop-in swaps.
Every claim above links back to computed comparisons with sourced, dated pricing.
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