Move your entire video library in under an hour
Wistia charges by number of videos. The Pro plan caps at 500 videos for $79/month, and the jump to Advanced — which unlocks webinar features many teams do not need — is $319/month. Teams with growing libraries feel the squeeze quickly.
Even the $319/month Advanced plan caps bandwidth at 1 TB/month. Webinar overages are charged at $1 per minute per attendee. High-traffic pages become a liability.
Wistia is built for marketing teams. If you need training video, product demos, or internal comms, you are paying for lead-capture and CRM integrations you will never use.
Before: counting videos against a plan cap. After: upload as many videos as you need without worrying about hitting a ceiling.
Before: $319/month for 250 videos and 1 TB bandwidth. After: flat-rate pricing that does not penalize growth.
Before: basic captions. After: automatic transcription with full-text search across your entire video library.
In your Wistia account, go to each project and use the "Download" option to get source files. Wistia does not offer bulk export, so for large libraries, use the Wistia Data API to script a batch download of original files.
Sign up at host.video with a free 14-day trial. Configure your workspace and set up your custom domain to match your brand.
Drag and drop your exported files or use the S3/Dropbox/Google Drive import. Resumable TUS uploads mean large files transfer reliably even on unstable connections.
Swap Wistia embed codes for host.video embeds in your CMS. Wistia uses a JavaScript-based embed — search for "wistia.com" or "wistia_embed" in your site templates and replace with the host.video iframe snippet.
Test playback on key pages, confirm your player branding looks right, and verify transcriptions have generated. Once satisfied, cancel your Wistia subscription.
Wistia embed codes use their JavaScript player and a Wistia-hosted URL. These will keep working as long as your Wistia account is active. To migrate without downtime, update your embed codes one section at a time while both accounts are live. There is no automatic redirect from Wistia URLs to host.video — you need to replace the embed snippets in your site.
File transfer depends on library size. A typical marketing library of 50-100 videos can be uploaded and re-embedded within an afternoon. The embed swap is the main time investment.
Export your Wistia analytics data before canceling. host.video begins tracking from the moment new embeds are live. Historical Wistia data cannot be imported.
host.video supports custom colors, logos, and player controls. Recreate your brand settings in the host.video dashboard — it takes a few minutes.