How much does Loom cost in 2026?

Business: $15 per seat a month on annual billing ($18 billed monthly); Business + AI: $20 per seat a month on annual billing ($24 billed monthly). 25 videos per person and 5-minute screen recordings. Checked October 26, 2026.

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Should you build your own Loom?

Q: Should you build your own Loom?

Switch. Five creators on Loom Business pay about $2,700 over 3 years. Cap Pro costs $8.16 a user and ScreenPal Team Business costs $8 on yearly billing, so the same team pays about $1,450. Cap is open source and can be self-hosted. Building your own recorder would cost about $3,700 over 3 years, which is more than buying one.

Q: What is a cheaper alternative to Loom?

Cap (Free (5-minute share links); Pro $8.16/user/mo billed yearly; free to self-host), ScreenPal (Team Business $8/user/mo billed yearly (listed with 20% off); free plan caps recordings at 15 minutes). Recorder, editor and video hosting in one plan; the team plan needs 3 or more users.

Switch to Cap or ScreenPal. Both cost about half of Loom Business for the same screen recordings and share links.

SWITCH

Short answer

Five creators on Loom Business pay about $2,700 over 3 years. Cap Pro costs $8.16 a user and ScreenPal Team Business costs $8 on yearly billing, so the same team pays about $1,450. Cap is open source and can be self-hosted. Building your own recorder would cost about $3,700 over 3 years, which is more than buying one.

Buy for 3 years: $2,700
Build and run for 3 years: $3,745
Verdict: SWITCH

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Cheaper options

Open sourceCapFree (5-minute share links); Pro $8.16/user/mo billed yearly; free to self-hostInstant share links and team workspaces for about half the price; it is a younger product with fewer integrations.CheaperScreenPalTeam Business $8/user/mo billed yearly (listed with 20% off); free plan caps recordings at 15 minutesRecorder, editor and video hosting in one plan; the team plan needs 3 or more users.

Loom pricing in 2026

Plan	Billed yearly	Billed monthly
Business Typical	$15/seat/mo	$18/seat/mo
Business + AI	$20/seat/mo	$24/seat/mo

Free plan: 25 videos per person and 5-minute screen recordings

Paying too much? Loom Starter is free and is enough if each person records fewer than 25 videos of 5 minutes or less.

Per creator, billed annually, from Loom’s pricing page. The annual figures come from its team-size calculator (5 users on Business is $900 a year); monthly billing shows $18 and $24. Checked October 26, 2026.

Run your own numbers

Defaults are a typical small team at $30/hour. Change anything.

If you buy Loom

Plan

Seats

If you build it

Your time, $ per hour

Hours to build

Upkeep, hours per month

Hosting and services, $ per month

Buy

$2,700

Build

$3,745

Buying is about $1,045 cheaper over 3 years.

3-year totals. Building includes your time, upkeep, running costs and one month of an AI app builder ($25). Change any number to match your situation.

What you’d build

Record screen and camera in the browser
Upload to cheap object storage and share by link
A player page with views, comments and reactions
Automatic transcript and summary
Trim the start and end

Cloudflare R2 charges $0.015 per GB a month with no download fees, so 200 GB of video is about $3. Speech-to-text for transcripts adds a few dollars.

What you’d give up

Loom’s one-click previews in Slack, Notion and Jira
Recording that works in every browser and OS
Auto chapters and filler-word removal
A desktop app that records in the background

Risks the price doesn’t show

Large uploadsMedium

Long recordings need resumable, chunked uploads or they fail on slow connections.

Browser quirksMedium

System audio and permissions behave differently in Chrome, Safari and on Windows.

PlaybackMedium

Smooth playback on slow connections needs the video converted into smaller versions.

When the verdict flips

Stay on Loom if your team uses its Slack, Notion and Jira previews every day, or you need the AI summaries in Business + AI. Switch to BUILD only if a basic recorder on your own domain is enough.

Sources

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