Image and video

Frame.io alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

cvat-ai/cvat16,474MITWeb application for annotating images and videos with timestamped labels, boxes, and collaborative tools.Open on GitHub bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton9,183LGPL-3.0Open-source web conferencing system with recording, playback, and collaborative classroom features.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Enterprise security, compliance, and admin controls (SSO, SAML, SOC2-level integrations)
Mounted Storage / seamless desktop streaming experience
Camera-to-Cloud integrations and hardware workflows
Forensic watermarking, session-based watermarking, and DRM
Polish of production integrations (Premiere/Final Cut/Lightroom) and broader app ecosystem

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Frame.io, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.