1.Pricing
The two platforms are purposely to make money. Then the pricing choices are focus on the strategy of making money online.
YouTube:
This channel is free. A particular factor that responsible for that is the showing of adverts to make money. This awareness is shown inside the video player inside your YouTube app and checks the sidebar.
YouTube service has a paid subscription, which is called YouTube Red for all the viewers. They have access to all the advert from YouTube videos.
The great opportunity is that every content creator has access to upload videos for free. Your account need to be activated by verification for every content creator to upload videos that lasted for more than 15 minutes.
Vimeo:
You need to understand this platform because it's quite different than YouTube. This platform generates their income by offering video hosting services so that publishers give quality service to their viewers watching without ads, and this helps to increase a better experience of watching.
This platform offers various pricing plans beginning from the no payment plan, which is free, but the limitation is 500MB of capacity storage per week and the overall year of 25GB.
Then you choose to join Vimeo Plus, Pro they give several upload boundaries and features. The free plan has a very static limitation in storage and features, but you may begin with Vimeo Plus; the price is $7 per month and offers you 5 GB of storage capacity every week.
2. Upload Limits
YouTube and Vimeo have separate policies considering the content level to upload; each platform is unique in its policies based on the service priority.
YouTube:
You can upload unlimited videos by default but must be under 15 minutes or not more than 15 minutes, then the verification of your account will place you on 12 hours with a capacity of 128 GB file capacity.
As a content marketer, it's a wonderful platform, and it's reasonable to utilize.
Vimeo:
The limitation on this platform is quite distinct in the video's size to upload on every plan.
. Get free 500 MB every week, a maximum of 25GB in a year.
. Plus: 5 GB every week maximum of 250 GB in a year
. Pro: 20GB every week maximum of 1 TB in a year
. Business: No limit per week, and the maximum is 5TB of storage capacity