Frame.io pricing, in short: the Free plan costs $0 for up to 2 members and 2 GB. Pro is $15 per member per month (up to 5 members, 2 TB plus 2 TB per extra member). Team is $25 per member per month (up to 15 members, 3 TB plus 2 TB per extra member). Enterprise is custom. Annual billing takes 13% off. Frame.io Drive, the app that replaced Transfer, is included in every plan, but it streams from a separate, smaller "mounted storage" quota.
Prices checked September 2026 on the Frame.io pricing page, read on 23 September 2026.
Frame.io plans and prices (checked September 2026)
| Free | Pro | Team | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price, monthly billing | $0 | $15 per member/month | $25 per member/month | Custom |
| Members | Up to 2 | Up to 5 | Up to 15 | Custom |
| Storage | 2 GB | 2 TB + 2 TB per extra member | 3 TB + 2 TB per extra member | Custom |
| Mounted storage (for Drive) | 2 GB | 250 GB | 500 GB | 2 TB |
| Projects | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Storage add-ons | No | Yes | Yes | Custom |
| Storage Connect (your own bucket) | No | No | No | Enterprise Prime only |
Prices are per member, plus tax. Annual billing saves 13%, according to the pricing page's FAQ.
What that means per terabyte:
- A full Pro team: 5 members × $15 = $75 a month for 10 TB. That is $7.50 per TB.
- A full Team plan: 15 members × $25 = $375 a month for 31 TB. That is about $12 per TB.
- A solo editor on Pro: $15 a month for 2 TB, $7.50 per TB, and fine. The same editor needing 20 TB would have to pay for seats they do not use, or buy add-on storage.
Seat-based storage is cheap per terabyte when your headcount matches your storage. It punishes storage-heavy, people-light teams, the same problem as Dropbox Business.
Is Frame.io free?
Yes, with limits. The Free plan is $0 with no credit card, and it includes:
- up to 2 members
- 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of mounted storage
- up to 2 projects
- Camera to Cloud, and transcription and captions
2 GB is enough to try review on a short cut. It is not enough for a real job.
Creative Cloud subscribers get more. Adobe says that when Creative Cloud customers sign in to Frame.io with their Adobe ID, they unlock an enhanced free plan with 100 GB of Frame.io storage, up to 5 projects with another user, and Camera to Cloud. The first sign-in also starts a 30-day trial of the Team plan, after which you drop to that enhanced free plan. Source: Adobe's Frame.io for Creative Cloud FAQ, last updated 27 March 2026, read 23 September 2026.
For a Premiere editor with one client and short deliverables, 100 GB may be all the Frame.io you ever need.
Frame.io Drive: the app that replaced Transfer
On April 15, Frame.io announced Frame.io Drive, a desktop app with mounted-storage capability. If you searched for "Frame Drive", this is the app you mean. Frame Drive is the shortened name, not a separate product. In plain English: your Frame.io project shows up in Finder like an external drive, and you can edit from it without downloading files first. It replaces the old Frame.io Transfer app, with both supported during a transition period.
The pitch is familiar if you've been paying attention to this corner of the market. LucidLink, Shade, and Suite Studios have been selling versions of "edit directly from the cloud" for a few years now. Frame.io's entry matters because the company already owns the review-and-approval layer for most post-production shops. If they can bolt edit-from-cloud onto that existing footprint, they don't have to win editors from scratch; they have to keep them from leaving.
What Frame Drive Does
Think of Frame.io Drive like the difference between a rental house that ships gear to your door and a rental house with a pickup window. Transfer was the shipping model: you'd request files, wait, and work on them locally. Drive is the pickup window: media appears in your file browser, and the app fetches the bytes you need when you open a clip.
The implementation is caching, not true streaming. When you import a clip into Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Avid Media Composer, or Media Encoder, Frame.io Drive pulls the file into a local cache and hands it to the NLE. Subsequent scrubs and plays read from cache. Renders go directly back to the mounted project and upload to Frame.io automatically, up to 250 versions per project before older ones move to trash.
Two notes from the mounted storage optimization guide worth knowing:
- Your local SSD needs to be the first cache path in your NLE settings, not the mounted project. Otherwise you're asking a remote disk to serve as your scratch disk, which will be painful.
- Direct I/O needs to be on for each storage path. This is the same setting that trips up editors working off NAS mounts.
For single editors on decent internet, this works. For teams sharing a project where four people need the same R3D files at the same time, cache warming becomes the bottleneck.
Frame.io Drive vs Transfer: What Changed
If you already run the Transfer app, Drive is its replacement, not a second tool to run alongside it. Adobe's own documentation says Drive "replaces the Transfer app" and that "both will be supported for a period of time" (checked 8 September 2026).
Three things are worth knowing before you switch.
It is a separate download. Drive does not arrive as a Transfer update. You install it yourself, and Transfer keeps working until Adobe retires it (checked 8 September 2026).
Transfer's job is still in there. Drive keeps the upload and download queue you already use, and adds mounted storage on top. You are not giving anything up to gain the mount.
The system requirements went up. Transfer runs on macOS 10.15 and Windows 7. Drive asks for macOS 13 Ventura or newer, Windows 10 or newer, and Adobe recommends 16 GB of RAM and 250 GB of free SSD space, against stated minimums of 2 GB and 50 GB (checked 8 September 2026). If you keep an older machine on the shelf for offloads, check it before you plan around Drive.
| Transfer | Drive | |
|---|---|---|
| Upload and download queue | Yes | Yes |
| Mounted storage | No | Yes |
| Minimum macOS | 10.15 | 13.0 |
| Minimum Windows | 7 | 10 |
| Recommended free SSD | Not stated | 250 GB |
| Status | Supported during transition | Replacement |
The part that catches people is the storage. Mounted storage is a separate quota from your normal Frame.io storage, not a new way of reading the storage you already pay for. Adobe's pricing page states that "Mounted Storage is a separate allocation of storage in your account specifically used to instantly stream and work with Frame.io Drive" (checked 8 September 2026). Your existing library does not become mountable because you installed Drive.
Is Frame.io Drive a separate cost?
No. Drive is not a separate product. It is part of every plan, so you pay the same per-seat rate whether you use it or not. What limits it is the mounted storage allocation in the table above: 250 GB on Pro, 500 GB on Team, 2 TB on Enterprise. That is far smaller than the plan's normal storage, and it is the number to plan around if you want to edit from the mount.
Where Frame.io is expensive, and what costs less
Frame.io is the right answer for review and approval, and for Adobe shops. It is an expensive way to buy bulk storage.
| Option | How it charges | Cost for 10 TB, one editor | Source, checked 23 September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frame.io Pro | Per member, 2 TB each | 5 seats to reach 10 TB without add-ons: $75/month | frame.io/pricing |
| Blackmagic Cloud storage | Per TB | $150/month | Blackmagic, Nov 2024 |
| Backblaze B2 | Per TB | $69.50/month | backblaze.com |
| A NAS you already own | Hardware you have paid for | No monthly storage bill | n/a |
Read that table with care. Frame.io looks cheap per terabyte only because the seats carry the storage: one editor who needs 10 TB still pays for five members. Blackmagic Cloud costs more per terabyte, but only the host of a project library pays, and it runs a shared Resolve project; see Blackmagic Cloud pricing. B2 is the cheapest bytes of the three and has no review tools at all.
How Drive stacks up against Shade, Suite Studios and LucidLink
Three other companies sell "edit directly from the cloud". Prices checked on each vendor's pricing page on 23 September 2026.
| Provider | Model | Listed price | Included storage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frame.io | Per member | Pro $15, Team $25 per member/month | 2 to 3 TB plus 2 TB per extra member; 250 to 500 GB mounted |
| Shade | Per seat | Growth $35 per seat/month, $29.75 billed annually | 500 GB active storage per seat, up to 15 seats |
| Suite Studios | Per TB | Managed $75 per TB/month, 5 users included, $10 per extra user | Pay per TB stored |
| LucidLink | Per member | Starter $7, Business $27 per member/month | 100 GB (Starter) or 400 GB (Business) per member; extra $7 or $8 per 100 GB |
Sources: Shade, Suite Studios, LucidLink.
Frame.io Drive
What you are buying. A review platform with a mounted drive added. Its strength is that your editors, your clients and your files live in one tool.
Who it fits. Teams already using Frame.io for review. If you pay for it anyway, the mount is a free upgrade to your workflow. If you need lots of mounted storage with few people, the 250 GB and 500 GB allocations will run out first.
Shade
What you are buying. Media management and storage with AI-indexed search. You can search your archive by what is in the shot, which Frame.io does not do.
Who it fits. Small studios that want search and metadata on top of storage, and stay under 15 seats. For the full comparison, see Frame.io vs Shade.
Suite Studios
What you are buying. Managed cloud storage with a desktop client that mounts it for your NLE. $75 per TB per month, with five users included. Bring-your-own storage is listed as an option.
Who it fits. Studios with predictable storage and many people, because extra users cost only $10. Per terabyte it is about ten times Backblaze B2; you pay for the mount and the caching.
LucidLink
What you are buying. A streaming file system that works with any NLE, billed per member with storage per member. Extra storage is $70 to $80 per TB a month.
Who it fits. Mixed-NLE facilities that want one shared volume for everyone, with a free-standing mount rather than a review tool.
The Frame.io Drive bet
Frame.io is betting that most editors do not want two subscriptions, one for review and one for storage. Making the mount a feature, not a product, turns "should I also buy LucidLink" into "I already have this".
The downside is the pricing model. Seat-plus-bundled-storage made sense when people used Frame.io for review and kept archives elsewhere. Once the mount is the main event, the small mounted allocation and the unused seats become visible. A post house with three editors and 30 TB of projects will do the maths. Backblaze B2 holds 30 TB for $208.50 a month; Suite Studios holds it for $2,250 with the mount included. Frame.io would need either add-on storage or more seats than people.
The storage calculator runs these numbers against your own team size and storage.
One question to ask before you switch
Whichever tool you choose, first work out how much storage you need.
Most projects carry media that never reached a timeline. On a 30 TB archive, even a third of it unused is 10 TB of media you are about to pay Frame.io, Shade, Suite or LucidLink to host.
Before you commit to a plan, scan what you have. Clip Sweeper reads your Premiere and Resolve projects, follows each reference down to the timelines that use it, and shows which files are safe to remove. You might find you need 10 TB instead of 20, which changes every comparison above.