Both give an editor a drive that lives somewhere else. One of them charges rent on the storage you already bought.
LucidLink keeps your footage in their cloud storage and bills for the seats and the terabytes. Five people with 20 TB is $1,575 a month. KEIBIDROP serves the drive that is already in your building, so there is no upload and no storage line on the invoice. The open-source edition is free for any number of people, and the commercial edition is 99 EUR a month for the whole team.
| Team and data | LucidLink Business | KEIBIDROP |
|---|---|---|
| 5 people, 20 TB | $1,575 a month, $18,900 a year | Free, or 99 EUR a month for the team |
| 10 people, 50 TB | $3,950 a month, $47,400 a year | Free, or 99 EUR a month for the team |
| 25 people, 100 TB | $7,875 a month, $94,500 a year | Free, or 99 EUR a month for the team |
Our figures are on the editions page. No per-seat fees, no per-GB transfer charges, no cloud storage bill.
At five people and 20 TB, $135 of that monthly bill is seats. The other $1,440 is rent on a second copy of footage you already have on a drive. Every terabyte you shoot adds $80 a month for as long as you keep it, and it has to be uploaded before anyone can open it.
KEIBIDROP reads the original where it sits. A workstation, a RAID, or a NAS running the Docker image shares the folder, and the editor opens it over the internet. Only the parts an application actually reads cross the link, so a 40 GB file opens right away instead of downloading first.
| LucidLink | KEIBIDROP | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the files live | Their cloud storage, uploaded first | The drive you already own, read in place |
| What you pay for | Each member, plus every terabyte, every month | The team, or nothing |
| Storage limits | 100 GB or 400 GB per member, then $70 to $80 per TB | However large the drive is |
| Team size | 10 on Starter, 25 on Business, more on Enterprise | No seat count to buy |
| Source | Closed | Engine and CLI MPL-2.0 on GitHub |
| Encryption | Zero-knowledge encryption on their storage | ML-KEM-1024 with X25519, AES-256-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305, open to audit |
| The relay | Their service, on AWS storage | Ours, or host the relay yourself on your own server |
| Applications | Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut and the rest, on a mounted filespace | The same, because the share is a normal folder. Watch a live setup: DaVinci Resolve from a NAS at the studio. git and ffmpeg run on it too. |
Pick KEIBIDROP when the storage is already yours and you would rather not upload the footage or pay per member to read it.
The machine holding the files. A NAS or a small always-on box covers that, and the Docker image runs on TrueNAS, Unraid, Synology and QNAP.
Only the parts an editor opens, and only to that editor, encrypted end to end. Nothing is uploaded and no copy is stored anywhere else.
Bytes it cannot read. Most sessions connect directly and never touch it, and you can run your own relay on your own server.
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