KEIBIDROP and Strada

Both let you edit off a drive you already own. Strada charges for every person who does it.

By Marius-Florin Cristian · 15 September 2026

Strada bills per user per month, from $8 to $45. Eleven editors cost $495 a month, and the bill grows with every person you add. KEIBIDROP has no per-seat price at all: the engine and CLI are open source and free for any number of people, and the commercial edition is a flat 99 EUR a month for the whole team.

Price

TeamStradaKEIBIDROP
1 person$24 a month, $288 a yearFree
5 people$120 a month, $1,440 a yearFree, or 99 EUR a month for the team
11 people$495 a month, $5,940 a yearFree, or 99 EUR a month for the team
25 people$1,125 a month, $13,500 a yearFree, 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.

The free edition is the whole engine

The MPL-2.0 engine and CLI carry the full post-quantum encryption and full-speed direct transfers, and you can embed them in your own product. A shared public relay covers the case where a direct link is blocked, and you can run your own relay instead. Community support is on GitHub.

The 99 EUR edition adds relay bandwidth reserved for you, a relay in your region, a commercial licence for the desktop app, and support. For a team that wants the whole path on its own hardware, we set it up on your own infrastructure, where direct connections are unlimited.

Side by side

StradaKEIBIDROP
What you pay for Each person, every month The team, or nothing
Your storage "$0 Cloud Costs: Keep data on storage you already have." The same. The folder stays where it is.
Getting it "Sign In To Download" Download it and open it
Platforms macOS 13+, Windows 11, iOS 17+, Android 12+ macOS, Windows 10 and 11, Linux, Android, and a NAS as a Docker container
Source Closed Engine and CLI MPL-2.0 on GitHub
Encryption Not stated on the pages read ML-KEM-1024 with X25519, AES-256-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305, open to audit
The relay Theirs Ours, or host the relay yourself on your own server
Applications "Edit directly in Premiere, Resolve, Photoshop, ProTools and more." Any application, 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 you want to read the code, run it on Linux or on the NAS you already own, and add people without the bill moving.

Questions

Is this the same thing as Strada?

The idea is the same and they describe it well. They differ on the pricing model, the platforms and the source.

Is it the same as LucidLink?

No. LucidLink keeps a copy of your footage in their object storage and bills for the seats and the terabytes. The numbers are on the LucidLink page.

Why is there a relay at all?

Most connections go straight between the two computers. When a router blocks incoming connections on both sides, a relay forwards encrypted bytes it cannot read. On the same Wi-Fi no relay is involved, and you can point the app at a relay you run yourself.

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