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Free vs Pro - Plugixa Video
The free edition is a video library and player, not a trial. You link videos from YouTube, Vimeo, an MP4 or HLS address or your media library, decide who may watch them, organize them in channels and playlists, and give members a library, resume playback and subscriptions. Nothing in it is time-limited, and there is no limit on videos, channels or viewers.
Pro adds uploading and converting your own files, subtitles, password-protected videos, related videos, movies and series, creators and moderation, analytics, selling, higher quality, cloud encoding, import, AI subtitles and more. Whether a feature exists on a site is decided by whether its code is there, and most Pro features are apps you switch on and off in the App manager.
Price
| Licence | Price |
|---|---|
| Pro, single site | EUR 59 a year |
| Pro, unlimited sites | EUR 89 a year |
Both licences contain the same Pro apps. Two features need the licence for unlimited sites: 4K and 1440p quality, and revenue sharing with creators. They are marked unlimited sites in the tables below. Everything else marked “yes” works with either licence.
Installing Pro
Pro is a separate download from your Plugixa account. It is the whole plugin with the Pro apps added, and it installs beside the free plugin:
- Download Pro from your Plugixa account.
- In WordPress, open Plugins -> Add New Plugin -> Upload Plugin, choose the ZIP and click Install Now.
- Click Activate. WordPress deactivates the free copy for you.
Pro uses the same videos, settings and members as Free: nothing is copied or lost. Only one copy can run at a time; if both end up active, see Troubleshooting.
Library and publishing
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Videos, with drafts, scheduling and unlisted videos | yes | yes |
| Password-protected videos | - | yes |
| Movies and episodes: year, age rating, cast, trailer, seasons and episode numbers | - | yes |
| Sources: HLS stream, MP4 link, MP4 from the media library, YouTube and Vimeo links | yes | yes |
| Upload large files with resumable uploads, and bulk upload | - | yes |
| Conversion to adaptive HLS with FFmpeg on your server: 360p, 480p and 720p, with an automatic poster | - | yes |
| Conversion up to 1080p | - | yes |
| Conversion to 1440p and 4K | - | unlimited sites |
| Cloud encoding and delivery with Bunny Stream, with CDN tokens to protect paid videos | - | yes |
| Import from YouTube and Vimeo, with channels and playlists kept in sync | - | yes |
| Channels, playlists, categories and tags | yes | yes |
| Series with seasons, their pages, shortcode, block and Elementor widget | - | yes |
| Custom fields on videos, channels and series, filterable and searchable | - | yes |
| Filter sidebar in the admin lists | yes | yes |
Pages: Videos, Video sources, Uploading and encoding, Movies and series, Bunny Stream, YouTube and Vimeo and Custom fields.
Watching
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| One player for HLS, MP4, YouTube and Vimeo: quality, speed, picture-in-picture, full screen, keyboard | yes | yes |
| Resume where signed-in viewers left off, on any device | yes | yes |
| Subtitles: tracks in any language, uploaded or linked, with size and background menus | - | yes |
| A clickable, searchable transcript under the video | - | yes |
| Chapters from the description | yes | yes |
| AI subtitles: generate, translate, and edit any subtitle line by line, with your own OpenAI key | - | yes |
| Extra audio tracks: several languages or commentaries per video | - | yes |
| Up next block, playlist side list and autoplay of the next playlist item | yes | yes |
| Related videos ranked automatically, pinned picks and autoplay of the next related video | - | yes |
| Browse page with search and filters | yes | yes |
| Member library: continue watching, subscriptions feed, favorites, history and playlists | yes | yes |
| Likes and comments | yes | yes |
| New-video notifications: a badge in the library and daily or weekly email digests | - | yes |
Pages: Player, Subtitles and transcript, AI subtitles, Audio tracks, Related videos, Member library and Notifications.
Access and selling
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Free and members-only videos, checked by the server before the video address is given | yes | yes |
| Paid videos: pay-per-view and rentals | - | yes |
| Membership plans with recurring payments | - | yes |
| Stripe and PayPal built in, no WooCommerce needed | - | yes |
| Orders, refunds and disputes that lock and unlock videos on their own | - | yes |
| Receipts and numbered invoices | - | yes |
| Earnings ledger with CSV export | - | yes |
| Revenue sharing with creators, with a site commission | - | unlimited sites |
Pages: Access control, Selling videos, Membership plans, Orders and refunds, Invoices and earnings, Stripe and PayPal.
Creators and analytics
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| View counter for sorting by most viewed | yes | yes |
| Video Creator role: creators manage only their own videos, channels and series | - | yes |
| Optional review of what creators publish, with an email to the admin | - | yes |
| Analytics without cookies: views, watch time and top videos, YouTube and Vimeo plays included | - | yes |
| Audience insights: retention per video, buffering, revenue per day and CSV export | - | yes |
Pages: Creators and moderation, Analytics and Audience insights.
Your site and brand
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcodes, editor blocks and Elementor widgets | yes | yes |
| Block theme templates for video and channel pages, editable in the Site Editor | yes | yes |
| Site styles and design presets: Follow my theme, Cinema, Studio, Spotlight and Creator | yes | yes |
| Light, dark or theme-matched pages, player color and corner roundness | yes | yes |
| One video page layout for the whole site | yes | yes |
| Three more presets: Neon, Editorial and Soft | - | yes |
| Your own saved presets, every color, and design export and import | - | yes |
| A layout per video and a look per channel | - | yes |
| Player logo, in the corner you choose, with an optional link | - | yes |
| Video structured data, a video sitemap and oEmbed | yes | yes |
Pages: Shortcodes, Blocks, Elementor, Appearance, Page layouts, Player logo and SEO.
When the licence changes
The quality Pro converts to follows the licence: 4K and 1440p with the licence for unlimited sites, 1080p with the single site licence. After a downgrade or when the licence expires, the cap is lowered: higher qualities already converted are kept on disk but no longer served, and come back if the licence returns. Revenue sharing with creators also needs the licence for unlimited sites to be active.
Your videos, members and settings never depend on the licence. Going back to Free keeps all of them, and Pro’s own settings are kept too, ready for when you return. Without Pro, the features above that Free does not have are hidden and their data is kept for when Pro returns. A video that has a password stays locked after going back to Free.
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