Banuba Video Editor SDK pricing is custom and MAU-based. There is no public price list, no per-developer seat fee, and — unlike IMG.LY — no separate fee per exported video. The SDK includes the full recording, editing, and effects stack for iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native — runs on 90%+ of smartphones with HEVC + H.264 export, no overheating — plus a dedicated customer success manager, regular updates (typically quarterly), and a yearly license. A 14-day free trial covers every feature on every supported platform.
This Banuba Video Editor SDK pricing guide walks through exactly how the quote gets calculated, which features are included, payment terms, and how to get a real Banuba SDK price for your project. Where this guide says "Banuba pricing", it always refers to the Video Editor SDK specifically; for the other Banuba products, see the Face AR SDK pricing guide and the TINT Virtual Try-On pricing guide.
TL;DR:
- Banuba Video Editor SDK pricing is MAU-based — there is no public price list and no per-developer seat fee.
- The SDK covers the full recording + editing + effects stack: zoom/timer/flash/switch recording, hands-free mode, trim/concat/timeline editing, voice recording, LUTs, slow-mo and rapid, captions, GIFs, and HD (1280×720) + FHD (1920×1080) MP4 export.
- Runs on 90%+ of smartphones, HEVC + H.264 export, no overheating, across native iOS & Android, as well as Flutter, and React Native apps.
- Add-ons (AR effects integration with Face AR SDK, SDK customization, integration assistance, custom AR asset development, POC features) are quoted separately.
- Yearly billing is standard. Typical integration time is from 8 minutes to one week.
- A 14-day free trial covers the full feature set on every supported platform.
How is Banuba Video Editor SDK pricing calculated?
Your Banuba Video Editor SDK price depends on the number of monthly active users (MAUs).
There is no per-developer seat fee, no surcharge for the number of users editing concurrently, and no separate fee for exports unless you negotiate an exports-based plan specifically. For context, IMG.LY (a common alternative) charges by MAU and by exports — Banuba does not.
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What's included in the Banuba Video Editor SDK default bundle?
The SDK gives you a production-ready video editor in your app, with a convenient interface, easy controls, and the full stack of features for video capture and editing. Every default bundle license includes:
Video Recording
- Recording with zoom, timer, flash, and camera switch
- Hands-Free Mode
- Voice recording
Video Editing
- Gallery / camera roll access
- Trimming, concatenation
- Timeline editing
- Rotation
- Slideshow
- Export to HD (1280×720, MP4) and FHD (1920×1080, MP4)
Video Effects
- 25 free LUTs
- Slow-mo and rapid speed effects
- Voice effects
- Text captions
- GIFs
- Stickers
Operational support included with every license
- Dedicated customer success manager
- SLA-based technical support
- Regular SDK updates (typically quarterly)
- Yearly license
What costs extra? Add-ons and professional services
A license covers the standard editor. Additional capabilities are billed separately:
- SDK Customization — tailoring the editor's UI, pipeline, or feature set to your brand requirements.
- SDK Integration assistance — Banuba's engineers handle the integration. Average integration time is up to one week when your team handles it.
- Custom AR asset development — branded filters and effects designed by Banuba's Art Department.
- Proof-of-Concept (POC) feature development — building new capabilities not in the standard SDK.
Is there a free Banuba Video Editor SDK trial?
Yes. A 14-day free trial is available for every new integration. The trial covers the entire SDK feature set on every platform you want to evaluate. Request the trial from the trial form, receive the SDK package and integration docs by email, and ship.
Trial extensions are available on request if your evaluation needs more time. There is no free production tier — Banuba Video Editor SDK pricing does not include an indie free plan.
What are the Banuba Video Editor SDK payment terms?
- Billing cadence: yearly.
- License duration: one year, renewable on agreement at the end of the term.
- Multi-product use: a single license is bound to a single product; multi-app coverage is negotiable but quoted separately.
- Setup fee services: available; quoted with the license.
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When is Banuba Video Editor SDK worth the price?
Banuba Video Editor SDK is most often the right answer when:
- You're shipping a consumer short-video, social, or creator app on iOS + Android (either native or cross-platform with Flutter or React Native) and want a production-ready editor in weeks, not months. Banuba customers Videoshop (20M+ downloads, 4.9/5 on App Store) and Chingari (30M+ downloads) went live with the SDK at scale.
- You need real-time camera effects (beautification, background removal, AR masks, LUTs) integrated with the editing surface. IMG.LY does not offer realtime camera effects out of the box, and most competitors require a separate face-AR vendor.
- You need a single editor that includes captions, voiceovers, weatherman (green-screen), picture-in-picture, and AI clipping. The cumulative count of these features matters when your alternative is stitching together three separate SDKs.
- You want a yearly contract with predictable Banuba SDK cost rather than monthly billing that scales with export count.
- You need regular SDK updates (typically quarterly) and a dedicated CSM rather than a community forum.
Banuba VE SDK is not the right answer when:
- You need a web-based video editor — Banuba VE SDK targets iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native. Web is not supported for the editor.
- You want monthly billing and have no need for advanced camera effects — IMG.LY is the better fit at that scale point.
- You only need a generic frames + adjustments tool with no AR or effects — IMG.LY has slightly broader coverage on those two specific features.
Who uses Banuba Video Editor SDK?
The SDK is most commonly used by:
- Short-video and social-creator apps — Chingari (30M+ downloads), Jalsa, Fureelz, Mayo Chix-style fashion brands
- Video editing apps — Videoshop (20M+ downloads), 4.9/5 on App Store
- Travel and lifestyle apps — House Of Rock, Bermuda
- Innovative social networks — Uhive
- Fandom and entertainment platforms — fandom apps reaching 1M+ MAUs
How do I get a Banuba Video Editor SDK quote?
There is no "starting at" Banuba SDK price to anchor on — every quote is built from your use case, platform list, and MAU range. The process:
- Fill out the trial request form on banuba.com. Include your expected MAU, the platforms you ship on, and a one-line description of the app you're building.
- An Account Manager reaches out within one business day, confirms scope, and prepares an indicative quote.
- You receive the SDK and integration docs by email. Typical integration time is up to one week.
- After the trial, the AM finalizes the contract based on production scope.
Most teams move from first contact to signed contract in two to three weeks.
Conclusion
Banuba Video Editor SDK pricing is built to fit how your app actually runs in production. There's no public Banuba SDK price list because no single number would serve a 30M-download social-video app and a B2B internal-tools deployment at the same time. The faster path to a real quote is the 14-day free trial — your team gets the full default bundle on every platform you want to evaluate, the Account Manager scopes the deal in parallel, and most contracts close within two to three weeks of first contact.
If your team is choosing between building a video editor in-house and licensing one, the realistic in-house timeline (six to twelve months of specialist work) is the variable that decides this for most product teams. Banuba customers Videoshop (20M+ downloads, 4.9/5 on App Store) and Chingari (30M+ downloads) went live at scale on the SDK. The math usually favors the SDK.
References
Banuba. (n.d.). Banuba Video Editor SDK.
Banuba. (n.d.). Banuba Video Editor SDK pricing.
Banuba. (n.d.). Banuba Video Editor SDK technical documentation.
Banuba. (n.d.). Banuba GitHub repositories.
Banuba. (n.d.). Chingari case study.
Banuba. (n.d.). Videoshop case study — 20M+ downloads.
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Yes. The SDK ships with a ready-to-use layout and lets you customize icons, text, and fonts out of the box. Deeper UI changes — replacing the layout, restructuring the toolbars, swapping interaction patterns — fall under SDK Customization and are quoted as a professional service alongside the license.
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Yes. Video capture, processing, and export run locally on the user's device. Banuba does not collect or store user-recorded video.
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The default bundle exports HD (1280×720) and FHD (1920×1080) MP4 by default. Higher resolutions (such as 4K) are not in the standard default bundle and would be scoped as a POC feature with your account manager.
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Yes — see the Face AR SDK pricing guide and the TINT Virtual Try-On pricing guide. The Video Editor SDK and Face AR SDK are often licensed together for social/creator apps.