Creatomate alternative
If you’re looking to create dynamic videos from your After Effects projects and render them in the cloud, then Plainly is the best Creatomate alternative. Connect your template and let our native After Effects cloud-based rendering infrastructure create your video variations without any limits.
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A comparison table
Feature
Plainly
Creatomate
Use After Effects for templates
API
Cloud rendering
Video template creator
Time-based trimming rules
Native integrations
12+
3
Team management
Enterprise-grade Security
Pricing
Starts at $59/month
Starts at $49/month
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99.9% render success rate since switching to Plainly
91% users replaced 2+ tools with Plainly
42% users finish projects faster
Creatomate vs Plainly: Which is right for you?
Your team or your customers don’t use After Effects and need to create templates in a web-based editor.
Your team or your customers are After Effects users who want to create dynamic videos with advanced capabilities.
You need basic video quality with simple animations and transitions.
You need a solution with a comprehensive Web App and native integrations that anyone can use.
You need an image generation API too, and you don't require a tool specialized in video automation.
You need an enterprise-grade API to create custom workflows or white-label automated video versioning.
An honest comparison of Plainly as a Creatomate alternative.
After Effects capabilities
Creatomate allows you to create basic video variations only with templates made through its own video editor, meaning After Effects templates cannot be imported and automated directly within the platform.
As a result, you are limited by the capabilities of Creatomate's editor, which is far inferior to After Effects in terms of what can be created.
In contrast, Plainly's After Effects rendering infrastructure lets you directly upload After Effects templates and easily set up placeholders for layers like images, text, video, and more.
Convoluted vs Simple Web App
Creatomate has a Web App, but you need knowledge of no-code automation platforms or APIs to use it to its full potential.
Additionally, they do not offer a team management feature, so you cannot invite colleagues to collaborate within the Web App.
Plainly's offers both an API for advanced users, but also a Web App that enables anyone to version videos using native integrations to dozens of tools such as Google Sheets, Drive, YouTube, RSS feeds and many more.
A More Versatile API
Creatomate's API is extensive and offers many capabilities but it's focused purely on rendering videos and images.
On the other hand, Plainly is an API-first solution that has a full feature parity between Web App and API.
This means you can not only render videos using Plainly API but also set up templates, distribute videos, and much more.
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Plainly is trusted by Fortune 100 companies to automate video versioning for them. With enterprise-ready security and robust rendering infrastructure, you can rest assured that your videos will be rendered reliably and safely.
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Creatomate - that’s Plainly
Switching from Creatomate to Plainly can be scary, that’s why we are giving you a 60-day money-back guarantee along with 2 free consultancy calls to help you move your infrastructure.
We literally had team members saying "It's like magic".
Plainly team was amazing helping us bring everything to production, it's obvious that customer satisfaction is super important to them. To anyone who wants to automate video production, we recommend Plainly over any other alternative on the market!
Lead Technical Artist / Eterlast