# Lumen5 Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Lumen5 Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on February 13, 2026

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Lumen5

## What is Lumen5?

Lumen5 empowers your global team to create social media content in minutes. We work with enterprise brands, organizations, and creatives to produce highly-engaging videos that get results. Powered by AI and designed for business, our software is the ideal solution for social media and marketing teams to drive growth, scale their business, and increase engagement.

## What is Lumen5 used for?

[Video Making](https://www.capterra.com/video-making-software/)[Video Editing](https://www.capterra.com/video-editing-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 140 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

95%

Neutral

3%

Negative

2%

Starting price

$29

Per Feature, Per Month

Free trial  
not available

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### Lumen5

4.6 (140)

VS.

[### HumanPal](https://www.capterra.com/p/275427/HumanPal/)

[4.7 (3,416)](https://www.capterra.com/p/275427/HumanPal/reviews/)

Starting Price

$29

Per Feature, Per Month

Starting Price

$199

Flat Rate, One Time

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.6 (140)

Ease Of Use

4.7 (3,416)

Value For Money

4.4 (93)

Value For Money

4.7 (3,110)

Customer Service

4.5 (77)

Customer Service

4.7 (2,912)

## Lumen5 alternatives

Highest Rated

[TalkingPhotos](https://www.capterra.com/p/10025052/TalkingPhotos/)

[4.8 (1,958)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10025052/TalkingPhotos/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

97%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/10025052/TalkingPhotos/)

[CreateStudio](https://www.capterra.com/p/203897/Create-Studio/)

[4.8 (577)](https://www.capterra.com/p/203897/Create-Studio/reviews/)

Starting price

$27.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

99%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/203897/Create-Studio/)

[Movavi Video Editor Plus](https://www.capterra.com/p/228422/Movavi-Video-Editor-Plus/)

[4.8 (1,133)](https://www.capterra.com/p/228422/Movavi-Video-Editor-Plus/reviews/)

Starting price

$54.95

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

97%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/228422/Movavi-Video-Editor-Plus/)

[Camtasia](https://www.capterra.com/p/203013/Camtasia/)

[4.5 (449)](https://www.capterra.com/p/203013/Camtasia/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

92%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/203013/Camtasia/)

[View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/167719/Lumen5/alternatives/)

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Video Creation

4.3 (20)

60.00% of 20 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Create original videos from scratch

Templates

4.1 (15)

53.33% of 15 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Sample files or documents that could be customized as needed or used as is

Video Editing

3.7 (13)

53.85% of 13 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Create professional looking videos by manipulating video footage with filters, special effects, trimming, filters and transitions

Voice-Over/Audio

3.9 (11)

63.64% of 11 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Record voices to add to video content

Drag & Drop

4.8 (10)

60.00% of 10 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components

Text to Video

3.9 (10)

60.00% of 10 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Turn written text into engaging and visually appealing video content

Lumen5 31 features

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Ability to insert animations/transitions

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Record audio or import/upload audio files

Branding videos with company logo

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Centralized repository to store content and assets

Add customized logos and colors to align with company branding

Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components

Edit, touch up, and convert images for publishing

Store and manage images

Collection of images, videos and other digital content that can be used

Coordinate marketing efforts across channels (email, landing pages, social media, etc.)

Supports various file formats

Includes a variety of messaging formats including industry-specific (EDIFACT, HL7, X12)

Integrate with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Market event via social media tools

Allows businesses to share their videos on social media.

Adjusting the speed of a video clip

Sample files or documents that could be customized as needed or used as is

Edit text as needed

Create text to match video content

Turn written text into engaging and visually appealing video content

Create original videos from scratch

Create professional looking videos by manipulating video footage with filters, special effects, trimming, filters and transitions

Store and manage online video content

Helps businesses market their videos

Supports various video file formats

Record voices to add to video content

Add a digital mark to show ownership of an image, video, document, etc.

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Features

4.3 (140)

4.3

Based on 140 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.4 (93)

Free Version

[View pricing plan details](https://www.capterra.com/p/167719/Lumen5/pricing/)

Basic

$29.00

Per Feature,Per Month

Value for money

4.4 (93)

4.4

Based on 93 reviews

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.5 (77)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.5 (77)

4.5

Based on 77 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.6

Based on 140 reviews

Filter by rating

5(94)

4(39)

3(4)

2(1)

1(2)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

LH

Lukas H.

Owner

Marketing and Advertising

### "Easy to make short videos"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

January 8, 2025

Pros

Very easy to create videos from text and blog posts.

Cons

Sometimes the videos it finds aren't all that accurate but you have to select better ones manually.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

DF

Donald F.

Chief Executive Officer

Computer Games

### "Not worth the price!"

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

3.0

Ease of Use

2.0

2.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

2.0

2.0

Likelihood to Recommend

4/10

November 25, 2024

Very frustrating. A good portion of my videos are posted on YouTube and I continue to get copyright claims, on every video. I also want videos optimized for YouTube, but they only allow autogenerated videos to be about 3 minutes. A YouTube video should be 6+ minutes for optimization. To make longer videos, you have to do it manually and it's very hard to find media that goes with your text. The AI generation does a lot better, manually searching media finds you nothing useful.

Pros

It does make it easier to turn a blog post into a video.

Cons

You don't have permission to use Lumen5 audio. You can't make videos optimized for YouTube without heavy editing. You can't generate new slides using AI. You have to generate them manually and if you're not good at that stuff or finding media to fit the text, your video will not look good.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Denise T.

Affiliate Marketer and Content Creator

Graphic Design

### "Lume5 Honest Review"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

April 20, 2024

Overall its a very good software. If you need a quick and easy video creator than this is the way yo go.

Pros

It is very simple to use. Beginner friendly. A variety of templates to choose from. Most outstanding feature is the option to take a link on any article or blog post and Lume5 will rewrite the script and create a video on the article with ease.

Cons

I had a bit of an issue with captions. I couldn't seem to be able to customize or add captions on certain templates.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AR

Ashley R.

SEO

Marketing and Advertising

### "Easy to use and works great"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

December 11, 2023

Pros

Helpful to make videos easily either of yourself or showing your screen (or both!). Have used it to teach coworkers how to do a few steps of a process and it’s easy to make a video and share it

Cons

Nothing stands out as amazing but there isn’t anything really bad about it either. With videos it would always be nice to get filter options

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

NC

Nathan C.

Founder

Marketing and Advertising

### "Good for short videos"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

August 9, 2023

Good for short and simple videos but if the video is more complex or long the images generated on the video doesn’t match that much and it’s harder to edit the full video image by image

Pros

For short and simple videos it’s really good

Cons

The images could be more related to the part of the video it’s inserted. A lot of times when using the text to video feature the text is not related to the image that is added

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

David W.

CEO

Professional Training & Coaching

### "User-friendly and Intuitive "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

May 1, 2023

Lumen5 makes video creation simple. The AI isn't very good - like most of their competitors. Just wish their pricing was so high.

Pros

Lumen5 is a great tool for creating videos quickly and easily. It’s very user-friendly and intuitive. The templates are great and make it easy to create videos that look professional.

Cons

The starter package is currently $79 USD. The basic package, which is $29 USD doesn't include 1080p video resolution. It is extremely pricy.

Switched from

[Powtoon](https://www.capterra.com/p/140321/PowToon/)

PowToons was clunky and didn't fit our needs.

Alternatives considered

[Filmora](https://www.capterra.com/p/186540/Filmora/)

[Biteable](https://www.capterra.com/p/182178/Biteable/)

[Animoto](https://www.capterra.com/p/158773/Animoto/)

[Renderforest](https://www.capterra.com/p/141544/Renderforest/)

[InVideo](https://www.capterra.com/p/180680/InVideo/)

Reasons for choosing Lumen5

The ease of use. There's no learning curve. Just jump in and start using.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

FG

Florian G.

Student

Computer Games

### "Lumen 5 Review"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

February 11, 2023

All in all the start was hard but after you get to a point where you know how to work with the basics its fairly easy to use and outperforms most of the other products.

Pros

It is really performant when you compare it to other products. There are many possible ways to use it, when you have figured out how to.

Cons

A more detailed desciption wouldn't be too bad. I felt like it was quite hard to get started with.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Ivan T.

Founder & Communication Empowerment Specialist

Public Relations and Communications

### "Hope it gets better"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

January 26, 2023

I teste lumen5 for some months with a client or two, they liked it and used for a bit, but then it was to expensive, and there was to much extra work to do so that the videos came out with a purpose. So we searched for other tools.

Pros

So, I liked the concept that you can get a text or a zoom call and make them videos on brand.

Cons

I think the text-to-video only work for generic clips, videos with "purpose" don't come very well, images choosen by the AI are to generic, and if I have to edit it myself I prefer using cupcat or canva. Also the price is not very good.

Switched from

[Magisto](https://www.capterra.com/p/173381/Magisto/)

It seemed easier and more powerful

Alternatives considered

[Recast Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/213125/Recast-Studio/)

[Canva](https://www.capterra.com/p/168956/Canva/)

Reasons for choosing Lumen5

at the time it seemed more innovative, easy to scale and powerful.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

SB

Saagar B.

Designer

Financial Services

### "Good, simple and colaborative toold for quick video creation"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

January 19, 2023

Pros

Is easy to integrate in any workflow, specially if your are using for quick and simple videos e.g for Linkedin

Cons

Usual stuff with admin reletad stuff - e.g invocing and subscribtion

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

EL

Ettore L.

content editor

Publishing

### "Quello che serve per creare Storie e video interessanti"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

December 1, 2022

Sono riuscito a creare brevi video molto esplicativi che ho utilizzato per le mie storie Instagram e non solo.

Pros

Mi piace molto Lumen 5 perche' posso creare interessanti video informativi semplicemente collegando il link degli articoli e ricreare il contenuto in ottimi video.Lo trovo ottimo anche in fase di creazione formato video per le Facebook Ads.Gli effetti transazionali sono veramente carini, non posso che consigliarlo. Ottima la libreria da cui incorporare i video.

Cons

Mi piacerebbe avere una maggiore scelta nel sound per i video, ho trovato alcune traccie audio poco coinvolgenti per i miei lavori, ma non mi posso comunque lamentare.

Reasons for choosing Lumen5

Posso creare video in pochissimi minuti, la libreria foto e video è ben fornita

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

[View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/167719/Lumen5/reviews/)

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[Filmora vs Lumen5](https://www.capterra.com/compare/167719-186540/Lumen5-vs-Filmora)[Loom vs Lumen5](https://www.capterra.com/compare/167719-191187/Lumen5-vs-Loom)[InVideo vs Lumen5](https://www.capterra.com/compare/167719-180680/Lumen5-vs-InVideo)[Animaker vs Lumen5](https://www.capterra.com/compare/166064-167719/Animaker-vs-Lumen5)[VideoPad vs Lumen5](https://www.capterra.com/compare/122390-167719/VideoPad-vs-Lumen5)[Final Cut Pro vs Lumen5](https://www.capterra.com/compare/167719-233399/Lumen5-vs-Final-Cut-Pro)[Animoto vs Lumen5](https://www.capterra.com/compare/158773-167719/Animoto-vs-Lumen5)[Renderforest vs Lumen5](https://www.capterra.com/compare/141544-167719/Renderforest-vs-Lumen5) 

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