from $41/mo billed yearly
1 TB a month, every feature on every tier
VdoCipher
from $149/yr
1 TB a year, tracker from $399
Both encrypt video with studio DRM. The differences that actually decide it are PlayReady coverage, what each tier includes, how storage is counted, and whether you can pay in pounds. Every number here comes from their own pricing page — dated, and linked at the bottom.
If you read nothing else on this page, read these.
Wolvy ships Widevine, PlayReady and FairPlay on every DRM plan. VdoCipher's own blog says their stack is Widevine and FairPlay — PlayReady is not in it. That is the Microsoft path: Windows and Xbox hardware-backed playback.
Our cheapest DRM plan has App-Only Mode, the SDK, forensic watermarking and WhatsApp support. On VdoCipher the Piracy Tracker — the thing that traces a leak — starts at the $399/yr Value plan, not the $149 Starter.
Annual price divided by the bandwidth that price includes. Our DRM Starter is 3.6× cheaper per gigabyte than their Starter — and their Value tier is worse again at $0.160.
Their pricing page footnote: Accounted storage can be 2 to 4 times of uploads, for new
files for each device.
Storage past your plan is billed at $0.75/GB.
We count a gigabyte as a gigabyte.
Every price on VdoCipher's page is in US dollars. If you sell courses in Egypt you are buying protection in a currency you do not earn, on a card many of your peers do not have. Wolvy bills in EGP through Fawry, Visa and Mastercard.
Not a cherry-picked pair. Every VdoCipher tier they publish, with the same sum applied to each: annual price ÷ the bandwidth that price includes for a year.
| Plan | Price | Bandwidth | Storage | Effective $/GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Wolvy — DRM Starter | $490/yr | 12,000 GB/yr | 100 GB | $0.041 |
| Wolvy — DRM Pro | $1,290/yr | 36,000 GB/yr | 300 GB | $0.036 |
| Wolvy — DRM Business | $2,990/yr | 120,000 GB/yr | 1 TB | $0.025 |
| VdoCipher — Lite | $49/3 months | 200 GB/3 mo | 50 GB | 3-month term |
| VdoCipher — Starter | $149/year | 1 TB/yr | 100 GB | $0.149 |
| VdoCipher — Value | $399/year | 2.5 TB/yr | 200 GB | $0.160 |
| VdoCipher — Express | $699/year | 5 TB/yr | 400 GB | $0.140 |
| VdoCipher — Pro | $1,599/year | 15 TB/yr | 1 TB | $0.107 |
| VdoCipher — Premium | $4,999/year | 50 TB/yr | 2 TB | $0.100 |
Their bandwidth quota is per year; ours is per month, multiplied by 12 for this table. Both sides use each vendor's own annual-billing price. VdoCipher also charges extra bandwidth at $0.11–$0.07/GB depending on tier, and extra storage at $0.75/GB.
| Capability | Wolvy | VdoCipher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widevine (Google) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| FairPlay (Apple) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| PlayReady (Microsoft) | ✔ | ✖ | Their blog: the stack is Widevine and FairPlay |
| ClearKey / encrypted HLS line | ✔ | ✖ | A cheaper tier for low-risk catalogs |
| Forensic per-viewer watermark | ✔ | ✔ | Both from the entry paid tier |
| Leak tracing / piracy tracker | Every plan | From $399 Value | Not on their $149 Starter |
| OS-level screen-record block | Every DRM plan | Player & SDK only | App-Only Mode, per video |
| Capability | Wolvy | VdoCipher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $41/mo billed yearly | $49 / 3 mo | Ours is $49 month-to-month; theirs is a 3-month Lite tier |
| Effective $/GB (entry) | $0.041 | $0.149 | Annual price ÷ annual bandwidth |
| Billed in EGP | ✔ | ✖ | Fawry, Visa, Mastercard |
| Fawry / local rails | ✔ | ✖ | |
| Storage counted 1:1 | ✔ | ✖ | Theirs: "2 to 4 times of uploads, for new files for each device" |
| Extra storage rate | Included in plan | $0.75/GB | |
| Free trial | 30 days, no card | 5 GB, 30 days |
| Capability | Wolvy | VdoCipher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandable player | ✔ | ✔ | |
| API + mobile SDK | Every DRM plan | From $399 Value | |
| Arabic + English UI | ✔ | ✖ | AR/EN across player and dashboard |
| Adaptive HLS / DASH | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Analytics | Every plan | Every plan | |
| Custom encoding ladders | Every plan | From $699 Express | |
| WhatsApp support | Every DRM plan | ✖ | Email support on their paid tiers |
We checked their whole price list, not just the tier that flatters us. There are exactly two situations where VdoCipher is the better buy — and both of them are about being small, not about being protected.
If a year of streaming fits inside 1 TB, their $149/yr Starter costs less in absolute money than our $490/yr — even though ours is far cheaper per gigabyte. Small catalog, small audience: they win on the invoice.
They publish six tiers from $49 to $4,999, so if your usage sits at an awkward size there is probably a shelf plan that fits it exactly. Ours is three plus a custom tier — simpler, but less granular.
Outside those two cases, every line on this page runs the other way: more DRM systems, more included in the plan, a third of the price per gigabyte, and an invoice you can actually pay in pounds.
If you are selling protected video in Egypt or MENA at any real volume, this is not a close call.
Every VdoCipher figure on this page — plan prices, bandwidth, storage, overage rates, the storage footnote and which tier the Piracy Tracker starts on — was read on vdocipher.com/site/pricing on 3 September 2026. The PlayReady point comes from their own blog post on PlayReady.
The effective $/GB column is our arithmetic on their published numbers, not a rate VdoCipher quotes. Vendors change pricing without notice — if anything here has drifted, tell us and we will correct it.
VdoCipher is a trademark of its owner. This page is comparative information, not an affiliation.
