Questions, answered
Everything about pricing, matching, privacy, and listing — in one place.
Pricing & budgets
Is it really free?
Yes — describing a shoot and getting a budget is free, with no account. Videographers join free too.
How accurate are the budgets?
They’re calibrated to real production pricing (coverage hours, cameras, editing tier, add-ons) and adjusted per city, anchored to thousands of real delivered productions. Every lever is set out on how we price, and one real request is traced line by line on how it works. The low end is raw footage; the high end is a fully edited, color-graded film. Your final price is set by the videographer for your specific shoot.
Why a range instead of one price?
The low end is raw, lightly-edited footage; the high end is a fully edited film with add-ons. Your build decides where in the range you land.
What if my quote comes back over or under the estimate?
The estimate is a calibrated planning range, not a quote — the videographer sets the final number for your exact shoot, and a shoot with unusual demands can land outside it. Either way we never charge you, so the estimate costs you nothing but the knowledge of what fair looks like.
Matching & booking
How does matching work?
We structure your shoot into a scoped, priced request and route it to a few matching local videographers. Whoever accepts contacts you directly. You book and pay them — no commission.
How is this different from a lead-gen or bidding site?
You get a real, calibrated budget up front; your request is scoped and goes exclusively to whoever accepts (no bidding pile-on); and videographers are not charged for leads at all — no per-lead fee and no subscription. No commission on your shoot.
What if there’s no videographer in my city yet?
You still get a real budget to take to any videographer, priced with that city’s own market adjustment. What you will not get is a city page: we publish one only where we have videographers listed there, because who is actually in a market is the single thing a city page can say that a shoot-type guide cannot. Ask for a city we cannot back and you land on the shoot-type guide instead, with the builder right there. Coverage grows as pros join.
Is there anything you won’t price?
Yes, and we would rather say so than guess. Bereavement, milestones and one-off ceremonies get no price on any surface — not the page, not the API, not the agent tools — because we have no rate data for them and nobody to route them to. You get a plain refusal and a pointer to the cost guide instead of a number we made up.
Can I cancel or change my request?
Yes — you’re never locked in. Nothing is booked until you and a videographer agree directly.
Privacy
Do you sell or spam my info?
No. Your contact is shared only with a videographer who accepts your request, and only then. No mailing lists, no resale.
Do you use tracking cookies?
No third-party ad tracking, no advertising network, and no cross-site tracking. We set exactly one cookie, and only if a videographer signs in. See Cookies for the details.
For videographers
How much does it cost to list?
Getting the work is free. No card, no subscription, no commission, and no fee for the leads you get. The optional paid things are shelf space on videographer.com — your own profile page, a place in the gallery — and managed advertising. None of them is tied to who gets a lead.
Do you take a commission on my booking?
No. You book and bill the client directly and keep 100% of the shoot.
Can I put the budget builder on my own site?
Yes, free — one script tag drops the widget onto your website. Visitors price their shoot without leaving your site, and that enquiry goes to you exclusively rather than into the matching pool. Your account prints the snippet with your listing id in it. See what listing includes →
Do I need an account?
Videographers, yes — a free account manages your profile, reel, coverage, and leads. Clients need no account to get a budget.
For agents & developers
Can AI agents use this?
Yes — the pricing and market-cost tools are available over MCP and HTTP, with an OpenAPI document at /openapi.json and a generated reference at /docs. Agents get the same engine and the same estimates as the website; there is no separate agent pricing.
Will the API refuse anything?
Yes, and it refuses identically everywhere. A shoot we cannot classify and do not cover comes back as a refusal with no dollar figure attached — from the page, from the HTTP API and from the MCP tool alike. An agent should treat a missing estimate as a deliberate answer, not an error to retry.
Still deciding?
Describe a shoot and see a real budget in seconds — free, no sign-up.