---
id: communication/remotion
about:
  label: Remotion
  description: >-
    Framework for making videos and motion graphics in code with React, fed by
    data and rendered in bulk or played live in a web page, under a
    source-available licence.
  tags:
    - video
    - motion graphics
    - react
    - javascript
    - data-driven video
tool:
  form: >-
    source-available JavaScript framework, with a studio, player and cloud
    rendering
  group: Showing
  homepage: 'https://www.remotion.dev/'
  licence: >-
    Remotion License: source-available; free for individuals, for-profit
    organizations with up to 3 employees, non-profits, and anyone evaluating it
    before commercial use; every other organization needs a paid Company License
  cost: >-
    free under the Free License; Company License priced by use (on 2026-10-23,
    $25 a month per seat for creators, or $0.01 per render with a $100 monthly
    minimum for automation)
open:
  source: partly
  data: unknown
  api: 'yes'
  participation: partly
  licence: 'Remotion License (source-available, not open source)'
  note: >-
    The code is public on GitHub and may be modified for one's own use, but not
    sold, rented or relicensed as a derivative of Remotion. The licence file
    says it will change slightly in Remotion 5.0.
relations:
  - predicate: alternative_to
    target: communication/manim
    note: 'both make video from code; Remotion in React, Manim in Python'
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: Remotion | Make videos programmatically
      url: 'https://www.remotion.dev/'
    - title: 'Remotion License (LICENSE.md, linked from remotion.dev/license)'
      url: 'https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion/blob/main/LICENSE.md'
    - title: GitHub - remotion-dev/remotion
      url: 'https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion'
    - title: The core idea | Remotion
      url: 'https://www.remotion.dev/docs/idea'
    - title: Parameterized videos | Remotion
      url: 'https://www.remotion.dev/docs/parameterized-rendering'
    - title: '@remotion/player | Remotion'
      url: 'https://www.remotion.dev/docs/player'
    - title: About us | Remotion
      url: 'https://www.remotion.dev/about'
    - title: Remotion Company Licensing
      url: 'https://www.remotion.pro/license'
  created: '2026-10-23'
  reviewed: '2026-10-23'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
---
Remotion makes videos out of web code. Its idea, in its own documentation, is to give the author a frame number and a blank canvas on which to draw anything with React, the JavaScript library for building web pages.[^4] A video is a set of pictures over time; if what is drawn changes with each frame, the result is an animation.[^4] A video has a width and height in pixels, a length in frames and a frame rate, and Remotion supplies components for text, images, video, audio and shapes.[^4]

Because a video is code, it can take data. The author sets default values and designs the video in Remotion Studio, where those values can also be changed by hand.[^5] At render time new values replace them.[^5] Data can be fetched first, from a web address for instance, and the length of the video worked out from it.[^5] The same template can then be rendered many times with different data, on the author's own machines or in the cloud.[^1,6] The Remotion Player embeds a video in a React web page and changes its content as the viewer interacts, without rendering a file at all.[^5,6] The project now also offers drag-and-drop editing that saves back to code, and instructions for coding agents to write videos.[^1]

It is made by Remotion AG of Zurich, Switzerland.[^1,7] Its about page says Remotion started as a side project in 2021 and is founder-owned and profitable;[^7] the GitHub repository was created in June 2020.[^3] Jonny Burger is listed on the team as Chief Hacker.[^7]

Remotion is source-available, not open source.[^7] Individuals, for-profit organizations with up to three employees and non-profits may use Remotion free, including commercially, to make videos and images, and may modify it for their own use or to contribute fixes back.[^2] Anyone may also use it free while evaluating it, before using it commercially.[^2] Other organizations need a paid Company License, which covers the same uses and adds prioritized support.[^2] On 2026-10-23 it cost $25 a month per seat for people making videos by hand, or $0.01 per render with a $100 monthly minimum for automated rendering, with an Enterprise License from $500 a month.[^8] No one may copy or modify the code to sell, rent or relicense their own version of Remotion.[^2]

With the Player, the same component that renders a fixed video can run live in a page, so one piece of work can be both a clip to post and a graphic the reader changes.