Stock video submission tools compared (september 2026)

We make Rushlot, so we are not a neutral party. What we can do is keep to what each vendor says about itself. Every fact below about another company's tool was read on that company's own page on 2026-09-27, and anything sensitive is quoted rather than paraphrased. There is no ranking here and no logos, only what each tool says it does, where Rushlot differs, and where it does less.

Prices and features change. Treat this as a dated snapshot and check the vendor's page before you decide.

How we read each tool

One rule: a claim about a tool appears here only if the tool's own public page makes it. Reviews, forums and third-party lists were not used. Where a page renders its prices only inside a browser and we could not read them reliably, we say so instead of guessing. That is the case for PhotoTag.ai, whose pricing page is titled "Generate Keywords for Photos and Videos", and whose prices we have left out. CyberStock's plan prices read differently between fetches of the same page, so they are left out too.

The tools at a glance

Who presses Submit

This is a practical difference between these tools, and it is worth reading each vendor's own words.

StockSubmitter's pricing defines a submission as "an operation of filling the metadata fields of a single file and sending it for review automatically." Microstock+ says it can "auto submit". CyberStock's CyberPusher guide describes two modes: in full-automatic mode it "fills everything and clicks Submit", and in semi-automatic mode it "pauses so you do the final submit yourself." Xpiks and SendStock AI describe uploading over FTP, FTPS or SFTP; neither page we read describes pressing a marketplace's Submit.

Rushlot uploads and stops there. Every clip waits for you in the marketplace's own queue, and you submit it yourself. Before that, nothing leaves your machine until you have reviewed and approved the clip in the app.

CAPTCHAs

CyberStock's home page describes CyberPusher v2.0 as automating submission "with a built-in CAPTCHA auto-solver". Its guide adds: "CyberPusher can solve common ones automatically if you connect an anti-captcha service." None of the other pages we read mentions solving CAPTCHAs.

Rushlot never solves a CAPTCHA. Pond5 and Shutterstock both sit behind an anti-automation service (DataDome, measured on 2026-09-11), and when a challenge appears, Rushlot stops, brings the window to the front and waits for you. Whether a marketplace's terms allow a solver is a question for its terms. We decided not to test it on anyone's account.

Where your files and passwords go

• StockSubmitter: "All passwords are stored on your computer only."
• Microstock+: passwords are kept "on a remote server in the encrypted form", and files are delivered to the agencies "from our servers".
• SendStock AI: "Credentials never leave your computer and are not sent to any cloud server."
• Xpiks: upload "via Xpiks Cloud or from your computer".
• Rushlot: files go from your disk to the marketplace over its own channel (SFTP, FTPS or the marketplace's web uploader in your browser), never through our servers. Passwords stay in your system's secret store.

What a video-first tool has to do

Stock video runs into problems a photo does not: an audio track a marketplace does not want, a codec or frame rate one marketplace takes and another refuses (Adobe refuses 48 fps; Shutterstock and Pond5 accept it), metadata lost when a file is re-encoded. On the pages we read, Xpiks describes checking "for potential problems before upload" and SendStock AI offers upscaling of images and video. None describes removing audio or re-encoding HEVC to H.264 before upload.

That chain is where Rushlot differs:

• Checked per marketplace: frame rate, resolution, duration and codec against each marketplace's specs.
• Repaired: audio stripped, HEVC transcoded to H.264, on a work copy, never the original.
• Metadata written last: the XMP goes into the file immediately before the transfer, because re-encoding strips it.
• Each marketplace's own channel: a Pond5 Apply CSV keyed on a name cut to fit Pond5's 80 characters, a Shutterstock CSV with both categories filled.
• Read back: Adobe's moderation state is read, never acted on.
• Checked names: every Latin name verified against WoRMS before it is published.
• Nothing sent twice: review before upload, and two clips sharing one file name are both held back.

Where Rushlot does less

• Four marketplaces. Adobe Stock, Shutterstock, Pond5 and Getty. StockSubmitter lists 40 agencies, Microstock+ 33 and SendStock AI "50+ platforms".
• Footage only. No photos, vectors or illustrations.
• Mac first. Windows is planned; there is no Linux build.
• New. Rushlot is opening through a waiting list. StockSubmitter, by contrast, says it has been "on the market for more than 10 years".

Commission and what reaches you

None of the other tools describes taking a cut of your sales on the pages we read: they charge for the software, a licence or credits. CyberStock states "0% commission". Rushlot takes no commission either. What a marketplace pays you stays yours.

What a marketplace pays you is set by its own royalty rates, whatever tool you use. The calculator below works it out from each marketplace's published rates, each linked to its source.

Choosing

• You sell photos, vectors and video on many agencies: StockSubmitter, Microstock+ and Xpiks cover far more agencies than Rushlot.
• You mainly want keywords and titles drafted: SendStock AI, CyberStock and PhotoTag.ai each describe themselves around that on their own pages.
• You sell footage on Adobe Stock, Shutterstock, Pond5 and Getty, and you want each clip checked and repaired per marketplace, reviewed before it leaves, uploaded once to your own accounts and never submitted for you: that is the job Rushlot was built for.