Every lesson, captioned. Every student, in their language.
Built for online courses, cohort programs, and EdTech platforms. AI captions auto-translated to 50 languages, GPT chapters, searchable transcripts, and a flat monthly bill that doesn’t scale with your student count.
Direct answer
Q: What's the best video hosting for course creators?
A: HostMyVideo is built for online courses: every upload gets AI closed captions auto-translated to 50 languages, GPT-generated chapters so students can jump to any section, and a full transcript that doubles as searchable lecture notes. Starting at $19/mo with no per-student or per-view fees, custom-branded player on Pro+, and accessibility (WCAG-friendly captions, transcripts, keyboard nav) built in.
50 languages of captions. One upload.
Whisper transcribes the lesson. We translate the result to 50 languages and expose each as a selectable subtitle track in the player. International students, accessibility compliance, SEO — all from a single upload step.
Three things every educator tells us.
Manually captioning hours of lecture footage is killing you.
If you're typing your own SRT files or paying $1.50 per minute for human transcription you're losing the margin on every course. HostMyVideo runs Whisper-grade AI captions on every upload automatically and they ship within minutes of the video finishing processing.
International students bounce because the video has no captions in their language.
Adding multi-language subtitles is usually a $$$ upgrade or a separate service. We auto-translate every transcript to 50 languages and expose them as selectable tracks in the player — so a Korean student gets Korean captions on the same video your American student sees in English.
Students can't navigate a 90-minute lesson and they refund because they 'couldn't find the part'.
Long videos without chapters are a UX disaster for students reviewing a section. GPT auto-generates chapters from the transcript on every upload — students click straight to 'Module 3 — Spreadsheet Functions' instead of scrubbing.
The course-creator-shaped feature stack.
AI captions on every upload
Whisper-grade transcript becomes WebVTT subtitles automatically. No upload step, no SRT formatting, no extra cost.
Captions auto-translated to 50 languages
Every English transcript is translated to 50 languages and exposed as a selectable subtitle track. International students stay enrolled.
GPT-generated chapters
Long lectures broken into navigable sections automatically. Students click to the part they need instead of scrubbing.
Searchable transcript on the watch page
Full transcript exposed below the player as text. Students can ctrl-F a keyword and jump to that timestamp.
No per-seat or per-view fees
Flat monthly plan. Whether you have 50 students or 50,000 watching, the bill is the same — bandwidth scales with your tier, not your student count.
Most course creators pick Pro — $49/mo.
Pro covers branded player, custom domain, AI captions in 50 languages, GPT chapters, and 1 TB bandwidth. Move to Business ($149/mo) when you white-label for a university or run a multi-instructor academy.
Compare all plansStarter
Solo educator
$19/mo
Pro
Course creators
$49/mo
Business
White-label academy
$149/mo
Common reasons we hear from course creators.
Hypothetical personas based on customer conversations — not real attributable quotes.
I run a Spanish-language design course and got a wave of Brazilian signups when HostMyVideo auto-translated every lesson into Portuguese. I literally did nothing — uploaded the video, the captions just appeared.
Camila
Independent course creator
Hypothetical persona
Refund rate dropped after we shipped chapters on every lesson. Students stopped saying 'I couldn't find the topic' — they just clicked 'Functions and Formulas' and got there in two seconds.
David
Spreadsheet trainer, online academy
Hypothetical persona
Compliance team at the university we white-label for kept asking about WCAG. Captions, transcripts, keyboard-controllable player — it was all already there. Zero extra build.
Aisha
L&D lead, EdTech platform
Hypothetical persona
Course creators ask us this.
How accurate are the AI captions?
We use Whisper-grade transcription which sits comfortably in the 90%+ accuracy range for clean English audio with a single speaker. You can edit the transcript inside HostMyVideo and the corrected captions push to every translated language automatically.
Which 50 languages do you translate captions into?
The major world languages plus most European, Asian, and Latin American languages — Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, simplified and traditional Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and many more. The exact list is visible inside the dashboard subtitle picker.
Can I gate course videos behind a login or paywall?
Yes. Set visibility to UNLISTED and the video only plays from URLs and embeds you authorize. For paywall integration, embed the video behind your existing course platform's auth (Teachable, Kajabi, your custom LMS, etc.) — the embed inherits whatever wrapping page is gated.
Will course videos rank in Google?
If you set the video to PUBLIC, every upload gets a /v/[id] watch page with VideoObject + Clip schema, the chapter list, the summary, and the transcript text in HTML — exactly what Google indexes for video search and Key Moments. Many course creators use this as a free traffic channel for their paid courses.
Do you have analytics for student engagement?
Yes — plays, watch time, drop-off curves per chapter, and completion rates. Drop-off curves are particularly useful: if 70% of students bail at minute 12 of a 30-minute lesson, you know exactly where to re-cut.
Which plan should a course creator start on?
Most independent course creators start on Pro at $49/mo — branded player, custom domain, AI metadata, 1 TB bandwidth (covers thousands of student plays per month). Move to Business ($149/mo) when you're white-labeling for a university or agency.
Other teams that pick HostMyVideo.
Captions in 50 languages. Chapters on every lesson.
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