Artlist vs Envato Elements

Meet the contenders

Artlist — All-in-one creator subscription

A music-first creator bundle: music, SFX, footage, templates and a large AI suite under one Max subscription.

Artlist began as a music licensing service for filmmakers and has grown, tier by tier, into the closest thing the market has to Brollvia's shape: one subscription that bundles royalty-free music, sound effects, stock footage, video templates and LUTs, wrapped in a fast-growing AI toolkit. Its flagship Max plan adds AI video, image and music generation, AI voiceover and avatars, and a Studio product for keeping characters and locations consistent across AI-generated scenes. Reviewers count roughly 60,000 music tracks, 50,000 sound effects, 180,000 footage clips and 20,000 templates — a mid-sized but carefully curated catalogue, positioned on quality and ease rather than raw scale.

Two Artlist features deserve respect from any filmmaker. The first is music depth: Max includes stems, so an editor can rebalance a track or lift the vocal out of a cue, and the catalogue is organised into playlists by mood, genre and use case. The second is Clearlist, which connects to your YouTube channel, monitors uploads and automatically clears the false copyright claims that plague stock-music users — unglamorous, monetisation-saving work that most libraries, Brollvia included, do not yet do for you. Artlist also ships plugins for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut and DaVinci Resolve, so its media can be pulled into the timeline without a browser round-trip.

Where Artlist's model differs from Brollvia's is openness. There is no documented public API for searching and licensing its catalogue, and the one report of an MCP integration — a secondary source describing Claude-based in-chat generation — is about generating media, not licensing the library, and was not verified on an Artlist page in our research. Licensing proof is account-bound: your coverage lives in your Artlist account rather than behind a public verification anyone can check. And while Max is a strong bundle, its price — $39.99 a month for Pro, before the RAW/LOG upgrade — sits well above Brollvia Pro.

Envato Elements — Unlimited creative-assets subscription

The breadth play: tens of millions of creative assets — templates, fonts, WordPress themes, graphics, 3D — under one unlimited subscription.

Envato Elements is the subscription form of a simple insight: most creators do not only need footage. They need the title template, the font in the title, the presentation deck for the pitch, the WordPress theme for the campaign site — and Elements sells all of it, unlimited, for $16.50 a month billed annually. Reviews put the catalogue anywhere from 21 million to 60 million assets depending on what gets counted, a range we report rather than resolve; by any count it spans stock video, photos, music and sound effects plus graphic, presentation and video templates, fonts, 3D and web themes. For a generalist freelancer it is close to a utility bill: unglamorous, comprehensive, cheap.

Its licence model is the distinctive part. Every download is assigned — registered — to a client project, and that registration keeps the asset licensed for that project forever, even after the subscription ends. It is tidy for client work and more restrictive than it first looks: use the same clip in a new project and you must register it again, under an active subscription. Brollvia's model is the inverse — a licence record per download, attached to the asset and the production generally, with a public verification page — and the matrix scores the two as different instruments rather than one being broken.

For filmmakers specifically, Elements is a strong second subscription and a weaker first one. The footage is plentiful but the platform's centre of gravity is design: there is no script-to-shots matching, no frame search, no public API or MCP in the sources we checked, and the newer AI-credit tiers (20 a month on Core, up to 2,000 on Ultimate) buy generation as an add-on rather than a library-integrated, labelled feature. It is the best breadth-per-dollar in this comparison and the least filmmaker-specific — both halves of that sentence matter.

Pricing, in each platform's own terms

Artlist

Artlist pricing rewards commitment and bundles. The entry point looks gentle — Music & SFX Social at $9.99/mo — but that buys no footage at all. The honest comparison against Brollvia Pro ($15/mo, unlimited everything) is Max: $29.99/mo for Social, $39.99/mo for Pro, billed annually, so $360–$480 a year against Brollvia's $99 annual launch rate. AI usage is where Artlist bills get unpredictable: Max Pro's price climbs steeply through AI-credit tiers, from around $50 at 16,500 monthly credits to $300+ at half a million, per Artlist's launch materials as summarised by reviewers. If you generate heavily, model your credit burn before the annual bill surprises you.

The RAW/LOG upgrade (+$20/mo) deserves a line of its own, because for colour-critical work it is not optional decoration — it is the difference between footage that grades like your camera originals and footage that does not. Brollvia has no equivalent tier today (its absence is scored honestly in the matrix below), so a fair total-cost comparison for a professional colour workflow is Max Pro + RAW/LOG at roughly $60/mo against Brollvia Pro at $15/mo with that format gap accepted. For everyone else — social, corporate, YouTube, most commercial work — the $15 flat rate is simply cheaper for a comparable bundle.

Envato Elements

Elements is the one rival that beats Brollvia Pro on headline price for a comparable promise: $16.50/mo annual ($198/yr) against $15/mo monthly or $99/yr — roughly double Brollvia's annual rate, roughly par monthly, and with far more asset types inside. Teams widen its lead on paper, at ~$10.75 a seat against Brollvia's $12. If your team consumes design assets weekly, Elements may be the cheapest line in your whole stack, and these pages will not argue otherwise.

The pricing caveat is flux: Envato has been restructuring into Core/Plus/Ultimate tiers with AI credits as the ladder, quoted in one source at €14.50/€33/€145 annual equivalents — figures in motion. Verify the current structure on Envato's site before comparing, and note that monthly billing on the classic plan jumps to roughly $33–39, where Brollvia's $15 flat monthly quietly wins again. The honest summary: annual-billed generalists save at Envato; monthly-billed filmmakers save at Brollvia.

In the edit: workflow

Artlist

In daily use, Artlist feels like a well-stocked record shop: strong playlists, quick previews, plugins that drop media into four different editors, and Clearlist quietly defending your monetisation after publish. The gaps show up when the workflow leaves the browser-and-timeline loop: there is no API for your tools to license footage programmatically, no script-to-shots matching, and no public page where a client or a platform can verify your licence — your proof is your account. Brollvia was designed for exactly that wider loop, at the cost of a younger catalogue.

Envato Elements

Elements fits a generalist's week: one search box for the deck, the font, the lower-third template and the track under it. Downloads are unlimited and painless; the per-project registration is a small, worthy admin habit. Filmmakers feel the seams in the edit — template support for Premiere is deep, but there is no licence-recording panel in either NLE, no agent to brief, and no verification link when a client's producer asks for paperwork. Brollvia is unambiguously the editing-native tool; Elements is the studio-supply cupboard.

Switching away

From Artlist

Moving from Artlist to Brollvia is mostly a matter of re-downloading: footage you licensed under Artlist stays licensed under its terms for the uses you made, but your working library, playlists and project organisation do not transfer — no platform in this comparison offers library migration, Artlist included. The practical path is to let the annual plan lapse at renewal, run both for a month on active projects, and rebuild your staples as Brollvia collections and packs. If you rely on stems or Clearlist, weigh those two features honestly before switching; they are Artlist's strongest hold.

From Envato Elements

Envato's licence makes leaving unusually graceful: projects you registered stay licensed after cancellation, so finished client work is never hostage. What does not travel is the ability to register new uses — every future project needs its downloads licensed somewhere, which is the moment switchers feel the model difference. Download your licence registrations before cancelling, keep them with the project archives, and expect to re-acquire staple templates and fonts under your new platform's terms.