What a short video costs in Brussels in 2026

01

What the published prices say

Some companies put prices on their websites. The ones below are published examples, not a survey of the market, and each one describes a different thing.

Published pricesChecked October 2026

A Belgian production company

Publishes corporate packages from EUR 750 to EUR 1,350 excl. VAT. Page checked October 2026; its prices may be older.¹

A crew-booking platform

Lists a Brussels half-day shoot at EUR 830 and three vertical captioned clips as a EUR 280 add-on. Checked October 2026.²

A global video platform

Lists Brussels shoots from USD 1,000 for a one-person six-hour shoot. Checked October 2026.³

A Brussels agency

States that its offers start at around EUR 1,000. Checked October 2026.⁴

The Sortlist directory

Brussels video agencies declare minimum budgets from EUR 500 to EUR 5,000. Checked October 2026.⁵

A Belgian producer’s price guide

An indicative guide dated January 2025 puts a corporate video at EUR 2,000 to 10,000. Not a Brussels source. Checked October 2026.⁶

These figures cannot be set side by side. A half-day rate is filming time; in the crew-booking platform’s listing the edited clips are an add-on. A package puts filming and editing into one price. A minimum budget says where a company starts, not what you would pay.

02

What you are paying for

A video quote is built from the same few parts, whether it lists them or not. When a number looks high or low, the reason is usually one of these.

Planning

Someone turns your purpose into a script, a shot list and a schedule. If you bring a finished script, this part is small.

Shoot time

The time on site, often quoted as a half day or a full day. It covers arriving, setting up, filming and packing down, not only the minutes on camera.

People on set

One person can film an interview or a short social video. A second camera, separate sound or lighting need more people, and each one adds to the price. Ask who is coming and what they do.

Edit time

Choosing takes, cutting, sound, colour, titles and graphics. Editing often takes longer than filming, and animated text and graphics add to it.

Formats and subtitles

A vertical, a square and a wide version are three exports, each reframed and checked. Every subtitle language is a separate job. Ask if these are in the price or charged per version.

Revisions

A revision round is one set of changes, sent in one message. The quote should say how many rounds are included, because further rounds can be billed.

Turnaround

Fast delivery means your edit goes ahead of other work. It can be priced as its own line, as in the call for offers quoted below.

Usage rights

The quote should say who owns the finished files and where you may use them. Ask whether the music, fonts and stock footage in the video are licensed for that use.

03

A day rate and a fixed price are different promises

A day rate is a price for time. It tells you what a day of filming costs, not how long the edit takes, how many versions you receive or what a change costs.

A fixed price is a price for a result. It only works when the result is written down: how many videos, which formats, how many revision rounds, by when.

Day rates suit work whose shape is not known in advance, such as a conference or a day of interviews. A planned video is easier to budget at a fixed price.

My own offers are the worked example.

The €500 is fixed because the result is fixed: one video, one shoot, one revision round. The monthly program works the same way, with a set number of videos for a set monthly price. The tiers are on the full price list. The single-day production is a starting price, since one day of filming can end as very different films. The delivered files are yours, with full usage rights.

04

What buyers ask for in writing

Calls for offers show which lines buyers want priced. Here is one public example from Brussels. It is one organisation’s call, not a standard.

The call asks for time on site, short vertical clips and speed as separate prices. Ask for the same split in your own brief and suppliers can answer line by line.

05

Turnaround is part of the price

Read the delivery time as closely as the number. Two published examples, both checked in October 2026, show how different the answers can be.

A global video platform says brief-to-delivery typically takes one to four days.³ One agency serving Brussels states 7 to 15 business days for a two-minute film.⁸ These are two companies describing their own work, not a market norm.

Ask what the time is counted from: the brief, the shoot or your last notes.

My own practice for short vertical video: publish-ready within 24 hours of the shoot, or within 48 hours if there are notes. That is counted from the shoot, so it is a different measure from the two examples above.

06

How to brief so the quotes can be compared

When a brief leaves things open, each supplier has to price what it cannot see, and each one fills the gaps differently. Eight lines are enough to close them.

1. Purpose. Who should watch it and what they should do next.
2. Length. A target in seconds or minutes.
3. Formats. Vertical, square, wide or all three, and where each will be published.
4. Languages. The spoken language, the subtitle languages and who checks the translations.
5. Deadline. The publishing date, and whether it can move.
6. Who approves. One named person who collects everyone’s notes.
7. Where it is filmed. The address, any access or accreditation needed, and how long the speaker is available.
8. Revisions. How many rounds you expect.

Send the same brief to every supplier. The quotes will then differ in price and approach, not in what each supplier assumed.

If the video is bought under an EU grant that uses the EU’s model grant agreement, the European Commission’s published guidance on purchases says this.