HoopBrief vs Dartfish
Dartfish is one of the oldest names in sports video analysis, a multi-sport tagging, annotation, and biomechanical review platform used across federations, universities, and national teams. It is also one of the few vendors in this category that publishes its prices: myDartfish plans are listed publicly, starting around 7 EUR/month for Mobile and running to roughly 20, 80, and 180 EUR/month for the 360, Live S, and Pro S tiers on annual billing, with a 15-day free trial. Larger institutional and university deployments are still quoted. The real tradeoff is not price, it is generality. Dartfish knows video, not basketball, so a human supplies every basketball conclusion. HoopBrief does one sport and produces the conclusion directly, in about five seconds, at $9.99 to $999/month.
- Published pricing, $9.99 to $999 per month
- About 5 seconds to a scouting brief
- No film upload, no tagging, no analyst
The free scout needs no account and no card.
Side-by-side snapshot
| Feature | HoopBrief | Dartfish |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $9.99/mo (Starter), $999/mo (Pro), published | Published per-seat: myDartfish from ~7 EUR/mo to ~180 EUR/mo (annual billing); institutional deployments quoted |
| Free trial | 7-day trial, no card required | 15-day free trial |
| Sport specificity | Basketball only | Multi-sport and clinical movement analysis |
| Core output | Basketball matchup decisions | Tagged, annotated video you produce |
| Basketball intelligence built in | Yes | No, the analyst supplies it |
| Time to insight | ~5 seconds | Manual tagging and annotation per clip |
| Biomechanical / technique analysis | No | Yes, a genuine strength |
Where HoopBrief wins
Where Dartfish wins
The verdict
HoopBrief is best for
Basketball coaches and players who want sport-specific matchup conclusions rather than a general video-analysis toolkit they must operate themselves.
Dartfish is best for
Multi-sport departments and federations, and anyone whose real need is technique or biomechanical analysis of their own athletes on video.
Try it on a real matchup
Pick an attacker and a defender and read what HoopBrief writes: the attack plan, the guard plan, and the read when the first option is gone. Free, no account.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Dartfish cost?
Dartfish is one of the few vendors in this category that publishes pricing. Its myDartfish plans are listed publicly on annual billing, starting from roughly 7 EUR/month for Mobile, about 20 EUR/month for 360, about 80 EUR/month for Live S, and about 180 EUR/month for Pro S, with a 15-day free trial. Prices are shown in several currencies and vary with the plan's feature set. Larger university and federation deployments are still quoted. HoopBrief publishes pricing too, at $9.99/month for Starter and $999/month for Pro.
Is Dartfish good for basketball scouting?
It can be used for it, but it is a general video-analysis platform rather than a basketball scouting product. It gives you tagging and annotation tools; all of the basketball reasoning, what the opponent tends to do and how to counter it, still comes from the coach. HoopBrief produces that reasoning as its output.
Can HoopBrief analyze a player's shooting form?
No. HoopBrief works from NBA play-by-play, tracking, matchup, and shot-location data, not from uploaded video, so it cannot do frame-by-frame technique or biomechanical review. Dartfish is genuinely better for that specific job.
Start scouting
Starter is $9.99/mo, Pro is $999/mo, both published. Every account starts with a 7-day trial, no card required.
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