Comparison

Luma Creative vs Alan Cash Video

The verified numbers, side by side

Both are clean records at real volume

Luma Creative holds 101 reviews with 98 of 98 five-star on its published breakdown and nothing below. Alan Cash Video holds 77 with 77 of 77 five-star and nothing below. Neither has a tail. Rating quality ties at 100 and separates nothing.

Review depth is where the gap opens, at 101 against 77. That is a real difference in how much public evidence exists, but it is a much narrower one than the rubric totals imply, and it is the closest any vendor gets to Luma on this dimension in the category.

What the rubric reads differently

Service depth: Luma publishes 244 itemised services, Alan Cash 121. Both are substantial published lists.

Price transparency: Luma publishes from $2,500 for live event streaming. Alan Cash publishes nothing, which costs the full 10 points in this category.

Operational proof: Luma passes all five checks. Alan Cash passes three — its Google listing gives Oakland as a service area rather than a street address, the on-site services attribute is not set, and it registers under two categories rather than three or more. Those are listing-completeness gaps rather than findings about the business, and they are the cheapest points on the board to recover.

Where Alan Cash is ahead

The photographed body of work is not close. Alan Cash carries over 3,000 images across its profile against Luma's 87. For a buyer evaluating on visual output rather than on published process, that is the more useful artefact, and the rubric does not score it at all.

Location may also matter more than the ranking suggests. Alan Cash operates from Oakland, which for East Bay shoots is a genuine logistical advantage — crew travel, gear transport and parking are real line items on a production budget.

Where they meet in search

Both appear in organic results for San Francisco event live streaming, where Luma holds first position with a dedicated page and Alan Cash ranks below it with a live-streaming service page. If live event coverage is the brief, these two are already competing for the same query, which is a reasonable signal that they are genuine alternatives for that job.

Which should you call

Call Alan Cash for East Bay work, or when you want to judge on a large visible body of finished output rather than on a published process.

Call Luma for San Francisco work where you want the deepest public record and published scope you can check in advance.

Where they are ranked

• Video production in San Francisco