OpusClip cuts long videos into short clips with captions. These are the other clipping, captioning and editing tools we track, with each plan's credits or minutes as the vendor lists them.
Credits mean different things on each tool (OpusClip credits, quso.ai's roughly-one-minute credits, Kapwing's subtitle minutes), so we show what each plan includes rather than pretending they're the same unit.
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Every plan, with credits and minutes
OpusClip and alternatives: plans and what they include
Credit units differ between tools, so compare what a credit buys (see each tool page).
Cheapest OpusClip alternative
By cheapest paid plan with monthly billing: Descript Hobbyist and Kapwing Pro, all at $24/mo with monthly billing. Counting yearly billing: Submagic Starter at $12/mo billed yearly.
Free OpusClip alternatives
5 alternatives list a free plan or free credits. Descript: descript has a Free plan, and you don't need a credit card to try it; Kapwing: 10 credits; Captions: version with limited features; quso.ai: 75 credits a month; VEED: plan with feature and export-quality limits.
What a credit buys
OpusClip: The Free plan is free forever with 60 credits a month; no credit card is required.
OpusClip rollover: A paid-plan feature on the page reads "Unused credits roll over for 2 months".
quso.ai: One credit is roughly one minute of processed video; clipping, captioning and editing draw from your monthly credits.
Kapwing: Pro's 1,000 monthly credits cover auto-subtitling up to 1,000 minutes and dubbing up to 50 minutes a month; Business's 4,000 cover up to 4,000 and 200 minutes. Paid plans remove the Kapwing watermark.
Submagic: Starter includes 45 credits (about 15 videos), Pro 120 (about 40) and Business 300 (about 100) for AI videos and images, per Submagic's page. Paid plans export without a watermark.
Submagic API: API minutes: Starter and Pro include 10 a month, Business 100. Extra API packs run from 250 minutes for $57/mo ($0.23/min) to 10,000 minutes for $1000/mo ($0.10/min).
Captions rollover: Yes. Unused credits roll over, and your balance can hold up to 3× your monthly allowance (up to two extra months).
By cheapest paid plan with monthly billing, Descript Hobbyist and Kapwing Pro, all at $24/mo with monthly billing. Counting yearly billing, Submagic Starter at $12/mo billed yearly.
Is there a free OpusClip alternative?
Descript, Kapwing, Captions, quso.ai, and VEED have free plans. OpusClip itself has a free plan: free forever with 60 credits a month; no credit card is required.
Which OpusClip alternative has no watermark?
On free plans, OpusClip, quso.ai and Kapwing add a watermark, per their pages. Paid plans on Submagic and Kapwing remove it.
Do OpusClip credits roll over?
A paid-plan feature on the page reads "Unused credits roll over for 2 months".
Sources
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