Opus Clip pricing: OpusClip pricing plans, Opus Clip alternatives and Opus Clip cost per finished clip

Opus Clip publishes three consumer prices and quotes the fourth. Everything below came off opus.pro/pricing and the Opus help center on 1 September 2026. The pricing page opens with the Yearly toggle already on and a badge offering up to 50 percent off annual billing, so read the toggle before you read the number.

A few things on that table are worth pulling out because they are easy to miss.

Starter is monthly only. The pricing page says so in small type under the price: Starter plan only available in monthly. Pro is the sole plan Opus offers on both cycles, and it is also the only plan you can add packs to. Each Pro pack is 2 seats, and Opus caps a team workspace at 4 seats on 2 packs. Between 4 seats and the 10 or more that Business is described for, there is a gap the pricing page does not address, and if your team sits in it you will be talking to sales sooner than the plan grid suggests.

The free tier is more limited than the credit count implies. Sixty credits a month is real, but the clips carry a watermark, there is no editing at all, and Opus states that after 3 days the clips will no longer be exportable. Treat it as a trial with a clock on it rather than a usable free plan.

This is the part that decides your bill, and it works differently from every AI video generator we have measured. Opus does not meter what it produces. It meters what you hand it.

Opus states it plainly in its help center: 1 credit per minute of the original video imported. Upload a 60 minute podcast and it costs 60 credits whether Opus returns 23 clips or 32. There is a second small charge, 1 credit per post, if you publish to X through Opus.

The rounding rule is unusual and it runs in your favor more often than not.

So everything above a minute rounds down. That is the opposite of the usual industry habit of rounding up, and over a year of uploads it quietly saves you a few percent.

Expiry is also better than the category norm, and most write-ups get it wrong. Opus does not reset monthly credits at the end of the month. Its help center says monthly credits expire in 60 days, so they roll over for one additional month. Annual credits behave differently again: you receive the full year's worth immediately on purchase and they expire 12 months later, which means an annual buyer can spend the whole 3,600 in one heavy quarter rather than being rationed to 300 a month.

There is one more provision worth knowing before you upload anything expensive. Pro users can refund a project from the three-dot menu on the clip preview page, up to 14 days after upload, provided no clip from it has been downloaded. The credits come back and you can re-upload. If you feed Opus a two hour recording and it misreads the content, that is 120 credits you are not obliged to eat, which materially changes the risk of experimenting with long sources.

Nobody publishes this number, because answering it means combining two Opus tables that live on different pages. Opus tells you what a minute of upload costs, and separately it tells you how many clips a video of a given length tends to return. Put them together and you get a cost per finished clip.

Here are Opus's own published yields, from its How Many Clips Can I Get article, priced at the annual Pro rate of $174 for 3,600 credits, which is about 4.83 cents a credit.

Read down the credits-per-clip column and the shape is clear. The 60 minute band is the best and the tightest: worst case 2.6 credits a clip, and the range barely moves. The 10 to 30 minute band is the worst and the least predictable: a 30 minute upload can return as few as 5 clips, which is 6 credits each, more than double the worst case of a video twice as long. Above an hour, efficiency falls away steadily, because Opus's clip count does not keep pace with the minutes you are paying for.

That last point has a practical consequence worth more than anything else on this page.

Same credits, 44 to 52 percent more clips, purely from splitting the file before you upload it. We are not claiming Opus intends this, and the ranges are Opus's own estimates rather than a guarantee. But if you regularly process long recordings, cutting them at a natural break around the hour mark is free and the arithmetic says it should pay.

One caveat on all of the above. These are ranges Opus publishes for typical content, and it notes that ClipAnything usually yields slightly more clips than ClipBasic. A dense interview will beat a rambling livestream at the same length. Use the table to choose an upload strategy, not to forecast a specific number.

No, and the reason is arithmetic rather than opinion. Annual Pro costs less per month than Starter and gives twice the credits.

Annual Pro is 50 cents a month cheaper than Starter, carries double the credits, and adds AI B-roll, 16:9 and 1:1 aspect ratios, export to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, the social scheduler, a second seat and 100 GB of storage. There is no dimension on which Starter wins. It is dominated outright.

The only defensible reason to take Starter is that you cannot or will not commit to twelve months. That is a real reason and we would not talk anyone out of it. Starter exists to be the no-commitment option, and Opus is not hiding anything: both prices are on the same page. But if you are on Starter and you have been using Opus for more than a couple of months, you are paying more for less, and moving to annual Pro is the single cheapest improvement available to you.

The monthly Pro plan is a fairer deal than it looks at first glance. At 9.7 cents a credit it is barely better than Starter per credit, but it doubles your monthly ceiling and unlocks the whole feature set, so for anyone whose volume is uneven it is a reasonable middle. Just be clear that you are paying roughly double the annual rate for the flexibility.

It depends which part of Opus you are replacing. Two of the three tools below meter in exactly the same unit Opus does, one minute of uploaded video, which makes the comparison unusually clean. Everything here was verified on each vendor's own pricing page on 1 September 2026.

Of the three minute-metered tools we checked, Opus Clip is the most expensive per uploaded minute at every tier. The Vizard comparison is the one that should give a buyer pause: Vizard Creator and Opus Clip Pro are both $174 a year, both grant credits where one credit is one minute of uploaded video, and both offer a free tier of exactly 60 credits a month. For the identical annual price, Vizard includes 7,200 credits against Opus's 3,600. That is double the video for the same money, in the same unit, from a direct competitor.

Submagic needs separating out, because it is frequently listed alongside these tools and it is not sold the same way at all.

The Submagic caveat matters if you are price-shopping. Submagic's plans are metered in finished videos per member per month, 15 on Starter at $19, 40 on Pro at $39, up to 100 on Business at $69. Clipping long videos is not part of those plans. It is a separate add-on called Magic Clips at $19 per member a month, which covers 10 long videos a month. So the honest comparison against Opus is Submagic Starter plus Magic Clips at $38 per member a month, not $19, and that buys you ten source videos rather than a minute allowance. For a team of three that is $114 a month against $14.50 for annual Opus Pro. Submagic is a good editor and this is not a criticism of the product, but anyone comparing the entry prices side by side is comparing two different things.

And the case for staying with Opus, which alternative pages rarely make. Opus has the best-published clip yield data in this category, which is what made the cost-per-clip table above possible at all. Its 60 day rollover on monthly credits is more generous than the monthly reset most competitors run. The 14 day project refund for Pro users is, as far as we found, not matched by the others. Its reframing and speaker tracking are the reason people pay the premium, and if they work on your content, the two cents a minute you would save elsewhere is not the deciding factor.

We are not on either side of that decision, because we are not in this category. UGCMarketplace does not clip, edit or render video. We write the UGC brief and the scene-by-scene script, with the opening three seconds spelled out and the technical spec attached, which is what a creator needs before there is any footage for Opus to cut. You can generate one now, or read our roundup of UGC platforms if what you actually need is someone to film it.

It is good for one half of the job and cannot do the other half at all, and the split is worth being precise about because the two get conflated constantly.

What Opus does well for a UGC program is take content that already exists and multiply it. If you have run a long-form creator collaboration, a founder interview, a webinar or a livestream, Opus turns that into twenty or thirty vertical cuts you can test as organic posts or as paid creative. That is genuine leverage. The footage is already authentic, already features a real person, and the clipping is the cheapest content you will produce all quarter at nine to thirteen cents a clip.

What it cannot do is originate. A clipping tool needs a source. If your problem is that you have no UGC yet, no creator briefed, no product in anyone's hands, then no amount of credits helps, because there is nothing to cut.

The sequence that works is boring and it is the one most brands skip. Write the brief, so the creator knows the hook, the beats and the spec. Get the footage filmed by someone who actually uses the product. Then run the long cut through a clipping tool and let it find the twenty moments you would not have picked yourself. Skip the first step and you are paying four point eight cents a minute to cut up video that was never going to convert.