AI clipping tool pricing compared: what a video repurposing tool costs per finished clip, and the best AI clipping tools for the money

Short answer: of the four AI clipping tools we priced on 1 September 2026, Vizard is the cheapest per minute of uploaded video at about 2.4 cents, Klap sits between 3.5 and 4.7 cents depending on tier, and Opus Clip is the most expensive at 4.8 cents on annual billing and 9.7 cents month to month. Submagic is not comparable on that measure at all, because its plans count finished videos rather than minutes and its long-video clipping is a separate $19 a month add-on. Every figure below came off the vendor's own pricing page or help center on the same day.

Comparing these tools on their headline prices is close to useless, and the reason is that they are not all selling the same unit. Two of them meter minutes of video you upload. One meters finished videos per person. One charges for the clipping feature separately from the plan. Line the four price cards up and three of them look like roughly $15 to $39 a month, which tells you nothing about what you will actually spend.

They do not all meter the same thing

This is the first thing to settle, because every other comparison depends on it.

A minute is a minute, so Opus, Vizard and Klap can be compared directly and fairly. Submagic genuinely cannot be dropped into the same column, and any roundup that puts its $19 next to Opus Clip's $15 is comparing a captioning plan against a clipping plan.

What does each AI clipping tool cost?

Here are the published plans, taken from opus.pro/pricing, vizard.ai/pricing, klap.app/pricing and submagic.co/pricing on 1 September 2026. Where a page defaults to annual billing, which Klap and Opus both do, that is noted.

Two of these deserve a closer look before you compare anything.

Which AI clipping tool is cheapest per minute of video?

Convert every plan to a cost per uploaded minute and the ranking is stable and a bit surprising. This is the only comparison that means anything across the three minute-metered tools.

The Vizard and Opus Clip rows are the ones to sit with. Both plans cost exactly $174 a year. Both define one credit as one minute of uploaded video. Both offer a free tier of exactly 60 credits a month. The price points are, as far as we can tell, identical by design. And for that identical price Vizard includes 7,200 credits a year where Opus includes 3,600. Twice the video, same money, same unit.

That is not a reason to switch on its own, and we would be overstating it if we said otherwise. Opus reframes and tracks speakers well, and people pay the premium for output quality rather than for the credit count. But if you are budgeting a year of clipping and treating these two as interchangeable on price, they are not.

The Klap column is worth noting for a different reason. Klap's entry tier at 4.7 cents a minute is roughly what Opus charges only when you commit to twelve months. If annual lock-in is the thing you are avoiding, Klap gets you Opus's annual rate without the annual.

Why Submagic is not priced like the others

Submagic comes up in every list of AI clipping tools and its $19 entry price looks competitive next to Opus Clip's $15. The comparison does not hold, and the reason is on Submagic's own pricing page if you read past the plan cards.

Submagic's plans are metered in finished videos per member per month: 15 on Starter, 40 on Pro, up to 100 on Business. That covers captioning, b-roll, editing and export for shorts you bring to it. Clipping a long video into shorts is a separate product line called Magic Clips, sold as an add-on at $19 per member a month, and that add-on covers 10 long videos a month.

So the honest like-for-like against Opus Clip is $38 per member a month, and what that buys is ten source videos rather than a minute allowance. For a solo creator that is $38 against $14.50 for annual Opus Pro. For a team of three it is $114 against $14.50, because Submagic is priced per seat and Opus includes two seats in the plan.

None of that makes Submagic a bad product. Its captioning is the reason people buy it and the per-seat model is honest about what a team costs. It is simply not the tool to price-shop against Opus Clip, and the entry prices sitting so close together invites exactly that mistake.

How much does one finished clip cost?

Cost per minute is the fair way to compare vendors. Cost per finished clip is what you actually care about, and it is answerable for Opus Clip because Opus is the only one of the four that publishes how many clips a video of a given length tends to return.

Priced at the annual Opus Pro rate of 4.83 cents a credit, using Opus's own published yields:

Even at the worst end of that table, clipping is the cheapest content a brand produces. Twenty nine cents for a usable vertical clip is not a number that competes with anything else in a content budget. The interesting part is not whether to do it, it is which length to feed the machine.

What length of video should you upload?

Read the credits-per-clip column above rather than the cost column, because that ratio is the same whichever tool and tier you are on.

The 60 minute band wins clearly. It is both the most efficient, at 1.9 to 2.6 credits per clip, and the most predictable, because the range is narrow. The 10 to 30 minute band is the worst on both counts: a 30 minute upload can come back with 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 drops away steadily because the clip count does not keep pace with the minutes you are paying for.

Which leads to the one piece of advice on this page that costs nothing and pays immediately.

Same spend, 44 to 52 percent more clips, purely from splitting the file at a natural break before you upload it. These are Opus's published estimates rather than a guarantee, and a dense interview will always beat a rambling livestream at the same length. But if you routinely process long recordings, cutting them near the hour mark is free and the arithmetic says it should pay. The same logic applies on Vizard and Klap, since both charge by the minute too.

One related detail most write-ups get wrong: Opus does not wipe your credits at the end of the month. Its help center states that monthly credits expire in 60 days, so an unused month carries into the next one. Annual credits arrive in full on the day you buy and last twelve months, which means an annual buyer can spend the whole 3,600 in one heavy quarter instead of being rationed to 300 a month. If your video work is seasonal, that alone can decide the billing cycle.

Which AI clipping tool should you buy?

That last row is the one worth being blunt about, because it is where most brands who ask us about clipping tools actually are. Every product on this page is a multiplier. It takes footage that already exists and turns one recording into twenty posts, which is real leverage and very cheap leverage. What none of them can do is originate. If you have never filmed a creator using your product, no credit balance helps, because there is nothing to cut.

The sequence that works is unglamorous. Write the brief first, so whoever films knows the hook, the beats and the technical spec. Get the footage made by someone who genuinely uses the product. Then run the long cut through a clipping tool and let it find the twenty moments you would not have chosen yourself. That last step is where these tools earn their keep, and it is also the step that turns one shoot into a quarter of content across every channel you post to, which is the same instinct behind any decent tool for turning a single piece of content into posts for every channel.

Skip the brief and you are paying four point eight cents a minute to slice up video that was never going to convert. We wrote the full pricing breakdown for the market leader in our Opus Clip pricing and alternatives comparison, and if what you actually need is someone to film the source video in the first place, our roundup of UGC platforms covers who does that and what they charge. For the AI generators that make video from a prompt rather than clipping existing footage, the same cost-per-finished-video math is in our VEED and Pictory pricing breakdown.

UGCMarketplace is not a clipping tool and does not compete with anything on this page. We generate the UGC brief and the scene-by-scene script, with the opening three seconds written out and the technical spec attached, which is the document a creator films from. You can generate one free without an account, then send the finished long cut to whichever of these tools you buy.