Cut a long video into Reels and Shorts

The default. Best clip picking, worst credit arithmetic.

Use it when

You have a backlog of long interviews and want usable clips today without learning an editor.

Cost

Free tier. Paid $15-$29/mo, or $14.50/mo billed yearly.Free: 60 credits/month, 1080p, watermarked, and clips stop being exportable after 3 days. Starter: $15/mo, 150 credits/month, monthly billing only, watermark removed, 1 brand template. Pro: $29/mo monthly, or $174 billed yearly which works out at $14.50/mo. Pro adds AI B-roll, 9:16/1:1/16:9 output, export to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, 2 seats, 6 social accounts, dubbing and limited API access. Business is custom priced and is where full API, priority processing and dedicated storage live.

Good at

Choosing which sixty seconds of a two-hour recording is worth posting. That is the whole job and it is still the strongest at it. The Premiere and Resolve export path on Pro also means you are not trapped in its editor when a clip needs real work.

The catch

The annual Pro plan grants 3,600 credits for the year, not 3,600 a month, and they land in one lump. Burn them in March and you pay top-up rates until renewal. The Starter plan is monthly-billed only, so the advertised $14.50 requires committing a year up front. And on the free tier your clips expire in three days, which is long enough to think you have a library and short enough to lose it.

Wrong for

Anyone who needs to correct the AI's cut rather than accept it. Go to Descript.

For when the AI picks the wrong sixty seconds.

Use it when

Your clips need the actual sentence to start in the right place, and you would rather edit a transcript than a timeline.

Cost

Free tier. Paid $16-$65/mo depending on plan and billing.Free: 60 minutes of media a month, 100 one-time AI credits, 720p exports with a watermark. Hobbyist: $24/mo billed monthly or $16/mo billed yearly, 10 media hours/month, 400 AI credits/month, 1080p and watermark-free. Creator: $35/mo monthly or $24/mo yearly, 30 media hours/month, 800 AI credits, 4K export, full Underlord AI access. Business: $65/mo monthly or $50/mo yearly, 40 media hours/month, 1,500 AI credits, brand studio, dubbing with proofread. Seats on Creator and Business are billed separately from the plan.

Good at

Fixing a bad cut in seconds. Delete a word in the transcript and it leaves the video. No other tool here makes correction this cheap, which matters because auto-selected clips are wrong often enough to be a real workflow cost.

The catch

It is an editor that clips, not a clipper that edits, so the volume play is painful. Media hours and AI credits are two separate meters and you can run out of one while sitting on the other. Team seats are charged on top of the plan price, so a three-person Creator setup is not $35.

Wrong for

Anyone who wants twenty clips from one upload with no human in the loop. Use OpusClip or Choppity.

Billed in hours of source video, not mystery credits.

Use it when

You are clipping for clients or on a schedule and need to predict the monthly bill from the length of the recordings.

Cost

Free tier. Paid $20-$48/mo, or $14-$33.60/mo billed yearly.Free: 1 hour of AI video analysis, 2GB storage, projects deleted after 3 days, no exports. Starter: $20/mo monthly or $14/mo yearly, 3 hours of analysis, 40GB storage, 30-day project retention, 1080p exports and social posting. Creator: $32/mo monthly or $22.40/mo yearly, 5+ hours, 100GB, permanent project storage, custom fonts, brand templates and API access. Team: $48/mo monthly or $33.60/mo yearly, 200GB, unlimited seats and roles. Enterprise is custom.

Good at

Cost predictability. An hour of podcast costs an hour of quota, so you can quote a client before you upload. Bulk handling and the permanent project storage on Creator and above also beat the three-day retention traps elsewhere.

The catch

Three hours a month on Starter is roughly three podcast episodes, which is far less headroom than the price suggests. API access is gated to Creator, a tier above the one most people sign up for, so if you were planning to automate this the real entry price is $32/mo monthly. It is also a much smaller product than OpusClip, with correspondingly fewer people to ask when something breaks.

Wrong for

Anyone who wants the best clip selection regardless of billing model. That is still OpusClip.

Best captions here. Clipping is an afterthought and an add-on.

Use it when

You already know which moments to cut and you want them captioned and styled to a house look.

Cost

Free tier. Paid $19-$69/mo, or $12-$41/mo billed yearly. Clipping costs +$19/mo on top.Free: 3 videos/month, max 1min 30sec, watermarked. Starter: $19/member/mo monthly or $12 yearly, 15 videos/month at max 2 minutes each, 1080p, 10 min/mo API. Pro: $39 monthly or $23 yearly, 40 videos/month at max 5 minutes each, 2K, premium templates, brand kit, caption translation. Business + API: $69 monthly or $41 yearly, 100 videos/month at max 30 minutes each, 4K/60fps, 100 min/mo API. Prices are per member. Magic Clips, the feature that actually cuts a long video into shorts, is a separate +$19/month add-on on every tier and covers 10 long videos a month.

Good at

Caption styling and template consistency. If your channel has a look, this reproduces it more reliably than the general-purpose clippers, and the output needs no second pass.

The catch

The plan you buy does not do this job. Base tiers cap uploads at 2 or 5 minutes, so your 90-minute podcast will not even upload on Starter or Pro. The long-video clipping is the +$19/mo Magic Clips add-on, capped at 10 source videos a month, so the honest entry price for this job is $38/mo monthly and you are still limited to ten episodes. Everything is also per member, not per account.

Wrong for

Anyone whose primary need is finding the moments rather than dressing them. Start with OpusClip and bring the clips here only if captions are the bottleneck.

Record and clip in one place. Only worth it for hosts.

Use it when

You are recording the interviews yourself and want clips from a clean local 4K track rather than a compressed upload.

Cost

Free tier. Paid $29-$99/mo, or $24-$79/mo billed yearly.Free: 2 hours of multi-track recording, Magic Clips included, 720p max, watermarked. Pro: $29/mo monthly or $24/mo billed yearly at $288/year, 5 hours/month of separate-track recording, 4K, no watermark, unlimited text-based editing, 1 studio. Grow: $39/mo monthly or $34/mo yearly at $408/year, 15 hours/month, 2 studios, livestreaming, multistreaming and social scheduling. Webinar: $99/mo monthly or $79/mo yearly, unlimited sessions, 3 studios, 100 registrants. Business is custom with unlimited studios and SSO.

Good at

Source quality. It clips from separately recorded local tracks, so you are not cutting up a lossy Zoom capture. Magic Clips being on the free tier also makes it the cheapest honest way to try the workflow end to end.

The catch

You are buying a recording studio and getting the clipper thrown in. If your source videos come from anywhere else, most of what you pay for is dead weight, and the clip selection is not as good as the specialists. Recording hours are the real meter and 5 hours a month on Pro goes quickly with multi-guest sessions, since separate tracks consume it faster than you expect.

Wrong for

Anyone clipping video they did not record. Every other tool on this list is a better fit.