Best AI clip makers

A clip maker, on this page, is a tool that turns footage you already have into a short you can post. The split that matters is who finds the clip. OpusClip proposes candidates from a long video or a podcast and can auto-post them. Submagic is caption-first on a per-member meter. CapCut is the timeline you mark yourself. VEED is a browser editor with caption hours and AI credits on a yearly view. Descript edits the transcript. Captions is the phone. Revid creates and publishes shorts from a credit plan. It is included so it is not mistaken for a long-master clipper.

OpusClip, Submagic, VEED, Descript, Captions, and Revid were checked on 2026-10-17. CapCut's pricing extract was checked on 2026-10-16. This compare was assembled on 2026-10-17. It does not paste vendor homepages into two columns, and it does not convert every credit pool into minutes. The long-to-short path already recommends CapCut as the cut you drive, with OpusClip as the volume option off that default. "Best" here follows that evidence.

Who this is for

Read this if you have a YouTube episode, a livestream, a podcast, or a rough vertical cut, and you want software to shorten it.

OpusClip fits a host who already owns the long file and wants candidate clips, a Virality Score, animated captions, and a post or a download. Submagic fits a Shorts or TikTok desk that wants the caption treatment and will multiply a per-member price by headcount. CapCut fits anyone who already knows the in and out and needs a reframe, a caption burn, and an export. VEED fits an editor who will pay the yearly per-user bill this pass actually saw. Descript fits a podcaster who wants to delete sentences instead of dragging a playhead. Captions fits a phone edit, including a twin, and it is a weak place to drop a one-hour master into a generative grant.

Revid fits a creator who wants the short made and posted from one login, with Auto-Mode workers. The card did not say the input is a long master. Use it when you are creating, not when you are mining a podcast. A narrated explainer from a blog or a URL is Pictory, not a clipper. A presenter who was never in the source is HeyGen. A named replacement voice is ElevenLabs.

Dimensions compared

1. Who proposes the range. OpusClip's Starter card names AI clipping and a Virality Score. The formula for that score was not observed. Submagic meters short videos with credits and a duration line. It does not, in the extract, name a virality score. CapCut, VEED, and Descript assume you choose the range, by timeline or by transcript. Captions assumes a mobile edit. Revid names Auto-Mode workers, not a highlight score. If "AI clip maker" means the product picks the moment, OpusClip is the card that says so. If it means the product helps you publish a short, several of these qualify, and they should not be ranked as one feature.

2. Source length. OpusClip and Submagic are the long-to-short tools. Descript's job is a podcast and clips, and transcription hour caps were not observed, so this page will not claim it ingests a specific episode length. CapCut is used on long-to-short as the bench where you mark the hook. A maximum source length was not observed on the CapCut pricing extract. VEED Creator's yearly view says unlimited length and does not name the noun. Project length, export length, and source length are all possible. Captions did not print a duration cap on Free. Revid's length cap was not observed. Do not plan a two-hour upload from a silence in the extract.

3. Captions and languages. OpusClip Starter names animated captions in 20+ languages. The list behind the plus was not observed. Submagic is caption-first. Fonts, safe zones, and export containers were not observed, because the editor was not opened. Starter names 1080p. VEED Creator names subtitles at 120 hours a year. Pro names unlimited auto subtitles and translate 50+. The language names were not observed. Captions did not print a language count. CapCut is the default caption pass on this site's captions workflow because the text lives on the timeline. Free caption quotas on CapCut were not observed. Descript's caption-style list was not observed. A caption tool and a clip proposer are different purchases that often land in the same sentence.

4. Posting. OpusClip Starter names auto-post to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels, or a download. Pro names six social connections and does not list the six networks. Submagic's job includes a schedule. Destination networks, posts per day, and a calendar limit were not observed. Revid's check included publish to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. CapCut, VEED, Descript, and Captions are export tools on the evidence used here. A vendor list of export presets was not observed on CapCut. Auto-post is a reason to pick OpusClip or Revid. It is not a reason to call CapCut incomplete as an editor.

5. Price unit and the dated stickers. OpusClip, 2026-10-17: Free $0 for 60 credits a month. Starter $15 a month, monthly only, for 150 credits. Pro $29 a month, or $14.5 a month with $174 billed annually, for 300 credits. Twelve times $14.5 is $174. Business is custom. Submagic, the same day: Starter $19 a month or $12 per member billed yearly, 45 credits, about 15 videos, a 2 min line. Pro $39 or $23 per member, 120 credits, about 40 videos, a 5 min line. Business + API $69 per member, with a struck $120 also shown, or $41 per member billed yearly. Credits on Business were not observed. Minute packs end at 250 minutes for $57 a month and 10,000 minutes for $1,000 a month. CapCut, 2026-10-16: the sticker is region-rendered. One rendering showed Pro at USD 19.99, Ultra at USD 79, and Teams at USD 12.49 per seat. Another rendering of the same URL was CLP. The stable Pro grant is 1,200 monthly AI credits. VEED, 2026-10-17, yearly view: Creator $10 per user a month billed yearly as $125, Pro $20 billed yearly as $234. Distinct monthly stickers were not observed. Descript: Hobbyist $16 per person with $24 struck, Creator $24 with $35 struck, Business $50 with $65 struck. Captions: Max $24.99, Frontier $69.99, $139.99, and $279.99. No annual column. Revid: Growth $39 or $32 on the yearly display for 2,000 credits, Ultra $199 or $166 for 12,000.

6. What the credit might mean. OpusClip's map from a credit to a minute of source or of export was not fully itemized. Pools of 60, 150, and 300 are real, and they are not a posting calendar by themselves. Submagic's approximated video counts imply 3 credits per video if you divide the pairs. The card used an approximation sign, so 3 is arithmetic, not a rate card. The duration line may be a cap. This page does not multiply 15 videos by 2 minutes into a minute grant. VEED's about 1,500 and about 4,500 AI videos wear a tilde. Six thousand divided by about 1,500 is 4, and that quotient is not a vendor rate. Captions' Frontier multipliers have no credit quantities. Revid burns credits on generation models. Credits per Short were not observed. CapCut's credits pay for AI features such as Seedance. They do not pay the subscription, and they are not OpusClip clipping credits.

7. Watermark, resolution, and retention. OpusClip Free is up to 1080p with a watermark. Starter removes the watermark. A retention sentence was truncated after "After 3 days, the clips w…". This page does not finish it. Submagic's watermark rule was not observed. VEED Creator names no watermark and 1080p. Pro names 4K. Whether Pro includes the no-watermark sentence, and whether Creator exports 4K, was not observed as a yes or no. Captions' watermark rule was not observed. CapCut's free watermark rule and free export resolution were not observed. Descript's watermark rule was not observed. A clean free Short is not the default assumption on any of these extracts.

8. API and the team. OpusClip markets a video API and Video MCP. Pro lists Limited API Access. No base URL and no server URL were in the pricing extract. Business says API and more, and it says to make contact. Submagic puts API in the Business plan name, at the $69 per member price. A docs URL and an MCP server were not observed. Revid says every plan includes an API, an MCP server, and a CLI. A separate enterprise API price was not observed, and a server URL was not the thing this compare needs to invent beyond the tool page's claim. VEED markets Fabric and Video APIs separately. Prices not observed. Descript markets API and MCP. URLs not observed. Captions and CapCut: endpoints not observed. OpusClip Pro includes two seats. A third seat's price was not observed. Submagic and VEED and Descript bill per member, per user, or per person. Headcount multiplies the sticker. A shared login is not a team plan.

Side-by-side notes

OpusClip is the proposer. Checked 2026-10-17 at the pricing page on opus.pro, Free forever is $0, 60 credits, up to 1080p, a watermark, and limited editing. Starter at $15 adds AI clipping, the Virality Score, animated captions, auto-post or download, one brand template, filler and silence removal, and watermark removal. The card presents Starter as monthly only. A yearly Starter invoice was not observed. Pro at $29, or $174 billed annually, adds 300 credits, rollover for two months, a two-seat workspace, two brand templates, six social connections, AI B-Roll, speech enhancement, Limited API Access, and video dubbing. Rollover on Free, Starter, or Business was not observed. AI B-Roll does not name a video model. Dubbing does not name a speaker. If the voice is wrong, replace it in ElevenLabs. The editor was not opened, so caption fonts and export containers beyond those bullets are not observed.

Submagic is the caption meter. The compare header is per member per month. Starter's 45 credits and about 15 videos sit next to a 2 min duration, free b-rolls and audio, and 1080p, at $19 or at $12 per member billed yearly. Pro's 120 credits and about 40 videos sit next to a 5 min duration and Storyblock features, at $39 or at $23 per member billed yearly. The extract spells the stock bundle "Storyblock features" and does not itemize the clips. Business + API did not print a credit pool. One card showed both $69 per member and a struck $120. The yearly save amounts line up with the $19, $39, and $69 figures, not with the struck $120. Twelve times the gap between $19 and $12 is $84, which is the printed save. AI actors are part of the job description. Which tier unlocks them, and whether an actor spends the same credits as a captioned clip, were not observed. Use Submagic when the style and the member price are the purchase. Use OpusClip when the proposal and the auto-post are the purchase.

CapCut is the bench this directory already tells people to learn. On 2026-10-16 the paid cards led with Pro, Ultra, and Teams. Pro's 1,200 monthly AI credits and Ultra's 8,645 are generation grants tied to Seedance ceilings, not clipping quotas. First-month Seedance 2.5 starts from $0.12 a second on Pro and from $0.18 on Ultra. The renewal rate was not observed. Free limits were not observed, which means a zero-dollar CapCut workflow still has to be read inside the app. Teams is per seat and includes a brand kit. There is no observed public API. For a long-to-short cut, you pull the episode, mark the hook, reframe to 9:16, and burn captions in the same project. Generation is optional. That is a different product from a Virality Score, and it is the one the workflow recommends when you will watch the source.

VEED is the yearly browser bill. Creator at $125 a year per user, shown as $10 a month on that view, lists 6,000 credits, about 1,500 AI videos, no watermark, 1080p, unlimited length, and 120 subtitle hours a year. Pro at $234 a year per user, shown as $20 a month, lists 18,000 credits, about 4,500 AI videos, 4K, 50GB, translate 50+, brand kits, and unlimited auto subtitles. Twelve times $10 is $120, not $125. Twelve times $20 is $240, not $234. Keep both numbers in each pair. A monthly toggle still showed the billed-yearly amounts. Free limits were not itemized. The 50GB figure has no noun in the batch note. This page will not relabel it storage. Fabric and Video API prices were not observed. VEED is a strong fit when subtitle hours and a browser project are the spec. It is a weak fit when you wanted OpusClip to propose the clips.

Descript is the transcript. Free is $0, and the feature list was not itemized. Hobbyist at $16 per person, on a display the note calls annual-ish, includes 1 person. The struck price is $24. Creator at $24 scales to a team of 3 billed separately. The struck price is $35. Business at $50 scales to a team of 5 billed separately. The struck price is $65. Three Creator people are not a $24 bundle. Exact yearly invoices were not observed. Twelve times $16 is $192, and that product is arithmetic, not a sticker. Transcription caps, filler-word controls, and a screen recorder were not observed. The text is the thing you edit. That is the reason to pick it over a score.

Captions is the phone, not the long-file miner. Free lists generative credits as none. Max is $24.99, with Medium AI usage credits and a features mention of 500 credits a month. Frontier's 1x, 2x, and 4x prices are $69.99, $139.99, and $279.99. The credit quantities behind the multipliers were not observed. Annual prices were not observed. Mirage Studio merged in. If the source is a long recording, the Captions page itself points you at OpusClip or Submagic instead of forcing that master through the generative grant.

Revid is the create-and-post neighbor. Growth is $39 a month, or $32 on the yearly display, for 2,000 credits and 3 Auto-Mode workers. Ultra is $199, or $166, for 12,000 credits and 10 workers. The FAQ scales Ultra to 30,000 credits at $459 and 200,000 credits at $2,799. Boosts run from 1,000 credits at $49 to 100,000 credits at $1,900. Posts per worker were not observed. Model names behind the credit burn were not observed. Publish destinations on the check were TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. That is a shorts factory. It is not a replacement for OpusClip's clipping line, and this page will not pretend a worker is a seat.

Verdict

The best AI clip maker depends on whether the software or the editor finds the moment. OpusClip is the best fit when a long video or a podcast should become candidate shorts with a score and a post. The 2026-10-17 card is specific. Free is 60 credits, a watermark, and a truncated retention line. Starter at $15 a month is the first row that names AI clipping, a Virality Score, animated captions in 20+ languages, watermark removal, and auto-post to Shorts, TikTok, and Reels. Pro at $29, or $174 a year, is 300 credits, two-month rollover, and two seats. The credit-to-minute map was not fully itemized, so the best thing about the card is also its limit. You can budget the pool. You cannot yet say how many episode-minutes 150 credits will chew. Business is custom. Limited API Access has no base URL. Those gaps keep OpusClip from being a silent default for every channel. They do not keep it from being the proposer in this set.

CapCut is the best fit when you will watch the source and cut it. That is the recommended path on the long-to-short workflow, and it is the default caption pass on the captions workflow. The pricing page does not sell a Virality Score. It sells an editor, a region-rendered subscription, and Seedance credits. Pro's portable number is 1,200 monthly AI credits, not USD 19.99, because the same URL also rendered in CLP on 2026-10-16. Free limits were not on the extract, so this page will not call CapCut the best free clipper. It will call it the best bench when the skill you have is an in and an out. Teams that want the software to pick the hook should not force that job onto a timeline. They should pay OpusClip's credit pool and still expect to finish a bad candidate in CapCut.

Submagic is the best fit when the caption treatment is the brand and the buyer counts members. Starter and Pro print a monthly price, a yearly per-member display, a credit pool, an approximate video count, and a duration line. That is more operational detail than a vague "AI captions" badge. Business at $69 per member is the API-named tier, and it is the tier you cannot size, because credits, video count, and duration were not observed. The struck $120 is not the live compare price. Minute packs at the ends of the range, $57 and $1,000, are for desks that already know they will outrun the pool. AI actors and a schedule are job words, not specs. Submagic does not replace OpusClip's score, and OpusClip does not replace a per-member caption contract. A desk can use OpusClip to propose and Submagic to restyle. It should not add the $15 and the $19 and call the sum one plan's inclusion.

VEED, Descript, and Captions are best at editor shapes that get searched as clip makers because the output is short. VEED is best when you can pay $125 or $234 per user for the year and you want 120 subtitle hours, or Pro's 4K and translate line, on a browser timeline. The pass never produced a distinct monthly sticker, so a month-to-month buyer does not yet have a number. Descript is best when the podcast transcript is the timeline, at $16, $24, or $50 per person on the annual-ish display, with struck prices left on the card so they are not paid by mistake. Limits on Free were not observed, and transcription hours were not observed, so a volume podcast still has to read the app. Captions is best on the phone, at $24.99 for Max, and it is a poor long-to-short engine. Generative credits on Free are none. Frontier does not say how many videos 2x contains.

Revid is best when the job is to create a short and post it with workers, at $39 or $199, and worst when someone buys it to slice a webinar. The tool page is clear that model names and credits per Short were not observed. Auto-Mode is a worker count, not a Virality Score. Pictory remains the blog-to-video neighbor, with its own minute pools on its own page, and it is not ranked here as a clipper of a long master. HeyGen remains the face that was never in the recording.

No tool on this page published a measured lift from its score, its caption theme, or its auto-post. The best choice is the card whose unit matches the footage. A long file plus a desire to be told where the hook is points at OpusClip, with the retention sentence left unfinished and the credits left unconverted. A long file plus a caption style and a headcount points at Submagic. A long file you will watch points at CapCut. A transcript points at Descript. A yearly browser bill with subtitle hours points at VEED. A phone points at Captions. A short that does not exist yet points at Revid, or at a generator, and then back to CapCut for the words on screen. Buying all seven is how a channel pays for one hook seven times.

When to pick each

Pick OpusClip when you will upload a long video or a podcast and you want clipping, a score, captions, and auto-post or a download. Start at $15 if you need the watermark gone. Move to $29 or $174 billed annually when you need 300 credits, rollover, or two seats. Leave the "After 3 days" fragment unresolved.

Pick Submagic when members are the unit. Multiply $19, $39, or $69, or use the yearly per-member displays of $12, $23, and $41. Keep the 2 min and 5 min lines separate from the video counts. Do not size Business from a pool that was not printed.

Pick CapCut when you will mark the hook, reframe to vertical, and burn captions yourself. Treat Seedance as optional b-roll. Read checkout for the currency. Do not expect an API.

Pick VEED when the yearly Creator or Pro bill is acceptable and the subtitle line is the feature. Do not invent a monthly price. Pick Descript when you edit text. Pay the unstruck per-person figure and bill extra people separately. Pick Captions for a phone cut at $24.99, not for a webinar.

Pick Revid when creation and publishing are the same login and you can spend 2,000 or 12,000 credits without a credits-per-Short rate. Do not buy it as a substitute for OpusClip's clipping bullets.

Finish a voice in ElevenLabs when dubbing or speech enhancement does not name the speaker. Finish a cover in the editor you already trust. This compare did not observe a cover spec on these pricing extracts.

Related workflows

Long-to-short is the home path. CapCut is the recommended highlight and vertical cut. OpusClip is the volume option, with the watermark and credit facts from its own page. Submagic is the caption-first neighbor. Descript is the transcript edit. Revid is the create-and-post neighbor, off the "we already have a master" brief.

Captions and covers is the path when the short already exists and the remaining work is type, safe area, or a cover. CapCut is the default. Submagic is the optional add-on. Captions is the mobile editor. VEED is the browser credit editor. OpusClip belongs here only as a recut of a longer source, not as the caption engine for a file that is already short.

Faceless uses CapCut after a model generates b-roll. A clip maker does not replace Kling, Seedance, or Runway. Voice and publish is the voice layer. AI avatar is the path when the person in the short was never filmed. UGC ads is the path when the short is a product ad rather than a cut of a recording.

FAQ

Why is CapCut on a list of AI clip makers if it does not propose clips?

Because most people who want a clip still need a timeline, a vertical frame, and burned-in captions. CapCut is that bench on this site, checked 2026-10-16, with Seedance attached to paid credits and with no observed clipping score. OpusClip is the tool whose Starter card names AI clipping and a Virality Score. Both can be in a stack. They are not the same feature. The long-to-short workflow keeps CapCut on the default path and OpusClip on the volume option for that reason.

How many minutes do 150 OpusClip credits or 45 Submagic credits buy?

Not observed as a minute grant. OpusClip's pricing extract does not fully itemize a credit-to-minute map. The pools are 60, 150, and 300 credits a month. Submagic prints 45 credits and about 15 videos on Starter, and 120 credits and about 40 videos on Pro, beside duration lines of 2 min and 5 min. Dividing those pairs is arithmetic on an approximation. It is not a rate card, and it does not mean each video is as long as the duration figure. Re-read the product after the first render, then match the burn to the pool.

Does the free OpusClip plan post a clean Short?

It renders with a watermark, up to 1080p, on 60 credits a month, with limited editing, as checked 2026-10-17. Watermark removal, the Virality Score, animated captions, and auto-post start on Starter at $15. The retention rule is truncated, so this page will not say the files vanish after three days. CapCut's free watermark rule was not observed on its pricing extract. VEED's free limits were not itemized. A clean free export is not a promise on this compare.

Which clip maker has an MCP URL I can add today?

None of the clippers stored an official server URL in the pricing extract. OpusClip markets Video MCP and lists Limited API Access on Pro, without a URL. Submagic, VEED, and Descript market API or MCP language without a copied endpoint. CapCut and Captions did not observe one. Revid says an MCP server is included on every plan. The tool page's claim is that inclusion, not a URL this compare should guess. For a stored remote MCP on a different job, HeyGen and Higgsfield are the entries that printed one. They are not clip makers.

Is Revid's $39 Growth plan an OpusClip Pro substitute?

No. Revid Growth, checked 2026-10-17, is $39 a month, or $32 on the yearly display, for 2,000 credits and 3 Auto-Mode workers, with publish to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. OpusClip Pro is $29 a month, or $174 billed annually, for 300 credits, a Virality Score on the Starter feature set, and a two-seat workspace. The dollars are close and the jobs are not. Revid did not name AI clipping of a long master. OpusClip did not name Auto-Mode workers. Credits per Short on Revid, and credits per minute on OpusClip, were not observed, so the larger credit integer is not a larger clipping allowance.