Captions is the mobile-native editor in this batch for AI edits, captions, an AI Twin, and actors. The public ladder checked on 2026-10-17 is Free, Max, Frontier, and Enterprise. Mirage Studio is merged into Captions, according to the homepage FAQ. That merger is a product fact. It is not a second price list. Checked the same day, captions.ai/pricing returned HTTP 200 to a plain fetch. Dollar figures below are that page. A yearly sticker, a watermark rule, and a twin count the extract did not print are not observed.

Who it's for

Captions fits a TikTok-native editor who wants the phone-side loop of trim, captions, and generative AI in one subscription, and a creator who wants an AI Twin or an actor without opening a desktop avatar studio first. Free is the limited non-generative slice: trim, transitions, and some media, with generative credits listed as none. Max is the first paid row, at $24.99 a month, described with Medium AI usage credits. Features copy mentions 500 credits a month. Frontier is the usage stepper, at $69.99, $139.99, and $279.99 a month for 1x, 2x, and 4x. Enterprise is custom.

A desktop timeline you already know, with a reframe and everyday captions, is CapCut. A long video that must be mined for clips and a Virality Score is OpusClip. Caption-first shorts on a per-member plan are Submagic. A presenter studio with a translation table and an official MCP URL is HeyGen. A product URL that must become a UGC ad is Creatify. A named voice, when the actor line does not name a speaker, is ElevenLabs.

The home path for type, safe areas, and covers is captions and covers. AI avatar is the path when the AI Twin or the actor is the picture. UGC ads is the path when that actor is selling. The pricing extract did not print a product-URL import. The ad fit is the actor, not a URL field this page can claim.

What it does

You edit on a mobile-native product. The batch job is the edit, the captions, the AI Twin, and the actors. Free's copied feature set is trim, transitions, and some media. The Free row's generative credit quantity is "None." A watermark on Free was not observed. A duration cap on Free was not observed. "Some media" was not itemized. The media types inside that phrase are not observed.

Max is $24.99 a month. The plan is described with Medium AI usage credits, and features copy mentions 500 credits a month. This page records both phrases. It does not pretend they were a single sentence that said "Medium means 500," because the extract listed them as the Max description and a features mention. If they are the same grant, the product can say so in the app. A credit burn per caption, per twin render, or per actor video was not observed. What "Medium" means relative to Frontier's multipliers was not observed.

Frontier is three monthly prices on a usage stepper: $69.99 for 1x, $139.99 for 2x, and $279.99 for 4x. The credit counts behind 1x, 2x, and 4x were not observed. Doubling the price does not, by itself, prove the credit math, but the pairs can be checked as arithmetic. $69.99 times 2 is $139.98, and the 2x sticker is $139.99. Those two amounts differ by one cent. $69.99 times 4 is $279.96, and the 4x sticker is $279.99. Those two amounts differ by three cents. The stepper is the price you read. The multiplication is only a check that 2x and 4x sit next to two times and four times the 1x sticker, within a few cents. It is not a vendor formula the page spelled out, and it does not reveal how many credits 1x contains.

Enterprise is custom. The custom credit multiple, the seat price, and any security line were not observed. Annual prices for Free, Max, Frontier, or Enterprise were not observed. This page does not multiply $24.99, or any Frontier sticker, into a yearly bill the card did not print.

Mirage Studio's merger is from the homepage FAQ. What Mirage cost before the merger, and which Captions plan now holds the old Mirage features, were not observed. AI Twin counts and actor counts were not observed. A language count for captions was not observed.

Pricing tiers

Verified on 2026-10-17 against captions.ai/pricing.

Plan	Price in the extract	Usage	What was stated
Free	$0	Generative credits: None	Limited set: trim, transitions, some media.
Max	$24.99/mo	Medium AI usage credits. Features copy mentions 500 credits/mo.	A burn rate was not observed. An annual price was not observed.
Frontier 1x	$69.99/mo	1x usage	Credit quantity behind 1x was not observed.
Frontier 2x	$139.99/mo	2x usage	Credit quantity behind 2x was not observed.
Frontier 4x	$279.99/mo	4x usage	Credit quantity behind 4x was not observed.
Enterprise	Custom	not observed	Contact path.

There is no yearly column in this extract. A "save on annual" banner was not observed. Annual prices are not observed. This page does not multiply the monthly stickers into a yearly plan. Pay the monthly checkout until an annual card exists in a later check.

The one-cent and three-cent gaps on the Frontier multiples are small enough to notice and too specific to smooth over. Store $139.99 and $279.99 as printed. Do not replace them with $139.98 or $279.96. Checkout uses the printed stepper.

Max's 500-credit mention and Frontier's multipliers were not tied together by a sentence in the extract. This page does not say that 1x equals 500, or that 1x equals some multiple of Max. That identity was not observed.

Pros

Free, Max, and three Frontier steps each have a price or an explicit $0, so the ladder is readable before Enterprise.
Free states that generative credits are none, which is clearer than a vague "limited AI" with no unit.
Max prints $24.99 and the features copy mentions 500 credits a month, so a first paid month has both a sticker and a credit phrase.
Frontier's 2x and 4x prices sit within a few cents of two times and four times the $69.99 step, which makes the stepper easier to audit.
The homepage FAQ records that Mirage Studio merged into Captions, so a buyer is not sent to shop a second brand this check still treats as separate.

Cons

No annual price was on the extract. A year of Max or Frontier cannot be discounted from this page.
Frontier's 1x, 2x, and 4x labels have no credit quantities. "Twice the usage" is not a number of videos.
Max's "Medium AI usage credits" and the "500 credits a month" features mention are both recorded, and the burn per action was not observed.
AI Twin counts, actor counts, caption languages, and watermark rules were not observed.
API and MCP were not observed. A mobile editor subscription is not an agent endpoint on this pass.
Mirage's old price and the plan that absorbed each Mirage feature were not observed.

Usage flow

Read Free as $0 with generative credits set to none, and with trim, transitions, and some media. Use it to see the editor. Do not expect a twin or an actor render from a grant the row marks as none.
Move to Max at $24.99 a month when you need the paid AI usage. Read it as Medium AI usage credits, and note that features copy mentions 500 credits a month. Move along Frontier when the multiplier is the limit: $69.99 at 1x, $139.99 at 2x, or $279.99 at 4x. Ignore any yearly total this page did not copy, because none was copied.
If the phone export still needs a desktop timeline, a cover, or a named voice, finish in CapCut and, for the voice, in ElevenLabs. If the source was a long recording rather than a phone edit, start in OpusClip or Submagic instead of forcing that master through a generative credit grant.

Workflow usage

On captions and covers, Captions is the mobile edit and the caption product, at the prices above. CapCut stays the desktop timeline when you already know the in and out. Submagic is the other caption-first plan, priced per member, with duration lines on its own page. OpusClip is the long-file clipper with a credit pool and a Virality Score. Captions' copied meter is "None" on Free, a Medium grant with a 500-credit mention on Max, and 1x, 2x, and 4x on Frontier. Safe-zone insets and a cover spec were not observed on the Captions pricing extract. When the words are burned in and the frame still fails, the desktop editor is still CapCut.

On AI avatar, the AI Twin and the actors are why Captions is on the list. HeyGen remains the default when the buyer needs a checked translation table, a credit card this directory read from HeyGen's own FAQ, or the remote MCP URL. Captions did not print a twin-minute cap or a language list on this pass. A multilingual lesson cannot be planned from the $24.99 sticker alone.

On UGC ads, Captions fits when the ad is a phone-native actor or twin edit you are willing to spend Max or Frontier credits on. Creatify fits when the input is a product URL and the output is a batch of ad variations from Creatify's own credit plans. The Captions extract did not print a URL import, an ad launcher, or a commercial-license sentence. Those gaps are not observed. A paid-media buy needs the license from the product, not from the fact that actors exist.

Underlying models

No video model and no speech model was named on the 2026-10-17 pricing extract. AI Twin, actors, Medium AI usage, and the Frontier multipliers are product words. Mirage Studio is a merged product name from the homepage FAQ, not a model card this pass can spec. This page does not list Captions as a host for a named generator, and it does not assign Mirage's old stack to Max or to Frontier. That assignment was not observed. When a cutaway has to cite a model, generate it in a tool that prints the model. When the speaker has to be a named voice, use ElevenLabs. Those hops spend a different meter. They do not draw on the 500-credit mention, or on 1x, 2x, and 4x, until Captions prints a model name and a burn.

API and MCP

has_api is false. The pricing extract did not print an API plan, a base URL, an auth scheme, or a docs URL. mcp.official is false. No official MCP server URL was observed, so there is no mcp.url and no api_url. The Mirage merger does not add an endpoint. A homepage FAQ line about a merger is not a server address.

For a printed creator endpoint, use HeyGen, Creatify, or ElevenLabs. OpusClip lists limited API access and markets Video MCP without a server URL in its extract. Submagic names Business + API and did not confirm a public docs URL on its check. CapCut had no public creator API on its check. A Captions subscription does not authenticate those products. An agent that needs to render an avatar from code should not start with this pricing page.

Similar tools

CapCut is the desktop timeline for the cut, the reframe, and everyday captions. Captions is the mobile-native AI edit with a generative credit ladder and an AI Twin.
OpusClip and Submagic start from a long video and sell clips and caption styling. Captions starts from the phone edit and the actor or twin, and its Free row does not include generative credits.
HeyGen is the presenter studio with a documented API and an official MCP URL. Use HeyGen when the likeness and the translation are the asset. Use Captions when the edit is mobile and the Frontier stepper is the usage buy.
Creatify is the URL-to-ad studio. ElevenLabs is the voice the actor line did not name.

FAQ

Does Free include AI credits?

The Free row lists generative credits as none. The limited set that was copied is trim, transitions, and some media. Max, at $24.99 a month, is the first row described with Medium AI usage credits, and features copy mentions 500 credits a month. A twin or actor render on Free was not observed as a credit spend, because the grant is none.

What does Frontier 2x cost, and what does 2x mean?

2x is $139.99 a month. 1x is $69.99 a month. 4x is $279.99 a month. The credit quantity behind each multiplier was not observed. $69.99 times 2 is $139.98, one cent under the printed 2x price. $69.99 times 4 is $279.96, three cents under the printed 4x price. Use the printed prices. The multiplication does not reveal a video count.

Is there a yearly Captions plan?

Not in the extract checked on 2026-10-17. Max and the Frontier steps are monthly stickers. Enterprise is custom. This page does not turn $24.99 times 12 into a yearly plan. If the product shows an annual toggle later, that toggle is the price, and this page did not record it.

Did Mirage Studio stay a separate subscription?

The homepage FAQ says Mirage Studio merged into Captions. A separate Mirage price was not observed on this pass. Which current plan contains each former Mirage feature was not observed. Shop the Captions ladder above, and confirm the feature inside the app.

Does Captions have an API or an official MCP server?

Not on this pass. has_api is false and mcp.official is false. The pricing page did not print a base URL or an MCP server URL. Max credits and Frontier multipliers are in-product usage. They are not a developer wallet this check can address.

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