Compiled by Amit KumarWhat is Opus Clip?
Opus Clip takes one long video — a podcast, a webinar, a stream, a talking-head recording — and returns a set of short vertical clips, captioned and ready to post.
The work it does is selection as much as editing: it decides which stretches of an hour are worth cutting, then reframes them to keep the speaker in a 9:16 frame.
It launched on Product Hunt on 11 July 2023 and finished #3 of the day. Since then its releases have kept placing: Captions at #2 of the day in April 2024, ReframeAnything at #2 in March 2025, Thumbnail at #4 in May 2025. It carries 3.3K followers and a 4.5 rating from 78 reviews, the largest review base of the three short-form video tools in this batch.
Prices on this page come from opus.pro/pricing and the processing allowances from Opus Clip's help centre, both read on 24 September 2026.
Is Opus Clip free?
Yes, with three restrictions that decide whether the free plan is usable: a watermark, a 60 processing minutes a month ceiling, and exports that expire after three days.
- Allowance: 60 processing minutes a month, from Opus Clip's help centre. Note that this counts the length of the video you feed in, not the length of the clips that come out.
- Watermark: present, and not removable on the free plan.
- Storage: none. Exports are available for three days and then they are gone.
- Resolution: up to 1080p.
- Imports: local files up to 10GB, and YouTube.
- Clipping method: by spoken words only. The visual, sound, emotion and genre-based methods are paid.
- Posting: none. You download and upload by hand.
- Support: Discord and an AI chat.
The three-day expiry is the one that catches people. It is not a storage quota you can manage around — it is a clock that starts when the clip is made, and a free account that does not download promptly loses the work.
How much does Opus Clip cost?
On 24 September 2026, Starter cost $15 a month and Pro $29 a month. Free is $0 and Business is quoted by sales. Opus Clip does not publish annual prices on its pricing page.
| Plan | Price | Processing minutes | Exports | Posting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 60 a month | Expire after 3 days, 1080p, watermarked | None |
| Starter | $15/mo | 150 a month | 29 days, highest resolution, no watermark | YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram |
| Pro | $29/mo | 300 a month, or 3,600 a year | No limit, 100GB storage | 6+ platforms with a scheduler |
| Business | Sales | Not published | Unlimited storage | All platforms, CMS integration |
Per processing minute that is $0.10 on Starter and about $0.097 on Pro (our arithmetic: plan price divided by the monthly minute allowance).
Those two numbers are within a third of a cent of each other. Pro is not a volume discount — it is the same rate with more features attached. Decide on the features, and treat the extra 150 minutes as something you get rather than something you are buying.
What the extra $14 actually buys: video B-roll, dubbing, sound effects and speech enhancement; 15+ import sources including Twitch, Facebook and Dropbox; a posting scheduler across 6+ platforms; 100GB of real storage instead of an expiry clock; the Video Editing and Scheduler APIs; team seats in packs of two up to four; and live chat support rather than Discord.
The allowance is not on the pricing page
Opus Clip's pricing page lists four plans and never says how much video each one may process. The numbers — 60, 150 and 300 minutes a month — are in the help centre.
This is worth stating plainly because processing minutes are the binding constraint on this product. Everything else on the pricing page is a feature you either use or do not; the minute allowance is the thing that stops you working in the third week of the month.
A podcast is the clearest example. One weekly hour-long episode is roughly 240 minutes of source video a month, which exceeds Starter's 150 and nearly exhausts Pro's 300 — and that is before a single re-run. A reader who sized their plan from the pricing page alone would not have seen that coming.
Minutes and credits are used interchangeably
The help centre's own wording moves between "processing minutes" and "credits" without defining the relationship between them. Pro top-up packs, for instance, are described as "300 more credits per month for video processing" — the same number as the plan's minutes, called something else.
Read them as the same unit until Opus Clip says otherwise. But if you are buying top-ups at volume, confirm it with support first, because the documentation does not settle it.
Annual is quoted in a different unit again
Pro on annual billing is listed as 3,600 minutes a year. That is 300 a month with no monthly reset in between, which is better than twelve separate 300-minute months: a heavy week in January can borrow from a quiet February. The pricing page does not mention the annual option at all.
Opus Clip vs Submagic and Vizard
They are priced on different units, which makes the comparison less about cost and more about what you are feeding in.
Opus Clip charges by the minute of source video. Submagic charges by the finished video — 45 credits for 15 videos on its $19 Starter plan — and caps each one at two minutes on that tier. Vizard sits in the same category.
So the shape of your input decides the winner. If you record long and cut many clips from it, a minutes-based plan is the cheaper unit. If you already have short pieces and want them captioned and styled, a per-video plan is, and Submagic has no free tier to test that on. Opus Clip does.
One more practical difference: Submagic's cheapest plan holds a two-minute duration cap, which rules out anything longer regardless of how many credits you have left. Opus Clip has no per-clip length cap of that kind on paid plans.
Who Opus Clip suits, and who it does not
It suits anyone sitting on long recordings who wants them repurposed without opening an editor: podcasters, streamers, webinar hosts, and teams turning conference talks into social clips. The scheduler on Pro is what turns it from a clipping tool into a publishing workflow, and that is where the $29 starts paying for itself.
It does not suit someone whose raw material is already short — at 60 seconds in and 60 seconds out, you are paying a minutes-based rate for a job that per-video pricing does better. It also does not suit anyone who needs frame-level control; the point of the product is that it makes the selection decisions for you, and if you intend to overrule them, Descript is closer to what you want.
And if you are trying the free plan, download what you make the day you make it.
What to use instead of Opus Clip, and for which job
Submagic — when your source is already short. It charges per finished video rather than per source minute, which is the cheaper unit if you film vertical clips directly. Note its duration caps: two minutes on the entry plan. It has no free tier.
Vizard — the closest like-for-like. Same job, same category; worth pricing against Opus Clip on your own volume before committing.
Descript — when you want to overrule the selection. Opus Clip's value is that it decides which moments matter. If you intend to make those calls yourself, transcript-based editing is the better fit.
Stay on the free plan if you publish from one long recording a month and will download clips the day you make them.
Sources
Every figure on this page was read from the pages below on 24 September 2026.
- Opus Clip pricing — plan prices, export windows, watermark, import sources, posting and team seats
- Opus Clip help centre: plans and credits — the 60 / 150 / 300 processing-minute allowances, the annual 3,600 figure, and the interchangeable use of minutes and credits
- Opus Clip on Product Hunt — launch date, daily rankings across four launches, rating and review count
