Cheapest AI clipping tools, priced for a one-hour, 10-hour and 40-hour month

The short answer

The cheapest tool depends on how many hours you clip in a month. Some low entry plans stop at five hours, and some dearer plans are the only ones that hold forty. This page sizes eight tools against three months of source video, which are one hour, 10 hours and 40 hours.

GPT-Video is our product, so it comes first and gets the same arithmetic as the others. It is not the cheapest at the entrance. Opus Clip Starter costs $15 for 150 credits, and Vizard and Klap both list lower entry rates per unit. At one hour the lowest paid price is Opus Clip's, and at 10 hours it is Vizard's. At 40 hours GPT-Video's Studio plan holds the whole month in one plan for $199, and Starter with five top-ups costs $144, the lowest published price for that load. Klap Pro+ is $10 below Studio on paper, but it counts clips, so its fit is an estimate.

Every price and limit comes from the vendors' own pages, read on 2026-10-04.

How the three months are priced

The same rules apply to every tool, so the cells can be compared.

• The load. 60, 600 and 2,400 minutes of source video a month, in one go or spread across the month. For GPT-Video this is Standard quality, where one credit is one source minute. Draft halves it and Maximum multiplies it by 2.5.
• The plan. The cheapest single listed plan whose stated allowance holds the load. When no plan holds it, the cell says so and no figure is invented.
• The cost per minute. The plan price divided by the minutes of the load, not by the minutes the plan allows. Allowance you do not use is paid for.
• The billing. Monthly, unless a line says yearly. Munch shows only yearly-billed prices, and its cells are marked.
• The units. Source minutes at GPT-Video, Opus Clip, Vizard and Quso, credits per video minute at Submagic, generated clips at Klap, analysis hours at Choppity, and repurposing minutes plus a count of videos at Munch.
• The add-ons. Counted only where a price is published: GPT-Video top-ups and Quso add-on credits.

Cost of each month, tool by tool

Per-minute figures are the plan price divided by 60, 600 or 2,400. Klap's cells are sized from its own yields, explained in its section below.

The one-hour month

In order of paid price: Opus Clip Starter at $15, GPT-Video Starter at $19 (that is $4 more), Choppity Starter at $20, then Vizard, Klap and Quso at $29 each, Munch at $38 and Submagic at $39. The spread is small, so at this size the features around the price matter more than the price itself.

Four tools list a no-cost plan that holds roughly an hour. Opus Clip gives 60 credits with a watermark and no editing, Vizard 60 credits at 720p with a watermark, Quso 75 credits at 720p, and Choppity 1 hour of analysis with projects kept for 3 days. Klap gives one video. GPT-Video has no permanent plan of this kind. A new account gets free access after confirming its email: 50 credits, about 50 minutes at Standard, usable for 14 days and with no card. That covers most of a one-hour month once, and nothing renews afterwards. Places are limited.

The 10-hour month

Vizard Creator is the lowest priced fit. Its lowest credit step is 600, which is this month exactly, at $29. GPT-Video costs more here: $49 for Creator, or $44 if you add one $25 top-up to Starter (250 + 500 = 750 credits). Quso Growth lands at $49 for 600 credits. Munch Premium is $60 on yearly billing, and Klap Pro is $79. Opus Clip needs two Pro packs and the pack price is not visible. Submagic and Choppity have no plan this large.

The 40-hour month

Klap Pro+ at $189 is $10 below Studio at $199, and both are one plan. Studio holds 6,000 credits, which is 2.5 times the load, and adds a separate space for each client and a place at the front of the queue. A cheaper GPT-Video route stacks five top-ups on Starter: $19 plus 5 × $25 is $144 for 2,750 credits. Quso reaches the month by buying 1,800 add-on credits at $0.15 each, $270, on top of Growth's $49, for $319. Opus Clip would need eight Pro packs, and Vizard a credit step whose price we could not read. Submagic, Munch and Choppity stop short.

1. GPT-Video (ours)

Read this section as our own claim, and check it against the table. GPT-Video meters source minutes only. One credit is one minute at Standard, Draft is 0.5, Maximum is 2.5, and the count is rounded up with a floor of one credit. Starter is $19 for 250 credits, Creator is $49 for 800 and Studio is $199 for 6,000. A top-up is $25 for 500 credits, which is $0.05 a credit (25 divided by 500), and that price is what makes the two large months cheaper than their plan tiers.

The weak spot is the entrance. Starter works out to $0.076 a credit, and Vizard's Creator is $0.048 a credit for the same unit. A GPT-Video credit does not carry past the billing month it came with, so a quiet month wastes the rest. The free access for new accounts (50 credits over 14 days) lets you check the clips at no cost, but it happens once, so it does not lower the price of any month after it. Edits you ask for are not metered, since only source minutes are counted. Beyond price, there is no permanent no-cost plan, no posting or scheduling, no import from a link, and no REST API. An MCP connector exists (setup here). More on the clip generator.

2. Vizard

Vizard is the cheapest paid entry per credit in this set with a confirmed price. Creator is $29 for 600 credits at one credit per uploaded minute, which is $0.048 a minute, and that is a full 10-hour month. Credits are charged once per project, so clipping and transcribing one video do not charge twice. Unused credits stay valid for two months under monthly billing and 13 months under yearly billing.

The ceiling is the catch. A single upload cannot pass 600 minutes, and above the first credit step the prices sit in a dropdown that we could not read, so a 40-hour month has no confirmed price here. The no-cost plan gives 60 credits at 720p with a watermark and exports up to 10 minutes long. From Creator you also get posting to six networks and a REST API, neither of which GPT-Video offers. See our Vizard comparison.

3. Klap

Klap sells clips instead of minutes. Basic is $29 for 100 clips, Pro is $79 for 300 and Pro+ is $189 for 1,000, read from the pricing page's own script. Yearly billing shows $14, $39 and $94. Klap's own comparison page describes Basic as 10 videos of 45 minutes, which is 450 minutes. On that figure the yearly price is about $0.031 a minute (14 divided by 450), and Klap itself says about $0.03. The monthly price is $0.064 a minute (29 divided by 450).

A month sized in hours therefore needs an estimate. Klap's tool pages quote 50 clips for a four-hour stream and at least 10 for a half-hour video, which works out to between 12.5 and 20 clips an hour. That puts 10 hours at 125 to 200 clips, which Basic cannot hold, so Pro. It puts 40 hours at 500 to 800, so Pro+. Limits other than the clip count are not confirmed for either plan. A clip you generate and throw away still uses quota. Publishing and scheduling come with every plan, while the REST API is a separate product priced per operation.

4. Opus Clip

Opus Clip Starter costs $15 and holds 150 credits, each worth one source minute. It is sold monthly and outputs vertical only. The $29 Pro tier is sold in packs of 300 credits, with a selector that runs from 1 to 15 packs. The price of a second pack is not in the page text, so 600 minutes and 2,400 minutes need two and eight packs at prices we cannot give.

Details that move the bill. A partial minute rounds down, a post to X costs 3 credits a clip, and yearly Pro is $174, which delivers 3,600 credits at purchase, valid for 12 months. That averages a bumpy year better than a monthly plan. The no-cost option is 60 credits every month, and sign-up adds a 7-day Pro trial of 90 minutes without a card. Pro publishes to nine networks and has an API in beta.

5. Quso

Quso counts in the same unit as GPT-Video, one credit per uploaded minute, and charges nothing extra for editing, publishing or downloading. Lite is $29 for 100 credits, Essential is $39 for 300 and Growth is $49 for 600, so Growth matches a 10-hour month. Scheduling starts at Essential. Add-on credits are $0.15 each and do not expire, which is three times a GPT-Video top-up credit and explains the $319 cell.

Base credits expire each period, and the annual plan is shown with doubled credits that we could not confirm on a second page, so we did not use it. Quso has a no-cost plan with 75 credits at 720p and no API.

6. Choppity

Choppity measures hours of AI analysis. Starter is $20 for 3 hours, Creator is $32 for 5 hours and Team is $48 for 5 hours. The pricing page does not say whether those hours renew monthly, so every Choppity figure here carries that doubt. An hour fits Starter at $0.333 a minute, and no listed plan reaches 10 hours.

The no-cost plan gives 1 hour of analysis, with projects kept for 3 days. Starter has a social scheduler, and a REST API starts at Creator. Its scheduler page says one-click publishing reaches only YouTube at present.

7. Munch

Munch Studio is built around posts and a content planner, with clips as one part. The pricing page showed only yearly-billed prices, so $38 a month for Essential and $60 for Premium are yearly figures, and we could not read the monthly price. Essential has 500 minutes of repurposing and 10 generated videos. Premium has 1,000 minutes and 30 generated videos. Both plans start with a 7-day trial. A Custom plan is mentioned, with no price given. If you only want clips, you pay for a wider product.

8. Submagic

Submagic prices captions-first short videos. Starter is $19 for 45 credits (15 videos), Pro is $39 for 120 credits (40 videos) and Business is $69 for 300 credits (100 videos). One credit covers up to a minute and fractions round up. Each plan also carries a per-video length cap of 2, 5 and 30 minutes, and all three sit below a one-hour recording, so check a long source first. Yearly billing brings the plans to $12, $23 and $41 a month. A 10-hour month is 600 credits, twice Business.

Yearly billing at the entrance

Yearly billing moves the entry rates, and GPT-Video's does as well: paying for 10 months and getting 12 means $190 a year for Starter, which is $15.83 a month ($190 divided by 12).

Vizard and Klap are cheaper per minute than GPT-Video at the entrance on yearly billing as well as monthly.

How to choose

Pick the row of your own month and ignore the headline price.

• One or two hours a month. Opus Clip Starter holds 150 minutes for $15. A no-cost plan from Opus Clip, Vizard, Quso or Choppity holds about an hour every month if a watermark is acceptable. GPT-Video's free access covers about 50 minutes, once, before you decide on Starter.
• Around 10 hours a month. Vizard Creator is the lowest priced fit, with scheduling included. Choose GPT-Video if you want to look at 600 minutes in Draft first, which uses 300 credits and fits Creator, and want the reason for each pick written next to the clip.
• A steady heavy month. Studio at $199, or Starter with five top-ups at $144, if you want credits you can count in minutes. Klap Pro+ if counting in clips suits how you work and you accept the estimate.
• An uneven year. Vizard's rollover and Opus Clip's yearly credits smooth a quiet month. GPT-Video credits stay in the month that granted them.
• You need posting built in. Every tool here except GPT-Video has some form of scheduling, so price the posting you would otherwise do by hand.

To price your own month, add up your source minutes, find the row above and compare it with Starter and Creator on the pricing page. The Editor Assistant changes a clip when you type what you want.