Kapwing vs VEED: Plans, Credits, Clips and API Compared

The short answer

Kapwing is the easier of the two to price. A month of Pro at $24 gets you 1,000 credits, and the pages we read price subtitles, dubbing, lip sync and text to speech in credits. VEED shows yearly prices only on the page we could read, from $147 per user per year for Creator, and it is the one with a developer API and SDKs.

Both tools have a plan you can start at no cost, and both put a watermark on it. Neither page says what a clip run costs in credits, so you cannot work out a price per clip for either. Everything here was read from public pages on 2026-10-04. Where two pages disagreed or said nothing, we say so instead of choosing a number.

Kapwing at a glance

Kapwing is a browser editor with AI tools around it: subtitles, dubbing, lip sync, text to speech and Repurpose Studio, which cuts clips out of a long video. All of them draw on one pool of credits that refills monthly.

The no-cost plan has 10 credits, 720p export, a watermark and 5 GB of storage. Its export length is the muddy part. The pricing page lists 4 minutes, while the subscription FAQ says 1 minute and describes the 10 credits as lifetime, so test it before you rely on it. Pro is $24 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly, for 1,000 credits, no watermark, 4K, 200 GB of storage and a 6 GB upload limit. Business is $64 a month, or $50 yearly, for 4,000 credits and 800 GB. Enterprise has no published price.

Credits go out per action. A minute of subtitle transcription is 1 credit, 30 seconds of dubbing is 10, a minute of lip sync is 30, and 100 characters of text to speech is 1. Paid credits reset on the first of the month whatever your billing date, and they do not roll over. Neither Pro nor Business comes with a trial, and nothing is refunded after you subscribe.

In Repurpose Studio the source must run at least 10 minutes and can reach three hours. It makes 3 to 5 clips by default in 9:16, and an Auto Speaker Focus mode holds whoever is talking in the middle of the frame. Kapwing also covers split screen, and its text message template is described as exporting like a phone recording.

VEED at a glance

VEED is another editor that runs in the browser. Its AI side covers subtitles, avatars, dubbing and Clips, a tool for long videos. The pricing difference is the unit. Plans are per user, and the text we could read shows yearly prices only.

Creator bills $147 per user across a year, so it comes to $12.25 a month ($147 divided by 12). It carries 6,000 AI credits, exports at 1080p at most, and has unlimited auto subtitles and no watermark. Pro is $265 per user per year, about $22.08 a month, with 30,000 credits, translation into more than 50 languages, multiple brand kits, up to 144 hours a year of AI voice and 4K export. Studio is $465 per user per year, about $38.75 a month, with 180,000 credits, custom templates and up to 960 hours a year of AI voice. Enterprise adds review mode, privacy controls and teams managed from one place, at a price that is not published. A monthly toggle exists, but we did not read its prices and do not quote any.

The pricing page counts plans in credits and "AI videos", not in source minutes. Credits do not roll over and expire at the end of the subscription period. The Clips tool needs a video longer than two minutes with spoken audio and re-centers the speaker. Which plan includes it, and its credit cost, we could not confirm. VEED also has a split screen editor. A fake text chat or Reddit story tool did not turn up on its pages.

Price per unit and per seat

Kapwing prices by the credit. A Pro credit costs $0.024 ($24 divided by 1,000), or $0.016 on yearly billing ($16 divided by 1,000). Subtitling a minute takes 1 credit. Dubbing a minute takes 20 credits, because 30 seconds is 10, so a dubbed minute costs about $0.48 (20 times $0.024). Pro allows up to 50 minutes of dubbing a month, and 50 minutes at 20 credits is 1,000 credits, the entire pool. Yearly billing for Pro comes to $192 ($16 times 12) against $288 paid monthly ($24 times 12), a difference of $96.

VEED prices by the seat. Five people on Creator pay $735 a year (5 times $147), and five on Pro pay $1,325 (5 times $265). Moving one seat from Creator to Pro adds $118 a year ($265 minus $147). The Kapwing pages we read state no seat count for Pro or Business, so we cannot write the same sum for it. Ask before you buy for a group.

Subtitles show how different the meters are. Kapwing Pro includes up to 1,000 minutes of auto-subtitling a month inside its $24. The same 1,000 minutes through VEED's separate Subtitles API on fal.ai, at $0.10 a minute, come to $100, although VEED's Creator plan lists unlimited auto subtitles, so that is the API price only.

Side by side

Where GPT-Video fits as a third option

Full disclosure, GPT-Video is our product, so discount this section a little. It does one job, turning a long recording into vertical clips, and the wider toolbox of the two editors above is not what it sells.

It meters source minutes. At Standard a credit pays for one source minute. A Draft pass runs at 0.5 credit per minute, and a Maximum pass at 2.5. A 60-minute episode takes 60 credits at Standard, about $4.56 on Starter (60 times $0.076), or 30 credits as a Draft, about $2.28 (30 times $0.076). Starter costs $19 monthly and holds 250 credits, while Creator costs $49 and holds 800, about $0.061 a minute. Since neither rival publishes the credit cost of a clip run, we cannot set those figures beside theirs and do not claim to be cheaper.

Beyond the cut, each clip carries the reason it was picked, which means its first-seconds hook plus one decisive line from the transcript, and to change a clip you type the change into a chat with the Editor Assistant. Creator has room for a small team. More on vibe editing. An MCP connector with eight tools covers finding and exporting clips, described at MCP.

The costs of choosing it fit on one line. It will not publish or schedule posts, import from a URL or expose a public REST API. Unlike Kapwing and VEED, it has no plan that stays free month after month. A new account gets free access for 14 days instead, 50 credits without a card and while places last. After that, the paid route begins with Starter at $19 a month. To read more on either rival, see Kapwing alternatives and VEED alternatives.

Which to pick

Start with team size and code. One person who wants a single number for the month fits Kapwing, where $24 buys 1,000 credits and a subtitled minute takes one. A group billed per seat, or anyone who needs an API, is looking at VEED, using the sums above.

Then look at the source. Kapwing's Repurpose wants ten minutes or more and accepts three hours. VEED's Clips starts a little past two minutes. Neither confirms a price per clip run, so cut one video on each no-cost plan before paying, and check the watermark and the export limit while you do. Last, mind the credit clock. Kapwing's reset date does not move with your billing date, and VEED credits expire when the period ends, so buy the allowance you will actually use. Look at GPT-Video only if clips are the whole task and the exported file is where you stop, and run that same video through its free access too.