Opus Clip vs Klap: Minutes or Clips, and What Each Plan Costs

The short answer

Before you compare prices, compare what is being counted. Opus Clip charges for minutes going in, one credit for each minute you import. Klap charges for clips coming out: a plan is 100, 300 or 1,000 generated clips a month. A long podcast that yields many short clips can eat a clip quota quickly, while a short video cannot use up many minutes. Which meter suits you depends on how long your source files run and how many clips you keep from each.

On price, Opus Clip has the lower monthly entry at $15 for Starter, and Klap Basic is $29 monthly. Billed yearly, Klap Basic drops to $14 a month. Klap is stronger on languages, accounts and a public API. Opus Clip is stronger on networks, trial length and tool integrations. Prices were read on 2026-10-04.

Opus Clip at a glance

The entry plan, Starter, costs $15 monthly and holds 150 credits. Each credit is one source minute, so a minute costs $0.10 here, since $15 buys 150 of them. Starter cannot be bought yearly, only makes 9:16, and drops the watermark. Pro costs $29 monthly for a pack of 300 credits, about $0.097 per minute when you spread $29 across 300. You can buy more than one pack, up to fifteen, yet no price for the extra packs appears in the page text. What 600 or 900 minutes a month would cost is therefore unknown.

Billed yearly, Pro is $174, or $14.50 a month. The whole year of credits, 3,600, lands at purchase and stays usable for 12 months, so a yearly minute costs about $0.048 once you spread $174 across 3,600. Monthly credits lapse after 60 days.

The surrounding tools begin at Pro too: more aspect ratios, a scheduler, XML export for other editors, API access, Zapier and a shared workspace. Read the small print before you plan around it. Partial minutes are rounded down, posting to X takes 3 extra credits for every clip and every X account, and 4K download needs a source that is genuinely 4K.

Klap at a glance

Klap sells three quotas: Basic at 100 clips, Pro at 300 and Pro+ at 1,000. Its pricing page leads with yearly prices of $14, $39 and $94 a month. The monthly prices are $29, $79 and $189, and those come from the page's own script, not from its rendered text.

Per generated clip, the monthly prices work out to about $0.29 for Basic ($29 divided by 100), $0.26 for Pro ($79 divided by 300) and $0.19 for Pro+ ($189 divided by 1,000). Billed yearly they are about $0.14, $0.13 and $0.094. Yearly Basic is $168 for the year (12 times $14).

Every plan carries AI clipping, analytics, scheduling and unlimited social accounts. Two cautions apply. First, the pricing page runs an experiment, and its subtitle can count clips generated, clips exported, minutes uploaded or videos uploaded depending on the visitor, so the unit you see may not be the unit another person sees. Second, a comparison page on Klap's own site gives Basic a ceiling of ten 45-minute videos a month, which the price card never mentions. If you fill that ceiling, 450 source minutes cost about $0.031 each on the $14 yearly rate and about $0.064 each on the $29 monthly rate. Ceilings for Pro and Pro+ were not confirmed.

Side by side

Where GPT-Video fits as a third option

We make GPT-Video, so read this section knowing that. It is a smaller fit than either tool above and suits one situation: you want to explore a long recording cheaply before you decide what to export.

GPT-Video meters source minutes, as Opus Clip does, so a clip you throw away costs nothing extra. The edits you request afterwards are not metered either, and the second video of a split screen is left out of the count. A minute at Standard quality is one credit, Draft is half a credit and Maximum is two and a half. The Starter plan holds 250 credits for $19 monthly, around $0.076 per Standard minute, and Creator holds 800 for $49. Paying yearly gets you 12 months for the price of 10, and credits do not outlive the billing month that granted them.

Every clip is shown with the opening hook and the line behind the pick. To change a clip you write a request to the Editor Assistant, which applies it to the clip on screen, and you can undo any change. More at vibe editing.

What it lacks is short. It does not publish or schedule, it takes uploaded files instead of links, and none of its plans stays free indefinitely. Each new account can claim free access after its email is verified. That is one grant of 50 credits, valid for 14 days, and no card is taken. Places are limited. For assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, an MCP connector exposes eight tools, documented under MCP. For a closer look at either rival, read Opus Clip alternatives or Klap alternatives.

Which to pick

Start with the meter. If your recordings are long and you keep a few clips from each, a minute meter is the easier one to predict, and Opus Clip fits. If you run many short sources and keep most of what comes out, a clip count is easy to predict and Klap fits.

Then check the calendar. A creator who commits to a year sees about the same sticker price either way, $14 or $14.50 a month, so the deciding factors are the features: nine networks, XML export and an MCP server on one side, 52 languages, unlimited accounts and a REST API on the other. A creator who pays month to month and has few clips to make should compare $15 against $29 directly.

Last, test the claim that matters to you. Opus Clip has a no-cost plan of 60 credits a month and Klap gives one free video. If your job ends at the exported file and you want a cheap first look, GPT-Video is a third option, and you can test it on its free access before Starter.