--- title: "Opus Clip vs Vizard: Pricing and Limits Compared" description: "Opus Clip vs Vizard on entry price, yearly billing, the no-cost plan, publishing, API and MCP, credit expiry and file limits. Checked 2026-10-04." summary: "Vizard gives more minutes for the money: $29 a month buys 600 credits there and 300 on Opus Clip Pro. Opus Clip does more around the clip, with nine publishing networks, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve export, and a hosted MCP server. Pick Vizard for volume, Opus Clip for automation. GPT-Video is a third option if you re-cut often." url: "https://www.gpt-video.com/compare/opus-clip-vs-vizard" compares: "GPT-Video, opus-clip, vizard" checked: "2026-10-04" --- # Opus Clip vs Vizard: Prices, Credits and Limits Compared Vizard gives more minutes for the money: $29 a month buys 600 credits there and 300 on Opus Clip Pro. Opus Clip does more around the clip, with nine publishing networks, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve export, and a hosted MCP server. Pick Vizard for volume, Opus Clip for automation. GPT-Video is a third option if you re-cut often. ## The short answer Vizard gives more minutes for the money. Its Creator plan is $29 a month for 600 credits, and 600 credits are 600 minutes of video, so each minute costs about $0.048 ($29 divided by 600). Opus Clip Pro is also $29 a month, but a pack holds 300 credits, about $0.097 a minute ($29 divided by 300). The same price buys half the minutes. Opus Clip does more around the clip. It posts to nine networks, exports to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, and runs a hosted MCP server. Both tools also give 60 credits a month at no cost, and both count the minutes you upload. The numbers below were read from each company's public pages on 2026-10-04. ## Opus Clip at a glance Opus Clip sells credits, and one credit is one minute of the video you import. A video under a minute costs 1 credit, a partial minute rounds down (4.5 minutes counts as 4), and you can limit processing to part of a video. Starter is $15 a month for 150 credits, so the entry rate is $0.10 per source minute, found by dividing $15 by 150. It is sold monthly only, cuts 9:16 vertical clips, removes the watermark and posts to YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels. Pro is $29 a month for 300 credits per pack. The page offers a selector from one to fifteen packs, but the price of extra packs is not visible in the page text, so the cost of more than 300 minutes a month is unknown. Business is custom and goes through sales. Yearly billing on Pro is $174, or $14.50 a month, exactly half the monthly price. The whole year of credits, 3,600, arrives at purchase and stays valid for 12 months. Monthly credits expire after 60 days. Pro is where the surrounding tools start: other aspect ratios, the scheduler, XML export, the API, Zapier, dubbing and a shared workspace. Two details can surprise you. A post to X costs 3 credits per clip per X account, taken from the same allowance. And 4K download works only when the source is genuinely 4K, with 4K posting reserved for Business. ## Vizard at a glance Vizard also counts uploaded minutes, one credit each, and charges once per project, so clipping and transcribing the same video do not bill twice. There is no cheaper draft pass. Creator is $29 a month from 600 credits, with a dropdown of credit steps above that. The price of the higher steps could not be read without the page's JavaScript, so this page claims nothing about them. Creator adds 4K export, scheduled posts to six accounts, 100 GB of storage, uploads up to 600 minutes and faster processing. Business is $39 a month with a shared workspace, 20 social accounts, a brand kit and priority support. Yearly billing is $174 for Creator and $234 for Business, which works out to $14.50 and $19.50 a month, again half the monthly price. At the lowest step Creator then carries 7,200 credits a year, about $0.024 a minute ($174 divided by 7,200). A monthly release of credits lasts 2 months, a yearly one 13, and the older credits are spent first. The no-cost plan exports 720p with a watermark, limits uploads to 60 minutes and 1 GB, limits exports to 10 minutes and keeps projects for 3 days. API access needs a paid plan, with rate limits of 3 requests a minute on Creator and 10 on Business. ## What a month costs on each Take three sizes of month and match each to the cheapest plan that holds it. - **150 source minutes (2.5 hours).** Opus Clip Starter at $15 covers it. Vizard's cheapest paid plan is Creator at $29, so Opus Clip is $14 cheaper ($29 minus $15). That Starter month has no scheduler and no 4K, and Creator has both. - **300 source minutes (5 hours).** Both cost $29. Opus Clip Pro uses its single pack. Vizard Creator holds 600 credits, so half sits unused, though it rolls over for two months. - **600 source minutes (10 hours).** Vizard Creator at $29 holds it. Opus Clip would need two Pro packs, and since the second pack's price is not published in the page text, this page cannot give the total. On yearly billing the two list the same $174, so the gap is the allowance: 3,600 minutes on Opus Clip Pro and 7,200 on Vizard Creator. ## Side by side | Feature | Opus Clip | Vizard | | --- | --- | --- | | What one credit measures | 1 minute of imported video, partial minutes round down | 1 minute of uploaded video, charged once per project | | Cheapest paid plan | Starter, $15 a month, 150 credits, monthly only | Creator, $29 a month, from 600 credits | | Next plan up | Pro, $29 a month, 300 credits per pack | Business, $39 a month, from 600 credits | | Yearly price | Pro $174 a year, 3,600 credits | Creator $174 a year, 7,200 credits at the lowest step; Business $234 | | No-cost plan | 60 credits a month, 1080p, watermarked captions, no editing, downloads end after 3 days | 60 credits a month, 720p with watermark, full editor, exports up to 10 minutes | | Trial | 7-day Pro trial, 90 minutes, no card | None listed | | Credit expiry | Monthly 60 days, yearly 12 months | Monthly 2 months, yearly 13 months | | Publishing and scheduling | Nine networks on Pro | Six networks from Creator | | API | Video Editing API and Scheduler API, Pro (Beta) | Public REST API, paid plans, 3 a minute on Creator | | MCP | Hosted server, 29 tools, Pro (Beta) or above | Not confirmed on public pages; API-key Skill for Claude Code and Cursor | | Largest upload | 10 hours; 10 GB on Starter, 30 GB on Pro | 600 minutes and 30 GB on paid plans | | 4K | Pro, for genuine 4K sources | Creator | ## Where GPT-Video fits as a third option We make GPT-Video, so weigh this section with that in mind. It suits one kind of buyer, someone who goes back into the same recording more than once and wants the first pass to be cheap. A credit is one minute of source video at Standard, Draft costs half of that and Maximum two and a half times. Say you have 300 minutes of tape. A Draft pass is 150 credits, and promoting the best 100 minutes to Standard is another 100. That is 250 credits, exactly the Starter allowance at $19 a month. Neither Opus Clip nor Vizard has a cheaper first look, because both bill one credit per minute whatever the pass. Each clip comes with the opening hook and the line that earned the pick, and you change a clip by telling the Editor Assistant what you want in plain words, with every change undoable. More on [vibe editing](/vibe-editing). On a single Standard pass the price is middling. Starter works out to $0.076 a minute ($19 divided by 250), cheaper than Opus Clip Starter at $0.10 and dearer than Vizard Creator at $0.048. Creator is $49 for 800 credits, about $0.061 a minute. Unused credits expire with the billing month, and yearly billing means paying for 10 months and getting 12. What you give up is on the list in one line: no publishing or scheduling, no import from a link (you upload the file), and no plan that stays free. New accounts get a fixed grant of free access instead, 50 credits that expire 14 days after the email is confirmed, with no card and limited places. Starter is the first plan you pay for. Both rivals publish and both offer an API. There is an MCP connector with eight tools, described at [MCP](/developers/mcp). If you want a closer look at either rival, see [Opus Clip alternatives](/alternatives/opus-clip) and [Vizard alternatives](/alternatives/vizard). ## Which to pick Start from what happens after the clip exists. If it goes out through a scheduler to many networks, or into Premiere Pro or an automation, Opus Clip is built for that. If the constraint is how many hours of source you can afford each month, and a REST API with samples matters, Vizard gives more for $29. Check credit validity against your calendar. A channel that records unevenly loses less on Vizard, where credits last 2 months or 13 on yearly plans, than on Opus Clip monthly plans, where they last 60 days. If you only want to see output first, both no-cost plans let you do that, with watermarks and tighter limits. Look at GPT-Video only if your work is mostly the second look and the file is the end of the job, and use its free access to check that on your own footage. ## Choose Opus Clip if - You publish to many networks. Pro posts and schedules to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Pinterest, Threads and Bluesky from one scheduler. - Your footage has no talking head. Pro adds moving-object tracking, a reframing model tuned to the genre and a layout for gameplay and screenshares. - You finish in another editor or an automation. Pro exports XML to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, connects to Zapier and has a hosted MCP server with 29 tools. - You want the lowest entry price. Starter is $15 a month for 150 credits, and a new account gets a 7-day Pro trial of 90 minutes with no card. - A small team shares the work. Pro includes two seats per pack, up to four. ## Choose Vizard if - You process a lot of source video. Creator is $29 a month for 600 credits, and the yearly price of $174 buys 7,200 credits where Opus Clip Pro gives 3,600. - You want unused credits to carry over. They stay valid for 2 months on monthly plans and 13 months on yearly plans. - You build on a documented REST API with code samples and an n8n template, with 4K export already on the Creator plan. - Six networks are enough for you: TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X and LinkedIn. - You want to try the editor without paying. The no-cost plan includes the full video editor, which the Opus Clip no-cost plan does not. ## Choose GPT-Video if - You re-cut the same recording and want a first look at half the credit price: Draft costs 0.5 credit per source minute. - You want to see why each clip was picked, with the hook it opens on and the line that earned it, before you decide which ones to keep. - You like to describe a change in chat and have the Editor Assistant apply it to the clip on screen, with every change undoable. - You work from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and want an MCP connector with eight tools for finding and exporting clips. - You are happy to download the file and post it yourself. ## Questions ### Is Opus Clip or Vizard cheaper? Per minute of source video, Vizard. Its Creator plan is $29 a month for 600 credits, about $0.048 a minute, while Opus Clip Pro is $29 for 300 credits, about $0.097 a minute. Opus Clip has the lower entry price, since Starter is $15 a month. ### Do Opus Clip and Vizard both have a no-cost plan? Yes, both give 60 credits a month at no cost. Opus Clip renders up to 1080p with watermarked captions, no editing and downloads that lapse after 3 days. Vizard exports 720p with a watermark, caps exports at 10 minutes and includes the editor. ### Which of the two publishes to more social networks? Opus Clip lists nine networks on Pro: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Pinterest, Threads and Bluesky. Vizard lists six from Creator: TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X and LinkedIn. On Opus Clip, a post to X costs 3 credits per clip per account. ### Do Opus Clip and Vizard have an API or an MCP server? Opus Clip has a Video Editing API, a Scheduler API and a hosted MCP server with 29 tools, available on Pro in beta and on higher tiers. Vizard has a public REST API on paid plans and a Skill for Claude Code and Cursor, but an MCP server is not confirmed on its public pages. ### Do unused credits expire on Opus Clip and Vizard? Yes on both, on different clocks. Opus Clip monthly credits expire after 60 days and yearly credits stay valid for 12 months. Vizard credits stay valid for 2 months on monthly plans and 13 months on yearly plans, and the oldest ones are spent first. ### How long a video can I upload to Opus Clip or Vizard? Opus Clip accepts up to 10 hours, with 10 GB per upload on Starter and 30 GB on Pro. Vizard paid plans take 600 minutes, which is also 10 hours, and 30 GB per video. The Vizard no-cost plan stops at 60 minutes and 1 GB.