Opus Clip, Submagic, Klap, Vizard, CapCut: AI clipping tools compared, with prices dated 24 October 2026

How this comparison was made, and why it carries a date

Comparisons of clipping tools age badly. A price moves, a credit changes meaning, a free tier gains a watermark, and the article that ranks first on the query is a year out of date. So this one is built differently. Every figure below is what the publisher’s own pricing page displayed on 24 October 2026, read from France, logged out, in the currency the page showed. We did not convert dollars into euros, we did not add VAT, and we did not take a reseller’s word for anything. Where a page did not state something, the table says so rather than guessing.

Six tools are compared: flysub, which we make, then Opus Clip, Submagic, Klap, Vizard and CapCut, in the order most people search for them. Our own row uses the same headings as the others, and its numbers come from the product’s code rather than from a marketing page. One caution before the table: a pricing page is a shop window. Trial conditions, the taxes added at checkout and the region you buy from all change what you pay; CapCut, for instance, showed us different dollar prices through a US connection than the euro prices displayed from France.

The table: six tools, the same five columns

Minutes, credits, videos, clips: four ways to bill the same job

The hardest column is not the price, it is the fourth one. These tools all do the same thing, turning a long video into vertical clips, but they do not sell the same unit, and the unit decides what you will pay far more than the headline figure.

• Minutes of source video. flysub and Vizard count what you upload: an hour of podcast costs 60 minutes, whatever number of clips comes out. At flysub a started minute counts as a whole minute, so a 10-second video costs one minute. This is the unit you can compute from your calendar.
• Credits with no stated conversion. Opus Clip sells credits and CapCut sells AI credits. The pricing pages we read on 24 October did not give us a rate between a credit and a minute of video, so budget from their help pages or from the trial itself.
• Videos with a maximum length. Submagic expresses its plans in videos, each capped in length: 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro, 30 on Business. It suits a creator who feeds short videos; a one-hour episode is longer than any of the lengths displayed, so ask before you commit.
• Clips delivered. Klap bills the output: 100, 300 or 1,000 clips a month. Predictable if you know how many clips you post, blind to how long your sources are.

Free tiers: what “free” means on each page

Four of the six pages showed a free tier, and no two mean the same thing by it.

• flysub. 3 subtitled videos and 15 minutes of clipping, once, for life, with 3 exportable clips per video, as MP4 with a watermark; no card asked.
• Opus Clip. 60 credits a month at $0, with a watermark and exports kept for 3 days.
• Vizard. 60 credits at $0, exports in 720p and of 10 minutes at most, files kept 3 days.
• CapCut. A plan at 0 €; what it allows in the long-video-to-shorts tool is not stated on the pages we read.
• Submagic and Klap. Submagic lists no free plan but advertises a trial without a card; Klap’s plans page showed us no free tier.

Compare on your own workload: a worked example

Take a common case: a weekly one-hour podcast, four episodes a month, about ten clips per episode. That is 240 minutes of source and 40 clips a month. Here is what the table lets you conclude, and where it stops.

• flysub. 180 minutes on Creator is short of 240, so either Pro (480 minutes for 39 € a month) or Creator plus a 180-minute top-up at 19 € that month, 38 € in all. The first batch suggests about one clip per 5 minutes of video, one extra series of 5 clips is free per video, and further extra clips count 1 minute each.
• Vizard. 240 credits against 600 on Creator: it fits, at $29 monthly or $14.50 a month on the annual plan.
• Klap. 40 clips against 100 on Basic: it fits, at $14 a month billed annually or $29 monthly.
• Opus Clip and CapCut. 300 credits on Opus Clip’s Pro, 1,400 AI credits with CapCut’s Pro: without a conversion, the example cannot be priced from the page.
• Submagic. The displayed plans cap each video at 2, 5 or 30 minutes; a 60-minute episode is outside those figures, so the example cannot be priced from the page either.

Three tools out of six let you price a real month from their pricing page alone. That is the first filter, before any feature.

What a price does not tell you

Once the budget fits, the differences are in the clips. A trial on your own video answers more than any table; here is what to look at, with the pages where we explain each point.

• Where the clip starts and stops. A clip that opens mid-sentence loses the viewer in one second. At flysub the rule is in the code: 15 to 90 seconds, starting and ending on a complete sentence, with a second AI pass that reviews every clip; the method is in how an AI picks the best moment.
• Reframing with two people on screen. A podcast with two guests needs a split screen or a face-tracking crop; the specifications of the vertical frame are in our 9:16 guide.
• Subtitles. Word-level timing, the languages covered (flysub transcribes eight, with automatic detection), and whether you can edit a word before export.
• Export. Resolution (720p on one free tier above), watermark, and the file you actually get: flysub exports MP4 in 1080 × 1920, ready for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, where a Short can run up to 3 minutes.
• The way in. A YouTube link or a file of up to 3 hours at flysub; upload limits in gigabytes or minutes elsewhere, as the table shows.
• What stays. Two free tiers above delete exports after 3 days; check before you build a workflow on them.

If you are new to the practice, what video clipping is sets the vocabulary, and our tour of AI video editing in 2026 places clipping tools among the other AI editing tools. The economics behind the market, from the “clippers” paid per view to the creators who spend seven figures on them, explain why so many tools appeared in two years.