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AI Video Summarizer vs Eightify

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Eightify publishes a starting price ($4.99); AI Video Summarizer does not. Only AI Video Summarizer is free.

AI Video SummarizerFree video-to-summary tool: paste a YouTube, TikTok or Instagram link, or upload a file up to 1 GB.EightifyBrowser extension that turns a YouTube video into a timestamped summary and full transcript

Side by side

FactAI Video SummarizerEightify
CategoryVideo Analysis & SearchYouTube Tools
Pricing modelFreePaid
Starts at—$4.99 month
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWeb, Chrome ExtWeb, Chrome Ext
Company—Rational Expressions Inc.
Launched—2023
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

AI Video Summarizer

Free, no account, works from a pasted link, which for skimming a long talk or lecture is hard to beat on friction. The trade-off is that nobody is named as running it, there is no stated retention policy for what you upload, and a free-forever claim with no visible business model is not something to build a workflow on.

Pros

  • Free with no login for the basic flow
  • Accepts links from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook
  • Chrome extension summarises YouTube in place
  • Mind-map view and multiple summary templates, not just a paragraph

Cons

  • No company, country or contact identified
  • No API and no stated uptime or retention commitment
  • A no-limits free claim with no visible funding model behind it

Eightify

A narrow tool that does one job well: decide whether an hour-long video is worth an hour before you spend it. The timestamped key points are the real feature, because they let you jump straight to the section you actually needed. The catch is that it is subscription-only for a job several free extensions and general assistants now also do.

Pros

  • Key points come with clickable timestamps, so the summary doubles as navigation
  • Handles very long recordings rather than capping at a few minutes
  • Output available in roughly 40 languages, including summarising an English video into another language
  • Works inline on the YouTube page instead of asking you to paste URLs elsewhere

Cons

  • No permanent free tier — after the trial it is pay or nothing
  • Summary quality is bounded by YouTube's auto-captions, which are poor on accented or technical speech
  • The vendor blocks automated access to its own site, so pricing and terms are hard to verify independently

Which one fits

Choose AI Video Summarizer if you need

  • Skimming long YouTube talks and lectures
  • Deciding whether a video is worth watching
  • Quick notes from a recorded meeting

Choose Eightify if you need

  • Skimming long conference talks, lectures or interviews before committing time
  • Pulling a rough transcript out of a video for notes or quoting
  • Watching material in a language you read better than you listen to

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