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OpusClip

Verified Oct 16, 2026 Active
Short-form & Clip RepurposingWrite a reviewUnited StatesEffect71/ 100
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Turns long videos into vertical short clips

video repurposingshort form videoauto captionssocial schedulingFreemium · from $15/mo

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Web · API
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Pricing

Pricing model
Freemium
Paid options from
$15/mo
Billing
Monthly

Free plan: 60 credits a month, watermarked 1080p clips, no editing, exports expire after three days. Starter is $15/month for 150 credits, monthly billing only; Pro is $29/month or $14.50/month billed annually ($174/year) for 300 credits with two months of rollover and two seats. Business is quote-only.

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Overview

About OpusClip

OpusClip scans a long recording, picks the segments most likely to work as standalone shorts and reframes them vertically with animated captions, giving each clip a virality score. Videos come in as local uploads of up to 10GB or links, and paid plans add a text-and-timeline editor, AI B-roll, filler and silence removal, brand templates, dubbing and a scheduler that posts to YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels. Pro can export projects to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve and includes limited API access, while Business adds a full API, an MCP connector, SSO and dedicated support. Usage is metered in monthly credits.

Platforms
Web · API
API
Yes
Last verified
Oct 16, 2026

Verified sources

  • Free $0 with 60 credits; Starter $15/month, monthly only, 150 credits; Pro $29/month or $14.50/month billed $174 annually, 300 credits, limited API access and Premiere/Resolve export; Business custom with API, MCP connector and SSO (15 October 2026)opus.pro ↗
  • Free plan: watermark, no editing, clips no longer exportable after 3 days, local uploads up to 10GB (15 October 2026)opus.pro ↗
  • Dedicated page for the OpusClip clipping API (15 October 2026)opus.pro ↗
Fact check

Is OpusClip legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered
Sep 12, 2021 (5 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Cloudflare, Inc, looked up Sep 17, 2026
TLS certificate
Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Jan 4, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
Last checked
Oct 16, 2026The site answered
On the market since
2023The vendor's own material, read by us
Operated by
Opus Clip, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of OpusClip

high confidence

The default choice for turning a podcast or webinar into shorts, provided you accept that a human still has to reject a good share of the clips it picks. Pro now costs half as much on annual billing, which makes it the plan to compare against rivals; the free tier is for judging quality, not for publishing.

Pros

  • Reframing and animated captions are good enough to post without touch-up
  • Clip score gives a usable first-pass ordering of candidates
  • Free tier is a real plan, not a trial, so output quality is checkable first
  • Pro exports to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve and costs $14.50 a month on annual billing

Cons

  • Free exports carry a watermark, allow no editing and stop being exportable after three days
  • Clip selection still needs manual review; the score is a hint, not a verdict
  • Starter is monthly-only, so the annual discount applies only from Pro up
  • Full API access and custom integrations sit behind quote-only Business; Pro gets limited API access

Best for

  • Podcasters and streamers mining long episodes for social clips
  • Marketing teams repurposing webinars and conference talks into vertical video
  • Creators who want captions, reframing and scheduling in a single pass

Not for

  • Editing original footage rather than slicing existing recordings
  • Work where exact cut points matter more than clip volume

Watch out: Free-plan media expires after three days — download anything worth keeping before the window closes, because it is not recoverable.

#15inShort-form & Clip Repurposing· of 26 tools, ranked by rating and popularity

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