OpusClip Pricing 2026: One Credit Per Uploaded Minute, and When That Bites

OpusClip does one job — turn long video into short clips — and prices it in a way that is unusual enough to be worth understanding before you subscribe.

The plans

Starter has no annual option — it is month-to-month only. On 18 October 2026 opus.pro/pricing listed Free, Starter at $15/month, Pro at $29/month and a custom Business plan; the free plan is watermarked with a 3-day export window, and the credit allowances in this table are as reported earlier and not shown on that page.

The pricing model that catches people out

One credit equals one minute of the video you upload, not one minute of what you get back.

That inverts the usual arithmetic. A two-hour podcast costs 120 credits to process whether it yields three clips or thirty. So the cost per usable clip is entirely a function of how clippable your source is — and a rambling source is expensive in exactly the way a tight one is not.

Practical consequence: Starter's 150 credits is about two and a half hours of source material a month. If you record weekly hour-long episodes, you are over the limit in week three.

Expiry

Monthly plan credits expire after 60 days; annual credits after 12 months. That is more generous than the 30-day-and-gone model some competitors use, but it still means bursty usage loses value.

What it is genuinely good at

Finding the moments. The core function — scanning long video, ranking segments by likely performance, and cutting them into vertical clips with synced captions — works, and it saves hours per episode for anyone producing long-form. AI B-roll and the scheduler on Pro turn it into a full repurposing pipeline rather than a cutter.

What it does not do

It does not generate video. It reformats video you already have. If your problem is that you have no footage, no amount of clipping helps — that is a generation problem, and the models for it price per second of output:

Prices read live on 2 August 2026.

Who it suits

Yes: you publish long-form — podcasts, streams, webinars, long YouTube — and want the shorts pipeline handled. At $15–29/month against the hours it replaces, that is not a close call.

No: you do not have long source video. Then the credits have nothing to eat, and the tool is solving a problem you do not have.

The two categories are complementary rather than competing: generate a clip when you have nothing to cut, clip when you have too much. We do the first, starting with a 3-day trial for $4.99 (one 15-second video) that becomes a $39/month plan unless you cancel; OpusClip does the second better than we ever would.

How to do this without code: If you have no long footage to clip, generating a clip from a link or a photo is the other half. In AutoHustle this is the autopilot: paste the Reel link, add one photo of yourself and confirm the plan (about 4 credits per second of finished video, so 60 credits for a full 15-second call; analysing the Reel is free). See How to put your face in any Reel and Recreate an Instagram Reel.

Related reading: CapCut vs OpusClip: Manual Editor vs Automatic Clipper · OpusClip vs Captions: Clipping Long Video vs Making Short Video

For developers: the fal endpoints behind this article

Prices in the article are per-second or per-unit rates from the fal.ai pricing API on the dates stated; re-check them before you build, because endpoints reprice without notice. The IDs:

Model	fal endpoint
HappyHorse 1.1 image-to-video	alibaba/happy-horse/v1.1/image-to-video
HappyHorse 1.1 reference-to-video	alibaba/happy-horse/v1.1/reference-to-video