OpusClip Pricing 2026: One Credit Per Uploaded Minute, and When That Bites
OpusClip charges by source length, not output. Why that inverts the usual credit maths, the expiry rules on each plan, and what it means if your source videos are long.
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
| Plan | Price | Credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 60/month | watermark, 3-day export limit |
| Starter | $15/month | 150/month | no watermark, captions in 20+ languages, 1 brand template |
| Pro | $29/month or $174/year | 3,600/year on annual | 2 seats, AI B-roll, scheduler, multiple aspect ratios |
| Business | custom | — | unlimited users, storage, API |
Starter has no annual option — it is month-to-month only.
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:
| Job | Endpoint | $/second | 10s clip |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talking-head from a photo | alibaba/happy-horse/v1.1/image-to-video | $0.140 | $1.40 |
| You in a described scene | alibaba/happy-horse/v1.1/reference-to-video | $0.140 | $1.40 |
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 at $0.99 for a first video; OpusClip does the second better than we ever would.