Wealthy PotAI Clipping & Captioning Tools Compared
These tools turn one long video into many short ones. The marketing is nearly identical across all of them, so this page compares the thing that actually differs: what a plan buys you per month, and what it costs once you strip out the annual-billing discounts.
Pricing verified: 28 July 2026
Every figure below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date above. That matters more than it sounds: several of these vendors render their prices in the browser, so tools and articles that scrape them often publish a paid tier as "$0". Prices are also localized by country, and most of the headline numbers assume you pay for a year upfront. Check the current rate on the vendor's page before you subscribe.
The comparison that matters is the credit model, not the monthly price. One tool sells credits, another sells clips, another sells hours of video analyzed, and another sells media hours. A $15 plan that runs out mid-month is more expensive than a $20 plan that does not. 5 of the 6 tools have a free tier, so in most cases you can test against your own footage before paying anything.
| Tool | Free tier | Entry paid price | What the plan buys | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2short.ai | Yes | $9.9/mo | Priced by hours of video analysed: 5 / 15 / 50 hours per month | The cheapest paid entry point of the group |
| Klap | No | $14/mo | Priced purely by clip count: 100 / 300 / 1,000 clips per month | Anyone who wants to budget by number of clips rather than decode credits |
| OpusClip | Yes | $15/mo | 150 credits/month on Starter | The default first choice for turning long videos into shorts, with the largest feature set |
| Descript | Yes | $16/mo | Media hours plus AI credits: 10 hours + 400 credits on Hobbyist, 30 hours on Creator, 40 on Business | Editing the whole video by editing its transcript, not just cutting shorts |
| Submagic | Yes | $19/mo | Starter: 15 videos/mo, max 2 min each, 3 AI credits | Styled, high-retention captions rather than clip-finding |
| Vizard | Yes | $29/mo | 1 credit = 1 minute of video. Free 60/mo, paid from 600/mo | The most usable free tier, and the cheapest genuine entry point if the promotion holds |
How to choose
- Not sure this workflow suits you yet? Start on Vizard's free tier, which gives you 60 minutes of video a month, enough to judge the clip selection on your own material.
- Want one tool that does everything? OpusClip covers selection, captions, and scheduling.
- Already know which moments you want? Submagic is a captioning tool first, and the captions are the best here.
- Clipping occasionally, on a budget? 2short.ai is the cheapest paid tier at $9.90 a month.
- Editing the long-form video too? Descript edits video by editing its transcript and can replace several tools at once.
- Want predictable volume, not credits? Klap sells a flat number of clips per month, though there is no free tier to test first.
Before you buy any of them
A tool subscription is a business expense that recurs whether or not you earn anything this month, so be clear about what you expect it to return. Two things worth reading first: clipping other people's footage without permission is a copyright problem, and YouTube applies its repetitious and reused content policies to Shorts monetization, so a channel made only of other people's clips is unlikely to be monetizable. We cover both, along with the actual monetization thresholds, in our guide toAI side hustles that actually make money.
If you are earning from clipping, that income is self-employment income, and nobody withholds tax on it for you. See tax planning for the self-employed before the money arrives, not after.
How we compare these
We read each vendor's pricing page directly and record the date. Where a price depends on annual prepayment or a running promotion, we say so rather than quoting the smallest number on the page. Where a vendor does not publish something, such as export quality, we leave it blank instead of guessing. Every tool listed here is one that exists and that we have linked to its own site so you can verify the terms yourself. See oureditorial standards for how we source figures generally.