OpusClip vs Submagic

OpusClip is better at finding the clips in a long recording. Submagic is better at finishing a short clip once you have it, with caption styles, zooms and B-roll. If you start from a two-hour podcast, start with OpusClip. If you start from a one-minute take, Submagic finishes it faster. Both prices are below, read from their own pages.

We make Clypmint, a different kind of tool, named once at the end of this page. Neither OpusClip nor Submagic paid for or reviewed this page. Every price was read from their own pricing pages on the date printed under each table.

Side by side

OpusClip and Submagic, compared
What	OpusClip	Submagic
What it is	OpusClip takes one long video and finds the short clips inside it, then adds captions, scores them for virality, and reframes them vertical.	Submagic is a short-form editor. It adds animated captions, hook titles, zooms, and B-roll to a clip and can find clips in a long video.
Best for	Finding the clips worth posting in a long recording, fast and cheap.	Caption styles and a quick finish on short clips.
Paid plans	from $15 a month	from $19 a month
Free plan	Free plan. 60 credits a month, a watermark on every clip, no editing, and clips stop being exportable after 3 days.	No free plan on the pricing page. Every plan they sell ships without a watermark.
Metered on	Credits a month. The pricing page does not say what one credit buys.	Credits, three per exported video, with a longest-video cap on each plan.
What it starts from	A long video. It finds and crops the clips inside it.	A short video. Clip finding is one feature among the finishing tools.
Longest video on the cheapest plan	Not stated per video. Plans are sized in credits.	2 minutes per video on Starter. 5 on Pro. 30 on Business.
Watermark once you pay	None from Starter up.	None on any plan they sell.

What OpusClip is genuinely good at

It is the best tool in the category at one job: finding which 30 seconds of a 2-hour recording are worth posting.
It is cheap. $15 a month is one of the lowest real entry prices of any tool here.
It reframes to vertical and tracks the speaker, and it can export the cut to Premiere or Resolve.
It posts clips straight to your social accounts from the app.
You can try it with no card at all.

What Submagic is genuinely good at

Its captions are the best-known thing about it: many languages, many templates, word by word.
One pass adds captions, zooms, B-roll and sound to a short clip. For a 60-second clip that is a lot of finish for the money.
Every plan they sell ships without a watermark, including the cheapest.
It has a large, mostly positive public review base.
It has an API, sold in minute packs, for teams that automate.

OpusClip prices

OpusClip plans, in US dollars, as published on 2026-09-11
OpusClip plan	Per month	What you get
Free	$0	60 credits a month. Watermarked. No editing. Clips expire after 3 days.
Starter	$15	150 credits a month. Monthly billing only. No watermark. Exports keep for 30 days.
Pro	$29	300 credits a month. $14.50 a month if you pay $174 for a year. Two seats, 6 social connections, no export limit.
Business	Custom	Custom pricing.

Read from https://www.opus.pro/pricing on 2026-09-11. Prices change. Check theirs before you buy. OpusClip does not say on its pricing page what one credit equals. Business pricing is not published.

Submagic prices

Submagic plans, in US dollars, as published on 2026-09-11
Submagic plan	Per month	What you get
Starter	$19	$12 a month on a yearly plan. 15 videos a month, each up to 2 minutes. 1080p.
Pro	$39	$23 a month yearly. 40 videos a month, each up to 5 minutes. Adds B-roll and auto-zoom.
Business	$69	$41 a month yearly. 100 videos a month, each up to 30 minutes. 4K at 60 fps.
Custom	Custom	Custom pricing.

Read from https://www.submagic.co/pricing on 2026-09-11. Prices change. Check theirs before you buy. Custom plan pricing is not published.

Choose OpusClip if

You record long podcasts or streams and need the clips found for you.
You want a free plan to try it first.
You post many clips a week and a virality score helps you pick.

Choose Submagic if

Your videos are already short and you want strong caption styles on them.
You want zooms and B-roll added in one pass.
You want every export clean, even on the cheapest plan.

If neither fits

If the clip has to look edited by a designer, with motion graphics measured from a real editor and the long video edited too, neither is built for that. Clypmint is, and it makes fewer clips than either.

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Questions

Is OpusClip or Submagic cheaper?

OpusClip: paid plans from $15 a month. Submagic: paid plans from $19 a month. Credits and minutes mean different things at the two companies, so compare what a plan makes, not the unit. Read from https://www.opus.pro/pricing and https://www.submagic.co/pricing.

Do OpusClip and Submagic have free plans?

OpusClip: Yes. Free plan. 60 credits a month, a watermark on every clip, no editing, and clips stop being exportable after 3 days. Submagic: No. No free plan on the pricing page. Every plan they sell ships without a watermark.

Can I use OpusClip and Submagic together?

Yes. A common pairing is OpusClip to find the clips and Submagic to style the captions on the ones you keep.

Which is better for podcasts?

OpusClip, because it starts from the long recording. Submagic caps the length of one video on each plan.

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