Opus Clip Pricing: Plans for Your Weekly Video Volume

Opus clip pricing starts at $15 a month for Starter, but a weekly hour-long podcast needs Pro: OpusClip, an AI tool for turning long videos into shorts, charges by source-video minutes. Pro costs $29 monthly or $174 billed annually, and its base allowance covers that weekly show before extra credit-consuming actions.

Opus Clip Pricing at a Glance

Verified against OpusClip's pricing page, November 2026 (checked November 13). Prices below are in US dollars. The annual figure is a prepaid subscription, not a monthly payment option.

Choose on source minutes, required editing features, and people who need access. Starter suits a solo creator with occasional footage. Pro earns its price for weekly long-form production, scheduling, or a shared workspace. Business is for requirements beyond the self-service team and integration limits, not automatically every company account.

Free: useful only if the watermark and export window work for you

Free includes 60 processing minutes each month, automatic reframing, and captions with emoji and keyword highlighting. Output can reach 1080p, but carries a watermark. There is no editing, and clips stop being exportable after three days.

A creator processing an occasional interview can stay free indefinitely if those constraints are acceptable and the footage fits the allowance. Download the clips promptly. A brand that needs clean exports or caption corrections should budget for a paid plan even when its video volume is small: the upgrade trigger is control, not more minutes.

Starter: clean exports for a small solo workload

Starter adds the editor, watermark removal, filler-word and silence removal, one brand template, and direct posting to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels. It remains limited to vertical 9:16 output and has no social scheduler or team workspace.

The detailed comparison also limits AI image B-roll and stock B-roll, supplemental visuals laid over the main footage, to three clips per month each. It lists a 30-day MP4 export window and media expiry after 29 days. Treat Starter as a production tool with local backups, not your permanent video archive.

Buy it when you have no more than 150 source minutes to process each month and do not need Pro's workflow features. A weekly hour-long podcast already exceeds that allowance.

Pro: the weekly production and collaboration tier

Pro adds square and landscape output alongside vertical, social scheduling, bulk exports, exports to Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, AI B-roll, custom fonts, speech enhancement, and video dubbing. It includes a team workspace and 100GB of fixed storage. Local upload limits rise from 10GB per video on Free and Starter to 30GB on Pro and Business.

There are still limits. The comparison lists up to two custom fonts, 50 clips per day with AI image B-roll, unlimited stock B-roll, and speech enhancement ten times per day. It reserves 4K scheduling and downloading for Business. Do not read a checkmark beside an AI feature as a promise that every use is free of additional credit consumption.

The page is inconsistent about brand templates: the Pro card says two, while the detailed comparison says up to four. If you manage several client brands, confirm the entitlement before buying on that feature alone.

Business: buy it for access and governance requirements

Business adds custom credits and storage arrangements, unlimited seats in the comparison, sub-teams, member permissions, single sign-on, CMS integration, and dedicated Slack support. The public page gives no fixed monthly or annual price.

A small marketing team should first check whether Pro's shared workspace is enough. A business needing more than four workspace users, controlled permissions, or custom integrations has a concrete reason to request a quote. Extra processing volume alone is not the same requirement as enterprise access controls.

What One Credit Buys

One credit pays for one minute of the original video processed, not one finished short. A 30-minute interview consumes 30 credits regardless of how many useful clips you select. OpusClip's credit-usage documentation also specifies the rounding: videos shorter than a minute cost one credit; partial minutes on longer videos round down, so 4.5 minutes costs four credits.

Use the Processing timeframe slider to select only the part worth clipping. For a podcaster, excluding housekeeping and an irrelevant opening saves processing allowance before the AI starts. There is no defensible fixed cost per published short without knowing how many usable clips your source yields.

At full allowance utilization, Starter costs $0.10 per source minute, or $6 per source hour. Monthly Pro costs about $0.0967 per minute, or $5.80 per hour. Annual Pro costs about $0.0483 per minute, or $2.90 per hour. Those are our calculations from the published subscription prices and allowances; unused capacity makes your effective cost higher.

Posting to X uses more of the same allowance

Posting or scheduling to X costs three credits per clip, per X account. A failed post or a deleted scheduled post returns the frozen credits, according to the same documentation. Reserve room for those actions before treating the entire balance as source-video capacity.

For a social manager, that means an allowance sized exactly to the podcast schedule can still run short after distribution. Count processing and paid posting separately in your production budget.

Three Worked Budgets: Weekly Podcast, Heavy Creator, Team

These examples use whole-hour source videos and exclude X posting and other additional credit-consuming actions. Multi-pack dollar totals are budget estimates calculated from the published base-pack price, not signed-in checkout quotes. Confirm the displayed total before purchase.

One hour of video a week: one Pro pack

A weekly hour-long show requires 240 credits in a four-episode month and 300 in a five-episode month. Starter's 150 is insufficient. One monthly Pro pack fits, although the five-episode month leaves no allowance for extras.

At $29 monthly, a four-episode month costs $7.25 per episode processed. That is higher than the $5.80 full-utilization rate because some capacity remains unused. Annual Pro's 3,600 credits cover 3,120 minutes across 52 weekly episodes; $174 divided by 52 works out to about $3.35 per episode.

The call: use monthly Pro while establishing the show. Annual Pro is sensible once you expect to keep publishing and have confirmed the credit-expiry terms for your account.

Five hours of video a week: budget for the fifth week

Five source hours consume 300 credits per week. Four weeks need 1,200 credits, equivalent to four monthly Pro packs; five weeks need 1,500, equivalent to five packs. At the base monthly rate, those budgets are $116 and $145, respectively.

Across 52 weeks, the workload is 15,600 minutes. Four annual packs provide only 14,400 credits, so they do not cover the year. Five provide 18,000 credits. Applying the advertised annual base rate gives a budget of $870 prepaid, or $72.50 per month equivalent.

The call: size a steady production schedule for the full year, not an assumed four-week month. For an occasional backlog, price an on-demand top-up before committing to recurring capacity. Public docs confirm that top-ups exist but do not establish a rate we can use to prove which purchase is cheaper.

A four-person team: two packs, one shared credit pool

Suppose four people manage two hour-long episodes each week. The team needs 480 credits in a four-week month or 600 in a five-week month. Two Pro packs supply 600 monthly credits and four seats.

At the base-pack rate, that is a $58 monthly budget, or $348 prepaid annually. Normalized across four users, the figures are $14.50 per user-month on monthly billing and $7.25 per user-month equivalent on annual billing. These are calculated allocations of the shared bill, not seat prices sold separately.

The owner buys the subscription and everyone shares its credits. Each member does not receive a fresh allowance. The Plans help page caps Pro at four users even if you buy more packs. A growing agency can therefore have enough processing credits and still need Business for access.

Monthly or Annual: When the Higher Plan Is Worth It

Annual Pro costs the same as six monthly Pro payments: $174 divided by $29. If you use Pro for more than six months at today's price, annual billing costs less than paying for those months individually. A full year of monthly Pro costs $348, so annual saves $174, or 50%.

Annual Pro also costs $6 less than twelve Starter payments: $174 versus $180. That makes it attractive for year-round users even when Starter's capacity would suffice. It does not make it the cheaper cash commitment for a short campaign. A creator who needs occasional clipping and wants to stop soon should not prepay a year just because the monthly equivalent is lower.

Upgrade from Starter to monthly Pro when you exceed 150 source minutes, need a scheduler, need another user, or need its editing/export features. Stay on Starter when none of those applies. The per-minute saving between the monthly plans is small; the workflow change is the stronger reason to upgrade.

Unused Credits, Top-Ups, and Billing Changes

Unused credits expire; they are not permanent inventory. The credit documentation says monthly credits last 60 days, allowing one additional month of rollover. It says annual credits arrive upfront and expire after 12 months. The annual pricing card instead describes credits over 12 months and advertises two months of rollover.

That wording does not establish that every annual credit lasts beyond the subscription year. For a large archive project, confirm the grant timing and expiry shown in your account before purchasing a year around a planned processing burst. Do not build the budget on an assumed extra rollover period.

Top-ups add credits; packs also affect the subscription

The current Plans page says you can buy top-up credits from Subscription → Add more credits. Extra seats cannot be bought on their own: they come with additional packs, up to Pro's four-user cap. An older standalone extra-minutes help page still denies separate credit purchases; the current pricing card and main Plans page explicitly offer them.

No verified public top-up price or top-up expiry was available in the pages read for this article. Check both in the purchase screen. A recurring pack and a one-off credit purchase solve different problems.

The upgrade and downgrade documentation gives another consequential distinction: Starter-to-Pro upgrades are prorated, but adding Pro packs starts a new billing cycle immediately and charges the full new plan amount. It also extends unused credits to the new cycle's end. Reducing packs takes effect at the end of the current cycle.

API access is not a published unlimited API budget

The Pro card lists limited API access, while Business includes API and custom integrations. There is no separate public API rate card on this pricing page. For an automated clipping service, get the applicable limits and charges confirmed; a Pro subscription alone does not establish an unlimited automation allowance.

Opus Clip Alternative: When Another Subscription Buys More

Descript, a recording and text-based editing tool with Create Clips, is the better buy when you also need to edit the full episode: Hobbyist pricing is $24 monthly or $16 per person-month annually for ten media hours, equivalent to $2.40 or $1.60 per included media hour at full use, with AI credits metered separately.

Riverside, a recording and editing platform with Magic Clips, fits a show that needs to capture guests as well as repurpose them: Pro pricing is $35 monthly or $24 per month annually with 15 separate-track-download hours, equivalent to about $2.33 or $1.60 per included download hour, a different meter from source clipping minutes.

Choose on the work a subscription replaces, not those unlike hourly units alone; the Opus Clip alternatives comparison explains which recording, editing, and clipping workflows fit each tool.

FAQ

Is Opus AI free?

For OpusClip, yes: the Free plan includes 60 credits per month, watermarked clips, no editing, and a three-day export window. Agent Opus is a different product; its generation plans should not be confused with this clipping subscription.

Opus Clip free trial: what can you try?

The pricing page advertises a trial without a credit card. Its trial limitations include watermarked exports and no team workspace, direct social posting or scheduling, fixed cloud storage/autosave, or bulk download. Use it to assess clipping quality, not to assume every paid workflow is available.

Opus Clip cancel subscription: how do you stop renewal?

Open your profile, select Subscription, then Manage plan → Cancel subscription → Continue to cancel. The Plans page says changes take effect next billing cycle, but separately warns projects become inaccessible after three days of cancellation. Download what you need first. Downgrading directly to Free takes effect immediately and is permitted only with fewer than 30 credits remaining.

Opus Clip refund: can you get your money back?

The subscription terms say cancellation does not entitle you to a prorated refund for the current subscription period. A project credit refund is different: Pro users can request it within 14 days of upload if they have not downloaded any clips. That returns processing credits, not the subscription fee.

Opus Clip student discount: is one available?

The current public pricing and billing pages checked for this article did not establish a student discount. Do not include one in your budget without an offer confirmed by OpusClip. Annual billing is the published saving covered here.

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