Opus Clip pricing in 2026: what credits actually cost you

Opus Clip's pricing page shows you three numbers: $0, $15 and $29 a month. None of them is what you'll pay per clip, because Opus Clip doesn't charge for clips. It charges for the minutes of video you upload. For most buyers the right plan is Pro, at $29 a month or $14.50 billed yearly, for 300 minutes.

Here you get the plan table with its sources, the credit rules, the cost per clip at five video lengths and three sample monthly bills. Full disclosure: I run CreateSocial, a competing tool, and it comes up at the end.

Opus Clip plans and prices in October 2026

Opus Clip has four plans. Free costs nothing, Starter is $15 a month, Pro is $29 a month and Business is priced on request.

Prices and limits checked against Opus Clip's pricing page and help center on October 12, 2026.

Annual billing now sits on the pricing page itself, behind a Yearly toggle that promises to save you "up to 50%." Pro costs $174 for the year, which is $14.50 a month. Opus Clip hands you all 3,600 credits on day one. Starter has no annual option.

On paper, Starter is the bargain. For most coaches and consultants it's the wrong buy. It posts right away to YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, and it can't schedule anything ahead. Pro schedules to nine networks, LinkedIn included, and LinkedIn is where a lot of expert clips earn their keep. Our Opus Clip review walks through the features plan by plan.

How Opus Clip credits work

One credit pays for one minute of the video you upload. Not one clip, and not one export. Upload a 60-minute podcast and that's 60 credits, whether Opus finds 3 clips or 30. Upload it again with a different prompt and that's another 60.

The credit rules cover the edges:

• A video under a minute costs 1 credit. A 15-second clip costs the same as a 59-second one.
• Partial minutes round down, so a 4-minute-30-second video costs 4 credits.
• Posting to X costs 3 credits per clip, per X account. One clip to two X accounts is 6 credits.
• Monthly credits expire after 60 days, which means they roll over once. Annual credits last 12 months.
• If you cancel, your leftover credits still expire on their original dates.

You can spend fewer. If you only need part of a video, drag the Processing timeframe slider and you pay for that stretch alone. On Pro, a project that gives you nothing useful can be refunded within 14 days, as long as you haven't downloaded a clip from it.

You can also buy more. Each extra Pro pack adds 300 credits a month and two seats, and Pro offers top-ups on demand.

Put those together and the model is simple. You pay for what you upload, not what you keep. That's a fair deal for one kind of creator and a bad one for another.

What Opus Clip costs per clip

On Pro, a candidate clip costs under 40 cents, whatever you upload. The table works it out from Opus Clip's own numbers. Pro monthly is $29 for 300 credits, about 9.7 cents a credit. Pro annual is $174 for 3,600, about 4.8 cents. Both assume you use every credit before it expires.

Look at how small those numbers are. The price of a clip is not the cost that hurts. Your hour is. Opus Clip hands you 23 to 32 candidates from one webinar, and someone has to watch them all to find the three worth posting.

That hour is why CreateSocial's Find Clips goes the other way. On a video of 8 minutes or more, it suggests five clips at most, each with a strength score, and it never pads the list with weak moments. You sift five, not thirty, and each is meant to stand alone. When a setup and its payoff sit far apart, a suggestion can stitch them into one clip.

What three kinds of creators actually spend

Here are three hypothetical creators, each priced with the rules above. The first two are who Opus Clip was built for. The third should think twice.

The podcaster

Two 60-minute episodes a week is about 520 minutes a month. Pro gives you 300. So the podcaster adds a second Pro pack, buys top-ups, or drags the timeframe slider to send only the best 35 minutes of each episode. That last option is editing work the tool was supposed to save.

Annual doesn't rescue it either. That's 3,600 credits a year against about 6,240 minutes of episodes. This is the person Opus Clip is built for, and even they can outrun one Pro plan.

The webinar host

One 45-minute webinar a week is about 195 minutes a month. Starter's 150 doesn't cover it. Pro's 300 does, with room for a podcast guest spot.

Opus Clip says a 30 to 60 minute video gives 23 to 32 clips, so that's roughly 100 to 140 candidates a month. Say you post three from each webinar. That's 13 clips a month, about $2.23 each on monthly Pro or $1.12 billed yearly. This math works.

The talking-head creator

Here's where it falls apart. Say you record twenty 45-second videos a month, straight to camera, for TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn. That's 20 credits, so the free plan technically covers you.

Except there's nothing to clip. Opus Clip says a video under 3 minutes gives 1 or 2 clips. A 45-second video is already the clip. You'd be paying for a clipping engine and using the captions. On the free plan those captions carry a watermark, and the clips stop being exportable after three days.

If this is you, the question isn't which Opus Clip plan. It's whether you need a clipper at all. Your real bottleneck is making the videos, and that's the job CreateSocial was built for: ideas from what you know, a teleprompter near your camera, subtitles and a schedule for the week. Our guide to editing talking-head videos faster covers the edit.

Is Opus Clip free? The free plan and the 7-day trial

Yes, in two ways. There's a free plan you can stay on, and a separate free trial of Pro.

The free plan gives you 60 credits a month. Every clip carries a watermark and there's no editing. Clips stop being exportable after 3 days, so download what you want quickly. For a test run on one webinar, that's enough.

The free trial gives you Pro features for 7 days, then turns into a free account. You don't need a credit card in the countries Opus Clip fully serves. The catch is in the trial's fine print. Exports carry the watermark, you can't post or schedule, and there's no cloud storage or autosave.

Paying fixes the watermark on old work too. Opus Clip says upgrading removes the watermark from projects you made on the free plan or the trial. That makes the trial a fair test. Clip a real webinar, and if the clips are good, upgrade before they expire and download them clean.

Monthly or annual: pay monthly until you know your minutes

Annual Pro halves the price of a credit, but you pay for the whole year up front. Annual is $174 for 3,600 credits that last 12 months. Monthly is $29 for 300 credits that last 60 days, so a quiet month rolls over once and then disappears.

Do the simple sum. Annual costs the same as six months of monthly Pro, so it pays off only if you'll still be using Opus Clip in six months. Pay monthly for the first two, count the minutes you actually upload, then decide. Upgrading to yearly hands you the extra credits right away, so you lose nothing by waiting.

Leaving has its own rules. If you cancel, your projects stop being accessible after 3 days, so download everything first. And while you hold more than 30 minutes of credits, you can't drop to the free plan. Opus Clip asks you to cancel instead.

What Trustpilot reviewers say about the price

Opus Clip holds 4 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 509 reviews. 63% are five stars and 20% are one star. The company has replied to every negative review, usually within a day. Credit where it's due.

The happy reviews talk about value. One calls it "the best value-for-money digital tool I bought for the last 7 years." Another five-star review reads: "Was able to increase my viewership reach in 90 days more than I've been able to do in 10 years." It names "good pricing" among the reasons.

The unhappy ones cluster around credits and support. A two-star review from late August says: "The fact that they take away all your unused credit after the 12 month window is dishonorable in my opinion." A one-star review from September describes waiting "20 days to review a refund."

The most useful one is a three-star review from a team that never got going. They bought it for a team member to run, who found that "editing the clips took too much time." The verdict is fair to both sides: "for teams that are well prepared this can be a very valuable tool."

That's the honest summary of clipping tools in general. The tool finds candidate moments fast. Turning a candidate into something you'd post still takes a person, and that time doesn't show up on the pricing page.

When Opus Clip is worth $29 a month

I'll be direct, because I don't want this to read as a hit piece. Opus Clip is worth it for long podcasts and webinars. If you record an hour or more of conversation every week and want ten or more clips from each, no tool will get you to a first draft faster. Pro's scheduler then takes a chore off your plate. For that creator the per-minute model is fair, because every minute uploaded might hold a clip.

It also makes sense for a backlog. A year of weekly 45-minute webinars is 2,340 credits. That fits inside one annual Pro plan's 3,600, so $174 mines all of them.

It's not worth it if your source videos are short. Then you're feeding a clipper things it can't clip, and paying per minute for captions. For a coach who posts short talking-head videos, the money does more good spent on making them. If you're weighing other tools, our Opus Clip alternative guide matches them to the job you need done.

Cheaper alternatives to Opus Clip

The closest swap that costs less per minute is Vizard. It works the same way: upload a long video, get clips, pay 1 credit per minute. Its Creator plan costs the same as Opus Clip Pro, $29 a month or $14.50 a month billed yearly. But the entry Creator tier comes with 600 credits a month, twice Pro's 300. It also has no watermark, 4K export, scheduling and up to 6 social accounts.

For a free alternative, Vizard's free plan gives you 60 credits a month too, with 720p exports and 3-day storage. Either free plan is fine for testing one recording before you pay.

For a wider list, see our roundup of content repurposing tools. Using Opus Clip only for its captions? Compare Captions app pricing before you pay for a clipper. And if the clips were never your real problem, CreateSocial is a different kind of alternative.

Where CreateSocial fits if you're pricing Opus Clip

CreateSocial helps you build a personal brand that brings in clients, speaking gigs and customers, without content taking over your week. It learns what you know and runs the whole content week: ideas, scripts, written posts, recording, editing, thumbnails and scheduling. Clips are one step of that.

Here's a week for a coach who came here pricing a clipper:

• Clip last week's webinar. Upload it as an MP4, WebM or MOV up to 2GB, or record long in the studio. On a video of 8 minutes or more, Find Clips suggests up to five standalone clips of about 15 to 90 seconds, each with a strength score. Every clip you keep becomes its own video with subtitles.
• Tidy them by editing words, not a timeline. Delete words from the transcript and they're cut from the video. Remove Silences takes out the pauses in one click, and there's eye contact correction and B-roll from a free stock video search.
• Make them look finished. Choose from 11 subtitle styles, drawn into the video. For the full webinar on YouTube, you get three thumbnails at a time made from your video and photos of you, in your brand style. Change one by describing what you want.
• Write from the same recording. The webinar becomes a LinkedIn post, an X thread, a blog post, an email to your list or a LinkedIn carousel, in your voice. You can write posts with no video at all, too.
• Know what to record next. You get 80 personalized ideas a month built from your website, past videos and posts, client stories and the competitors you track, plus Trending Now every Monday. Record with a teleprompter near your camera, in sections, and Dual mode frames 16:9 and 9:16 at once.
• Schedule the month in one sitting. Everything goes on one calendar, scheduled to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and X with a caption written for each platform. Connect your accounts once, and each clip goes out on its own at the time you picked.

Also in the one plan: a knowledge base that pulls in Notion and Google Drive as well, "Ask me first" questions before a script is written, the iPhone app, screen recording with your camera as a bubble, reaction videos in Layout or Stitch mode, virtual backgrounds with or without a real green screen, platform safe-zone guides and an Analytics page with followers, views, likes, comments and shares for your connected TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts.

One more difference is who's on the other end. OpusClip is venture-backed. It raised $20 million in March 2025 in a round led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2. I'm Ben Moore, and I built CreateSocial on my own, bootstrapped, here in Cincinnati, Ohio, so you talk to me directly. Feature requests come to me, and a lot of what customers ask for gets built. Before CreateSocial, my agency generated millions of followers and millions of dollars in revenue for clients, and I've generated hundreds of millions of views.

CreateSocial costs $129 a month, or $99 a month billed annually, and the pricing page promises "No add-ons, no per-feature charges." For the clips plus the ideas, posts and schedule around them, start your free trial and run last month's longest recording through Find Clips. If you'd rather talk your content plan through first, book a free strategy call with me.