OpusClip vs Submagic vs Vizard vs Klap: Head-to-Head Comparison

All four turn video into short vertical clips with captions. OpusClip, Vizard and Klap start from a long video and pick the moments for you, while Submagic is built to caption and edit short videos and sells long-video clipping as an add-on. They charge for different things too: OpusClip and Vizard count minutes of video, Klap counts clips and Submagic counts videos.

We read each tool's pricing page, help center and API docs on October 15, 2026, and every figure below links to the page it came from. We make Highstyle, a fifth clipper, and it gets one short section near the end.

Side-by-side at a glance

OpusClip: clips almost any footage

OpusClip's ClipAnything reads visual, audio and sentiment cues, so it can clip video with little or no dialogue, like sports or vlogs. Its virality score rates each clip from 0 to 99 on its hook, flow, value and trend, and free users don't see it. Sources can run up to 10 hours.

The free plan gives 60 credits a month, and a credit is one minute of video. Its clips carry a watermark and stop being exportable after 3 days. Starter is $15 a month for 150 minutes, billed monthly only, and posts to YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram. Pro is $29 a month for 300 minutes, or $14.50 billed yearly, and adds Twitch, Dropbox, Riverside and nine more import sources, 1:1 and 16:9 exports, typed prompts, a scheduler and a team workspace with 2 seats. Pro also includes the API and MCP connector, which OpusClip's API docs call a beta on that plan.

Submagic: captions and editing for short videos

Submagic's plans cost $19, $39 or $69 a month per member, or $12, $23 and $41 billed yearly, for 15, 40 or 100 videos. Each upload is capped at 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro and 30 on Business, and at 3,000 MB. Paid exports carry no watermark, Pro adds Storyblocks B-roll, auto zooms and removal of bad takes and silences, and Business exports 4K at 60fps.

Long videos go through Magic Clips, an add-on at $19 a month for 10 uploads. It takes a YouTube link, a file or a public Google Drive link, processes it in 10 to 25 minutes and returns 20 or more clips with a virality score. Submagic's Magic Clips page claims 99% caption accuracy and captions in 123 languages. Those are Submagic's figures, and we haven't tested them.

Vizard: the most minutes for the money

Vizard's Creator plan is $29 a month for 600 minutes, or $14.50 a month billed at $174 a year. Business is $39 a month, or $19.50 billed yearly, and adds a shared workspace, a brand kit and team seats at $5 a month each. Paid uploads can run 600 minutes and 30 GB, exports reach 4K, and Creator schedules posts to 6 social accounts. The free plan gives 60 minutes a month with 720p, watermarked exports and 3-day storage.

Per hour of video, Creator costs $2.90 on monthly billing, against $6.00 on OpusClip Starter and $5.80 on OpusClip Pro. Vizard's API comes with both paid plans at no extra fee and spends the same minutes as the app. It returns clips in 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9, takes an instruction like "Find where Sam talks about GPT-5", and gives each clip a viral score from 0 to 10 with a written reason. Its API page also offers an n8n template and a skill for Claude Code and Cursor.

Klap: plans priced by the clip

Klap's plans count clips. Basic is $29 a month for 100, Pro is $79 for 300 and Pro+ is $189 for 1,000, and yearly billing brings those to $14, $39 and $94 a month. Every plan includes unlimited social accounts and analytics. Its pricing page sums it up as "Only pay for clips you generate," which suits people who think in posts a day.

Klap's API takes a YouTube URL or a video file, writes captions in over 100 languages and reframes landscape video to portrait. Its MCP server signs in with your Klap account and uses your plan. It takes YouTube, Twitch, Kick and Vimeo links and uploads up to 10 GB, and it can cut a moment you describe and schedule the post. The pricing page lists no free plan, and the MCP page mentions a free trial.

Where Highstyle fits

Highstyle is our product, a clipper built for talk on YouTube that already has viewers. On a YouTube link it reads the transcript, the most-replayed graph and the timestamped comments, and a clip picked from that signal shows the comments behind it. Plans cost $19, $49 or $199 a month for 150, 500 or 2,500 minutes, more per hour than Vizard, and the API and an MCP server come with every paid plan. It makes 9:16 clips and leaves posting to you. Your first video is free, and every plan is on the pricing page. Highstyle vs OpusClip compares the two in detail.

Which one to pick

1. You want the most video for your money: Vizard.
2. Your footage has little talking, like sports, vlogs or gameplay: OpusClip, for ClipAnything.
3. You budget by output, like three clips a day: Klap.
4. You already have short videos and want captions, B-roll and zooms: Submagic. Add Magic Clips only if you also cut long videos.
5. You want posting and scheduling in the same tool: Vizard or Klap on any paid plan, or OpusClip Pro.
6. You want to run clipping from an AI assistant: OpusClip Pro or Klap, which both have MCP servers, or Vizard's skill for Claude Code.
7. You clip YouTube podcasts or interviews that already have views: Highstyle.

For more options, the Opus Clip alternatives roundup compares five tools on price and limits, and the best AI video clipping tools in 2026 covers nine, budget picks included.