Opus Clip Pricing (2026): What Every Plan Costs and Who It's For

Opus Clip has four tiers: Free ($0, 60 credits/mo), Starter ($15/mo, 150 credits/mo), Pro ($29/mo, 400 credits/mo), and Business (custom pricing for teams). Annual billing saves approximately 20% on paid plans, bringing Starter to about $12/mo and Pro to about $23/mo when billed yearly.

Credits are Opus Clip's unit of usage — each minute of video processed consumes credits from your monthly allocation. Uploading a 60-minute podcast and generating clips uses more credits than processing a 10-minute YouTube video. Credits do not roll over month to month. The number of clips generated from a single video affects credit usage, as does enabling features like AI B-roll and the viral score analysis.

The Free plan provides 60 credits per month — roughly enough to process one or two longer videos or several shorter ones. Free users get access to the core AI clipping feature, auto-captions, and the viral score. Some advanced features like AI B-roll and certain caption styles are gated behind paid plans. Free is a functional evaluation tier, not just a demo, but 60 credits limits production volume significantly.

Pro provides 400 credits per month — the largest individual plan — plus access to all features including AI B-roll insertion, branded caption templates, custom clip resizing for each social platform, and priority rendering. Pro is designed for content creators and podcasters who repurpose video into social clips daily and need reliable throughput without constantly managing credit limits.

Opus Clip's viral score uses AI to predict how likely each generated clip is to perform well on social platforms like TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts. It analyzes factors including pacing, topic clarity, emotional hooks, and caption engagement. The score helps you prioritize which clips to post first when generating large batches from a single recording. It is available on all plans including Free.

Starter at 150 credits per month suits creators publishing clips from one to three long-form videos weekly — a typical podcast-to-social or YouTube-to-Reels workflow. If you upload a 60-minute podcast and generate 5-8 clips from it, you will use roughly 30-50 credits per episode. 150 credits supports 3-5 episodes per month with room for re-processing. For higher frequency, Pro's 400 credits gives significantly more headroom.

Yes. Opus Clip accepts uploads from YouTube URLs, direct video file uploads, Zoom recordings, and other video platforms. It processes the full recording and identifies the best moments automatically. For podcast content, it works best with video recordings — audio-only files require a video wrapper, and some caption and scene analysis features rely on video input for accuracy.

Manual clip creation in tools like Premiere or CapCut requires watching footage, identifying moments, trimming, adding captions, and resizing for each platform — typically 30-60 minutes per clip. Opus Clip automates the identification, captioning, and resizing steps, reducing clip creation to review and approval time. The trade-off is control: manually created clips give more editorial precision, while Opus Clip prioritizes speed and volume output.