Opus Clip Pricing 2026 and Plans From $15 a Month

Opus Clip pricing in 2026 is four clipping tiers: Free at $0 for 60 credits a month, Starter at $15 a month for 150 credits, Pro at $29 a month or $14.50 a month billed annually ($174 a year) for 300 credits a month on either cycle, and Business at custom pricing. The same company's Agent Opus adds a Max plan at $129 for 1,500 credits that draws on the same credit balance. One credit equals one minute of the original video you import, not one finished clip. We read the pricing page, the credit documentation and the terms on 29 September 2026.

Opus Clip is the best known AI clipping tool: you hand it a long video, it finds the moments worth cutting, scores them for virality, reframes them vertically and burns in animated captions. The pricing looks simple on the card. It is not, and the reason is the unit. Opus does not charge you for the clips it gives back. It charges you for the footage you feed in, and that single decision changes what every plan is actually worth.

Opus Clip pricing plans at a glance

Those cost-per-minute figures are ours, computed from the published price and the published allowance. Opus does not print them. Our Opus Clip review scores the product itself, the refund terms and what Trustpilot reviewers complain about.

Pro also scales in packs, and the price rises in a straight line with no volume discount. On monthly billing you can stack up to 5 packs, which is $145 a month for 1,500 credits. On annual billing you can go up to 15 packs, $2,610 a year for 4,500 credits a month. One pack gives you 2 seats and 2 brand templates; two or more packs raise that to 4 seats. Past those limits, Opus asks you to contact sales or move to Business.

The $15 Starter plan costs more per year than the $29 Pro plan

This is the finding that should decide your purchase, and it falls straight out of the arithmetic on Opus Clip's own page.

Starter is $15 a month and its card carries a line most people skim past: "Starter plan only available in monthly." There is no annual Starter. So a year of Starter is 12 payments of $15, which is $180 for 1,800 minutes of video processing. Starter also exports 9:16 only, carries one brand template, and keeps exports available for 30 days and storage for 29.

Pro billed annually is $174 for 3,600 minutes. Since about 28 September 2026, those annual credits arrive as 300 a month rather than all 3,600 up front. OpusClip's older help article still describes the upfront pool, but the plan now delivers monthly, and annual credits stay usable for two extra months, so an unused month is not lost straight away.

Pro annual is therefore $6 cheaper over a year than Starter and gives you exactly twice the processing. It also adds a two-seat team workspace, a second brand template, six social connections, AI B-Roll, XML export to Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, 1:1 and 16:9 output alongside 9:16 (plus 4:5 in the editor), the social scheduler, custom fonts, speech enhancement, video dubbing, on-demand credit top-ups and limited API access. 4K download is the one output feature held back for Business. There is no dimension on which Starter wins. If you are confident enough to pay for a year, Starter is not the cheap option, it is a strictly worse one.

The catch is commitment. Starter's appeal is that you can cancel after one $15 month, and Pro annual asks for $174 up front. That is a real difference in risk, not in value. Judge it that way rather than by the sticker price.

The "save up to 50%" banner does not apply to the entry plan

Above the plan cards, Opus Clip prints "Save up to 50% with annual billing." On Pro that claim is exactly true and unusually honest: $29 monthly against $14.50 a month annually is precisely 50% off. On Business it is unknowable, because Business is quoted.

On Starter it is unreachable, because Starter has no annual option at all. The discount is advertised above a plan that cannot receive it.

We have now seen this same shape at three unrelated vendors in this category. Higgsfield's annual toggle produces "No difference compared to monthly" on its entry tier while a discount banner sits above every card. MakeUGC ties its 50% off badge to annual billing and prints "lowest cost per credit" under tiers that are not. Opus Clip advertises a 50% annual saving over a plan sold monthly only. Treat a discount banner above a plan grid as a claim about the most expensive plan on it, and check the entry tier separately, every time.

How are Opus Clip credits consumed?

One credit is one minute of the original video you import. Opus Clip's documentation states the rule directly: "1 credit per minute of the original video imported." Videos shorter than a minute round up to a full credit, and partial minutes on longer videos round down to the nearest whole minute. Two actions cost extra. Publishing a clip to X costs 3 credits per clip for each X account you post to, refunded if the post fails. AI video B-roll costs 10 credits per generation after the first 3 free ones.

Read that twice, because it is the opposite of how most AI video tools bill. Nearly every ad generator in this category meters output: you pay per finished video, per second of render, or per generation. Opus meters input. The consequence is that your cost is set by your source library, not by how much usable creative you get out.

Exactly one other well known tool in this space bills the same way, and comparing them is the fastest route to understanding what an input meter costs you. Descript charges media minutes for the footage you import too, at 80 cents an hour on its annual Creator plan against $2.90 an hour on annual Opus Clip Pro. The difference is that an Opus Clip credit covers the clipping work as well, while Descript bills every AI action from a second pool on top, which is why we put the two side by side in a full Descript vs Opus Clip comparison.

A 45 minute podcast episode costs 45 credits whether Opus returns three clips you post or twenty. On Starter's 150 credits a month that is three episodes. On Pro's 300 credits a month it is six episodes, with 30 credits left over, or about 80 over a year on annual billing. If your raw footage is long and your clip yield is low, the effective cost per usable clip climbs fast and nothing on the pricing page warns you about it.

The rounding is asymmetric and worth knowing if you work in short pieces. A 40 second video costs a full credit. A 10 minute 59 second video costs 10. Feeding Opus lots of very short files is the least efficient way to spend a plan.

Is Opus Clip free?

There is a genuine Free Forever tier at $0 with 60 credits a month, which is 60 minutes of imported footage. It renders up to 1080p, does auto reframe, and adds AI captions with emoji and keyword highlighting. It is a real product, not a countdown trial.

Three limits define it. Every clip carries a watermark. There is no editing at all, so you take what the model produces. And the exports expire: Opus states that "after 3 days, the clips will no longer be exportable," with media storage listed as expiring after 3 days. That last clause is the one that catches people. The free plan is not a place to build a library, it is a place to evaluate output quality inside a 72 hour window. OpusClip's terms also restrict the Free plan to personal, non-commercial use.

Does Opus Clip cost money for commercial use?

Yes. OpusClip's terms limit the Free plan to personal, non-commercial use, so any clip you publish for a business, a brand account or a client needs a paid plan, starting with Starter at $15. That paid plan also removes the watermark, which is listed as unavailable on Free and available from Starter upward. Beyond Free, Opus does not gate commercial use behind a separate license tier the way some vendors do.

The terms (effective 17 November 2025) are worth a quick read before you pay. The contracting company is Opusclip Inc., a Delaware company, the agreement is governed by California law, and disputes go to JAMS arbitration in San Francisco. Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current non-promotional rate, so a discounted first term does not lock the price, and there are no prorated refunds when you cancel mid-term. The help center adds two practical rules. Pro users can get the credits back on a project within 14 days of uploading it, provided no clip from it has been downloaded. And once a subscription lapses, projects become inaccessible after 3 days, so export what you want to keep before you cancel.

Opus Clip API pricing

More of it is self-serve than the plan card suggests. Pro's feature list says "Limited API Access", and OpusClip's documentation defines the limit: the API is in beta on Pro and available on Agent Opus Max, capped at 900 credits a month per workspace, 30 requests a minute and 4 concurrent projects. Pro also includes the Scheduler API, the MCP connector and Zapier integration. The only integration held back for Business is the CMS integration.

API calls draw on the same credit balance as the app, at the same one credit per source minute, so on monthly Pro the 900-credit cap is worth about $87 of processing at the plan rate, and in practice you will hit your plan allowance first unless you buy packs. If you need more than 900 credits a month through the API, that is a Business conversation. Opus has leaned into agent tooling further than most by shipping an MCP connector, which puts clipping inside the same agent tooling as the rest of an automated workflow stack, and that connector is available from Pro.

Is Opus Clip worth it?

It is worth it if you already own long footage. Podcasters, webinar hosts, livestreamers and anyone with a YouTube back catalog get the clearest return here, because the raw material is a sunk cost and Opus turns it into vertical clips faster and cheaper than an editor would. At 4.83 cents per source minute on Pro annual, a weekly hour-long show costs about $2.90 an episode to process, roughly $12.60 a month. That is not a close call against freelance editing. Users broadly agree: Trustpilot shows 4.0 from 499 reviews, with 63% five-star and 20% one-star.

OpusClip itself is a poor fit if you have no footage. The clipper repurposes video you already own, and that is the honest limit of the clipping category and why "Opus Clip alternative" is such a common search. The same company does sell a generator, though. Agent Opus shares your credit balance and makes new video: Assets to Ads builds an ad from a brief and up to 8 images, and URL to video turns an article or web page into a clip. It is priced per second of output, 1 credit a second on Standard, 3 on Standard+, 7 on Premium and 12 on Ultra, so a 30 second Premium ad costs 210 credits, about $20.30 at the monthly Pro rate. Agent Opus sells Pro at $29 for 300 credits and Max at $129 for 1,500, with no annual discount on either.

That changes the maths for a direct-to-consumer brand that needs fresh creator-style ads every week. Clipping costs cents per minute because you supply the footage. Generating costs dollars per ad because Opus supplies it, and at 210 credits a Premium ad, a 300-credit plan covers one such ad and change.

That is the split to be clear-eyed about before you subscribe. If your problem is that you have too much footage and no time, Opus Clip is excellent and priced fairly. If your problem is that you have no footage at all, a clipper is the wrong purchase. Agent Opus is one answer inside the same account, and an Opus Clip alternative that generates the video from scratch is the category you actually want.

How Opus Clip pricing compares to AI ad generators

Comparing entry prices across that table is misleading and we would rather say so than let the number stand on its own. Opus Clip looks like the cheapest serious option and it is, for its job. It is also the only one that will not produce anything unless you supply video first; its sibling Agent Opus is the exception inside the same company. The tools further down the table cost more per month because the price includes making the footage, which is the expensive part.

The useful question is not which entry price is lowest. It is whether you are paying to compress footage you already have or to create footage you do not. Those are different purchases, and a team that buys the wrong one usually discovers it a month in.

Opus Clip pricing FAQ

How much is Opus Clip per month? Opus Clip costs $0 for the Free plan, $15 a month for Starter, and $29 a month for Pro billed monthly or $14.50 a month billed annually at $174 a year. Business pricing is custom and quoted on request. Prices read from opus.pro on 29 September 2026.

Does Opus Clip have a free trial? The paid plans advertise "Start your free trial" with "No credit card required" on both Starter and Pro. There is also a permanent Free Forever tier at 60 credits a month, watermarked, with exports that expire after three days.

Do Opus Clip credits roll over? Yes, for a limited time, and OpusClip publishes the rule. Credits from a monthly plan stay usable for one extra month. Credits from an annual plan stay usable for two extra months. Annual Pro now delivers 300 credits a month rather than 3,600 up front, so each month's batch has its own expiry. If you cancel, the credits you already hold keep their original expiry dates rather than disappearing on the day you cancel.

Can I buy extra Opus Clip credits? Yes, in two ways. Pro includes on-demand credit top-ups, though the top-up price is not published on the pricing page. The published route is packs: each Pro pack adds 300 credits a month at the same price per pack, up to 5 packs on monthly billing ($145 a month for 1,500 credits) or 15 packs on annual billing ($2,610 a year for 4,500 credits a month), with "Contact us for more credits" past that.

What is the cheapest way to use Opus Clip seriously? Pro billed annually at $174. It costs $6 less per year than paying $15 a month for Starter and includes twice the credits plus the editor, team seats, extra aspect ratios, B-Roll and two extra months of rollover. The only reason to choose Starter is if you want the option to cancel next month.

Where this leaves you

Opus Clip is priced honestly for what it does, with one real asterisk: the entry plan is worse value than the tier above it, and the discount banner points at a saving the entry plan cannot take. Work in cost per source minute rather than cost per month and the ladder becomes obvious, with Pro annual at 4.83 cents beating everything else on the page by a factor of two.

The bigger decision sits above the pricing table. Clipping and generating are different purchases. If you need a steady stream of creator-style ads and you do not have hours of footage waiting, no clipping plan at any price solves that. AdsGen takes a product URL, writes a batch of up to 20 UGC ad scripts with the angle and hook handled, and renders the ones you pick as vertical videos with an AI creator and captions, which is the other half of this market. Paste a link above and see the scripts that come back before you commit to either approach.