The short answer: Opus Clip is the most polished and the most expensive habit at $15–29/mo; Gling is the cheapest paid entry at $20/mo and the best silence-and-filler cutter; Wisecut is annual-billing-only from $23.25/mo; Vizard has the most generous free tier at 60 minutes a month, watermarked; and AI Clip Cutter is the only one here billing in rupees with credits that never expire. Which you should pick depends far more on how evenly you publish than on any feature list.
How we checked these prices
Every figure below was read off each vendor's own pricing page on 12 September 2026 and is linked so you can check it yourself. We did not take numbers from review sites or affiliate round-ups, which is why one row in the table is an em dash rather than a number: Vizard renders its prices in the browser, so we could not read a figure from the vendor's own page and will not repeat a second-hand one.
Prices change without notice. If you are reading this well after the date above, treat the table as a shape rather than a quote.
The comparison at a glance
| Tool | Entry price | What that buys | Free tier | Billing model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Clip Cutter | ₹399 (~$4.50) | 200 credits — about 175 source minutes plus 25 exports | 10 credits, no watermark | One-off credit packs, INR, no expiry |
| Opus Clip | $15 / mo | Starter tier; Pro is $29 / mo | Yes — watermarked, 3-day media retention | Monthly subscription, USD |
| Gling | $20 / mo | Plus tier: 10 hours of AI-edited media a month | Yes — 1 hour a month, watermarked | Monthly subscription, USD ($10/mo annual) |
| Wisecut | $23.25 / mo | Starter+: 300 credits/mo, 60-min export cap, 1080p | Yes — 60 min a month, 360p | Annual only ($279 up front) |
| Vizard | — | Creator tier; price not readable from the vendor page | Yes — 60 min a month, 720p, watermarked | Monthly subscription, USD |
Opus Clip
The most recognised name in the category, and the polish shows. It transcribes, scores candidate clips, and exports vertical shorts with captions, with a virality score attached to each pick.
Opus Clip's pricing page lists Starter at $15/mo and Pro at $29/mo as of 12 September 2026. The free plan exists but exports carry a watermark on animated caption templates and media is deleted after three days, so treat it as a demo rather than a trial.
Best for: creators who publish steadily, bill in USD without thinking about it, and want the most mature product in the space.
Watch out for: USD-only billing, and credits that carry an expiry clock. Our Opus Clip comparison has the full breakdown.
Gling
Gling is aimed squarely at YouTubers and is genuinely the best of this group at one specific job: stripping silence, bad takes and filler words out of raw footage before you do anything else with it.
Gling's pricing page lists Plus at $20/mo, Pro at $40/mo and Elite at $100/mo, each roughly halving on annual billing, with a free tier giving one hour of AI-edited media a month with watermarked exports. Allowances are measured in hours of media edited rather than uploads.
Best for: YouTubers cutting long, messy, unscripted footage who want the cleanup automated.
Watch out for: it is a cleanup tool that also clips, not a clipping tool first. If your footage is already tight, you are paying for the half you do not need.
Wisecut
Wisecut leans on automatic silence removal, auto-subtitles and background music, with a drag-and-drop feel that newer editors get on with quickly.
Wisecut's pricing page lists Starter+ at $23.25/mo and Professional+ at $83.25/mo — both billed annually, at $279 and $999 up front respectively. The free tier gives 60 minutes a month but exports at 360p, which is not publishable.
Best for: people who want silence removal and music handled automatically and are happy to commit for a year.
Watch out for: the annual commitment. There is no month-to-month entry, so the real question is $279 up front, not $23.
Vizard
Vizard has the most usable free tier of the group — its pricing page gives 60 minutes of upload a month with a 10-minute export cap at 720p, watermarked, with three-day storage. Paid tiers are Creator and Business and remove the watermark, raise exports to 4K, and add social scheduling.
We are not quoting a monthly price for those tiers. The page renders its figures client-side and served us placeholders, and the vendor's own help centre points back at the same page. Rather than repeat a number from a review site we could not verify at source, the table above carries an em dash. Check the page yourself before you buy.
Best for: trying the category properly for free before paying anyone.
AI Clip Cutter
Ours, so read this section with that in mind. The design goal was different from the rest of this list: we assumed publishing is uneven, and priced accordingly.
You buy credit packs rather than a subscription. Analysis costs 1 credit per minute of source video and each exported clip costs 1 credit, so a 30-minute episode yielding four clips is 34 credits. Packs start at ₹399 for 200 credits and nothing expires and nothing renews. Signup grants 10 credits on the same pipeline paying customers use — no watermark, 1080p, all 18 caption presets.
Best for: creators billing in India, anyone whose output is lumpy, and anyone who wants Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil or seven other Indian languages captioned in their own script.
Watch out for: there is no face tracking, no b-roll and no automatic zooms or transitions. If you want the clip assembled for you, the tools above do more. If you want the right 40 seconds found and captioned, this does that.
Which one should you actually pick?
- You publish weekly, in USD, and want the safest choice — Opus Clip.
- Your raw footage is long and messy — Gling, for the cleanup.
- You want to test the category for nothing — Vizard's free tier, accepting the watermark.
- You will commit for a year for automatic music and silence removal — Wisecut.
- You publish unevenly, bill in rupees, or need Indic captions — AI Clip Cutter.
If you want the arithmetic rather than the vibes, we worked through what each model costs on real workloads in credits vs subscriptions. Comparisons against Klap and SubMagic live on their own pages.
Frequently asked questions
Which AI clip cutter has the best free tier?
Vizard gives the most volume — 60 minutes of upload a month — but exports are watermarked, capped at 10 minutes and 720p. AI Clip Cutter gives less volume (10 credits, once) but no watermark and full 1080p, so the output is publishable. Pick on which constraint hurts you less.
Is Opus Clip worth $15 a month?
If you publish every week and use most of the allowance, yes — it is the most mature product here. If you skip months, you are paying for an allowance that resets unused, which is the case credit pricing exists to solve.
Which tool is cheapest for Indian creators?
AI Clip Cutter is the only tool in this comparison billing in INR through Razorpay, from ₹399. Every other tool here charges in USD, so the real cost includes your card issuer's forex markup on top of the sticker price.
Do any of these tools work on non-English video?
Most transcribe multiple languages, but Indic script rendering is where they differ. AI Clip Cutter transcribes ten Indian languages in the speaker's own script and ships script-specific fonts so captions do not fall back to boxes.
Try one before you subscribe to any of them
Every tool here has a free entry point, and an hour spent running the same video through two of them will tell you more than this article can. Ours is 10 credits, no card. If you are new to the workflow entirely, start with how to turn long videos into Shorts.