Best AI clip generator for YouTube: five tools priced

Best AI clip generator for YouTube: the short answer

The lowest-priced paid plan among five AI clip generators for YouTube is Opus Clip Starter: $15 a month, billed monthly, as read on 5 October 2026. Opus Clip, Vizard and Descript also have a Free plan at $0. Submagic's clip tool, Magic Clips, is a separate add-on with no price on the pricing page; Submagic Starter is $19 a month per member, billed monthly.

Opus Clip: a free plan, then credits

Opus Clip's Free plan is $0 for 60 credits a month, with a watermark and no editing, and clips stop being exportable after 3 days. Starter is $15 a month, monthly billing only, with 150 credits. Pro is $29 a month, billed monthly, with 300 credits. By Opus Clip's own example, a 30-minute video uses 30 credits.

A coach who cuts clips from a 30-minute webinar spends 30 of Starter's 150 monthly credits that way. Pick Opus Clip for a free plan and the lowest monthly-billed start. Submagic vs Opus Clip and the Opus Clip alternative page set it beside Submagic.

Klap and Vizard: pay by the minutes you upload

Klap sells upload minutes, not clips. Basic is $29 a month on monthly billing for 300 upload minutes, and every plan includes AI Clipping, unlimited social accounts and analytics. You can make one video free.

Vizard counts credits, and one credit is one minute of video. Creator is $29 a month on monthly billing at 600 credits a month; its Free plan gives 60 credits a month at 720p. Pick Klap or Vizard to pay by the minutes of video you upload.

Descript: Create Clips on a plan counted in media hours

Descript Hobbyist is $24 per person a month on monthly billing and includes 10 media hours a month. Its AI tools include Create Clips, Studio Sound and Remove Filler Words, and Descript also has a Free plan at $0. Pick Descript when the clips come out of long recordings you also edit.

Submagic: Magic Clips as an add-on to a caption tool

Magic Clips takes a YouTube link, an upload or a public Google Drive link and returns a list of 20+ clips, each with a virality score. A virality score is Submagic's own estimate of how engaging a clip is likely to be, not a measured result. Submagic's help center says processing can take 10 to 25 minutes.

Magic Clips is an add-on subscription, separate from the three plans, with no price on the pricing page and no documented source-length limit. Starter, $19 a month per member, billed monthly, covers the captions. Pick Submagic when captions and edits on the clips matter as much as finding them. Its free trial covers three short videos in the editor, with no credit card and a watermark on downloads. Submagic Magic Clips has the add-on's inputs.