Team plans compared

On 23 August 2026 we pulled the pricing pages of 23 tools in this category directly from their servers, without running JavaScript, and 17 of them returned at least one readable price. This article compares those team and solo plans side by side, states for each line whether the figure is billed monthly or annually, and lists the pages where the price is not published in a readable form. All figures below come from that single measurement pass unless another date is given.

The short answer

If you are buying for a small team today, the cheapest readable entry point is Fluxnote's Rise plan at $10 per month, or $8.33 per month equivalent on its annual plan, which totals $100 per year. The most expensive readable entry point is TubeGen's Starter plan at $149 per month. Most tools sit between $19 and $39 per month for their first paid tier. Whether you pay monthly or annually changes the effective rate by 10 to 50 percent depending on the vendor, so check the billing term before comparing two numbers. Two pages we could not read at all are listed at the end.

What the first paid tier actually costs

The table below shows the entry-level paid plan of every tool whose pricing page returned readable figures on 23 August 2026. Each row names the billing term exactly as the page presented it. Where a page showed both terms, both appear.

Tool	Entry plan	Price	Billing term
Fluxnote	Rise	$10/month	Monthly
Fluxnote	Rise	$8.33/month	Annual, $100/year
Klap	Basic	$14/month	Annual, 100 clips/month
Vicsee	Starter	$15/month	Monthly
Vicsee	Starter	$10/month	Annual, $120/year
Opus Clip	Starter	$15/month	Monthly, after a free tier
Descript	Hobbyist	$16/month	Annual, $24 monthly
InVideo	Plus	$17/month	Annual, $200/year
Short.ai	Basic	$19/month	Annual, 1600 credits/month
Quso	Lite	$19/month	Annual, $29 monthly
Clippie	Lite	$19.99/month	Monthly
Faceless.so	Starter	$24/month	Annual, $29 monthly
Crayo	Hobby	$13/month	Annual, $160/year
HeyGen	Creator	$24/month	Annual, $29 monthly
Pictory	Starter	$25/month	Annual, $29 monthly
Revid	Hobby	$39/month	Monthly
Virvid	Lite	$39/month	Monthly
Medeo	Pro	$39/month	Monthly, $314/year
TubeGen	Starter	$149/month	Monthly

Three things stand out. First, the spread is wide: the gap between Fluxnote's $10 and TubeGen's $149 is nearly fifteenfold. Second, several vendors show only their annual rate on the default view, so a monthly buyer who skims the page will see a number they cannot actually buy at. Third, some pages state both rates openly, like HeyGen's Creator tier at $29 monthly or $24 on annual billing, while others hide one of the two entirely.

Which pages did not publish a readable price

Seven of the 23 pages failed to return usable prices without JavaScript. For five of these we know why, because the server did send content, just not numbers:

• StoryShort: the pricing page returned 4 words of body text. Its tiers of $39, $69, $129 and $199 come from TrustMRR, verified against Stripe data on 18 August 2026, not from the vendor's own page.
• AutoShorts: 10 words rendered.
• CapCut: 13 words rendered.
• Hooked: the pricing page sent 776 words from the server but contained not a single dollar figure; the tiers arrive via JavaScript.
• VEED: the page sent 531 words of navigation only.
• Vizard: every tier rendered as $0 on the server; the real price depends on a slider computed client-side. The page does state its free tier plainly: 60 credits per month, where 1 credit equals 1 uploaded minute of video.
• Fliki: the page sent 1540 words with tier names and credit counts but empty price fields. Free tier: 3 credits per month; Standard: 2160 credits per year; Premium: 7200 credits per year.

Submagic deserves its own note. Its page rendered 5208 words but showed two columns per plan, a base plan and a "+ MAGIC CLIPS" variant, and we could not determine in one pass which figure was monthly and which was annual. We therefore treat Submagic as not published in a readable form rather than guess.

How credit systems distort the comparison

A dollar figure alone does not tell you what you get. Most of these plans meter output in credits, and credit costs differ wildly between vendors. On 23 August 2026 the same first-tier plans bought very different amounts of work:

• Fluxnote Rise: 1000 credits, claimed as about 10 videos per month.
• Short.ai Basic: 1600 credits, claimed as up to 40 videos, with an AI story video of 30 seconds priced at 20 credits on the page itself.
• Faceless.so Starter: 500 credits, claimed as about 25 videos, with the page stating video generation starts from 20 credits.
• Vicsee Starter: 500 credits, claimed as up to 33 videos.
• Crayo Hobby: 50 credits and 40 export minutes per month.
• InVideo Plus: 75 credits.
• Quso Lite: 100 credits monthly, doubling to 200 if you bill annually. That annual credit doubling is unusual in this category; the page states it explicitly.

TubeGen publishes something almost nobody else does: a real per-minute cost. Its pricing page divides actual credit spend by published video length across median users, giving $2.47 per published minute on Starter and $2.01 on Pro. That is a claimed median, not a fixed rate.

The practical rule for a buyer: convert everything to your own unit before comparing. If your team ships 30 shorts a month, divide each plan's monthly price by 30 and by whatever credit-to-video ratio the vendor itself states. A $10 plan that yields 10 videos costs more per video than a $29 plan that yields 33.

What a team should do with this table

Match the plan shape to how your team actually works, then verify the billing term in the checkout flow, because the page default is not always what you will be charged.

1. If you publish a fixed daily volume, prefer plans that state a video count outright, like Virvid Lite at 60 shorts per month for $39, or Short.ai Basic at 40 videos for $19 on annual billing.
2. If your volume swings, prefer credit-based plans with a low floor, like Fluxnote at $10 monthly or Vicsee at $15 monthly, so idle months do not waste a large subscription.
3. If you edit footage you already have, generation-heavy plans are the wrong purchase. Descript bills per person, at $16 per member monthly on the annual rate or $24 monthly, and Opus Clip starts at $15 monthly after a free tier. Both work on supplied media rather than generating it.
4. If you need many seats, note that seat-based pricing compounds differently from credit-based pricing. HeyGen Business is $149 per month plus $20 per extra seat; Descript's Business tier is $50 per member monthly on the annual rate.

One caution on Medeo: its page shows $28 per month for the Pro plan next to an annual total of $314, which works out to $26.17 per month. Both figures appear on the page and they disagree. We report both rather than pick one.

What this does not tell you

Every number here comes from a single fetch on 23 August 2026, taken without JavaScript, in one region. Prices change, promotional rates expire, and a page that hid its tiers behind JavaScript may still sell at a different rate once the app loads. We have not measured usage limits beyond what each page itself states, output quality, render speed, or how any of these plans behave at renewal. We also have not tested whether the claimed video counts, such as Faceless.so's 25 videos from 500 credits, hold up in practice; those claims are the vendor's own arithmetic. If your decision hinges on a tool listed as unreadable here, ask that vendor for a written quote instead of trusting this comparison.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the annual rate always cheaper? In every case where we could read both terms, yes. Descript discounts 35 percent on annual billing, ViewMade's Pro plan halves from $59 monthly to $29.50 per month equivalent, and Quso doubles your monthly credits if you bill annually instead of cutting the price. But the discount size varies from roughly 13 percent at Pictory to 50 percent at ViewMade, so the saving depends entirely on the vendor.

How much does a finished short actually cost on these plans? Only a few vendors publish this. ViewMade states $0.58 per short on its $29 Starter plan with 50 renders per month, and $0.20 per short on its Pro plan, measured from its live pricing page on 22 August 2026. TubeGen publishes $2.47 per published minute on Starter based on median user credit spend. Most other vendors leave you to derive the per-unit cost yourself from credits.

Why can I not find StoryShort's prices on its own site? When we fetched storyshort.ai/pricing on 23 August 2026 without JavaScript, the server returned 4 words of body text. The tiers load through JavaScript in the browser. The figures of $39, $69, $129 and $199 per month are known from TrustMRR's Stripe-verified data as of 18 August 2026, which reports $20,864 in monthly recurring revenue across 370 active subscribers.

Do any of these tools offer a genuinely free option? Yes, three that we could read. Opus Clip has a free tier and its trial does not require a card. Vicsee has a Free plan at $0 with a one-time 20 credits, capped at 1 video and watermarked. Quso has a free tier with 75 credits per month at 720p. Vizard advertises a free tier of 60 credits per month, though its paid prices were not server-readable.