Clippie vs Opus Clip

On 23 August 2026, Clippie's cheapest plan was listed at $19.99 per month and Opus Clip's at $15 per month, but the two tools do different jobs: Clippie clips and captions your uploads plus offers a credit-based generation studio, while Opus Clip finds clips inside a long video you already made.

Choose Clippie if you want one subscription that covers clipping, captioning, and a generation studio for making new material from scratch. Choose Opus Clip if you already publish long videos and want a tool whose only job is finding the best short moments inside them. Choose neither if you want finished vertical documentaries built from real archive footage with every clip's source named.

What each one does

Clippie is a clipping and captioning tool with an added credit-based generation studio. You bring footage in, it cuts it into shorts and adds captions, and when you need new visuals rather than edits of what you supplied, credits buy generated output. Its pricing page lists three tiers: Lite at $19.99 per month with 300 credits, a middle tier at $34.99 per month with 1,000 credits and 120 minutes of export (the plan name did not come through on the server), and Pro at $69.99 per month with 2,000 credits and 250 minutes of export. All three were read as monthly rates on 23 August 2026.

Opus Clip does one thing: it takes a long video you have already made and finds the segments worth publishing as shorts. It does not generate your footage; whatever appears in the output is whatever you supplied. Its pricing page, read on 23 August 2026, shows a free tier at $0 that does not require a card, Starter at $15 per month with 150 credits, Pro at $29 per month, and Business at custom pricing.

Side by side

	Clippie	Opus Clip
What it makes	Clips and captions from your uploads, plus generated content via credits	Clips found inside a long video you already made
Where the pictures come from	User upload	Whatever you supply
Names its sources	No	Not applicable
Entry price	$19.99 per month (Lite, 300 credits)	$15 per month (Starter, 150 credits); free tier at $0
What it does not do	Not measured	Does not generate footage

Where Clippie wins

Clippie earns its place when your workflow mixes editing existing footage with producing new material. A creator who records podcast episodes and also wants to test AI-generated b-roll or intro segments can do both inside one subscription instead of paying for a clipping tool and a separate generator. The credit system makes this visible: Lite's 300 credits, the middle tier's 1,000 credits with 120 export minutes, and Pro's 2,000 credits with 250 minutes let you budget across both activities. It also suits people who work mostly from raw uploads. If your week looks like importing a recording, cutting five shorts, burning in captions, and exporting, Clippie covers that end to end, and its $19.99 entry point undercuts several competitors' clipping plans while including the studio as a second use case.

Where Opus Clip wins

Opus Clip wins when you are a long-form publisher who wants shorts without touching a timeline. A channel posting hour-long interviews each week gets a tool that scans the upload and surfaces the segments most likely to perform, which removes the manual review pass entirely. Its free tier matters here: at $0, no card required, you can run a real video through it before paying anything, which no credit-based plan in this comparison offers. At $15 per month for 150 credits, the paid entry is cheaper than Clippie's $19.99. Opus Clip is also the narrower tool, and narrowness is a feature when you already own the footage: there is no generation studio to learn, no credit allocation to split between clipping and creating, just input, output, and publish.

What neither of them does

Both tools start from footage you supply. Neither generates original documentary visuals from a topic, neither pulls real archive material, and neither produces a source citation file naming where each clip came from. If your goal is a finished short about a historical event, complete with sourced imagery, captions, voiceover, and a title package, both of these leave you assembling that yourself. They edit what exists; they do not research, script, or build a video about something that has not been recorded yet.

If neither fits

ViewMade turns a topic into a finished vertical documentary Short using real archive footage rather than generated images, and ships a media credit naming each clip's source with every render.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Clippie better than Opus Clip?

Neither is universally better. On 23 August 2026, Opus Clip's entry price was lower ($15 versus $19.99 per month) and it offered a free tier; Clippie added a generation studio on top of clipping and captioning. Pick by job: pure long-to-short repurposing favors Opus Clip, mixed editing plus generation favors Clippie.

How much does Clippie cost?

Lite is $19.99 per month with 300 credits. A middle tier costs $34.99 per month with 1,000 credits and 120 minutes of export. Pro is $69.99 per month with 2,000 credits and 250 minutes. Measured 23 August 2026.

How much does Opus Clip cost?

Free tier at $0 with no card required, Starter at $15 per month with 150 credits, Pro at $29 per month, Business at custom pricing. Measured 23 August 2026.

Do either of them generate their own footage?

No. Clippie's output is built on user uploads, with a credit-based generation studio alongside. Opus Clip works only with whatever you supply. Neither sources real archive footage, and neither names the origin of any clip.

Which is cheaper to start?

Opus Clip, because its free tier costs $0 and requires no card. Among paid plans, Opus Clip's Starter at $15 per month undercuts Clippie's Lite at $19.99 per month.