Opus Clip too expensive? Work out what you are actually paying
Opus Clip's paid plans start at $15 per month on the Starter tier, measured from opus.pro/pricing on 23 August 2026.
- What one topic returns
- One written topic becomes a finished vertical Short: the research, a written script, narration in the video's language, real archival footage with maps and charts, burned-in captions, a thumbnail and a title/description/tag package. The file downloads ready to publish, with a media credits file naming the source of every clip.
- What the money buys
- Starter is $29 a month for 400 credits, which is 20 finished Shorts at 20 credits each, about $1.45 a Short. Pro is $59 a month for 45 Shorts, about $1.31 each, or about $0.66 each at $29.50/month billed yearly, 50% off. One credit is 1 minute of video processing, so the same balance is 400 minutes of source to clip.
- What is free
- There is no free plan and no credits on signup; generation requires a paid plan. The free YouTube SEO checker scores a title, a description and keywords with no account, three checks a day.
- Rights and the download
- No export carries a watermark. You keep the rights in what you submit, and ViewMade assigns to you the rights it holds in the output; source footage, music and fonts stay under their own licences, named in the credits file. 15 research and writing tools sit beside the studio, in 7 interface languages.
Every number here is read from the plan that charges the card, checked 13 September 2026. Full detail: pricing, refunds.
Last checked
Opus Clip's paid plans start at $15 per month on the Starter tier, measured from opus.pro/pricing on 23 August 2026. If that number no longer matches what you get out of the tool, this page runs the arithmetic instead of the sales pitch.
What Opus Clip costs
Measured directly from opus.pro/pricing on 23 August 2026:
| Plan | Price | Billing basis |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Monthly |
| Starter | $15 per month | Monthly |
| Pro | $29 per month | Monthly |
| Business | Custom | Quote |
The page also lists a free trial that does not require a card. The Starter plan includes 150 credits per month. The page does not publish a per-video figure for any plan, so a cost-per-clip calculation is not possible from the pricing page alone.
What you get for it
The pricing page states 150 credits per month on Starter. It does not state how many finished videos one credit produces, so the page does not publish a per-video figure. That matters when you are comparing tools: a $15 plan with an unknown videos-per-credit rate cannot be compared line by line against a plan that quotes a fixed render count. If you are on Starter and hitting the credit ceiling every month, your real cost per usable clip depends on how many of those 150 credits turn into clips you actually publish. Only you can measure that from your own account history.
The same money, elsewhere
All figures measured from each vendor's own pricing page unless noted.
| Tool | Entry price | What that buys | Footage source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opus Clip | $15/month (Starter, monthly billing) | 150 credits/month; per-video count not published | Whatever you supply |
| Revid | $39/month (Hobby, monthly billing) | High-volume short-form output | Generated |
| ViewMade | $29/month (Starter, monthly billing) | 50 renders/month, $0.58 per short | Real archive footage |
A note on the footage column: Opus Clip works on video you already made, so "whatever you supply" is not a weakness there, it is the product. The comparison that matters is whether you need new footage at all. If you do, ViewMade pulls it from real archives and ships a media credit file naming the source of every clip. Revid generates its visuals with AI models.
When staying put is the right call
Opus Clip finds clips inside a long video you already made. If your workflow starts with long-form recordings, podcasts, streams, or interviews, that is exactly the job you are paying for, and no topic-to-video tool replaces it. ViewMade takes a topic and builds a vertical documentary from sourced archive material; it cannot mine your existing uploads for the best moments. If you already produce long videos and only want them sliced into Shorts, switching saves you nothing and costs you a workflow. The honest case for leaving is narrower: you want finished Shorts from topics rather than cuts from footage you supply, and the credit math on your current plan has stopped working. If that sentence does not describe you, stay.
If you do move
ViewMade's Starter plan costs $29 per month for 50 renders, which works out to $0.58 per short. There is no free tier and no signup credit, so production begins after payment succeeds. The Pro plan costs $59 per month, or $29.50 per month billed annually at $354 total, a 50 percent discount, for 150 renders per month at $0.20 per short. Every render ships with a media credit file listing the source of each clip, word-for-word subtitles burned into the image, a thumbnail, and a title, description, and tags package. You download the file and publish it yourself; ViewMade never touches your channel.
<!-- faq -->Frequently asked questions
Is ViewMade cheaper than Opus Clip?
It depends on which tiers you compare. ViewMade Starter is $29 per month; Opus Clip Starter is $15 per month and Pro is $29 per month, all monthly billing as of 23 August 2026. At equal headline price, ViewMade publishes a fixed render count (50) and a fixed per-short price ($0.58), while Opus Clip's page does not publish a per-video figure. Whether ViewMade is cheaper per usable clip depends on how many clips your 150 Opus Clip credits actually produce. Check your own account history before deciding.
Does ViewMade have a free plan like Opus Clip?
No. Opus Clip has a free tier and a card-free trial. ViewMade has neither: no free layer, zero signup credit, and production starts only after payment succeeds. If you want to test before paying, ViewMade is the wrong shape for that.
What am I actually paying per video on Opus Clip?
Unknown from public data. The pricing page lists 150 credits per month on Starter but does not say how many videos a credit yields, so no per-video dollar figure can be calculated without your own usage logs. Any third-party number claiming to answer this is guessing.
How do I cancel Opus Clip if I switch?
Check Opus Clip's own billing page for the cancellation steps. This page does not document another vendor's cancellation flow, because their policies change and unverified instructions would send you into a process that may not exist.