The OpusClip alternativethat bills what you clip.
A 3-hour VOD shouldn't cost your whole plan
Per-minute tools meter every second you hand them, including the hours you were never going to post. Here you pick the stretch worth clipping — 90 minutes to a credit, two credits for a full three hours.
- 180 minutes = ~180 credits
- A long stream can eat a whole month
- Locked into a monthly subscription
- As low as $0.33 per credit
- One-time packs — no subscription
- Credits never expire
The output, before and after
Three real renders. A facecam gets its own band across the top. Two speakers get a stacked split that follows whoever is talking. And with no mic at all, the highlights still get found from the action itself.
Before
After
Keeps your facecam on top, gameplay below. Zoupyu detects the webcam rectangle — border scan first, then corner probes — and stacks it over the action instead of cropping to one or the other.
Zoupyu vs OpusClip
Every row is verified — no marketing fluff, just what each tool actually does.
Last verified August 2026. OpusClip info from their pricing page.
Pay once, for the part you pick. Or $15+ every month, forever.
OpusClip's cheapest no-watermark plan is $15/month and meters by source minute, so one long stream can eat most of it — a 3-hour VOD is about 180 minutes and does not fit inside that month at all. Zoupyu's Starter pack is a one-time $9, credits never expire, and one credit clips 90 minutes of whichever stretch you choose.
Zoupyu
Pay once. Credits never expire.
- Free (signup)$0 · 3 credits
- Starter$9 · +15 credits
- Creator$19 · +40 credits
- Pro$49 · +150 credits
One-time payments. Credits stack on purchase and never expire. Refund on failed jobs.
OpusClip
Recurring monthly subscription.
- Free$0 · watermark
- Starter$15 / month
- Pro$29 / month
- BusinessCustom
Recurring subscription, metered by source minute. Annual billing required for some discounts.
Three reasons to pick Zoupyu over OpusClip
OpusClip meters by source minute on a $15+/month subscription, so one long stream can swallow most of your plan. Zoupyu points the meter at the part you actually want: pick your stretch and one credit clips 90 minutes of it, two clip three hours. Takes a Twitch VOD link directly, and the packs are one-time and never expire. Starter is a one-time $9.
Per-video pricing beats per-minute metering
OpusClip bills by the minute of source video. A 60-minute podcast costs 60 credits; a 3-hour stream costs about 180 — regardless of how many clips you actually keep, and regardless of how much of that stream was worth clipping. On the $15/month Starter plan that single stream is most of your month gone. The model quietly punishes exactly the creators with the most raw footage: streamers, podcasters, long-form YouTubers.
Zoupyu meters the same job differently: you tell us which stretch is worth clipping, and that is what you pay for. One credit covers 90 minutes of it, two cover a full three hours. A 4-hour VOD where the good half-hour is obvious costs one credit here and 240 metered minutes there. Buy a pack once and the credits never expire — use them across weeks or months as you actually publish. There is no subscription to cancel and no monthly reset that wipes what you did not use.
Subscription pricing assumes you are a power user every single month. Most creators are not. They shoot in bursts, take weeks off, and scale up around a launch or a game release. Pay-once, use-forever credits match how that actually works.
Clip streams you do not own
This is the difference that matters if you clip for other people. OpusClip expects you to upload a file or connect your own social accounts. If you are clipping someone else's stream — which is the entire job for anyone working a Whop clip campaign — that means finding the VOD, downloading it, and uploading it again before you can start.
Zoupyu takes a Twitch VOD URL directly. Paste the link, and it fetches and processes the stream without you touching a file. No channel connection, no download step, no OBS.
You are responsible for having the right to clip and post what you process — fair use and each platform's terms still apply, and that is on you, not on the tool.
No subscription to forget about
Every clipping tool on this list except Zoupyu bills monthly. That is fine when you are publishing constantly and genuinely bad when you are not — the months you do not shoot cost exactly as much as the months you do, and the unused allowance does not roll anywhere.
Zoupyu sells one-time credit packs. Nothing renews, nothing lapses, and nothing needs cancelling when you take a month off. Come back in March and the credits you bought in November are still sitting there.
It also means you can try the thing at its real price. Three videos are free with no card, and if the output is not right for your content, you have lost nothing and there is no trial to remember to cancel.
What Zoupyu does differently
Three things worth knowing about how Zoupyu works.
You pick the stretch, we bill that
The unit is a property of the pipeline, not a promotion. Detection and rendering scale with how much footage they actually touch — measured at roughly a quarter of realtime on our own hardware — so the meter points at the stretch you select rather than at whatever file you happened to hand us. Choose 90 minutes out of a 4-hour VOD and you pay for 90 minutes; the other two and a half hours cost you nothing, because we never processed them. It is also why credits can safely never expire: nothing here depends on you spending them this month.
Silent-gameplay moment detection
When there is no commentary to transcribe, speech-led detection has nothing to work with. Zoupyu falls back to on-screen action and audio energy — scene cuts, volume spikes, and a vision pass over candidate frames — so a clean play with no mic over it still becomes a clip. Those clips come back without captions, because there is no speech to caption.
Live Captions mode
Sometimes you do not want your video cut up. Live Captions burns word-level subtitles onto the full video at its native resolution and hands it back whole, ready to upload as the main upload rather than a Short. One credit, for anything up to two hours.
Also a better fit than these
Shortlisting other clippers too? Here's the quick read.
vs Eklipse
For Twitch streamersEklipse connects to your own channel and bills monthly ($9.99–24.99). Zoupyu clips any VOD you paste, including streams you do not own, and bills the stretch you pick, with no subscription.
vs StreamLadder
For hands-on editingStreamLadder is editor-first — good if you want to lay out clips yourself, and it bills monthly (free/$6/$15). Zoupyu is automatic end to end and priced per pick, bought once.
vs Crossclip
For simple conversionCrossclip converts clips to vertical at $5/month but has no AI moment detection — you pick the moments. Zoupyu finds them for you and charges nothing monthly.
vs 2Short
For long-form podcasts2Short does long-video-to-Shorts well but bills monthly. Zoupyu is one credit per 90 minutes of the stretch you pick, bought once, and credits never expire.
Where OpusClip is genuinely better
OpusClip is a bigger, more mature product and it is worth being straight about that. It documents 30+ caption languages to our verified English. It has a gameplay layout of its own — 30% speaker over 70% gameplay — so a facecam is not a reason to pick us over them. Its Pro plan bundles real tooling we simply do not have: AI B-roll, brand templates, a multi-platform scheduler, and team workspaces.
If you publish English-only talking-head content to six platforms daily and you want one tool that schedules it all, OpusClip Pro is a legitimate choice and we would not try to talk you out of it.
Zoupyu is deliberately narrower: find the moments, reframe to vertical, burn in captions, charge for the stretch you pick. Pick us if the per-minute meter is what hurts, or if you need to clip VODs you do not own. Pick them if you need the wider workflow.
Questions creators ask before switching
OpusClip meters by source minute, so a 3-hour stream costs roughly 180 of its credits — more than a $15 month holds — no matter how many clips you keep. Zoupyu bills the stretch you pick: two credits for those three hours, or one if the part worth clipping is 90 minutes or less. The longer and more often you record, the wider the gap.
Yes — paste a Twitch VOD link and Zoupyu fetches it, no channel connection needed. This is the normal workflow for clippers working campaigns. You are responsible for having the right to use and post the footage: fair use and the source platform's terms still apply.
No. Zoupyu credits never expire — buy a pack and use the credits across weeks or months as you actually publish. OpusClip credits reset monthly under its subscription.
Yes. On gameplay footage Zoupyu detects the webcam rectangle and gives it its own band across the top of the 9:16 frame, with the gameplay below. Worth noting that OpusClip has a comparable gameplay layout, so this is not a reason to switch on its own.
English, with word-level timing, burned into the clip. Language is auto-detected from the audio. English is what we have verified; if your content is in another language, run one of your three free videos through it and check the output before you buy anything.
You can paste a Twitch VOD link, or upload a file directly. YouTube URL import was removed in April 2026 after YouTube began flagging our server IP — download the source and upload it instead. We are looking at re-adding URL import through a different ingestion path.
If a job fails for a technical reason on our side, the credit is refunded automatically — you do not need to ask. For subjective quality complaints (the clips ran but you did not like them) we handle it case by case through support.
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Try Zoupyu free — 3 credits, no card.
Paste a Twitch VOD or upload a file and see what comes back, with captions burned in. Most videos finish in 10–15 minutes.