They bill the footage you upload. We bill the footage you pick — and you pick it after we have shown you the stream. No subscription, no watermark, and your credits never expire.
The only thing that changes between them is how many credits you get.
One-time purchase · Credits never expire · No subscription · Secure payments via Dodo Payments
Not sure which one? Work out your cost per clip.
There is no pro tier holding the good parts hostage. No watermark, no locked features, no expiring credits — a bigger pack buys you more credits, and that is the only difference.
What decides which 30 seconds of your stream are worth posting.
A 0–99 rating with the Hook, Arc and Value breakdown behind it, so you know which clip to post first. Free on every plan — where other tools offer this at all, it sits behind a paid tier.
The transcript is split into speech beats first and the AI picks whole beats, so clips start and end where you would have cut them.
Per-second audio analysis catches laughter and crowd reactions, and holds the clip open so the punchline never gets chopped off.
Gaming, podcast, interview, reaction and talking-head each get their own rubric — a good gaming moment is not a good podcast moment.
Gameplay and music videos fall back to audio energy, scene cuts and visual reranking. Those clips come back without subtitles.
Clip count scales with length — a 2-hour VOD targets 22, a 10-minute video targets 7. One credit covers 90 minutes of source; a full three hours is two.
The part most tools get wrong on gaming and multi-person footage.
Fill, square, split, three-up, four-up, screenshare, gameplay and reaction — the layout changes when the scene does, instead of one crop for the whole clip.
On two-person footage we detect who is actually speaking from mouth movement and put them in the upper pane.
On gameplay we find the webcam box automatically and pin it above a square gameplay view that follows the action.
Faces first, then people and objects, then a general saliency model, and only then a centre crop. Catches people from behind, vehicles and animals.
Already 9:16? We render it natively instead of cropping a crop.
Burned in, styled how you want, timed to the word.
When a speaker mixes two languages mid-sentence, the captions come back in Roman script the way people actually type it — not a literal transliteration. Most AI tools cannot do this at all.
You never pick one from a dropdown. Word-level timing comes from forced alignment, not guesswork.
Including a highlight colour for the active word, and pop or bounce animations.
Size, weight, outline, drop shadow with real blur, background box, position, margin, colours — with a live preview while you set it.
No gates, no expiry, no watermark.
Including free. Most tools stamp their logo on your free exports and charge to remove it.
Ready to post to Shorts, TikTok or Reels with no re-encoding.
They are a one-time purchase and they stack. Nothing to cancel, nothing to use up before a deadline.
Want subtitles on the whole video instead of clips? One credit covers up to 2 hours, at native resolution.
Automatically. You are never charged for output you did not receive.
We are not trying to undercut anyone by a few dollars. We charge for a different unit, and on long videos that gap compounds.
| Zoupyu | Most clipping tools | |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Once, per pack | $5–29 / month |
| What you pay for | The stretch you pick | Every minute you upload, or a monthly quota |
| Unused credits | Never expire | Reset monthly, or lapse in 30–60 days |
| Watermark on the free tier | ||
| Virality score | Free for everyone | Paid tiers, where offered at all |
| Clip a stream that isn’t yours | Often your own channel only |
Based on the public pricing pages of the four most-used clipping tools, checked 29 July 2026. See a named, side-by-side breakdown.
One credit clips 90 minutes of the stretch you pick; a full three hours is two. Drag the sliders to your actual workload.
The last two are your numbers — we only do the arithmetic on them. Clip campaigns typically pay $1–$5 per 1,000 views.
At your numbers the pack pays for itself after 9 clips — roughly 3 days in.
When a credit is a minute of source video, your 6 videos cost 540 credits — length is what you pay for, not output.
The usual top tier ($29/mo) includes 300 minutes. This workload needs custom pricing — you'd pay $9 with us.
Those plans are monthly and their credits typically expire after 60 days; ours are one-time and never expire, so anything left over rolls into next month. Figures are the published pricing of the leading per-minute clipper, checked 2026-07-29.
Every friend who signs up with your referral link gives you 3 bonus credits — stackable on top of your balance.
Create your free accountNinety minutes — and you choose which ninety. Two credits take a full three hours. The difference between us and per-minute tools is what the meter is pointed at: they bill every minute of the file you upload, we bill the stretch you actually pick. A 90-minute podcast is one credit here and 90 metered minutes there, which is most of a $15 month.
Most of them bill by the minute of source video, so a single 3-hour VOD burns about 180 of their credits — it does not fit inside a typical $15 month at all. The same three hours is two credits here, around $0.66 on the largest pack. Use the calculator above with your own numbers.
Sign up with no credit card and get 3 free credits. Each one clips up to 90 minutes and hands back a set of ready-to-post Shorts with captions burned in — up to 22 clips from a long video. No watermark on any of them. Longer than 90 minutes? Pick your best 90 and clip that.
No — never. Every pack is a one-time purchase. Credits land in your account and stay there. You only pay again when you want more.
No. There is no expiry date and no monthly reset. Most tools in this category expire unused credits after 30–60 days; we do not.
Yes. Buying Starter (15 credits) and then Creator (40 credits) gives you 55 credits in your balance. No "use it or lose it".
Never — not even on the free plan. Your clips come back clean at 1080×1920, ready to post.
We refund the credit automatically. Same goes if you cancel the job before it finishes — no charge for output you never received.
Yes. Paste a Twitch VOD link or upload the file. You are responsible for having the right to use the footage — clip campaigns normally grant it, so check the campaign terms.
MP4, MOV, AVI and WebM, up to 5 GB per upload. You can also paste a Twitch VOD link and we download it for you.
The language is detected automatically — you never pick one. We also handle code-switched speech, where a speaker mixes two languages mid-sentence, in Roman script — which most AI clippers get wrong.
Yes — invite friends using your referral link. Every friend who joins gives you 3 bonus credits on top of your balance.
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