OpusClip is a browser-based AI video repurposing tool from Opusclip Inc. that finds the strongest moments in long footage, reframes them vertically with subject tracking, adds captions, and schedules them to social platforms, with plans from free to $29 a month.
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OpusClip is a browser-based AI video repurposing service operated by Opusclip Inc., a company whose DMCA agent address places it in Mountain View, California. It takes a long video — a podcast episode, a stream VOD, a webinar, a talking-head upload — locates the segments most likely to work as standalone short-form content, reframes them for vertical playback, adds captions, and can schedule the results directly to social platforms. The homepage states the proposition without hedging: "OpusClip turns long videos into high-quality viral clips, and publishes them to all social platforms in one click."
One naming point matters before anything else. The product is called OpusClip; opus.pro is simply the domain it lives on. Directory listings and URLs sometimes render it as "Opus Pro," but every official surface — homepage, terms, App Store listing, blog — says OpusClip. There is also a second, separate product from the same company called Agent Opus, and the vendor has publicly clarified that the two are distinct products with distinct review profiles. Reviews and feature claims about one do not transfer to the other.
The company has disclosed $30 million in cumulative funding, a figure its own blog is careful to define as covering "our recent Series A as well as prior seed funding" rather than a single round. The Series A was led by Millennium New Horizons with participation from AI Grant, Samsung Next, GTMfund, DCM Ventures and others; a later round came from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, though that announcement disclosed no amount. Vendor-reported scale figures — over 10 million creators and brands, more than 172 million clips generated in a year — have not been independently audited.
The clip-finding model is the reason to use this product rather than a manual editor. OpusClip describes ClipAnything as "the only AI clipping model that turns any genre — vlogs, gaming, sports, interviews, explainer videos — into viral clips in 1 click." The genre-agnostic claim is the substantive part: earlier generations of clipping tools were tuned almost exclusively for talking-head podcast content and degraded badly on gameplay, sports or screen-recorded material.
The control surface around it scales with your plan. Every tier lets you select a clipping timeframe and a target clip length, with length buckets of 0–1m, 1–3m, 3–5m, 5–10m and 10–15m. Pro and Business add Topics search and Prompt to clip, which let you direct the model toward specific subject matter rather than accepting whatever it surfaces. Reprompting to fine-tune results is not available on the Free plan — a meaningful limitation, since the first pass on any given video is rarely the best one.
Converting 16:9 footage to 9:16 is where naive tools fail most visibly, because a static centre crop loses whoever is speaking the moment they move. OpusClip's answer is ReframeAnything, described as "the only AI reframe model that resizes any video for any platform and keeps moving subjects centered with AI object tracking."
The capability is tiered in a way worth knowing before you subscribe. Free and Starter output 9:16 only; Pro and Business unlock 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9. Moving object tracking — the actual differentiator — is not available on Free or Starter at all. Genre-specific reframing models and custom reframing are likewise Pro-and-above. If your material has movement in it, the reframing quality you would be evaluating on a paid plan is not the reframing quality the free tier gives you.
OpusClip generates captions automatically, and the site claims "over 97% accuracy," with text remaining freely editable afterwards. This is a vendor-reported figure with no published methodology or independent audit, so treat it as a claim rather than a measurement.
Caption features are among the clearest tier dividers. Animated caption templates exist on the Free plan but carry a watermark. Multi-language transcription is available across tiers. Custom font upload arrives at Pro (up to two fonts). Speaker-based caption colours, automatic censoring of profanity, and automatic emoji and keyword highlighting sit at Pro and above, with Business getting a custom censored-words list rather than the default one.
Beyond clipping and captioning, paid tiers carry a genuine editing layer: text-and-timeline-based editing, AI image and stock B-roll, AI voice-over, speech enhancement, speech cleanup for both pauses/fillers and bad takes, transition effects, uploaded media assets, music, text overlays, AI video upscaling, video dubbing and AI sound effects.
The important structural fact is that none of this exists on the Free plan. Every item in the AI video editing group is marked unavailable at the free tier. Starter unlocks part of it — AI image B-roll at 3 clips/month, stock B-roll at 3 clips/month, AI voice-over at 20 per day, pause-and-filler cleanup, upscaling. Pro raises these substantially: AI image B-roll to 50 clips/day, stock B-roll to unlimited, speech enhancement 10 times/day, plus bad-take removal, transitions, music, dubbing and sound effects. AI video B-roll is powered by Agent Opus and appears only at Pro and above.
Brand consistency is handled through templates carrying font, colour, logo and intro/outro settings. Free and Starter each get one template; Pro allows up to four; Business is a custom arrangement. Intro/outro cards, custom font upload, brand vocabulary and a custom media asset library all begin at Pro.
Team Workspace lets you "set up a team account to collaborate and manage creative projects with your team members." It is not available on Free or Starter. Pro provides member seats in packs of two, up to four users total; Business is unlimited. Folder management appears at Pro as a single default folder, with custom folders reserved for Business, and sub-teams and member permissions exist only at Business.
The social side closes the loop: a scheduler, posting to multiple profiles per platform, and generation of clip titles, descriptions and hashtags. All three are Pro-and-above features. 4K scheduling and download is Business only.
For programmatic use there is a video editing API, a scheduler API, an MCP connector and Zapier integration (capped at 300 credits per month), all beginning at Pro; CMS integration is Business only. The homepage frames this as: "With our API, you can integrate OpusClip with your CMS and other tools to automate your video creation workflow."
Free and Starter accept local uploads up to 10GB per video. Pro and Business raise that to 30GB and additionally accept public MP4 URLs. Automatic import from a verified YouTube account is available from Starter upward but not on Free; Business extends import to CMS and other cloud servers.
Processing speed is explicitly tiered rather than uniform: Free runs at "regular speed," Starter is "faster than Free and Trial," Pro is "faster than Starter," and Business gets a dedicated enterprise queue with more powerful servers. This is worth factoring in if turnaround time is part of your workflow.
This is the canonical use case and the one the product is most obviously built around — the vendor maintains a dedicated podcaster page. A weekly two-hour episode yields a month of short-form posts if the clip selection is good. Speech cleanup for pauses and filler words, available from Starter, matters more here than almost anywhere else, since conversational recording is full of both.
Streamers accumulate hours of footage where the memorable moments are sparse and unlabelled. ClipAnything's genre coverage explicitly includes gaming, and the screenshare/gameplay layout option in the reframing system addresses the specific problem that gameplay footage has two regions of interest — the game and the streamer cam — that a single crop cannot hold. There is a dedicated live-streaming business page.
For agencies handling multiple clients, the relevant features cluster at the top of the price list: team seats, brand templates, sub-teams, member permissions, and the API for pushing output into an existing CMS. The vendor maintains separate pages for agencies, marketing, advertisers and e-commerce, which suggests these segments are a deliberate focus rather than an afterthought.
Long lectures, webinars and tutorial recordings convert well because the underlying material is already structured into topics. Topics search on Pro plans is directly useful here: you can direct the model to find segments about a specific concept rather than trusting a generic virality heuristic.
The vendor's business pages extend to real estate, church, media and entertainment. What these have in common is a steady stream of long-form recorded content — property walkthroughs, services, broadcast segments — produced by organisations that generally lack a dedicated short-form editor. Named customers disclosed by the vendor include Univision, Billboard, iHeartMedia, Visa and LinkedIn.
Pro and above can export to Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve rather than only to MP4. For teams with an existing finishing workflow, this reframes the product as a fast first-pass selection and reframing tool whose output gets polished elsewhere, rather than an end-to-end solution.
New users get a 7-day free trial of the Pro plan with 90 minutes of processing (roughly 30 downloadable clips). This is the only window in which you will see Pro-level reframing, editing and export behaviour without paying. Use it on your actual hardest footage — the material with movement, multiple speakers or screen content — rather than on an easy talking-head test, because easy footage will not distinguish this tool from cheaper alternatives.
After the trial you either subscribe or drop to the free-forever plan with 60 minutes of monthly processing. The drop is substantial and not only in minutes: you lose watermark-free export, all AI editing features, aspect ratios other than 9:16, object tracking, auto-save, and your media begins expiring after three days. Plan the transition rather than discovering it.
Free and Starter accept local files up to 10GB. From Starter upward you can connect a verified YouTube account for automatic import, which is the lower-friction path for anyone with an existing channel. Pro and Business accept up to 30GB and public MP4 URLs.
Set a clipping timeframe if you know roughly where the good material is, and pick a length bucket that matches your target platform. On Pro, use Topics search or Prompt to clip to steer toward subject matter instead of accepting a generic pass. Constraining the search up front consistently beats sifting a large undirected output.
Each clip carries a virality score on paid tiers. Treat it as a triage aid for deciding what to review first, not as a prediction. The vendor publishes no methodology for it, and the most commonly reported user complaint about the product concerns exactly this layer — clips that cut off before a punchline or omit the context that made a moment land.
Check that subject tracking is holding the speaker through movement, and read the captions rather than skimming them — 97% accuracy still means roughly one error every thirty words, and proper nouns are where transcription typically fails. Both are cheaper to fix here than after publishing.
On Free, exports are capped at 1080p with a 3-day limit and media expires after three days. On Starter it is a 30-day limit at the highest available resolution, with media expiring after 29 days. Pro and Business have no export limit. If you are on a lower tier, download what you need immediately — this is the mechanism behind a recurring category of user complaint about losing access to work.
This is the single most consequential piece of advice here. The free plan withholds the features that constitute the actual product: object tracking, non-9:16 aspect ratios, the entire AI editing suite, watermark-free export and reprompting. A free-tier assessment tells you very little about what a paid tier does. Use the 7-day Pro trial for evaluation instead.
Media expires after 3 days on Free and 29 days on Starter, and export windows are 3 and 30 days respectively. Auto-save projects is unavailable on both. Build the habit of exporting at the end of each session rather than assuming your work stays accessible.
Post-cancellation charges are the most frequently recurring complaint in verified Trustpilot reviews, including one user reporting an automatic renewal they say occurred without active consent. Whatever the underlying cause, the practical response is the same: after cancelling, verify in writing that the subscription is terminated and watch the next billing cycle.
At least one verified reviewer reported losing over 250 credits across two failed generations. Assume some proportion of your allowance will go to outputs you discard, and size your plan against realistic throughput rather than the theoretical maximum.
If you are on Pro and the generic clip selection keeps missing what you care about, the fix is directional prompting, not repeated regeneration. Topics search and Prompt to clip exist precisely because a virality heuristic has no way of knowing which three minutes of your episode actually mattered.
Static talking-head material looks fine under almost any crop, so it will not reveal whether tracking works. Test with footage where the subject moves across the frame, or where there are two people, since that is where the paid reframing model earns its price difference.
They are different products from the same company with different review profiles, and the vendor has said so explicitly. If you are reading reviews or comparing features, check which product is actually being discussed before drawing conclusions.
Podcasters and interview-format creators are the best fit. The content shape — long, conversational, topic-segmented — matches what the clip model is designed to find, and the speech cleanup tools address the specific weaknesses of conversational recording.
Streamers and gaming creators benefit from the genre coverage and the screenshare/gameplay layout handling, though they should verify tracking quality on their own footage during the trial, since gameplay is harder than talking heads.
Marketing teams and agencies with multiple clients or brands get real value from brand templates, team seats, sub-teams and API access — but essentially all of that sits at Pro and Business, so the economics only work if you are budgeting at that level.
Media organisations, educators and institutions with a steady output of long recordings and no dedicated short-form editor are the volume case, and the named enterprise customers suggest this segment is served.
Who should look elsewhere: anyone hoping to use the free plan as a working tool rather than a preview will find it too constrained — watermarked captions, no watermark-free export, 3-day media expiry and no editing features. Creators making short-form natively, rather than repurposing long footage, are paying for a pipeline they do not need. Teams requiring SSO or software licence management need Business specifically. And anyone whose material demands precise editorial judgement about where a thought begins and ends should expect to do meaningful manual correction, since that is the most consistently reported weakness.
OpusClip is delivered as a web application, with the working environment at clip.opus.pro and the marketing site at www.opus.pro. There is also an official iOS app published by Opusclip Inc. under the bundle identifier pro.opus.clip, rated 4+ for content, which confirms the vendor's identity independently of the website.
Support runs through a help centre at help.opus.pro plus a Discord community for all tiers. Pro adds Intercom live chat, and Business adds priority support with a dedicated Slack channel. AI chat support is available across tiers.
The vendor operates localised sites in German, Spanish, French and Brazilian Portuguese, indicating deliberate multi-market operation rather than an English-only product. It also maintains segment-specific pages for podcasters, live streaming, e-commerce, marketing, agencies, church, real estate, advertisers, creators and media and entertainment.
There are four tiers: Free at $0, Starter at $15/month, Pro at $29/month, and Business at custom pricing. New users receive a 7-day free trial of Pro with 90 minutes of processing, approximately 30 downloadable clips.
Free — $0. 60 minutes of monthly processing, refreshed monthly. Regular processing speed, local uploads to 10GB, 9:16 only, one brand template, animated caption templates with a watermark, and no watermark-free export at all. Exports are capped at 1080p with a 3-day limit; media expires after 3 days. No auto-save, no object tracking, no AI editing features, no reprompting, no social scheduling, no team features.
Starter — $15/month. Adds watermark-free export, faster processing, automatic import from a verified YouTube account, AI voice-over at 20/day, AI image and stock B-roll at 3 clips/month each, pause-and-filler speech cleanup, and AI video upscaling. Export limit rises to 30 days at the highest available resolution; media expires after 29 days. Still 9:16 only, still no object tracking, still one brand template, still no team workspace or social scheduler.
Pro — $29/month. The tier where the product becomes complete. Uploads to 30GB plus public MP4 URLs, 9:16/1:1/16:9, moving object tracking, genre-specific reframing, custom reframing, Topics search and Prompt to clip, AI image B-roll at 50 clips/day and unlimited stock B-roll, speech enhancement 10 times/day, bad-take removal, transitions, music, text overlay, dubbing, sound effects, up to 4 brand templates, up to 2 custom fonts, 100GB fixed storage, no export limit, bulk export, export to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, social scheduling and multi-profile posting, team seats in packs of two up to four users, clip analytics, video editing API, scheduler API, MCP connector and Zapier integration up to 300 credits/month.
Business — custom. Dedicated enterprise queue, import from CMS and cloud servers, customised storage, unlimited seats and media, custom folders, sub-teams, member permissions, real-time trend analysis, 4K scheduling and download, SSO, software licence management, MSA, CMS integration, custom onboarding, invoice and ACH payment, and priority support with a dedicated Slack channel.
All tiers are noted as SOC II Type 2 compliant and support email OTP login. Refund terms are not set out as a distinct clause in the terms of service, so anyone for whom that matters should confirm directly with the vendor before subscribing rather than relying on any statement here.
Vizard occupies almost exactly the same niche — long-to-short AI clipping with captions and reframing — and is the most direct comparison. Evaluating both on identical source footage during their trials is the only reliable way to compare clip-selection quality, since that is the differentiator and neither vendor publishes methodology.
Descript approaches the problem from transcript-based editing rather than automatic clip discovery. You edit video by editing text, which gives far more editorial control over exactly where a clip starts and ends — directly addressing the most common complaint about automated clipping — at the cost of being slower and less automatic.
CapCut is free, extremely capable for manual short-form editing, and has no meaningful usage caps, but it does not find clips for you. It is the right choice if your bottleneck is editing execution rather than selection.
Adobe Premiere Pro with its own AI features suits teams already inside Adobe's ecosystem and needing frame-accurate control. OpusClip's ability to export to Premiere means the two can be complementary rather than exclusive.
Riverside, Munch and similar clipping tools compete on overlapping feature sets with different pricing shapes. Because none of these tools publish evaluable accuracy metrics for clip selection, comparison shopping on feature lists is less informative than running the same episode through two trials.
The honest positioning: OpusClip's advantages are genre breadth, subject-tracking reframe quality and a complete publish-and-schedule loop. Its disadvantage is that these advantages live almost entirely at $29/month, and its free tier is a preview rather than a product.
This deserves stating plainly because the marketing does not. The Free plan has no watermark-free export, watermarked animated caption templates, a 3-day export limit at 1080p maximum, media that expires after 3 days, no auto-save, no object tracking, 9:16 only, no reprompting, and the entire AI video editing group unavailable. Sixty monthly minutes of processing is real, but what you can do with the output is heavily constrained. It functions as a demonstration, not as a free tool.
Across verified user reviews the recurring substantive criticism is that automatic clip selection is inconsistent — clips cut off before a punchline, or omit the setup that made a moment work. This is inherent to the problem rather than unique to this vendor: no current model reliably understands narrative structure. But it means the realistic workflow includes reviewing and often trimming output, and anyone budgeting time on the assumption of one-click finished clips will be disappointed.
The Trustpilot profile for opus.pro carries a 4.0 rating over 468 reviews — but the distribution is bimodal: 64% five-star against 20% one-star, with only 16% in between. Reading the negative reviews, the concentrated themes are automatic renewal charges after cancellation (one reviewer describing a renewal "without my active consent" and requesting a full refund), unfulfilled priority support on a top-tier plan (a Max-plan user reporting two technical issues met with "complete silence" for over two days), and credits consumed by failed generations (one case of over 250 credits across two failures).
Two caveats belong with those numbers. First, the profile has been claimed by the vendor since January 2024 and Trustpilot notes the company actively invites customers to review, which introduces selection bias in the positive direction — the 20% one-star share exists despite that invitation pressure, not because of it. Second, the vendor has replied to 100% of negative reviews, typically within 24 hours, which is a meaningful counter-signal about responsiveness even where outcomes disappointed.
The iOS app holds 4.85 across 5,569 ratings while Trustpilot sits at 4.0 across 468. Both samples are large enough to take seriously, so the gap is informative rather than noise: app store reviews tend to capture in-product experience, while Trustpilot concentrates billing and support disputes. A prospective user should read the App Store score as a signal about the editing experience and the Trustpilot distribution as a signal about the commercial relationship.
The 97% caption accuracy claim, the 10 million creators figure, the 172 million clips figure and the eight-figure ARR are all self-reported with no published methodology or independent audit. Separately, "viral" is used throughout the marketing without any qualification, and the growth cases displayed on the pricing page — creators gaining large view counts in 4, 6, 9 or 11 days — are selected individual examples, not a statistical result. No tool can make content go viral; what this one can do is reduce the cost of producing candidates.
The terms of service state that where the company detects activity it believes to be fraudulent or suspicious, it "may cancel your earned credits, terminate your accounts, or restrict your IP addresses or other identifiers from registering new accounts," and reserves the right to terminate access "at any time, for any reason." These are common clauses, but combined with the credit-based billing model they are worth reading before committing to a large credit purchase.
The agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, applicable federal law and California law. Disputes require good-faith negotiation first, then binding arbitration in San Francisco County under JAMS Streamlined Rules, conducted in English by a single arbitrator. Users outside the United States should factor in what pursuing a claim would actually involve.
The DMCA agent address in the terms of service is 660 W. Dana Street, Mountain View, CA. The Trustpilot profile lists 530 University Ave, Suite B, Palo Alto, CA. Both are presented here as found; the discrepancy is noted rather than reconciled.
The terms require users to be at least 16, but add that "children of all ages may use the Services if enabled by a parent or legal guardian," and users under 18 must have guardian permission. The privacy policy aligns at 16 for data collection. Institutions deploying this with students should note that the effective floor depends on guardian enablement rather than a hard age gate.
Targeted searching found no first-hand review or evaluation from established technology press. What circulates instead is funding-database entries, one press-release-style piece with no independent reporting, and review articles published by competing products and affiliate sites — several of which misstate current pricing or features. None are cited here, and readers encountering "OpusClip review" content should check who published it.
There is a genuinely free tier, but with heavy constraints. It gives 60 minutes of processing per month, refreshed monthly, at regular speed and 9:16 only, with watermarked caption templates, no watermark-free export, a 3-day export window capped at 1080p, and media that expires after 3 days. New users also get a 7-day trial of the Pro plan with 90 minutes of processing, roughly 30 clips, which is the better way to evaluate the product.
Yes, in effect. The pricing comparison marks watermark-free video export as unavailable on Free, and the animated caption templates on that tier are explicitly labelled "with watermark." Watermark-free export begins at Starter, $15 per month.
Starter is $15/month and mainly buys watermark-free export, faster processing, YouTube auto-import and limited AI editing. Pro is $29/month and adds the features most people associate with the product: object tracking, 1:1 and 16:9 output, Topics search and Prompt to clip, unlimited export window, social scheduling, team seats, API access and substantially higher B-roll limits. Business is custom-priced and adds enterprise controls including SSO and CMS integration.
The vendor claims over 97% accuracy and captions remain editable after generation. This is a self-reported figure with no published methodology or independent verification. Practically, even at that rate you should expect to correct proper nouns and technical terms, which is where transcription most commonly fails.
Free and Starter accept local uploads up to 10GB per video. Pro and Business accept up to 30GB and also public MP4 URLs. Business additionally imports from a CMS or other cloud servers. The practical constraint for most users is the monthly processing-minute allowance rather than file size.
Only from Pro upward. Team Workspace is unavailable on Free and Starter. Pro provides member seats in packs of two up to four users total, with a single default folder. Business offers unlimited seats, custom folders, sub-teams and member permissions.
Yes, but only on Pro and above. The social media scheduler, posting to multiple profiles per platform, and automatic generation of titles, descriptions and hashtags are all Pro-and-above features. Free and Starter users export and post manually. 4K scheduling and download is Business only.
Yes, from Pro upward. A video editing API, scheduler API, MCP connector and Zapier integration (capped at 300 credits per month) begin at Pro. CMS integration is Business only.
Two clusters. On product, the recurring criticism is inconsistent clip selection — clips cutting off before a punchline or losing necessary context. On commercial terms, verified reviews report charges after cancellation, priority support that did not respond within its promise on a top-tier plan, and credits consumed by failed generations. The Trustpilot distribution is 64% five-star and 20% one-star across 468 reviews, on a profile where the vendor actively invites reviews.
The terms of service set 16 as the baseline, while also stating that children of any age may use the service if a parent or legal guardian enables it, and that anyone under 18 needs guardian permission. The privacy policy correspondingly states the company does not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16.
