Every tool in this category prices differently, which is exactly why comparing them is annoying. Here they all are in one unit: an hour of recording a month.
Which is why two price lists side by side tell you almost nothing on their own.
Klap counts the clips you take out: 100 a month on their entry plan, however long the recordings were. AutoClip and OpusClip count the minutes you put in, and do not care how many clips you cut from them. Submagic charges per person on your team and then charges again for the clipping itself. We count the work, which is both halves: reading the recording, then cutting and captioning each clip.
So the answer depends on the shape of your month, not just its size. Cut lightly - a few clips out of long recordings - and the tools that bill per clip come out ahead. Cut hard, and they are the expensive ones while the per-minute tools do not notice. That is why there are two sliders below and no single winner written into this page.
Set both and the table sorts itself, cheapest first. It does not always put us on top.
Your first recording here runs whatever it costs, before any plan.
Their prices are published in dollars and converted at 0.93, rounded down in their favour. Their allowances are counted in whatever each of them sells: clips a month for Klap, minutes of source for AutoClip and OpusClip. Ours is computed the way we actually bill - 18 credits a minute to read the recording plus 6 per captioned clip - so the figure here and the figure on the invoice are the same figure.
Three differences that cost real money and never appear on a pricing page.
Projects are kept 14 days on the free plan, 30 on Starter and 90 on Pro - and top-up credits never expire at all. OpusClip's free clips carry a watermark and stop being exportable after 3 days; their paid plans keep them 30 days.
Independent testing put Klap's processing at roughly the length of the video itself. Our own median across every job we have run is about 30 minutes for sources over 40.
Submagic charges for every member. Every plan here includes seats, and the clipping is the product rather than an add-on on top of it.
Somebody else's prices, so they carry their name and the date we read them.
Pricing pages change without notice, and in this category they change fast: Klap stopped selling minutes and started selling clips between two of our own checks. If you are reading this long after the dates above, open theirs before deciding anything on ours.
It depends entirely on how much you record, which is why this page is a slider rather than an answer. At a few hours a month the entry plans are close enough that price is not the deciding factor. The gap opens up above roughly five hours, because the tools that sell you minutes make you jump a whole tier to get more of them.
Because we charge euros, and a table has to pick one currency to sort by. Their real published dollar price stays in every row, and the conversion is rounded down rather than up, so the euro figure beside their name is never higher than what they actually charge.
Because their largest published plan is 300 minutes a month. It can be bought more than once - each Pro pack adds another 300 - and the table does that for them up to about 900 minutes, which is where their own guidance says to move to Business. Business is priced on request, so there is no number to put in the row after that.
No - it is in the table, saying that it does not sell minutes. Submagic charges per team member and sells the clipping feature as a separate add-on on top of that, so there is no minutes allowance to place on this axis. Putting a made-up number there would be easier and would also be a lie.
No. Their credits count minutes you upload. Ours pay for the whole job: reading the recording, cutting it, burning captions, and dubbing it into another language if you ask for that. So a like-for-like row has to say what our credits were spent ON, which is the note under the table.
Yes. Cards from anywhere pay in euros and your bank converts, though many cards outside Europe add a small fee for that.
500 free credits every month, and your first recording runs whatever it costs, so the real number arrives before you pay anybody, us included.