Alternatives

When the bill grows with the team

Submagic is a captioning tool that also clips. That is fine until a second person needs an account, and then it is the pricing model you are shopping against, not the features.

Two multipliers on the same bill

The clipper is sold separately

Their own pricing page, read 2026-09-22, prices every tier PER MEMBER: Starter $19 (45 credits, about 15 videos, 2 minutes each, 1 user), Pro $39 (120 credits, 5-minute videos, 3 users), Business $69 (300 credits, 30-minute videos, unlimited users). Annual billing is 41-51% cheaper.

And then it is per person

Per member, per month, with a cap on how many people a tier allows. So the number on the pricing page is the number for one person. An editor, a clipper and whoever approves the posts is that number three times, on both halves of it.

Which is the right shape for some jobs

Worth saying plainly: if captions are the actual work - you are polishing wording, timing and emphasis by hand on video somebody else already cut - then a captioning tool is what you want and a clipper is the add-on. The model only turns against you when the clipping is the job and the team is more than one.

What the alternatives charge

Cheapest plan on each that actually does long-to-short clipping, checked September 2026.

Tool Cheapest plan that clips What the allowance counts Why it might suit you
SnapDub €9/mo Credits, with 3 seats included on the entry plan Seats are included rather than charged for - 10 on Pro and 50 on Business - and the clipper is the product, not a subscription bought on top of another one.
AutoClip $19.99/mo Credits, one per source minute, and they do not roll over Priced by what you process rather than by who is logged in, so a second pair of hands costs nothing extra. Check the rollover: what you do not spend is gone.
OpusClip $15/mo Credits, one per uploaded minute, sold in packs that stack Their packs add seats alongside credits, so team growth and volume growth are the same purchase. Convenient if they arrive together, wasteful if they do not.
Klap $29/mo Finished clips a month - 100 on the entry plan Unlimited social accounts on every tier and no per-seat charge, so the cost follows output instead of headcount. The cap is on clips, so cut lightly.

Submagic is the one tool here that cannot be placed on a per-minute or per-clip axis at all, which is exactly the point of this page. The calculator says so in its own row rather than inventing a number for them.

Count the seats before you compare the prices

The comparison that matters is not sticker against sticker. Multiply Submagic's by the number of people who need to be logged in, add the clipping add-on for each of them, and put that next to a plan where seats are part of what you already bought. For one person the gap is small. For three it is most of the decision.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Does Submagic include long-to-short clipping?

Not on its entry plan. Their Starter is a captioning and editing plan; the clipping feature that competes with the tools on this page is a separate subscription added on top of any plan.

Which alternative includes team seats?

SnapDub includes them on every plan - 3 on the entry plan, 10 on Pro, 50 on Business - and does not charge per member. Klap and AutoClip do not charge per seat either; they cap output instead.

Is Submagic ever the right answer?

Yes, and it is worth saying rather than pretending otherwise. If the work is captions - wording, timing, emphasis, on video that is already cut - it is built for that and a clipper is the wrong shape of tool. This page is about the case where the clipping is the job.

What happens to captions if I move?

Caption styling is set up again wherever you land; nothing transfers between tools. On SnapDub it is saved as a template once and applied to every clip after that, which is the part worth checking before you switch anywhere.

Where these numbers come from

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.

Bring the whole team, the seats are included

500 free credits every month, and your first recording runs whatever it costs.