Aicut vs OpusClip

What does aicut include? Specs at a glance

One aicut account gives you 22 AI video models and 9 image models in 29 languages, and posts finished videos to TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels.

What's the difference between aicut and OpusClip?

Aicut both creates and clips; OpusClip only clips. Aicut generates original videos from scratch, auto-posts them, and since Auto-clip shipped it also cuts your own long uploads into ranked shorts. OpusClip needs an existing long-form video to work with and cannot generate anything from nothing.

Can OpusClip create videos from scratch?

No. OpusClip only repurposes existing long-form video - you upload or import a podcast, webinar, or stream and it clips the best moments. There is no script-to-video or scene generation, so it cannot start a faceless channel from nothing. Aicut generates the whole video from a series pick.

This is the fundamental split: if you have no source footage, OpusClip has nothing to work with. Aicut is built for exactly that case - creating original content when you are starting from an idea, not a video library.

Can aicut clip a long video into shorts?

Yes. Auto-clip takes an upload of up to 20 minutes, transcribes it, ranks the ten moments most worth posting with a score and a one-line reason for each, and cuts the ones you pick into 9:16 shorts with the captions already on them.

Every suggestion previews in 9:16 before you spend anything on it, so you can see what the vertical crop keeps. A pick opens in aicut's normal clip editor, so captions, the hook overlay and the render are the same flow as the rest of the product, and the finished short goes out through the same auto-posting.

The limits, plainly: the source is a file you upload (mp4, mov, webm or mkv, up to 20 minutes) rather than a pasted YouTube link, and the crop is a static centre crop rather than one that follows the speaker. The analysis costs 0.06 tokens per minute of source, so a 20-minute source is 1.2 tokens; rendering a clip you decide to keep costs the usual 0.15 tokens per minute.

Do both auto-post to social platforms?

Yes, but with a catch. OpusClip can post to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, and its full calendar scheduler requires the Pro plan ($29/month). Aicut auto-posts to all three and runs full autopilot campaigns on the Automate plan ($39.99/month), with 1-click publishing available a tier lower.

How do aicut and OpusClip compare on price?

OpusClip is cheaper because it does less: Starter is $15/month and Pro (with the scheduler) is $29/month. Aicut is $19.99/month for Creator and $39.99/month for Automate - you pay more because aicut creates the content, not just cuts it.

Pricing is current as of July 2026; re-check before relying on figures.

What is OpusClip better at?

Two things aicut's clipper does not do yet: it pulls a source straight from a YouTube or Drive link instead of an upload, and it reframes the crop around whoever is speaking, which is what a two-person landscape interview needs. If clipping a long-form back catalogue is the whole job, that is the workflow OpusClip is built for.

Which should you choose?

Choose aicut if you want to create original faceless or story videos, auto-post them, and clip your own long uploads in the same place. Choose OpusClip if clipping is the entire job and you need URL import and speaker-tracked reframing for it. Some creators use both: OpusClip for a long-form back catalog that lives on YouTube, aicut for original short-form and for the uploads they already have.

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