OpusClip pricing in 2026: the free plan, Starter, Pro and the premium APK trap
OpusClip Starter is $15 a month and Pro is $29, or $174 a year. Per minute of footage that works out to $0.10, $0.097 and $0.048. Here is what each plan actually includes, what the free plan will not let you do, and why the premium APK floating around forums cannot work.
OpusClip pricing in 2026: the free plan, Starter, Pro and the premium APK trap
OpusClip costs $15 a month on Starter and $29 a month on Pro, or $174 a year on Pro billed yearly. Per minute of uploaded video, that is roughly $0.10, $0.097 and $0.048. The free plan gives you 60 minutes a month, but you cannot edit anything and the clips expire from export after 3 days.
I am writing this because "opus clip pricing" and "is opus clip free" are among the first searches people make when they start clipping, and most answers stop at the sticker price. The useful number is cost per minute. Disclosure first: I work at Cut.Pro, which competes with OpusClip. Everything below comes from their own pricing page.
What each plan costs and includes
From the OpusClip pricing page, checked on September 26, 2026:
| Plan | Price | Credits per month | What stands out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 60 | Up to 1080p, watermark, no editing, clips exportable for 3 days |
| Starter | $15/mo, monthly billing only | 150 | No watermark, editor, filler and silence removal, auto post to Shorts, TikTok and Reels |
| Pro | $29/mo, or $14.50/mo billed yearly ($174) | 300 | Credits roll over for 2 months, 2 seats, 6 social accounts, scheduler, Premiere and DaVinci export, dubbing |
| Business | Custom | Custom | API, dedicated queue, contract |
On OpusClip, 1 credit = 1 minute of uploaded video. A 3-hour stream uses 180 credits. A 1-hour podcast uses 60.
What does a minute of video actually cost?
- Starter: $15 ÷ 150 = $0.10 per minute.
- Pro monthly: $29 ÷ 300 = $0.097 per minute.
- Pro yearly: $14.50 ÷ 300 = $0.048 per minute, if you use every credit, every month, for twelve months.
In practice: if you clip one 3-hour stream a week, you need about 720 minutes a month. That does not fit any off-the-shelf OpusClip plan without buying extra credits. One 1-hour podcast a week, about 240 minutes, fits Pro with 60 to spare and falls 90 short on Starter.
Outside the US, add whatever your card charges for foreign-currency purchases. In Brazil, for example, that is a 3.5% tax on top of the bank's exchange rate.
My read: Starter is a fair way to find out whether clipping is for you. Pro yearly is the best per-minute price OpusClip offers, but it asks for $174 up front for a habit a lot of people have not built yet.
What the free plan really gives you
Sixty credits a month, automatic reframing, captions with emoji and keyword highlights, up to 1080p. So far, so good.
The limits, also from the official page:
- Watermark on everything.
- No editing. You take the cut the AI chose, or you do not use it.
- Three days. After that, the clip can no longer be exported.
So the free plan does one job well: showing you whether OpusClip's AI finds the right moments in your kind of content. Use it for that. It was not designed for regular posting and it will not work for that.
Why the "OpusClip premium APK" cannot exist
Searches for a premium or modded OpusClip APK are common, and the answer is short: there is no pirated version that works.
The reason is technical. OpusClip does not cut the video on your phone. The file goes to the company's servers, the AI runs there, and every minute is deducted from your account's credits. A modified app on your device can show a button labeled "premium", but it cannot create credits on someone else's server.
So what is inside those files? At best, nothing useful. At worst, what Kaspersky describes in its 2026 Android threat overview: malicious installation packages "have always been the Final Boss among Android threats", and the number of detected Android threats "grew almost by half" in 2025. A phone logged into your TikTok and Instagram is exactly what an account thief is looking for.
If the price is the problem, the answer is a real free plan, from any tool, not a file from a forum.
Where OpusClip earns its price
To be fair to the product:
- Prompt-based clipping on Pro: describe what you want and it searches the video for it.
- Premiere and DaVinci export, rare in this category and useful if you finish by hand.
- A long list of import sources, from Zoom and Riverside to StreamYard and Twitch.
- An official Claude connector, added on September 11 according to the OpusClip changelog.
If you use those, the price is justified. I compared OpusClip with its closest rival in OpusClip vs Vizard: on the same $29 plan, Vizard gives you twice the minutes.
If cost per minute is what you care about
On Cut.Pro, the free plan gives 15 credits a month, Plus is R$69.90 a month with 1,000 credits and Pro is R$119.90 with 2,500, under the same 1 credit per minute rule. At today's price (September 2026), a minute on Plus costs under R$0.07, about one US cent. Cut.Pro also clips Twitch, Kick and YouTube streams while they are live, on every plan.
What Cut.Pro does not have and OpusClip does: Premiere export, dubbing and direct publishing to YouTube. If those are central to your workflow, stay with OpusClip. The direct comparison is at Cut.Pro vs OpusClip, and a wider list is in OpusClip alternatives.
The short version
- Starter $15, Pro $29 or $174/year.
- Per minute: $0.10 on Starter, $0.097 on Pro monthly, $0.048 on Pro yearly if fully used.
- Free gives 60 minutes, no editing, a watermark and 3-day export. Good for testing.
- A premium APK is a scam by design: the clipping runs on the server, so the file can only bring risk.
- Run the same video through two free plans before you put a card down.
Sources: OpusClip pricing · OpusClip changelog · Kaspersky, Android threats in 2026
