OpusClip vs Vizard: Same Price, Double the Minutes

OpusClip and Vizard both sell short form video editing by the credit, and both define a credit the same way: one minute of uploaded video. On the annual plan both list $174. That is where the symmetry ends. Vizard's $174 includes 7,200 credits a year. OpusClip's $174 includes 300 credits a month, which is 3,600 a year by editorial calculation. Same price, half the minutes. This note reads both official pricing pages and OpusClip's credit documentation, checked October 15, 2026, and reports only what those pages state.

Both vendors charge one credit per uploaded minute

Vizard prints the rule on the pricing card itself: "1 credit = 1 minute of video" and "Every minute of video you upload will cost 1 credit." The line sits beside both paid tiers, not buried in a help article.

OpusClip does not print the rate on its pricing page. Its credit documentation does: "processing clips will cost 1 credit per minute of the original video imported," with the worked example "processing a 30-minute video would use 30 credits."

OpusClip's documentation adds rounding rules that Vizard's page does not mention. Clips under a minute are "rounded up to the nearest minute," while longer files are "rounded down to the nearest whole minute," so a 4.5 minute upload counts as 4.

Publishing is metered separately on OpusClip. The documentation states "3 credits per clip, per X account," and gives the example that posting one clip to two X accounts uses 6 credits. That is billing for distribution, not for editing.

A stated unit is rarer than it sounds. Most tools here never define one, the trap set out in how to read an AI credit pricing page and in how AI credits work at Jasper, Copy.ai, Synthesia and Pictory.

At $174 a year Vizard includes twice the minutes

Vizard's Creator plan lists "$29" struck through beside "$14.5 /month" with a "50% OFF" badge and "$174 billed yearly." Its credit selector starts at "7,200 credits/year."

OpusClip's Pro plan lists "$29 USD" against "$14.5 USD /mo" and "$174 billed annually," with "300 credits per month" and "Unused credits roll over for 2 months."

By editorial calculation 300 credits a month is 3,600 a year. Against Vizard's 7,200 the same $174 buys half the uploaded minutes: about $0.048 a minute on OpusClip against about $0.024 on Vizard.

Two cautions before that becomes a verdict. Vizard's selector sells larger annual blocks at higher prices, so 7,200 is the entry point. OpusClip's Pro card sells credits in "packs" and lets a buyer stack up to 15 of them.

Credits are also not the only thing on the invoice. Seats, social connections and storage differ, and those caps tend to stop a project before a credit balance does, as they did in Otter and Fathom's free plans.

• OpusClip Free: $0 a month, 60 credits a month, clips up to 1080p, "Has watermark", "No editing", and after 3 days the clips are no longer exportable.
• Vizard Free: $0, 60 credits a month, 720p export, 1 social account, 3 day storage, export length capped at 10 minutes, uploads capped at 60 minutes and 1GB.
• OpusClip Starter: $15 a month, 150 credits, 1 brand template, watermark removal, media storage expires after 29 days, and the card states it is "only available in monthly".
• OpusClip Pro: $29 monthly or $174 billed annually, 300 credits a month, 2 seats, 2 brand templates, 6 social account connections, 100GB fixed storage.
• Vizard Creator: $29 monthly or $174 billed yearly, from 7,200 credits a year, no watermark, 4K export, 6 social accounts, 100GB storage, 600 minute uploads.
• Vizard Business: $39 monthly or $234 billed yearly, 20 social accounts, shared workspace, brand kit, unlimited storage, extra seats at "+ $5/mo/seat".

The free tiers are the same size and both watermark

Both free plans grant 60 credits a month, which under the shared rule is 60 minutes of upload. That is the closest match between any two pricing pages we have read in this category.

What differs is what you may do with the output. Vizard's free export is listed at "720p" and its comparison table shows watermark removal only on paid tiers. OpusClip's free column reads "Has watermark" and "No editing."

Vizard caps free export length at "10 minutes" and free upload size at "1GB." OpusClip caps free clips at "Up to 1080p" and gives no editor at all, so the free tier is a preview of the clipper rather than of the product.

Both expire free output after three days. OpusClip states "After 3 days, the clips will no longer be exportable." Vizard lists "3 days" of video storage on free against "100GB" on Creator.

Treat both free tiers as a demonstration, not a workflow. That is the same read we reached on the free tiers of Grammarly and of Claude.

Expiry is where OpusClip's own pages disagree

OpusClip's pricing card states "Unused credits roll over for 2 months." Its credit documentation states that monthly credits "expire in 60 days, so they roll over for one additional month."

Those are not the same promise, and both strings were live on OpusClip's own properties on October 15, 2026. Confirm the rollover window in the dashboard before you plan a quarter around banked credits.

Annual buyers get a third rule. The documentation states that yearly credits arrive in full "immediately upon purchase" and "will expire after 12 months," so the whole allowance sits inside one twelve month window rather than refilling monthly.

Cancelling extends nothing. The documentation states that remaining credits "will expire at their original expiration date, even if that is after your billing cycle ends."

Vizard's page sets out no rollover rule in either direction. It quotes credits per year on paid tiers and per month on free, and notes that subscriptions "renew automatically at the end of each billing cycle."

What neither page settles

Neither page states how much finished output a minute of input yields. Credits meter what you upload, so a one hour recording costs 60 credits whether it produces three usable clips or thirty.

Vizard publishes tiered API rate limits: "1/min · 10/hour" on free, "3/min · 20/hour" on Creator and "10/min · 60/hour" on Business. OpusClip's Pro column lists "Limited API Access" with no figure attached.

OpusClip publishes per day caps that Vizard's table does not. Its Starter column lists "AI image B-Roll (3 clips/month)" and "AI Voice-over 20 per day"; its Business column lists "AI image B-Roll (50 clips/day)" and "Speech enhancement 10 times/day."

We could not find a credit cost for Vizard's AI B-rolls or emoji features on the pricing page as of October 15, 2026. The comparison table marks those features present or absent rather than metered.

The pattern repeats across the category: meter the input, leave the output open ended. We found the same shape reading Runway and HeyGen, Captions and InVideo and ElevenLabs and Descript.

Frequently asked questions

How much video can I upload on the free plans?

Sixty minutes a month on each. Both free tiers list 60 credits a month, and both vendors bill one credit per minute of uploaded video, per the pages checked October 15, 2026.

Which is cheaper for a year of clipping?

Both annual plans list $174. Vizard Creator includes 7,200 credits a year against OpusClip Pro's 300 a month, which is 3,600 by editorial calculation, so Vizard is about half the cost per minute.

Does a 90 second clip cost one credit or two?

On OpusClip the charge follows the source file, not the clip, and partial minutes above one are rounded down. Vizard's page states the per minute rule but publishes no rounding detail.

Do unused credits roll over?

On OpusClip monthly plans, yes. The pricing card says two months and the documentation says credits expire in 60 days, which is one extra month. Vizard's pricing page states no rollover rule.

Is there a cheap entry tier?

Only on OpusClip. Starter lists $15 a month for 150 credits with watermark removal, and the card states it is available on monthly billing only. Vizard's lowest paid tier is $29 monthly.

Which free plan removes the watermark?

Neither. OpusClip's free column reads "Has watermark" and Vizard shows watermark removal only on Creator and Business. Both also delete free output after three days.

Does posting to social media cost credits?

On OpusClip yes. Its documentation lists 3 credits per clip per X account, so one clip to two accounts uses 6. Vizard's pricing page lists scheduling as a feature without a credit cost.

Bottom line

On published arithmetic Vizard is the cheaper minute at every matching price point, and it is the only one of the two that prints the credit rule where a buyer will actually see it.

OpusClip earns its price elsewhere: a $15 entry tier Vizard does not offer, documented rounding and expiry rules, and per day feature caps written out tier by tier.

Every figure here is as of October 15, 2026. Re-read both pages before committing to a year, because both were running 50 percent promotional pricing on the day we checked.