Opus Clip Pricing (2026): Every Plan, the Real Cost Per Processing Minute, and Where the Upgrade Stops Paying

Every number on this page was read off Opus Clip's own pricing page and help documentation on 2026-07-31. The cost-per-minute figures are ours: Opus Clip publishes prices and publishes allowances, but not the division between them, and that division is where the interesting things are.

One structural fact to hold on to before the table, because it changes what every price below means:

A credit is a minute of source video you import — not a clip you export. Opus Clip's help documentation calls the allowance "processing minutes", which is the honest name for it. A 60-minute webinar costs 60 minutes of your plan on import, whether you keep twelve clips or zero.

That single mechanic decides whether Opus Clip is cheap or expensive for you, and it has nothing to do with which tier you pick.

The Plans

Prices verified on opus.pro/pricing 2026-07-31. Allowances and feature gates verified on help.opus.pro 2026-07-31. Opus Clip's pricing page does not display an annual dollar figure for Pro in our capture; the 3,600 processing minutes per year figure is from Opus Clip's own help documentation. Third-party sites report a Pro annual price of $174/year, which we could not confirm against Opus Clip's own surface and therefore do not treat as verified.

Free Forever — $0, 60 processing minutes/month

Unusually real for this category: a permanent monthly allowance rather than a time-limited trial. What you give up is specific and worth listing plainly, because two of these are dealbreakers for professional use and two are not.

• Watermarked captions. Dealbreaker for client work, irrelevant for testing.
• 1080p export cap. Fine for vertical social, a problem for almost nothing else in this workflow.
• 3-day limit on exports. The quiet one. Files are not kept indefinitely, so "I'll get to posting these next week" does not work.
• Spoken-words clipping only. You lose clipping by visual objects, sound, emotion and genre — which is a meaningful share of what makes the paid product good.
• 1 brand template.

Import sources at this tier are local video (up to 10 GB per video) and YouTube.

Starter — $15/month, 150 processing minutes/month

Monthly billing only — Opus Clip does not publish an annual Starter option, so there is no discount to wait for at this tier.

What $15 buys over Free is mostly quality-of-life rather than volume: watermark-free captions, exports at the highest resolution available, a 30-day rather than 3-day retention window, the full set of clipping methods, and a much wider import list — Google Drive, Vimeo, Zoom, Rumble and StreamYard on top of local files and YouTube. Opus Clip's documentation also places social posting to YouTube, TikTok and Instagram at this tier.

See the section below on why the capacity half of this upgrade is poor value.

Pro — $29/month, 300 processing minutes/month (or 3,600/year)

This is where the product stops being a personal utility. The step change is not the minutes — it is the surface:

• Reprompt. Re-run the clipping with different instructions without re-importing, and therefore without re-spending processing minutes. On a tool that bills by source minute, this is a cost feature disguised as a quality feature.
• Multiple aspect ratios — 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16, rather than vertical only.
• Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve export. Clips leave as projects, not just flattened files.
• Expanded social posting and scheduling.
• Team workspaces, 2 users included, up to 4 users maximum.
• AI B-roll generation.
• 100 GB cloud storage — which, combined with the longer retention, is what makes the 3-day Free limit feel like the deliberate gate it is.

Add-on packs are available at this tier: each pack provides 300 more credits per month and 2 additional team seats.

Business — custom

Contact sales. The documented triggers for needing it are 10+ seats — above the Pro Team Workspace maximum of 4 — and API access. All Pro video sources are included.

What a Processing Minute Actually Costs

This is the table Opus Clip does not publish. It is just price divided by allowance, and it reframes the lineup.

The headline finding: scaling from Starter to Pro improves your rate by about 3%. For a category that normally rewards volume heavily, that curve is almost perfectly flat.

The practical consequence is a clean rule: upgrade to Pro for the features, never for the rate. If someone tells you to move to Pro "because the credits are cheaper", they have not done the division. Reprompt, scheduling, team seats, Premiere export and B-roll are worth $14/month to plenty of teams. The 3% is worth nothing to anyone.

The Free-to-Starter Step Is a Watermark Purchase

Here is the arithmetic that does not appear on any comparison page.

Starter adds 90 processing minutes over Free, for $15. That is $0.167 per additional minute — a full 67% worse than Starter's own blended rate of $0.100, and 72% worse than Pro's $0.097.

You are not buying capacity at this step. You are buying, in rough order of how much people actually care:

1. Watermark-free captions
2. The full clipping methods (visual objects, sound, emotion, genre)
3. A 30-day instead of 3-day retention window
4. Highest-available export resolution instead of a 1080p cap
5. Google Drive, Vimeo, Zoom, Rumble, StreamYard imports

That is a reasonable bundle for $15. It is just not a volume upgrade, and you should not choose it as one. If you import under 60 minutes a month and none of the five items above matters to you, stay on Free — a large number of Starter subscribers are paying $180/year for a watermark.

The Cost Model That Actually Governs Your Bill

Because billing is by source minute, your effective cost per usable clip is entirely determined by your keep-rate — a number Opus Clip never sees and never charges for.

Read the first row carefully: a weekly one-hour show is 240 source minutes per month, which is past Starter's 150 and closing on Pro's 300. Two hours a week puts you past Pro on monthly billing. The tool most heavily marketed to podcasters is the tool whose billing unit punishes podcasters hardest — that is not a criticism of the product, but it is the thing to model before you subscribe.

And the corollary: anything that reduces re-imports is worth real money here. Pro's reprompt feature is the clearest example. If a bad first pass on a 60-minute source would otherwise cost you another 60 minutes to redo, reprompt pays for a meaningful chunk of the $14/month tier gap on its own.

Annual Billing

Opus Clip's help documentation states Pro is available monthly or yearly, with the yearly grant expressed as 3,600 processing minutes per year — that is 300/month × 12, granted upfront rather than metered monthly.

Two things follow. First, an upfront annual grant is genuinely better than a monthly one for lumpy producers, because a quiet January can be spent in a busy March. Second, we could not read an annual dollar price off Opus Clip's own pricing page in this capture, so we are not quoting one. Third-party sites report $174/year; treat that as unverified until you see it in checkout.

Starter has no annual option at all, so if you are on Starter and waiting for a yearly discount, there isn't one.

What This Means Before You Buy

• Model your source minutes, not your clip count. It is the only number Opus Clip bills.
• If your keep-rate is low and your sources are long, price a per-clip competitor. Klap publishes 100 clips/month at $14/month billed yearly, and that unit may simply suit you better.
• Do not upgrade for the rate. Starter to Pro is a 3% improvement.
• Do not upgrade from Free for capacity. That step costs $0.167 per added minute.
• Budget reprompt as a cost control, not a nicety, if your sources are long.

Related Reading

• Opus Clip alternatives — the ranked shortlist by job, and the billing-unit trap that decides which competitor is genuinely cheaper for you.
• Opus Clip review — the hands-on assessment: strengths, the five limits that catch buyers out, and who should not buy it.