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Creator Tool Pricing Compared: 6 Tools

Every plan below shows both prices, each labelled with its billing period. The big number on most vendor pricing pages is the annual rate divided by twelve: vidIQ's Coaching plan is widely quoted at $99/month, which is its $1188/year annual rate ÷ 12, and billed monthly it is $199. Prices are re-checked against the vendors' live pages automatically.

By Gaurav Sharma · Last updated October 5, 2026 · Evidence status: Strong

Based on hands-on testing · How we test creator tools

Quick answer

  • Cheapest clip tool: Submagic Starter at $12/month on annual billing ($19/month billed monthly).
  • Cheapest clip tool you can test free first: Vizard AI Creator at $14.50/month on annual billing ($29/month billed monthly).
  • Cheapest YouTube channel tool: TubeBuddy Pro at $12/month on annual billing ($144/year), or $15/month billed monthly.

Start on the free tier: the paid decision is easier once you have hit a real limit.

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Cards show the tools we have an affiliate link for. Every tool we tested, including OpusClip and TubeBuddy, is in the full price tables further down.

Real prices. Tested free plans.

Each card shows what the free tier did when we used it, and what the first paid plan costs, billed monthly or yearly.

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Vizard AI

Long video into clips

$29

USD/month · Creator · billed monthly

or $14.50/month billed yearly ($174/year)

Free plan · we tested

  • No account needed
  • 60 credits a month
  • 720p export cap
  • Watermark every frame

Creator adds · per vendor

  • Removes the watermark
  • No silence removal
Start free

Our full test (Aug-Sep 2026)

Clean file via API

Submagic

Captions for your clips

$19

USD/month · Starter · billed monthly

or $12/month billed yearly

Free trial · we tested

  • Captions + preview
  • Editor won't export
  • API export: no mark
  • 10 API minutes/month

Starter adds · per vendor

  • Editor export
  • Silence removal: Pro+
Start free trial

Our full test (Aug-Sep 2026)

Paid plan needed to test

Quso.ai

Social video suite

$29

USD/month · Lite · billed monthly

or $19/month billed yearly

Free plan · we tested

  • Upload accepted
  • Clip generation blocked
  • No clip produced

Lite adds · per vendor

  • Clip generation
  • No-watermark export
See Quso plans

Our full test (May and Aug 2026)

Unlimited free keyword searches

vidIQ

YouTube keywords and SEO

$19

USD/month · Boost · billed monthly

or $16.58/month billed yearly ($199/year)

Free plan · we tested

  • 150 AI credits/month
  • Unlimited keyword search
  • 3 related keywords shown
  • Outliers capped at 8

Boost adds · per vendor

  • 2,000 AI credits/month
  • Unlimited trends
Start free

Our full test (Aug 2026)

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Before you pay: what each free plan actually gets you

"Free plan" means four different things across these tools, and two of them produce no file at all. Enter what you publish each month to see how far each free tier carries you, using credit costs we measured in-product.

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Tell us what you actually publish. We work out what each free plan covers.

8 videos
10 min

Source length, not finished-clip length — every tool bills on what you upload, not what you publish.

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Vizard AI pricing

Plan Billed monthly Billed annually
Creator $29/mo $174/year ($14.50/mo)
Business $39/mo $234/year ($19.50/mo)
Worth knowing about Vizard AI pricing

The pricing page defaults to the Yearly view, so the first number most visitors see is the annual rate, not the monthly one.

OpusClip pricing

Plan Billed monthly Billed annually
Starter $15/mo Monthly only
Pro $29/mo Monthly only
Business Custom Custom

Free tier: Permanent free plan: 60 credits a month, 1080p export with a watermark from about 5 seconds in (tested 14 Sep 2026)

Worth knowing about OpusClip pricing

OpusClip's annual discount is applied in your browser and varies between visitors — two different annual totals, 174 and 233.16 dollars, appeared on the same day with the same Yearly toggle. We list monthly rates only, because the annual price we printed might not be the one you are shown.

Read our hands-on OpusClip test

Submagic pricing

Plan Billed monthly Billed annually
Starter $19/mo $12/mo billed yearly
Pro $39/mo $23/mo billed yearly
Business + API $69/mo $41/mo billed yearly
Worth knowing about Submagic pricing

Annual billing carries a 41% discount. The pricing page renders USD and EUR cards at the same time - check which currency you are reading.

Quso.ai pricing

Plan Billed monthly Billed annually
Lite $29/mo $19/mo billed yearly
Essential $39/mo $26/mo billed yearly
Growth $49/mo $33/mo billed yearly
Worth knowing about Quso.ai pricing

In-app credit figures are ANNUAL totals (Lite's 1,200 = 100/month); the public page shows monthly. In-app modals also render local currency.

YouTube channel tools

vidIQ pricing

Plan Billed monthly Billed annually
Boost $19/mo $199/year ($16.58/mo)
Max $49/mo $468/year ($39/mo)
Boost 1-on-1 Coaching $199/mo $1188/year ($99/mo)
Worth knowing about vidIQ pricing

The in-app upgrade lineup shows only Boost and Max; Coaching appears solely in the pricing-page FAQ. Boost and Max also sell 2- and 3-channel variants we do not list here.

TubeBuddy pricing

Plan Billed monthly Billed annually
Pro $15/mo $144/year ($12/mo)
Legend $32.99/mo $316.68/year ($26.39/mo)

Free tier: Free tier, named Starter - still exists but is no longer shown as a card on the US pricing page

Worth knowing about TubeBuddy pricing

These are TubeBuddy's US prices, read 2026-09-21. TubeBuddy shows different pricing in some other countries, so check your own total at checkout. On the annual tab it describes $144 as a "one-time payment" - that buys one year, not permanent access. Enterprise is custom-priced.

Read our hands-on TubeBuddy test

How to read these prices

Prices localise by IP, and the local price is not the dollar price. vidIQ's page renders in Indian rupees from an Indian connection. A figure of ₹416.58 is roughly 4.75 US dollars at current rates — it is not "$16.58 in local currency". These are two independently-set regional prices. If you are budgeting in dollars, read the price from a US session.

How these numbers are kept current

Every dollar figure here is checked against the vendor's live pricing page by an automated monitor, and every plan name is confirmed by hand — a numeric check cannot tell you the vendor renamed a tier.

Those are tracked as separate expiry dates, because they go stale at different rates and need different instruments. Prices are re-checked monthly; plan names quarterly; what a free plan actually allows is verified by using the product, which is slower and rarer. Where we have not verified something ourselves, this page says so rather than repeating the vendor's claim as fact.