Captions vs Opus Clip vs Submagic vs Vizard
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Captions
AI video editor with auto-captioning and dubbing
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Opus Clip
AI tool that turns long videos into short viral clips
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Submagic
Fast animated captions and clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
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Vizard
Long videos into captioned shorts, priced by upload hours
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.9 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Free plan: 60 processing minutes/month, watermarked exports, exports expire after 3 days, no credit card required | — | — |
| Paid from | — | $15/month (Starter: 150 processing minutes/month); Pro $29/month (300 minutes/month) | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | Over 12 million creators and brands who have collectively generated more than 229 million clips (as | — | — |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 | — | — |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Captions focuses on AI-driven talking-head video: automatic captions, eye-contact correction, AI avatars, multi-language dubbing, and generating video from a script. For solo creators and marketers producing social conte... |
OpusClip remains the most polished of the long-video-to-shorts tools: it finds highlight moments in podcasts, webinars and streams, adds animated captions, reframes speakers for vertical, and scores clips for predicted v... |
Submagic does one thing and does it quickly: drop in a vertical clip and it returns animated captions, auto B-roll, zooms and sound effects tuned for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Turnaround is fast and the caption styling l... |
Vizard takes a long recording — podcast, webinar, interview — and returns a batch of captioned vertical clips with the highlights already picked and the frame tracking the speaker. Where it separates from Opus Clip is tr... |
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