CapCut / Jianying 剪映 vs InVideo AI vs Opus Clip vs Descript
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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InVideo AI
An agent-driven video editor with third-party AI models on credits
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Opus Clip
AI tool that turns long videos into short viral clips
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Descript
Edit video and audio by editing the transcript
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 7.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free editor with core timeline tools; paid Standard (mobile only) and Pro (all devices, 1TB cloud, 1,200 AI credits) are priced per region in-app | Free plan with no card: a small weekly credit quota (amount not published) that resets Mondays at 00:00 UTC | Free plan: 60 credits (minutes)/month, watermarked exports that expire after 3 days, no card | 60 media minutes a month, 100 one-time AI credits, 720p export |
| Paid from | Pro about $19.99/mo or $179.99/yr per CapCut's guide; prices vary by region and show in-app | $20/month per seat (Starter, 400 credits), with annual plans currently 50% off under a promotion | Starter $15/mo (150 credits, monthly only); Pro $29/mo, or $174/yr (300 credits/mo) | Hobbyist $16/mo (annual) or $24 (monthly); Creator $24/mo (annual) or $35 (monthly) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | Over 12 million creators and brands who have collectively generated more than 229 million clips (as | 500k+ creators |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 | 2022 | 2017 |
| Maker | ByteDance | — | — | Andrew Mason |
| Verdict | CapCut is one of the most capable free video editors available, with AI shortcuts that save real time on short-form work. Its pricing is opaque — no public list, region-dependent prices, and a mobile-only Standard plan —... |
invideo has grown from a stock-footage video assembler into an agent-driven editor with a real timeline, live collaboration, project export to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve, and one credit wallet for ma... |
OpusClip remains one of the most polished 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... |
Descript's core trick — cut a word from the transcript and the video or audio trims to match — is still why podcasters and YouTubers adopt it, and the AI layer (filler-word removal, Studio Sound, custom voice clones) mea... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.