AI Video Cut details checked October 2026 · Updated 2026-10-30
AI Growth Kit vs AI Video Cut
AI Video Cut turns a long recording into short clips automatically — it picks the moments, reframes them for 9:16 or 1:1, writes a title, and burns in captions, from $10 a month billed yearly (Starter) or $12.50 (Pro). AI Growth Kit has no equivalent tool: nothing here auto-detects highlights or cuts a long video into clips. If that is the job, AI Video Cut is the better and far cheaper answer. If you have already cut the clip yourself and just need captions burned in, a generated shot, or a 4K upscale paid for once instead of by subscription, AI Growth Kit is the better fit.
| AI Growth Kit | AI Video Cut | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Pay-as-you-go credits, no subscription required. Plans: $19/mo for 600 credits or $49/mo for 2,000. Packs: $9 for 200, $29 for 750, $59 for 1,800; pack credits never expire. | Subscription plans: Starter $10/month billed yearly ($120/year) or $12 billed monthly; Pro $12.50/month billed yearly ($150/year) or $18 billed monthly. The pricing page doesn't show a monthly-billing total, only the per-month figure. |
| Free plan | 20 credits once at sign-up (10 seconds of subtitles, or part of one generated clip). No watermark, including output paid for with the free credits. | 50 minutes of uploaded video, one time only — it doesn't refresh. Every export carries a watermark, and editing is capped at 5 uses total with 3 regenerations. |
| Long-video-to-clips automation | No dedicated tool, and nothing here detects highlights or cuts a long recording into shorter clips. | The core feature: ready-made prompts (viral clips, funny moments, highlights, product review, trailer) or a custom prompt pick moments out of an uploaded or linked video and return them as separate clips. |
| Reframing and speaker tracking | None automated. Video Edit can change what's inside a 2–15 second clip with a text instruction, but it doesn't crop or reframe for a different aspect ratio. | Smart crop keeps a speaker centered while reframing to 9:16, 16:9, 1:1 or the original ratio. |
| Captions | 2 credits per second of input video, burned into the picture only — no separate SRT or VTT file, no style picker, 20 spoken languages. | Captions in several styles, with a transcript editor to fix wording, timing or remove a moment before export. Transcription in 100 languages. |
| Title and description generator | None. | Included on every plan. |
| Upload sources and limits | Direct file upload only: MP4, MOV or WebM up to 30 minutes for Subtitle; MP4 or MOV, 2–15 seconds and up to 50 MB for Video Edit. | A local file, or a link from YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, Zoom, Twitch, Dailymotion, Facebook or Google Drive. Source length up to 30 minutes (Free), 2 hours (Starter) or 3 hours (Pro); up to 2 GB (Free) or 4 GB (paid) per upload. |
| What the same balance also buys | Generated video clips (10 credits per output second), image generation (8 credits per image) and 4K upscaling (3 credits per second), from the same credits. | Unlimited MP4 downloads of the clips it produces; no video generation, image generation or upscaler. |
| Storage | Source files are deleted after 30 days; finished outputs are kept while your account is active, so you can download them again. | 14 days of storage on the Free plan, 6 months on Starter and Pro. |
Where AI Video Cut is clearly better
This is the whole category AI Video Cut is built for and we aren't: turning one long recording — a podcast, webinar, stream or YouTube upload — into several short, reframed, captioned clips without touching an editor. Its prompt library targets specific formats (viral clips, funny moments, show and sports highlights, product review, trailer), its smart crop keeps a speaker in frame across 9:16/16:9/1:1, and it writes a title and description for each clip. It also pulls the source directly from a YouTube, Twitch, Zoom, Instagram, Dailymotion, Facebook or Google Drive link, so you never have to download and re-upload a file.
It's also the cheaper subscription for that job at almost any real volume: Starter is $10 a month billed yearly for 1,800 minutes of source video a year, and Pro is $12.50 for 3,600 — a per-minute cost of about $0.067 and $0.042 that already includes clip selection, reframing, captions and the title generator together.
Where AI Growth Kit is better
You've already cut the clip and only need captions burned in: a $9 Starter Pack (200 credits at 2 a second) covers 100 seconds of subtitles with no subscription to start or cancel, and the leftover credits never expire. AI Video Cut does market an AI Caption Generator, but it runs on the same minute-based plans as its clipping: the free tier's 50 one-time minutes carry a watermark, and a clean export means a monthly or yearly plan. There is no per-clip price for captions alone.
The same balance also pays for a generated video clip, a generated image or a 4K upscale, none of which AI Video Cut offers at all. Finished outputs here are kept while your account is active; AI Video Cut's upload storage limit is 14 days on its free tier and 6 months on a paid plan.
What each option costs for a real job
AI Video Cut bills per minute of source video uploaded, and that single rate covers the entire pipeline: highlight selection, reframing, captions and the title generator. At Starter's $120/year for 1,800 minutes, that's about $0.067 a minute; at Pro's $150/year for 3,600 minutes, about $0.042. AI Growth Kit has no per-minute rate to set against that, because nothing here performs that job — there is no AI Growth Kit price for "cut this recording into clips."
The one place the two overlap is captions on a clip you've already cut. One 60-second clip costs 60 × 2 = 120 credits here: $5.40 in a $9 Starter Pack, or $3.93 at the Power Pack rate ($59 for 1,800 credits). A single clip's worth of captions from AI Video Cut has no standalone price — it only comes as part of the per-minute subscription above.
At a recurring volume — say an hour of source video a month, a typical weekly 15-minute episode clipped down four times — AI Video Cut's Starter plan ($10/month billed yearly, 150 minutes/month average) comfortably covers the whole job: selection, reframing, captions and titles included. Captions alone through AI Growth Kit cost 120 credits per finished minute, about $3.93 a minute in Power Packs ($59 for 1,800 credits), so even 20 minutes of finished clips a month (2,400 credits, about $79) costs far more than that plan, and still leaves the clipping and reframing undone.
How to decide
Start with whether you need the recording cut into clips at all, or just the captions on one you already have.
- Choose AI Video Cut if you want a long recording automatically turned into short, reframed, captioned clips — that is its entire product, starting at $10 a month billed yearly.
- Choose AI Video Cut if your source is a YouTube, Twitch, Zoom or similar link rather than a file on your computer.
- Choose AI Growth Kit if you've already cut the clip and only need captions burned in, want to pay once instead of subscribing, or also need a generated video, image or 4K upscale from the same balance.
- Use both: let AI Video Cut find and caption the highlights, then use AI Growth Kit to upscale an older source recording to 4K or generate a B-roll cutaway it doesn't make.
Choose AI Video Cut if…
- You want a long recording automatically cut into short highlight clips — that is the whole point of the product, and nothing here does it.
- You want clips reframed to 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1 with the speaker kept in frame automatically.
- Your source is a YouTube, Twitch, Zoom, Instagram, Dailymotion, Facebook or Google Drive link rather than a file you'd upload.
- You want a title and description written for each clip.
- You process more than a few minutes of source video a month: its per-minute subscription rate is far below what the same job would cost here, if it could be done here at all.
Choose AI Growth Kit if…
- You've already cut the clip and only need captions burned in, without starting a subscription.
- You want credits that never expire instead of a plan tied to a monthly or yearly billing cycle.
- The same balance also needs to generate a video clip, an image, or a 4K upscale.
- You want finished outputs kept for as long as your account is active, rather than an upload storage limit of 14 days (free) or 6 months (paid).
Questions
How much does AI Video Cut cost?
As of October 2026, aivideocut.com lists three plans: Free ($0, 50 one-time minutes, watermarked), Starter ($10/month billed yearly, $120/year, 1,800 minutes/year, or $12 billed monthly) and Pro ($12.50/month billed yearly, $150/year, 3,600 minutes/year, or $18 billed monthly).
Does AI Video Cut have a free plan?
Yes — 50 minutes of uploaded video, one time only (it doesn't refresh), with a watermark on every export and editing capped at 5 uses total.
Can AI Growth Kit automatically cut highlights from a long video?
No. Nothing here detects highlights, reframes for a different aspect ratio, or splits a long recording into shorter clips. Video Edit changes what's inside a 2–15 second clip you provide; it doesn't select or cut that clip from a longer one.
Is captioning included in AI Video Cut's price, or billed separately?
Included. Its per-minute subscription rate covers highlight selection, reframing, captions and the title/description generator together — there's no separate per-minute price just for captions.
Is AI Growth Kit cheaper for a single clip's captions?
If you've already cut the clip yourself, yes for a one-off: a $9 Starter Pack covers 100 seconds of burned-in captions with no subscription. AI Video Cut's caption generator has no per-clip price: a watermark-free export comes with its monthly or yearly plan.