Opus Clip Pricing (2026): $15 Starter, $29 Pro — and the Credit That's a Minute

Direct answer

Opus Clip's headline prices, read on opus.pro/pricing Jul 22, 2026: Free ($0, watermarked on animated captions, 3-day export window), Starter ($15/month, watermark-free), Pro ($29/month, no export limit, auto-posting) and custom Business. The meter, from Opus Clip's own help center: 1 credit equals 1 minute of the source video you import — charged on the length of what you upload, not the clips produced, so a 60-minute podcast costs 60 credits regardless of how many clips you cut. The per-tier monthly minute allowances (commonly cited as Free 60 / Starter 150 / Pro 300) are third-party, not on the pricing page — we flag them as unconfirmed.

Last verified

Jul 22, 2026

How we know

Desk-verified against primary sources

Note

Includes third-party reporting — flagged in text

Sources

2 linked

Evidence used

• The headline prices ($0 / $15 Starter / $29 Pro) and the watermark-removal-from-Starter and export-window rules were read on opus.pro/pricing on Jul 22, 2026.
• The metering rule — 1 credit per minute of imported source video, charged on source length regardless of clips — is quoted from Opus Clip's own help center article on how credits are consumed.
• The per-tier minute allowances (Free 60 / Starter 150 / Pro 300) are NOT on the pricing page; they come from consistent third-party sources and are labeled unconfirmed here.
• Commercial-use terms are not stated on the pricing page for any tier — we do not assert a commercial-use tier for Opus Clip.
• Annual pricing for Starter appears to be monthly-only per third parties; Pro's annual (~$14.50/mo) is third-party — both flagged.

How we checked this

• We separate what's on Opus Clip's own pages (headline prices, the credit rule, watermark/export gates) from what's third-party (per-tier minute allowances, annual prices) and label each.
• Where Opus Clip doesn't publish a rule (commercial-use tier), we say so rather than infer it.

One credit is one minute of what you import

Opus Clip's meter is source-based: 1 credit equals 1 minute of the video you upload, charged on the source length regardless of how many clips you produce. So a 60-minute podcast costs 60 credits whether you export one clip or twenty. This is the one rule to internalize before picking a tier.

This is quoted directly from Opus Clip's help center, and it's the opposite of how people often assume clipping tools work: you're not charged per clip or per export minute, you're charged for the raw footage you feed in. A creator processing four hour-long videos a month needs ~240 credits, regardless of whether they cut 10 clips or 100 from them.

Older reviews describe Opus Clip in "upload minutes" language — that's the same economics under the previous label; the vendor now frames it as credits (1 credit = 1 source minute). If a review says "X upload minutes," read it as X credits. Posting a clip directly to X costs an extra credit per post.

The tiers — and what we can't verify

Headline prices are $0 (Free, watermarked captions, 3-day export window), $15 (Starter, watermark-free, 30-day window) and $29 (Pro, no export limit, auto-posting). The per-tier minute allowances and commercial-use terms are the parts Opus Clip doesn't publish on its pricing page — so we flag them rather than assert them.

What's solid: the $15 and $29 prices, watermark removal starting at Starter, and the export-window differences (Free's clips expire in 3 days, Starter's in 30, Pro's not at all) are on Opus Clip's own page. Pro also adds auto-posting to YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.

What we flag: the commonly-cited Free 60 / Starter 150 / Pro 300 monthly minutes are third-party — Opus Clip's pricing page doesn't enumerate them — and Opus Clip doesn't state a commercial-use tier anywhere we could read, so we won't claim one. If either matters to your decision, confirm in-product. For tools where we could verify the full picture on the vendor's page, see the VEED and Fliki breakdowns.

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