Opus Clip vs Klap: Who Publishes, and What a Clip Costs (2026)

We make a competing tool, but not a competing one to these two: ours generates video rather than clipping it, and we are not in the comparison below. Prices are as published in July 2026.

Opus Clip and Klap do the same job. You hand over a long video, they find the moments worth cutting, and you get vertical shorts with captions. The differences are in what happens next and what it costs.

What each one costs

Opus Clip

Starter includes AI clipping with a virality score, animated captions in 20+ languages, auto-posting to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels, an editor, one brand template, filler and silence removal, and watermark removal. Pro adds AI B-roll, 10+ input sources, export to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, multiple aspect ratios, a social scheduler, custom fonts, and dubbing.

Klap

Yearly billing is a 50 percent discount, one of the steeper ones in this category. Klap counts output clips and hands you the files.

The two differences that decide it

Klap does not publish. It gives you finished clips. Getting them onto a channel on a schedule stays your job, forever, every week. Opus Clip auto-posts to YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels from the $15 tier.

Klap counts output, Opus Clip counts credits. 100 clips means 100 clips no matter how long the source video was. Opus Clip's credits do not convert to clips at a published rate, and its Pro allowance of 3,600 is granted per year rather than per month, so the plan reads richer at a glance than it is.

Cost per clip

Klap is the only one of the two where you can calculate this exactly, because it is the only one selling clips as the unit.

For Opus Clip, the closest honest comparison is Pro on annual billing: $174 a year, which is $14.50 a month, for 3,600 credits a year. That averages 300 credits a month for the same money as Klap's 100 clips. Whether 300 credits produces more or fewer than 100 clips depends on your footage, which is exactly the problem with comparing the two on paper.

The safe reading: at high volume with predictable accounting, Klap is cheaper. Pro+ at 1,000 clips for $94 a month has no equivalent on Opus Clip's published tiers.

Where Opus Clip wins

A real free tier. 60 credits a month, no card. Klap has none. If you have not clipped before and do not know whether the output is good enough for your channel, this decides where you start. Just remember clips expire after three days on free, so download anything you want to keep.

Publishing included. This is the big one and it is worth more than the price difference for most people. A clipper that does not publish leaves you with a folder of files and a manual upload habit, and the manual upload habit is what actually fails after a month.

The virality score. It ranks which moments are worth clipping instead of just cutting on silence. Klap finds moments too, but Opus Clip's ranking is the more developed version.

Editor exports. Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve on Pro, if the clips are a starting point rather than the finished product.

Two seats on Pro. Useful if someone else does the finishing.

Where Klap wins

Predictable accounting. This is the cleanest pricing model in the entire clipping category. You know precisely what you get. No credits, no conversion, no annual pools presented as monthly ones.

Cost at volume. $94 a month for 1,000 clips is the lowest cost per clip on this page by a wide margin.

Source length does not matter. A three-hour stream costs the same as a ten-minute video. This matters more than it sounds: it is the exact failure mode that per-minute pricing elsewhere in this category creates.

The 50 percent yearly discount. Steeper than Opus Clip's, which lands around 50 percent on Pro too but from a lower starting allowance.

Head to head

Affiliate rates are as published in August 2026 and only matter if you write about the tool you pick. Klap wins that comparison twice over: a higher rate, and no twelve-month cutoff. For reference, ours is 30% recurring for as long as they stay.

How to choose

Start with the publishing question, because it is the one people underweight. If you are buying a clipper so that shorts appear on your channel without you doing anything, Klap does not do that and no price makes it do that. Opus Clip at $15 is the answer.

If you already have a publishing workflow you are happy with, a scheduler, a VA, or an editor who handles uploads, then Klap's numbers are better and its accounting is cleaner. Buy Starter yearly at $14 for 100 clips and move up when you need the volume.

If you are evaluating and have not clipped before, start on Opus Clip's free tier regardless of where you end up. It costs nothing and it tells you whether AI clipping suits your material at all, which is the question underneath both purchases.

If you record very long content, podcasts, streams, webinars, Klap's clip counting is structurally the safer model, and it is worth reading up on why before you commit to anything that meters input minutes instead.

One thing neither one does

Both need footage. If you are reading this because you want short-form content and you do not film anything, no clipper on this page can help you at any price, and the comparison you actually want is between generators.

That is what we build. PassiveShorts starts from a topic or a script you wrote rather than a file, writes it, voices it, captions it, and posts it to YouTube and TikTok on the days you pick, from $19 a month per series. No source video, no clip counting, no credits.

If you do film, though, use a clipper. Real footage of a real person beats generated video on watch time and credibility, and it is not close.

Related comparisons

• Opus Clip Alternatives — the wider field, including generators
• Klap Alternatives — what to use if you have no footage
• Klap vs Vizard.ai — output clips against input minutes
• Opus Clip vs Submagic — clipping against captioning