Opus Clip is a good product with a pricing model people complain about: credits are consumed per minute of source video — a 60-minute podcast costs 60 credits whether you keep one clip or twenty — and unused credits expire. ClipSpark takes the opposite approach: a flat cost per video, a free allowance that refills every day, and nothing that expires.
| ClipSpark | Opus Clip | |
|---|---|---|
| How usage is counted | Flat per video — a 60-minute podcast costs the same as a 10-minute one | Credits per source minute: a 60-minute upload consumes 60 credits, regardless of how many clips you keep |
| Do credits expire? | No. Balance never expires | Yes — unused monthly credits expire (60 days) |
| Free tier | Free credits refill every day — enough for dozens of videos daily, no card, no signup to try | Limited free plan with watermark and caps |
| What happens if you stop paying | Nothing — your downloaded mp4s are yours, and the free daily allowance keeps working | Users report projects expiring when the subscription lapses |
| Output | 9:16 vertical mp4, captions burned in, up to 3 clip options per upload, you pick the scenes before rendering | 9:16 clips with captions, virality scoring, templates, scheduler |
| Best for | Podcasters, streamers, interviews — long talking-head footage you want clipped without a credit meter running | Teams that want scheduling, brand templates and analytics in one subscription |
The per-minute credit mechanics, credit expiry and project-expiry complaints are documented in third-party pricing breakdowns and public reviews: eesel's OpusClip pricing analysis, quso's plan breakdown, and Opus Clip's own pricing page. If Opus Clip changes its model, tell us and we'll update this page.
Upload one long video and see what it picks. Free, no signup, no card.