Submagic vs Opus Clip: Caption Styler or Clip Finder?

The two tools meter usage in different ways, which matters more than the headline price.

Submagic counts videos. One video costs 3 credits, so Starter’s 45 credits make 15 videos a month, Pro’s 120 make 40 and Business’s 300 make 100. Each plan also caps how long a video can be: 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro and 30 on Business. Prices are per member, and every plan can be billed yearly, which Submagic says saves up to 41%.

Opus Clip counts minutes of source video. One credit is one minute of the video you upload (anything under a minute rounds up to 1 credit), so a 60-minute podcast costs 60 credits however many clips you keep. Free gives 60 credits a month, Starter 150 and each Pro pack 300. Starter is sold monthly only; Pro is $29/mo or $14.50/mo billed yearly ($174 a year) per pack, and you can stack up to 15 packs. Business is custom-priced and adds the full API and priority processing.

Submagic is a caption tool first. It has 35+ caption styles, with standard templates on Starter and premium themes on Pro and Business, including themes named Hormozi 1 to 5. Keyword highlights, emojis and word-by-word animation are built in, and AI Auto Edit can add captions, B-roll, transitions and zooms in one step. Submagic’s language count changes from page to page (48+, 100+ and 123), and it says its captions reach 98.8% accuracy under optimal conditions.

Opus Clip adds animated captions to every clip, with emojis and a keyword highlighter, and presets such as Karaoke, Beasty, Deep Diver, Mozi and Popline. None is officially named after Hormozi. Brand templates save your fonts and colors (1 on Starter, 2 on Pro). Its help center lists 25 caption languages, 20 of them in beta.

If the look of your captions is what you are paying for, Submagic gives you more choice. If captions only need to be clean and readable on clips, Opus Clip’s are enough. StoryCut sits in between: 26 built-in styles, including 6 Hormozi-style presets and a MrBeast-style one, in 49 languages.

B-roll: Submagic includes free stock B-roll on Starter, Storyblocks B-roll and audio on Pro, and movie clips on Business; AI-generated B-roll uses credits. Opus Clip has AI image and stock B-roll from Starter, and Pro adds up to 50 AI image clips a day, unlimited stock and AI video B-roll.

Zoom: Submagic adds AI auto zooms on Pro and Business. We found no automatic zoom on Opus Clip’s pages.

Silence and filler words: both remove them. Submagic does it on Pro and Business (silences, bad takes and filler words). Opus Clip removes fillers and pauses from Starter, with bad-take removal on Pro.

Sound effects: this is a clear difference. Opus Clip’s Auto SFX (Pro and Business) places sound effects on your timeline automatically, and you can also generate one from a prompt. In Submagic you add sound effects by hand, line by line, from a library of 10 sounds or your own uploads; B-roll can bring its own audio.

Music: Submagic has a background music library on every plan. Opus Clip adds music on Pro.

Dubbing: Opus Clip Pro dubs your voice into 25 languages with a voice clone (10 credits per minute). Submagic translates captions, and its help center (September 29, 2026) says it now translates the voice too, without saying which plans include it.

Eye contact: Submagic has AI eye contact correction on Pro and Business. Opus Clip has none, so if you read a script on camera, Submagic is the one that can fix your gaze.

Submagic exports 1080p at 30fps on Starter, up to 2K on Pro and up to 4K at 60fps on Business. It supports 9:16, 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5, accepts MP4 and MOV files up to 4K and 3,000 MB, and runs in the browser only: its help center says there is no native iOS or Android app, though you can upload from a phone browser.

Opus Clip exports up to 1080p with a watermark on Free. On Pro it can download in 4K, but only when the source is a true 3840×2160 video; posting and scheduling in 4K are on Business. Free and Starter export 9:16 only, while Pro adds 1:1 and 16:9 (the editor also offers 4:5), plus XML export to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Exports stay available for 3 days on Free and 30 days on Starter, with no limit on Pro. Opus Clip has an iPhone app rated 4.85 from 7,417 ratings, and a more limited Android app (Android 12 or later, 8 countries, English only, no editor and no posting).

Submagic can publish and schedule to 6 networks (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and X) from Pro, with 1 profile per platform on Pro and 3 on Business. Prices are per member: the plan table lists up to 3 users on Pro and unlimited users on Business, but each member needs their own paid seat. Every plan includes API minutes (10 a month on Starter and Pro, 100 on Business), and extra API packs start at $57/mo for 250 minutes.

Opus Clip auto-posts to YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels from Starter. Pro adds LinkedIn, Facebook Pages and a scheduler that includes X, with up to 6 social accounts. Each Pro pack includes 2 seats, up to 4 users, and seats aren’t sold separately. Pro has limited API access (editing and scheduler APIs, an MCP server and Zapier); the full API is on Business.

Submagic has 4.5 stars on Trustpilot from 844 reviews (86% five stars, 7% one star). Billing is the biggest theme in its 1-star reviews, and its help center confirms it does not offer refunds. Reviewers write that it "took €339.48 from me without proper notification of the subscription renewal" (July 2026) and "ignored my cancellation request and billed me back in January 2026" (January 2026). Other complaints cover bugs ("video and audio are out of sync during editing", January 2026) and slow support ("Response times are extremely slow", June 2026). The praise is consistent too: time saved, transcription quality and the style library.

Opus Clip has 4.0 stars on Trustpilot from 501 reviews, with 20% one star. Its complaints are also mostly about billing and cancellation, including charges after cancelling (September 2026), plus projects that disappear about 3 days after a plan lapses. Praise centres on how well it picks clips and on its iPhone app.

We could not check Reddit for this page, so these themes come from Trustpilot only (checked October 3, 2026).

Disclosure: we make StoryCut, so read this section with that in mind.

StoryCut does both jobs in one web app. Paste a YouTube link or upload a video from 2 minutes to 2.5 hours long (YouTube links up to 2 hours), and AI Clips returns 3 to 12 clips, each with a 0–100 virality score, reframed to 9:16 around faces and the active speaker, with captions already on. Every plan includes it: 1 long video a month on Free, 10 on Starter, 50 on Pro and 100 on Business. It counts long videos, not minutes, so a 2-hour episode uses one of them.

For captions, StoryCut has 26 built-in styles, including 6 Hormozi-style presets and a MrBeast-style one, in 49 languages. Pro ($14/mo billed yearly, $19/mo monthly) adds sound effects placed on 4 to 8 key words, magic zoom, silence removal, clean audio, AI music, voice dubbing in 33 languages and eye contact correction (10 videos a month). Business ($39/mo billed yearly) adds unlimited eye contact, 4K at 60fps and 5 team members, and every account can fix eye contact once for free.

For the podcaster in the table above, four 60-minute episodes a month would use 4 of the 10 long videos on StoryCut Starter ($7/mo billed yearly), or 240 of the 300 credits in one Opus Clip Pro pack.

Where it is weaker: Opus Clip’s clip finder has more controls (clip-length presets, prompt-to-clip, 10-hour inputs), Submagic’s Magic Clips returns 20+ clips per video where StoryCut returns up to 12, and Submagic has more caption templates and an AI Auto Edit that adds B-roll and transitions, which StoryCut’s Auto Edit doesn’t. StoryCut has no mobile app, no API and no posting or scheduling, its free plan exports 720p with a watermark, and it is newer, with no third-party reviews yet.