Comparison
Choppity vs Opus Clip: price, limits and watermark rules
By the KeyMo team · Updated
Choppity and Opus Clip both turn long videos into vertical clips. Opus Clip is cheaper to start, at $15 a month on Starter against Choppity's $24, but its Free plan watermarks exports and takes clips offline after 3 days. Choppity also has a free plan, measured in hours of analysis, and its own pages disagree on whether free exports are watermarked.
Choppity vs Opus Clip at a glance
Both take a long video as a file or a link and return a batch of short clips, both score or rank the clips, and both burn in animated captions.
They bill differently. Opus Clip counts credits, one per minute of source video. Choppity sells hours of what it calls AI video analysis each month and resets the meter on the 1st of the calendar month. The table below sets out price, limits and the watermark rules next to KeyMo, with the date each cell was read.
The comparison table, read on 11 October 2026
| Choppity | Opus Clip | KeyMo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes, no card: 1 hour of AI analysis, 2 GB storage, projects kept 3 days | Yes: 60 credits a month, watermark, no editing, clips stop being exportable after 3 days | No free plan, no trial |
| Cheapest paid plan | Starter $24 a month, or $16.80 a month billed yearly ($201.60) | Starter $15 a month, monthly only | Starter $12 a month |
| Middle plan | Creator $32 a month, or $22.40 on the yearly toggle | Pro $29 a month, or $14.50 a month billed yearly ($174) | Pro $29 a month |
| Allowance | Starter 3 hours of AI analysis; Creator and Team 5 hours | Starter 150 credits; Pro 300 per pack; 1 credit per source minute | Starter 300 source minutes; Pro 900 |
| Longest input | Tool pages: 120 minutes and 10 GB per file; the pricing page states no cap | 10 hours; local files up to 10 GB (Free, Starter) or 30 GB (Pro) | 180 minutes and 10 GB; minimum 5 minutes |
| Link sources | YouTube, Vimeo and Twitch on the clip maker page | YouTube on Free; Starter adds Google Drive, Vimeo, Zoom and more; Pro adds Twitch, Dropbox, Riverside and others | YouTube link on paid plans, imported at up to 1080p |
| Export | Paid plans: 1080p HD and 4K; the Free column is blank | Up to 1080p on Free; 4K only from a 4K source, on Pro | 9:16, 1080x1920, 30 fps |
| Watermark | Pages disagree for the Free plan; paid plans remove it | Free plan and trial exports have one; Starter and Pro remove it | None on any plan |
| Clip ranking | Relevance score per clip; sort by objective | Virality Score 0-99 on Starter and Pro | Score out of 10 with a one-line reason; 7 or higher kept |
| Posting from the tool | Scheduling from Starter, 1 social account | Starter adds YouTube, TikTok and Instagram; Pro adds more networks | ZIP export of all clips |
What a weekly one-hour podcast costs on each
Take a podcast that publishes one 60-minute episode a week, about four or five a month. Opus Clip uses 60 credits per episode, so Starter's 150 credits cover two episodes and Pro's 300 cover five. Choppity's Starter has 3 hours of AI analysis, which is three episodes if an hour of video counts as an hour of analysis, and its Creator plan has 5 hours. KeyMo's Starter has 300 source minutes, which is five episodes.
Divide each Starter price by the hours it covers, using monthly billing, and you get roughly $8 an hour at Choppity ($24 for 3 hours), $6 an hour at Opus Clip ($15 for 2.5 hours) and $2.40 an hour at KeyMo ($12 for 5 hours). That is our own arithmetic on list prices, not a vendor figure, and it ignores yearly discounts. Choppity does not define exactly what its hours of analysis cover, so treat that line as an estimate.
Clips per episode matter too. Opus Clip's help centre guides 23 to 32 clips from a 30 to 60 minute video. Choppity says an hour of video typically gives 20 to 40 clips, which is a marketing line on its tool page. KeyMo's built-in target for a video up to 60 minutes is 8 to 12 clips, and it keeps only clips that score 7 out of 10 or higher, so a weak episode can return fewer.
Watermark and export rules
Opus Clip is clear. Free plan exports and free-trial exports carry its watermark, and Starter and Pro remove it. Free clips also stop being exportable after 3 days.
Choppity is not clear. Its free clip maker page and its YouTube to Shorts page say free exports carry a small Choppity watermark that paid plans remove. Its podcast clip generator and free caption tool pages say the free tier has no watermark. The pricing page does not mention a watermark, and its plan table leaves the Free column blank for exports and downloads. Until Choppity's pages agree, assume the Free plan may add one and test one export before you rely on it.
Choppity says Starter and above export 1080p HD and 4K. Opus Clip's pricing table lists the highest resolution available on paid plans, and it crops rather than compresses, so a 1080p source becomes 608 by 1080 in 9:16, and 4K output needs a true 4K source and the Pro plan.
Where each tool is stronger
- Choppity: text-based editing from the transcript, speaker tracking with split-screen layouts, a profanity-censor toggle, and finding moments from a plain-language request such as every mention of a name.
- Choppity: scheduling to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and LinkedIn inside the app, project storage that lasts forever on Creator and Team, and API access from Creator up.
- Choppity weak spots: the 2-hour cap appears only on tool pages, the Team plan card and Team FAQ give different seat and hour figures, and free export rules are unclear.
- Opus Clip: a lower entry price, a 7-day Pro trial with 90 minutes of processing according to its homepage, and a source limit of 10 hours.
- Opus Clip: many more link sources, a Virality Score, dubbing into 25 languages and export to Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve on Pro.
- Opus Clip weak spots: Starter is monthly only, Free and trial exports are watermarked, and after you cancel, projects become inaccessible after 3 days.
Where KeyMo fits
KeyMo is the narrow option. It takes MP4 or MOV files up to 10 GB, or a YouTube link on a paid plan, between 5 and 180 minutes long, and returns up to 15 clips in 9:16 with captions in one of 12 styles and no watermark. It has no free plan and no trial, so you cannot test it for nothing the way you can test Choppity Free or Opus Clip Free. It also does not accept the 10-hour sources Opus Clip does.
For a closer look at the market reference, read KeyMo vs Opus Clip or the Opus Clip pricing breakdown. If a watermark is the main worry, the Opus Clip watermark guide covers it.
Who should pick which
- You want to test before paying and plan to review the output yourself: Choppity Free or Opus Clip Free, knowing both may stamp a watermark.
- You want the lowest monthly bill for a few clips: Opus Clip Starter at $15, then compare KeyMo Starter at $12 if your sources are over 5 minutes.
- You want scheduling, transcript editing and a team workspace in one app: Choppity Creator or Team.
- Your source is over 3 hours or arrives from Zoom, Dropbox or Riverside: Opus Clip, on the plan that unlocks that link.
- You want fixed monthly minutes, no watermark and no editing suite: KeyMo.
Sources: Choppity pricing (checked 11 October 2026); Choppity free AI clip maker (checked 11 October 2026); Choppity podcast clip generator (checked 11 October 2026); Choppity YouTube to Shorts converter (checked 11 October 2026); Choppity free video caption generator (checked 11 October 2026); Choppity vs Opus Clip comparison page (checked 11 October 2026); Choppity short clips generator (checked 11 October 2026); Choppity automated framing (checked 11 October 2026); Choppity homepage (checked 11 October 2026); Choppity API (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip pricing (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip homepage (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: how credits are consumed (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: video length (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: supported video sources (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: plans and credits (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: how many clips (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: virality score (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: clip output sizes (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: 4K export (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: project refunds (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: free trial limits (checked 11 October 2026); Opus Clip help: video dubbing (checked 11 October 2026).