Opus Clip vs Eklipse: general clipper or stream highlighter

Two tools for different sources

Eklipse grew up around gaming. Its pages talk about Twitch, Kick and YouTube streams that you connect to your account, then an AI scan that finds highlights and reframes them from widescreen to 9:16 portrait. OpusClip is aimed at any long video: podcasts, webinars, interviews, recorded calls. Both end in captioned vertical clips, so people compare them. The difference is what you start from, and how each one counts usage.

How the counting differs

OpusClip charges by length of the original video: 1 credit per minute imported. A three-hour stream costs 180 credits. Eklipse Premium counts by video. Its monthly plan gives 20 VOD credits that reset each month, the semi-annual plan gives 120 per six months, and the annual plan gives 240 per year. A manual upload costs 1 credit, and local file import is limited to 10 offline recordings or VODs a month.

That makes the cost curve very different for long sources. A short video is cheap on OpusClip and costs a full credit on Eklipse. A very long video is the reverse.

Worked example: a streamer with 12 three-hour VODs a month

This is arithmetic from the published rules, not a timed test. Twelve streams of 3 hours is 2,160 minutes. On OpusClip that is 2,160 credits. One Pro pack is 300 credits, so you would need eight packs (8 x 300 = 2,400). The pricing page lets you choose 1 to 15 packs but does not print the price of each extra step in the text we read, so we cannot give you a total.

On Eklipse Premium monthly, 12 VODs use 12 of the 20 credits, with 8 left. The price is the flat $24.99. If the streams are on a connected Twitch or Kick account there is nothing to upload. The catch is that Eklipse is tuned to stream highlights. It will not turn a pasted YouTube link into clips, so if your recordings live elsewhere, they must be uploaded as MP4s between 15 minutes and 4 hours.

Opus Clip or Eklipse: a decision rule

• If you are a streamer or esports channel and the footage lives in a connected account, start with Eklipse.
• If the footage is a podcast, webinar, interview or lecture, start with OpusClip.
• If you need a free plan to test, OpusClip's Free plan exists. Eklipse's free account only previews one scan.
• If you work on a phone, note that Eklipse sells Premium in its mobile apps at $27.99 a month, $3 more than on the web.

Watermark, quality and what you keep

Both tools put a watermark on free exports, and both drop it on paid plans. OpusClip's Free plan renders up to 1080p, with a watermark and a 3-day window to export; Starter and Pro list watermark removal. Eklipse says free exports carry a small Eklipse watermark, which Premium removes for exports made after upgrading. Its pages describe Premium as 1080p at 60 fps and 90-day clip storage, although one page mentions 4K depending on source, so that detail is not settled.

One more difference is polish after the pick. OpusClip's caption editor lets you change words, font, colour, stroke, shadow and position. Eklipse's Studio offers custom text styles on Premium and an AI Edit feature that can add captions in a click. Neither vendor publishes a test of how good the highlight choices are, so judge that by running your own footage.

KeyMo as a third option

If your source is an ordinary long video rather than a stream, KeyMo is another route. Paste a YouTube link on a paid plan or upload an MP4 or MOV from 5 minutes to 3 hours. You get up to 15 vertical clips, each with a score out of 10, 12 caption styles and no watermark on any plan. There is no free plan or trial, and Starter is $12 a month for 300 source minutes. See KeyMo pricing.