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Both cover captions & subtitles. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| 2short.ai | Happy Scribe | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $9.90 | From $8.50 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | None |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Everything, in an open format |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
| Covers | Short-Form & Clipping, Captions & Subtitles | Captions & Subtitles, Transcription & Show Notes |
| Works with | YouTube, TikTok, Instagram | YouTube, Podcast |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Shorts pulled out of YouTube uploads
2short.ai points at a YouTube video, finds the moments worth cutting, and exports them vertical with face tracking and animated captions. Every plan carries the whole feature set and they differ only in how many hours of video the AI will read a month, which is a pricing shape that suits someone testing the idea. The free tier is thirty minutes of analysis, enough to judge whether the clips it picks are the ones you would have picked.
Our note
The free tier is the reason to start here rather than at Klap or OpusClip: thirty minutes is enough to see which moments the model picks before any money changes hands. If it picks well for your material, the paid tiers are among the cheapest in this category.
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Transcripts and subtitles in 60-plus languages
Happy Scribe does machine transcription and subtitles, and will sell you a human pass over the top when the machine is not good enough. The export list is long, including the subtitle formats an editor actually needs. Minutes are metered per year rather than per month, which suits lumpy production.
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