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Both cover short-form & clipping. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
chopcast | Crayo | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $12 | From $13 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | 7 days | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
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Long videos into clips, billed by upload
chopcast takes a long recording and returns vertical clips with captions burned in, which is the same job several tools in this category do. What separates it is the meter: exports are unlimited and you are charged for the minutes you upload, so a heavily repurposed video costs the same as one clipped once. Coaches and interview shows fit the pricing best. The first hour is free to try.
Our note
Count your source hours rather than your clip count when picking a tier, since this is the rare tool in the category where making more clips from the same recording is free. A weekly hour-long show fits the entry plan with room, which is not true of most tools priced by export.
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Short videos assembled from a prompt
Crayo builds short-form videos from a script or an idea, generating the voiceover, the captions and the background footage in one pass rather than asking for source material first. Every plan includes every tool and the tiers differ only in how much gets made. Credits, export minutes, voiceover minutes and image counts are metered separately. Anybody clipping an existing long video is better served by a tool built for that, because this generates rather than cuts.
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| Short-Form & Clipping, Captions & Subtitles |
| Short-Form & Clipping |
| Works with | YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn | YouTube, Instagram, TikTok |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | 1 | None right now |
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Our note
Match the tier to export minutes rather than to workflow credits, because 40 minutes is about a dozen shorts and that is the number that runs out first. Posting daily puts you on Clipper immediately, so treat Hobby as a way to find out whether the output is worth posting at all.