OpusClip vs Synthesia
Buy OpusClip if you already have recorded video — webinars, town halls, interviews — and want short clips out of it, cheaply, at $15/month. Buy Synthesia if there is nothing recorded and the video needs to be produced, reviewed, localised and governed. They do not overlap and buying one expecting the other is an expensive mistake.
Disclosure: this page is published by Kineo, which is not one of the two tools compared here and does not compete with either on the job they do. There is a short, clearly labelled note about Kineo at the bottom. Everything above it is written as if we had nothing at stake, because on this comparison we do not.
The verdict
Only one of them can touch your archive
OpusClip exists to find the standalone moments inside long recordings and reframe them vertically with captions. Synthesia has no ingestion concept — you write a script, pick an avatar, and it renders. An organisation sitting on a hundred hours of recorded webinars has already paid for the raw material, and only one product on this page can use it.
The monthly ceilings are shaped completely differently
Synthesia meters finished minutes: 10 a month on Basic and Starter, 30 on Creator at $89/month or $64 yearly, unlimited only on Enterprise. OpusClip meters credits: 60 free, 150 on Starter at $15/month, 3,600 released up front on Pro billed annually at $174/year. Synthesia’s ceiling is a hard cap on output; OpusClip’s is a budget you spend on processing.
The free tiers show what each vendor thinks free is for
Synthesia Basic gives 1,200 credits, up to 10 minutes of finished video a month, 9 avatars and 160+ languages, with its logo on the output — a genuinely usable evaluation. OpusClip Free gives 60 credits at up to 1080p, watermarked, and clips stop being exportable after 3 days. One expects you to evaluate over weeks; the other over an afternoon.
Price at entry is not close
OpusClip Starter is $15/month and Pro is $14.50/month billed annually. Synthesia Starter is $29/month, or $18 billed yearly, and the tier most organisations actually need is Creator at $89, or $64. That gap buys governance, localisation and avatars — none of which help you clip a recording.
Side by side
Every figure below was read off each vendor’s own pricing page on July 26, 2026. Where a tier table did not resolve to readable prices, the cell says so rather than guessing — a wrong competitor price is worse than no price at all.
| OpusClip | Synthesia | |
|---|---|---|
| What it actually is | Finds the best moments in a long video you already recorded and cuts them into vertical clips. | Enterprise-leaning avatar video: training, internal comms and localisation, with governance features to match. |
| Needs an existing video? | Yes — you upload a long video or paste a link. There is nothing to clip from an idea. | No. You write a script, pick an avatar and it renders a presenter video. |
| Free tier | Free plan: $0, 60 credits per month, renders up to 1080p, auto-reframe and AI captions with emoji and keyword highlighting. Clips are watermarked, and after 3 days they are no longer exportable. | Basic free plan: $0, 1,200 credits/month, up to 10 minutes of video per month, 25 AI-generated video assets, 9 AI avatars, 160+ languages and voices, 1 editor seat. The Synthesia logo appears on the video. |
| Cheapest paid plan | Starter $15/month (150 credits/month, monthly billing only) | Starter $29/month, or $18/month billed yearly |
| Full pricing | Free $0 (60 credits/mo) · Starter $15/mo (150 credits/mo, monthly billing only) · Pro $29/mo, or $14.50/mo billed annually at $174/year (3,600 credits released up front, 2 seats) · Business custom. | Basic free $0 (10 min/mo, Synthesia logo) · Starter $29/mo, or $18/mo billed yearly (1,200 credits/mo or 14,500/year; 10 min/mo or 120 min/year; 125+ AI avatars, 3 personal avatars; 1 editor, 3 guests) · Creator $89/mo, or $64/mo billed yearly (3,600 credits/mo or 44,000/year; 30 min/mo or 360 min/year; 180+ avatars, 5 personal avatars; 1 editor, 5 guests) · Enterprise custom (unlimited video minutes, 240+ avatars, unlimited personal avatars, SAML/SSO, brand kits, SCORM export). |
| Watermark | Watermarked on the free plan; watermark-free from Starter up. | The Synthesia logo is on free-plan video; it is removable on paid plans. |
| Aspect ratio | Vertical clips auto-reframed from your horizontal or square source. | Multiple, including vertical. |
| Voice / narration | Whatever voice is already in your footage. There is no text-to-speech narration of a written script. | 160+ languages and voices on every tier, free plan included. |
| Where the visuals come from | None. Every frame in the output came from the video you uploaded. | Not the point of the product — the avatar and the slide behind it are the shot. |
| Export & usage limits | Free: clips stop being exportable after 3 days. Starter: 30-day limit on MP4 exports. Pro: no limit on MP4 exports. | Metered in minutes of finished video per month as well as credits: 10 minutes/month on Basic and Starter, 30 minutes/month on Creator. |
| Verified | Verified July 26, 2026 — read from https://www.opus.pro/pricing | Verified July 26, 2026 — read from https://www.synthesia.io/pricing |
Sources: OpusClip pricing · Synthesia pricing — both checked on July 26, 2026. Vendors change tiers without notice, so confirm on their site before you pay. If you find something here that is out of date, we would rather fix it than keep the click.
Which one you should pick
Pick OpusClip if…
- You have long recordings and want clips out of them.
- You want the cheapest plan in this comparison: $15/month.
- Auto-reframe from a horizontal source is the specific automation you need.
- Two people need access — Pro includes 2 seats at $29/month.
- Annual billing suits you: $14.50/month at $174/year with 3,600 credits released up front.
Pick Synthesia if…
- There is no recording and nobody wants to be filmed.
- You need SAML/SSO, brand kits or SCORM export — those are on Enterprise.
- Reviewers need access without an editor seat each: 1 editor plus 3 guests on Starter, plus 5 on Creator.
- You are localising: 160+ languages and voices on every tier, free plan included.
- You want a free tier generous enough to run a real pilot: 10 minutes a month at the cost of a logo.
The differences that actually matter
The export clock exists on one side only
OpusClip free clips stop being exportable after 3 days and Starter carries a 30-day MP4 export limit; Pro removes it. Synthesia publishes no equivalent export window. For an organisation that archives everything, that OpusClip detail is the line that pushes you to Pro regardless of features.
Whose voice and whose face
OpusClip clips carry the actual people who were in the recording, which is either the entire point or a compliance question depending on your situation. Synthesia renders licensed avatars plus 3 personal avatars on Starter and 5 on Creator. One reuses real people; the other manufactures consistent ones.
Governance is priced on one side and absent on the other
Synthesia puts SAML/SSO, brand kits and SCORM export on Enterprise, with an editor-plus-guests seat model from the entry tier. OpusClip publishes 2 seats on Pro and a custom Business tier. If procurement will ask about single sign-on, only one of these has an answer on its pricing page.
Neither produces faceless narration over stock footage
Synthesia puts an avatar on screen. OpusClip reuses whoever was in your footage. If you want narration over cut b-roll with nobody in frame, this comparison does not contain the answer and the prices above are not decision-relevant.
Frequently asked questions
Is OpusClip or Synthesia cheaper?
OpusClip, substantially: Starter is $15/month, or $14.50/month for Pro billed annually at $174/year, against Synthesia Starter at $29/month or $18 billed yearly and Creator at $89 or $64. All figures read from their own pricing pages on July 26, 2026.
Can Synthesia clip a long video for me?
No. Synthesia renders presenter video from a script; it does not ingest and cut recordings. If you have long video to harvest, OpusClip — or another re-clipper — is the category you want.
Can OpusClip make a video from a script?
No. Its input is a long video, uploaded or linked, and no tier changes that. There is also no text-to-speech narration of a written script in the product.
How much video does each free plan allow?
Synthesia Basic: 1,200 credits and up to 10 minutes of finished video a month, with the Synthesia logo. OpusClip Free: 60 credits a month at up to 1080p, watermarked, with clips no longer exportable after 3 days.
Which one supports more languages?
Synthesia lists 160+ languages and voices on every tier including free. OpusClip does not generate speech at all — it reuses your source audio — so language support is whatever you recorded.
One disclosed third option
Disclosure: Kineo publishes this page and is neither tool above. It makes faceless 9:16 Shorts from a typed topic, with no archive to clip and no avatar as the centre of the product. If you have recorded video, OpusClip is the right category; if you need governed organisational video, Synthesia is. Kineo is neither.
Make one free →Up to 3 watermarked Fast videos / 24h · No card · Starter $4.90 first month
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Prices, free-tier terms and limits on this page were verified on July 26, 2026 by reading each vendor’s own published pricing page, linked above. They change. Nothing here is an endorsement by, or affiliation with, OpusClip or Synthesia, and no comparison on this site is paid for or sponsored. Kineo is a product of the same company that publishes this page, which is stated on every comparison whether or not Kineo is one of the tools being judged.