quso.ai vs Submagic
Buy quso.ai if you have long recordings and want clipping plus publishing to six platforms on one invoice. Buy Submagic if the clips exist and the gap is how they look. Submagic is the cheaper entry at $19/member/month, or $12 billed yearly, against quso Lite at $29, or $19 annually — but it will not find a clip for you and quso will not style one the way Submagic does.
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
Upstream and downstream, not competitors
quso.ai turns a long video into vertical clips and can publish them. Submagic takes a short video you already have and adds captions, b-roll, hook titles, audio cleanup and silence removal. A lot of people run both and that is a rational outcome rather than a failure to decide.
The free tiers are limited in complementary ways
quso Free: 75 credits a month, renders capped at 720p, chapters and short videos, TikTok publishing, CutMagic, 7-day data retention. Submagic Free: 3 watermarked videos a month capped at 200MB and 1 minute 30 seconds each. quso limits how good it looks; Submagic limits how much of it there is and brands the output.
One of them removes the meter when you pay
quso Lite at $29/month, or $19 annually, lists unlimited 1080p clips — the credit system that governs the free tier largely disappears. Submagic stays counted all the way up: 15 videos on Starter, 40 on Pro at $39 or $23 yearly, 100 on Business + API at $69 or $41. If your volume is unpredictable, unlimited is worth more than a bigger number.
Submagic bills per member and quso does not
Submagic quotes per member per month, so a second person is a second subscription. quso quotes plan prices with storage allowances — 10GB, 25GB, 75GB. For one operator this is noise; for two it is the largest single difference between the two invoices.
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.
| quso.ai | Submagic | |
|---|---|---|
| What it actually is | Clips long videos into shorts and bundles a scheduling and publishing suite around them. | Takes a short video you already have and makes it look native to the feed — captions, b-roll, sound cleanup. |
| Needs an existing video? | Yes for the clipping half — the product is built around turning long videos into short-form clips. | Yes — you upload a finished video. It styles a clip, it does not create one. |
| Free tier | Free plan: $0, 75 credits per month, 720p render quality, chapters and short videos, TikTok publishing, CutMagic, and 7-day data retention. | Free plan: $0, 3 videos per month carrying a Submagic watermark, capped at 200MB and 1 minute 30 seconds per video, with starter templates and free stock media. |
| Cheapest paid plan | Lite $29/month, or $19/month billed annually | Starter $19/member/month, or $12/member/month billed yearly |
| Full pricing | Free $0 (75 credits/mo, 720p) · Lite $29/mo, or $19/mo annually (unlimited 1080p clips, advanced editor, publishing to 6 platforms, 10GB storage) · Essential $39/mo, or $26/mo annually (adds AI filler and silence removal, external content support, Content Planner, 25GB) · Growth $49/mo, or $33/mo annually (adds Brand Kit, the Viddy AI assistant, priority support, templates, 75GB). | Free $0 (3 videos/mo) · Starter $19/member/mo, or $12/member/mo billed yearly (15 videos/mo up to 2 min each, 3 AI credits, 1080p/30fps, API 10 min/mo) · Pro $39/mo, or $23/mo yearly (40 videos/mo up to 5 min, 6 AI credits, Storyblocks media, AI hook titles, audio cleanup, silence removal, caption translation, 1080p and 2K) · Business + API $69/mo, or $41/mo yearly (100 videos/mo up to 30 min, 15 AI credits, 4K/60fps, API 100 min/mo) · Custom on request. |
| Watermark | Not stated on the pricing page. | Watermarked on the free plan; removed from Starter up. |
| Aspect ratio | Vertical short-form clips reframed from your source. | Short-form vertical, taken from the video you upload. |
| Voice / narration | Your source audio. | Your source audio. No AI narration of a written script. |
| Where the visuals come from | None — the clips come from your own footage. | Free b-roll and audio on paid plans; the Storyblocks library is added from Pro up. |
| Export & usage limits | Free renders are capped at 720p with 7-day data retention; 1080p clips are unlimited from Lite up. | 1080p/30fps from Starter, 1080p and 2K from Pro, 4K/60fps on Business. Quota is counted in videos per month, with a maximum duration per video that rises with the tier. |
| Verified | Verified July 26, 2026 — read from https://quso.ai/pricing | Verified July 26, 2026 — read from https://www.submagic.co/pricing |
Sources: quso.ai pricing · Submagic 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.
quso.ai: quso.ai is what vidyo.ai became. Requesting vidyo.ai/pricing returns a 302 redirect to quso.ai/pricing, confirmed on July 26, 2026.
Which one you should pick
Pick quso.ai if…
- You record long-form and need it clipped before it can be styled.
- You want publishing to 6 platforms and a Content Planner on the same bill.
- Unlimited 1080p clips from the entry paid tier suits your volume.
- AI filler and silence removal matter: Essential at $39/month, or $26 annually.
- You want a Brand Kit, templates and the Viddy assistant — Growth at $49, or $33 annually.
Pick Submagic if…
- The clips exist and what is missing is how they look in the feed.
- Caption styling is a differentiator in your niche: 100+ templates and keyword highlighting.
- You want AI hook titles, audio cleanup, silence removal and caption translation — all at Pro.
- You need licensed b-roll: the Storyblocks library is included from Pro at $39/month, or $23 yearly.
- You need 4K at 60fps, which is Business + API at $69/month, or $41 yearly.
The differences that actually matter
Both watermark policies are incomplete, in opposite directions
Submagic is explicit: free-plan videos carry a Submagic watermark and paid plans from Starter up do not. quso.ai’s pricing page does not state a watermark policy in what we could read. So on one side you know exactly what you get and on the other you should ask before subscribing — particularly since quso is the one whose free tier you might be tempted to run on longer.
Storage is priced on one side and duration on the other
quso quotes 10GB, 25GB and 75GB by tier and 7-day retention on free. Submagic quotes a maximum duration per video by tier: 1m30s free, 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro, 30 on Business. One product asks how much you keep; the other asks how long each piece is. Both are real ceilings and they bind different people.
AI credits versus unlimited clips
Submagic lists 3 AI credits a month on Starter, 6 on Pro and 15 on Business alongside its video quota, so the AI features are separately rationed. quso lists 75 credits on free and unlimited 1080p clips from Lite up. Reading "3 AI credits" against "75 credits" across the table is meaningless — they buy entirely different operations.
The vidyo.ai rename is a research hazard
quso.ai is what vidyo.ai became; vidyo.ai/pricing returns a 302 redirect to quso.ai/pricing, confirmed on July 26, 2026. Reviews comparing "vidyo.ai vs Submagic" describe a product that has since been renamed and repriced. Check the date on anything you read.
Frequently asked questions
Is quso.ai or Submagic cheaper?
Submagic at entry: $19/member/month, or $12/member/month billed yearly, against quso Lite at $29/month, or $19 billed annually. Both read from their own pricing pages on July 26, 2026. Note the "per member" on Submagic and the bundled publishing on quso.
Do I need both?
If you record long-form and want feed-native captions, yes — quso to cut and post, Submagic to finish. quso Lite annually at $19 plus Submagic Starter yearly at $12/member is about $31 a month for both halves.
Can Submagic clip a long video for me?
No. It works on a video you upload, with a maximum duration per tier — 1m30s free, 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro, 30 on Business. Finding the clip inside a two-hour recording is quso’s job, not Submagic’s.
Does quso.ai watermark my clips?
Its pricing page does not state a watermark policy in what we could read, so we are not going to claim one either way. Submagic does state it: watermarked on free, removed from Starter up.
Which one publishes to social platforms?
quso.ai — TikTok on the free tier and 6 platforms from Lite up, with a Content Planner from Essential. Submagic does not publish on your behalf; it lists API access on Starter and Business + API instead.
One disclosed third option
Disclosure: Kineo publishes this page and is neither tool above. It is not a clipper and not a captioning layer — it generates a finished faceless 9:16 Short from one typed topic, captions burned in. Mentioned only because "I have no long video to clip" is the situation that quietly disqualifies half of this comparison.
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, quso.ai or Submagic, 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.