Captions pricing: one credit balance, several different jobs
Captions.ai is the consumer app from a company called Mirage — used from a phone or a browser to turn a script, a recording, or an AI avatar into a finished video. Before the number: what it is, what a credit actually pays for, and what to check before the first charge.
We compete at the edges, and we have not copied a single figure of theirs
InTheClips reads a recording that already exists and tells you which passage of it is worth posting. Captions turns a script, a recording, or an AI avatar into a finished video, avatar and translation included. The overlap is real but narrow, so read this the way you would read any pricing page written by a competitor: check anything that matters on captions.ai itself, which is deliberately the only place this page sends you for a number.
The reason is not tact. A price or a credit count copied here is wrong the day they change it, and a page that quietly misquotes a rival has lost the only thing it was selling. What stays true regardless of what they charge this month is the unit, the arithmetic, and what is worth checking before subscribing to anything in this category — including ours.
A generation app first, a credit balance second
Captions is Mirage’s consumer product, used from a phone or a browser. Its own site puts it plainly: “Captions is Mirage Agent in your hands.” You can edit online or get the app for iOS or Android, and the pitch is that its AI edits raw footage the way a professional editor would — up to and including building a video from nothing but a script, an AI avatar, or a “digital twin” built from you, and translating and subtitling the result across a very wide range of languages.
Which makes the unit a credit, not a minute. Their plan page prices Max and the Scale tiers in a monthly credit balance rather than in minutes of footage. A credit is spent by whatever the AI is asked to do — editing footage you supply, generating a video from an avatar or digital twin, generating B-roll, music, sound effects or images, or translating a video — and those are structurally different jobs, not different amounts of the same thing.
So the two-hour-recording sum this category usually runs does not translate directly. A tool billed per minute of source has one clean question: how many hours of your own footage does a tier buy? A generation tool billed in credits across several unrelated jobs does not reduce to that question, because an avatar clip, a translation pass and a straightforward edit are unlikely to draw the same amount from the balance. The useful sum here is not hours of footage — it is how many of each kind of finished piece you actually make in a month, priced out individually on their own plan page before you compare tiers by size.
The unit ours is priced in, for contrastWhat actually draws on the same credit balance
Four line items on their own plan page, structurally different from each other. Price each one out for what you actually plan to make before reading a tier size as an answer.
Editing footage you already have
The part of the product that overlaps with a straightforward video editor — trimming and assembling something you shot yourself.
An avatar or a digital twin
Generating a video of an AI actor, or one built to resemble you, reading a script. Nothing is recorded for this one; the video is built.
Translation across languages
Captions’ own site claims subtitling and translation across a very wide range of languages, drawn from the same balance as everything else.
Generated B-roll, music, sound and images
Listed as its own feature on their plan page — material nobody filmed, generated to sit inside the edit.
None of these draws are quoted here in credits, because the only place that number is true is their own plan page, and it is the one this page will not transcribe.
Four things to check, and they apply to us too
Two of these were read directly off Mirage’s own terms for Captions on 2026-08-23; the other two apply to any subscription in this category, this one included.
How you actually cancel
Mirage’s own terms for Captions state that cancelling requires the Manage Subscriptions setting inside the app, at least 24 hours before the renewal date — and that deleting the app does not cancel the subscription underneath it. That is worth reading on any app before the first charge, not after the second one.
What a refund actually covers
The same terms describe payment as nonrefundable outside what the law requires or Mirage chooses to grant at its own discretion. Find the refund sentence in whichever tool’s terms you are about to accept — it is rarely where the pricing page points you.
What one credit actually buys
Editing, avatar generation, translation and B-roll generation are unlikely to cost the same amount, and a headline credit count means little without that conversion. Ask specifically, on this tool or any other billed in a unit that is not a plain minute.
Does a renewal arrive with warning
A subscription that renews silently is the most common complaint written about tools in this category. Ours does not send a reminder yet — asked of us, that is the honest answer, and it is worth asking of anyone else too.
Everything Captions can build from nothing, this tool cannot build at all
If the job is “make this video exist,” Captions is built for that far more than we are. An avatar reading a script, a digital twin, a translated dub, generated B-roll — that is a real and useful category of work, and we simply do not do it. Not a smaller version of it: none of it. We have no synthetic voice, no avatar and nothing generated.
If the job is “find the forty seconds already sitting in a two-hour file,” that is the whole of what we do instead. Every clip that comes out of this product is built from seconds someone actually recorded, ranked and cut, never invented — which is a different job from generating a video, not a worse one. How that is priced — one flat rate for a minute analysed, one flat rate for a clip past the included batch, never a different rate per kind of job — is on the pricing page.
How ours is metered, in fullOne unit, not several: hours of source video a month, and nothing generated.
A credit is a minute of source analysed. The only other thing it is ever spent on is a clip exported past the batch a plan already includes, at the same flat rate for everyone — not a different, undisclosed rate for an avatar, a translation or a generated image the way a job-by-job credit balance can charge.
Four hours a month on Starter, eleven on Creator, twenty-seven on Studio. Exporting a clip is included up to a generous batch each month (80 / 220 / 540), and only past that does one cost three credits — still the one flat rate, never a job-dependent one.
A third off — smaller than this category typically discounts a year by, because the yearly plan is about paying once rather than about the shop window.
One credit balance, spent at the same flat rate whatever it goes toward — no separate, job-priced pool to convert between, and nothing bought in advance that quietly lapses. What each plan buys is on the pricing page in full.
Questions
What people are usually trying to work out when they search for the pricing of a tool like this.
How much does Captions cost?
Their current tiers are on captions.ai’s own pricing page, and that is where to read the number: a figure copied onto a competitor’s site is out of date the day it changes. What is worth knowing before you look is that the tiers are priced in a monthly credit balance rather than a simple per-video fee, and that balance is spent across several different kinds of job.
Is there a free plan?
Yes — their pricing page lists a free tier alongside the paid ones. Ours works differently on purpose: a one-time thirty-minute trial rather than a recurring free allowance, granted once with no card, because a recurring free tier is a recurring bill for whoever runs it.
What is a “credit”, exactly?
The unit their plans are sold in, spent at different rates by different jobs — editing footage you supply, generating an avatar or digital twin, translating into another language, or generating B-roll, music or sound. Ask specifically what the thing you actually want to make costs in credits before comparing tiers by their headline size; a large balance spent quickly on generation is not the same purchase as the same number spent on plain edits.
How do I cancel a Captions subscription?
Mirage’s own terms for Captions (captions.ai is operated by Mirage US LLC) describe cancelling through the Manage Subscriptions setting inside the app, at least 24 hours before the renewal date — and state plainly that deleting the app does not cancel the subscription. Payment is described there as nonrefundable outside what the law requires.
Does Captions do the same thing as InTheClips?
Only at the edge. Captions is built to generate or edit a video — an avatar reading a script, a translated version, footage you shot yourself — while this product reads a recording that already exists end to end and ranks which passages are worth posting from it. One makes something exist; the other decides what to keep from something that already does.
What would you actually check first, before paying for either?
The conversion from credits to the specific thing you want to make, and the cancellation window in the terms rather than the marketing page. Those two answer what a tier size on its own cannot: what a month of your actual use will cost, and how much notice you need to give before it renews.
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