Submagic pricing: the unit is a finished video, not a minute
Their tiers count how many videos you finish a month, and separately cap how long any one of them may run. That is a different shape from a tool priced on how much footage you feed in, and it changes the arithmetic on a real recording.
We compete on very little, and we have not copied a single figure of theirs
InTheClips decides which passage of a long recording is worth posting. Submagic is built around what happens to a clip once you have one — captions above all — and our review of it already covers that, and the renewal question worth asking before you subscribe to anything in this category. This page does not repeat that question; it answers a different one, about the unit itself.
A price, a video count or a discount transcribed here is wrong the day Submagic changes it, and a page caught misquoting a competitor has lost the only thing it was selling. What stays true regardless is the shape of the unit, the arithmetic, and what to check before subscribing to anything of this kind — including ours.
Finished videos, each with its own length ceiling
The plans are sized in videos a month, not minutes of source. Submagic’s own pricing page counts how many finished videos each tier allows in a month — and, unusually for this category, caps how long any single one of those videos may run. That is a different shape from a tool priced by how much footage you feed in: the constraint is on your output, not your input.
Which means the question to ask is not “how many hours does this buy”, because it does not answer that. A per-minute tool has one clean sum: hours of footage against an allowance. A per-video tool with a length cap answers a different question — how many finished pieces, of what length, you can put out in a month — and the two numbers are not the same thing dressed up differently. Ask specifically which one a plan is actually selling before comparing a tier here against a tier anywhere else.
And there is more than one unit sold under the same name. Their pricing page also sells a separate add-on, priced and capped on its own, specifically for pulling clip candidates out of a longer recording — the job this entire product exists to do, offered there as an extra rather than built into the base plan. A further, separate price applies to their API, sold in a per-minute credit rather than either of the other two units. Three units under one name is exactly the kind of thing worth asking about specifically, on any tool, before assuming a headline number covers what you plan to do with it.
The full review, and the renewal questionWhat a per-video cap does to one real recording
What happens to a long episode, on oursFour money questions, not the renewal one
The renewal warning and the cancel control are already covered in the review — read that before you subscribe to anything in this category. These four are specifically about what the unit costs you.
What counts as one video
Whether a re-export or a re-edit of the same source counts again against the monthly total, or only a fresh one does, changes how far an allowance actually stretches. Worth confirming directly rather than assuming.
Whether your longest recording even fits
A tier’s per-video length cap can rule out your longest source outright, independent of how much of the monthly count is left. Check the cap before the count.
Whether the clip-finding add-on is the job you actually want
If what you are buying is a way to decide which minute of a long recording is worth posting, check whether that lives inside the plan or is sold separately with its own limit — on this tool or the next one.
What the plan costs to renew, not to start
A steep annual discount is common in this category and it is a real saving if you were going to stay anyway. The number worth writing down is what year two costs, since an introductory rate is not always the standing one.
One credit balance, in contrast to the three units this page argues you should ask about separately.
We meter how much of your recording is read and, past a generous included batch, how many clips you export — not how many finished pieces you make or how long any one of them runs. There is no separate add-on for finding the clip in the first place, and no cap on how long a single video may run.
Four hours a month on Starter — 240 credits, 80 rendered clips included — eleven on Creator (660 credits, 220 rendered clips), twenty-seven on Studio (1,620 credits, 540 rendered clips). A minute analysed costs one credit; a clip past the included batch costs three, from the same balance. Finding which passage is worth posting is still the whole product, not an add-on bolted onto captioning.
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.
Credits reset each period rather than carrying over, and clip-finding — the part that decides what gets clipped — is never sold apart from the plan. What each plan buys is on the pricing page in full.
Questions
What this search is usually standing in for.
How much does Submagic cost?
Their current tiers are on submagic.co’s own pricing page, and this site does not copy a competitor’s numbers — one written here would be wrong the day it changes. What is worth knowing before you look: the tiers are sized in finished videos a month with a length cap per video, not in hours of source footage.
What counts as a “video”, for their plans?
A finished piece, capped in length by tier, is the unit — not the length of whatever you originally recorded. Whether re-editing or re-exporting the same one counts again is worth confirming directly on their pricing page or with support before assuming either way.
Is there a free plan?
Yes, alongside the paid tiers on their pricing page, with its own video-count and length limits. Ours works differently: a one-time thirty-minute trial rather than a recurring free allowance, granted once with no card.
Does Submagic find the best clips in a long recording, or only finish them?
Their own pricing page sells clip-finding as a separate add-on on top of the base plan, priced and capped on its own — the base product is built around finishing a clip you already have, captions above all. Deciding which passage of a long recording is worth posting in the first place is the entire job this product does instead.
What about the renewal policy?
The review already goes into this in detail — whether a reminder arrives before a renewal, and what a discounted first term turns into on the second invoice — and it applies to every subscription in this category, not one product. Read that before subscribing to anything here.
What would you check first, money-wise?
Whether your longest recording fits under a tier’s per-video length cap at all, and whether clip-finding lives inside the plan or is sold as a separate add-on. Those two answer what a headline tier size cannot: whether the plan does the job you actually want, before you get to the renewal question at all.
The rest of the reading
The full review this page leans on, the other half of the job, and the field it sits in.
Submagic review
Captions people genuinely like, and a renewal policy worth reading first.
Submagic alternative
For someone who wants the moment found, not only the captions put on it.
Opus Clip pricing
What each tier costs, what a minute means there, and where the bill surprises people.
Podcast clip maker
Two hours read in thirty-minute windows with three minutes of overlap, so the back half is ranked too.