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Quick disclosure: Clipmasters is our own service, so of course we put ourselves first. We do not aspire to be humble, but we can aspire to explain how we use AI honestly, and to tell you when a DIY tool on this list would suit you better.
The short version: you pay one monthly fee and get your own editor. You send your footage, we cut your videos, and you can send as many as you want. Requests and revisions are both unlimited.
We call ourselves an AI-powered agency. That means we use AI for what AI is good at, like browsing huge libraries of footage, putting together rough cuts, and repurposing content. But we keep a human editor at the helm, in charge of creative taste and quality. You get the speed of AI combined with a real creative eye, without having to learn new software or do the work yourself.
Most services pass your video to whoever is free that day, and that is fine until you care about a consistent look. We do things differently. All of our editors go through a rigorous testing process before we hire them, so we know they are skilled. But creativity is subjective, and a great editor can still be the wrong fit for your style. So in your first month, your creative project manager tries multiple editors on your real videos, at no extra cost, and you keep the one you like best. By month two you have a dedicated editor who knows your style.
All of our plans come with a set number of editing hours each day, and because your editor is assisted by AI, they can get far more done in those hours than an editor who doesn’t leverage AI. This can mean two things:
Our editors are trained on AI tools like OpusClip, Runway, Descript, and Higgsfield.
If you would rather do the editing yourself, or you only need to repurpose long videos into clips, a DIY tool on this list will cost you far less. Once you want finished, on-brand videos delivered for you at volume, that is when a team like ours earns its keep.
Superside is the enterprise end of AI-assisted creative. It is not just video. It is a broad creative partner covering design, ad creative, and motion, with AI woven through the workflow and a dedicated project manager on top.
It does not publish pricing. In practice it is an enterprise spend, commonly several thousand dollars a month and up, usually on an annual commitment. That buys serious capacity and breadth across formats.
If you are a large team that needs high-volume creative across many disciplines, Superside is built for you. If you mainly need video editing, or you are a smaller operation, it is more than you need and more than you want to pay.
Descript is a DIY tool, and a clever one. You edit your video by editing the transcript, so cutting a talking-head video or a podcast feels like editing a document. It has handy AI built in, like removing filler words and cleaning up audio.
The pricing is approachable. There is a free plan, then Hobbyist at $16, Creator at $24, and Business at $50 a month, billed annually. You can see the tiers at [descript.com](https://www.descript.com/pricing).
The trade-off is simple: you are the editor. Descript makes you faster, but it does not do the work for you, and complex, polished edits will hit its limits. For creators happy to edit their own talking-head and podcast content, it is excellent value.
OpusClip made its name turning a long video into short, captioned, vertical clips, and in 2026 it does a lot more than that. It now has an AI Copilot you can prompt, a built-in timeline editor, and it can generate B-roll, add AI music, dub your voice into other languages, and write titles and descriptions with ChatGPT.
There is a free plan, then Starter at $15 and Pro at $29 a month (or $14.50 billed annually). The tiers are listed at opus.pro.
It still works from footage you already have and shines on short-form, so the results need a human eye for polish and it will not produce a full long-form edit. But as a fast and increasingly capable AI editor for clips, it is hard to beat.
Runway started as an AI generation tool, but in 2026 it has moved toward editing. Its Aleph model does in-context editing: you give it real footage and it rewrites parts of it, removing an object, replacing a background, restyling a shot, or changing a product’s colour. It still generates video too, from text or from other clips.
There is a free plan, with paid plans from $12 a month billed annually, though everything runs on credits, and Aleph edits use more of them. Pricing and features change often, so check runwayml.com before you rely on it.
Think of Runway as an AI effects and fixes tool rather than a full timeline editor for long videos. For VFX-style work and shots you cannot film, it leads. For cutting a full talking-head video or podcast, a tool like Descript fits better.
