Opus Clip vs Submagic
Long video to short clips: the clipper or the caption polisher? Scores from the RXed AI Periodic Table v1.0 — identical 20-element scale, deterministic overall. How we audit →
At a glance
Scope = elements of the AI stack in the tool’s stated scope (dashed = honestly out of scope, never a penalty). Quality = how well it scores on what it covers. No single number — both axes, always.
The verdict
Opus Clip (Scope 10/20 · Quality 6/10) is the clipper: ClipAnything reads any genre for the moment you want (Mm 8.5), and the $29 Pro tier includes an MCP connector and a public programming interface (Pc 7) — but it bills by source-video minutes, so a 90-minute podcast burns a Starter month whether you export one clip or fifteen, 3–4× dearer per video than per-video rivals. Submagic (Scope 10/20 · Quality 4/10) is the polish: independent testing puts its animated captions near 99% accuracy against ~95% for Opus Clip, across 48 languages, from €12 a month billed yearly — yet long-to-short Magic Clips is a €12–19 add-on, ~45% usable on multi-speaker audio, and there is no MCP (Pc 2). Starting from 60-minute recordings → Opus Clip. You already know the clip and want it finished → Submagic. Publishing daily from podcasts → both, and budget the minutes.
Where the quality sits
Family mean over covered elements only — a dash means the family is honestly outside that tool’s scope.
| Opus Clip Scope 10/20 · Quality 6/10 audited 2026-07-17 | Submagic Scope 10/20 · Quality 4/10 audited 2026-07-18 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | OpusClip Inc. | Submagic |
| Origin | US | FR |
| Pricing | Free (60 min/mo, watermarked) · Starter ~€13/mo (150 min) · Pro ~€25/mo or ~€13/mo billed annually (300 min, includes API + MCP connector) · Business custom (dedicated queue, unlimited seats) | Free (3 videos/mo, watermark) · Starter €12/mo · Pro €23/mo · Business+API €41/mo (billed yearly; monthly ≈ €19/39/69) · Magic Clips long-to-short add-on ~€12–19/mo extra |
| Pr Prompts | 6 | 4 |
| Em Embeddings | — | — |
| Cx Context | 6 | 5 |
| Tr Tracing | 4 | 3 |
| Lg LLM | 6 | 5 |
| Fc Function calling | — | — |
| Vx Vector store | — | — |
| Rg RAG | — | — |
| Gr Guardrails | 4 | 3 |
| Mm Multimodal | 9 | 8 |
| Ag Agents | 6 | 5 |
| Ft Fine-tuning | — | — |
| Fw Frameworks & harnesses | 7 | 5 |
| Ev Evaluations | 4 | 4 |
| Sm Small models | — | — |
| Ma Multi-agent | — | — |
| Sy Synthetic data | — | — |
| Pc Protocols | 7 | 2 |
| In Interpretability | — | — |
| Th Thinking models | — | — |
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