Is Opus AI the same as Opus Clip?

Yes: Opus Clip is the product name, opus.pro the domain, and "Opus AI" the shortened spelling of the same tool.

Its free tier is 60 source minutes a month, watermarked and 720p; paid plans start at $15/month. OpenReel self-hosted is free with no watermark, and OpenReel Cloud is hosted from $19/month.

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Opus AI: the tool behind opus.pro, explained

By the OpenReel team· Published 2026-09-17· Updated 2026-09-17

TL;DR

Opus AI is not a separate product: it is the same company and pipeline most people know as Opus Clip, which runs at opus.pro. If a tool called Opus AI is clipping your long videos, it is that one.

It costs $15/month at entry, billed in credits per minute of source video rather than per clip, with a 60-minute-a-month free tier that watermarks and caps exports at 720p.

OpenReel does the same core job — moment detection, 9:16 reframing, word-level subtitles — and differs on two axes that matter: it is MIT-licensed and self-hostable, and it prices in flat minutes rather than per-minute credits.

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Is Opus AI the same thing as Opus Clip?

Yes. The product is marketed as Opus Clip and served from opus.pro, and "Opus AI" is how a large share of its traffic searches for it. There is no second, separate Opus AI clipper; if you see the name in a listicle, it is this tool under a shorter spelling.

Two names, one of them shared

"Opus" is also the name of an Anthropic language model. That is a different thing entirely and has nothing to do with video clipping. This page is about the video tool at opus.pro.

What Opus AI does

It takes a long video, finds the segments worth keeping, cuts them, reframes them vertically and burns in captions with a large library of animated styles. The differentiators its users cite are the caption presets and the virality score, which is trained on the company's own data rather than on a general-purpose model. It is cloud only: there is no self-hosted edition and no source to read.

What Opus AI costs

Checked 2026-07-27 on the vendor's public pricing page.

Free: 60 minutes of source video per month, watermarked exports, 720p
Starter: $15/month for 150 minutes per month, no watermark, 720p export
Pro: $29/month for 300 minutes per month, 1080p export, auto-posting, speaker detection, brand kit
Business: Custom pricing, not published

Opus Clip bills one credit per minute of the video you import, not per clip you export. A 60-minute podcast costs 60 credits whether it yields 5 clips or 20, so the effective price depends on your source length rather than your output.

Where OpenReel differs

OpenReel is MIT-licensed and can be self-hosted with Docker, so the source video never leaves your machine. Opus AI is cloud only.
OpenReel adds AI voice dubbing into 30+ languages and an AI UGC generator with lip-synced actors; the Opus AI feature set is clipping and captioning.
Opus AI has the larger caption-style library and a longer track record. If your clips live or die on animated caption design, that advantage is real and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
OpenReel self-hosted has no meter of any kind; Opus AI bills credits per minute of source imported, and those credits expire 60 days after purchase.

What does OpenReel cost?

OpenReel comes in two editions and they are priced very differently, so it is worth being precise. OpenReel (self-hosted) is free and open source under the MIT licence: Free forever and open source under MIT. You run it with Docker on your own machine and bring your own Gemini, ElevenLabs and fal.ai API keys. Unlimited videos and clips, no watermark, no usage limits, no subscription. What it costs you is hardware and time: on a typical CPU an 8-minute video takes 5 to 8 minutes to process. OpenReel Cloud is the hosted service: The same software hosted at myopenreel.com by Next Tech Labs, with GPU-accelerated rendering and the AI keys managed for you. Plans meter minutes of input video, never per-clip credits, and none of them watermark. Pro is $19/month for 200 minutes and 5 AI Video Studio videos (a researched, scripted, voiced long-form video plus its 9:16 Short), with clips stored and re-openable from any browser and publishing to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. Business is $49/month for 1,000 minutes and 25 AI Video Studio videos, with priority rendering, API keys, an MCP server, webhooks, multiple social profiles and email support. Cancel anytime.

Common questions

Is Opus AI the same as Opus Clip?: Yes. Opus Clip is the product name and opus.pro is the domain; "Opus AI" is a shortened spelling of the same tool, not a separate service.
Is Opus AI free?: There is a free tier: 60 source minutes a month, watermarked, 720p, and free-plan exports are deleted after three days. Paid plans start at $15/month. OpenReel self-hosted is free with no watermark and no cap, and OpenReel Cloud has hosted plans from $19/month with no watermark.
Does Opus AI have an open source alternative?: Yes. OpenReel is MIT-licensed, self-hostable with Docker, and covers the same core job: AI moment detection, face-tracked 9:16 reframing and word-level burned-in subtitles. It also adds dubbing into 30+ languages and AI UGC video, which Opus AI does not have.

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