Last verified October 7, 2026
ComparisonClipItX vs Submagic: clipper or caption studio?
Submagic is a caption and one-click editing studio; ClipItX is a long-video clipper. They overlap on Magic Clips, Submagic's long-video add-on. Here's how they compare, and when Submagic is the better choice.
The short answer
ClipItX Pick it if you…
- start from long videos: podcasts, interviews, webinars, courses, sermons, streams
- want clipping included in every plan, from $9/mo
- want sources up to 3 hours on Pro (8 h on Enterprise)
- want every clip ranked by virality on hook, flow, value and trend
Submagic Pick it if you…
- mainly caption and polish short videos you've already cut
- want one-click edits: remove bad takes and silences, B-roll, brand kit
- need 4K 60 fps export (Business)
- work in a team and pay per member
Bottom line: If your starting point is a long recording, ClipItX does the whole job on every plan. If you already have short videos and want the most polished captions and quick edits, Submagic is built for that, with Magic Clips available as an extra subscription.
ClipItX vs Submagic, side by side
Last verified October 7, 2026. “Partly” means the feature exists with limits, which are noted. “Unverified” means we couldn't confirm it on the vendor's live page.
| Feature | ClipItX | Submagic |
|---|---|---|
| Long video → clips | Yes Included on every plan | Partly Magic Clips, a separate subscription on top of a plan |
| Magic Clips price | Yes No add-on | Unverified Not shown on the pricing or Magic Clips pages on 7 October 2026 |
| Cheapest paid plan | Yes $9/mo Starter ($7.50/mo billed yearly: $90 for 12 months) | Yes $19/member/mo Starter ($12/mo yearly) |
| Max video length | Yes 30 min (Free) to 8 h (Enterprise); 3 h on Pro | Partly 2 min (Starter), 5 min (Pro), 30 min (Business) per upload |
| Max file size | Yes 2 GB | Yes 3,000 MB |
| Free plan / trial | Yes 45 tokens once, no card; small “Made with ClipItX” watermark; videos up to 30 min | Unverified “Try for free, no credit card”; free-tier watermark not stated on the pricing page |
| AI clip selection | Yes Proprietary clip AI: our own fine-tuned clip-selection model plus multimodal AI that watches and listens to every minute, then ranks every clip by virality (hook, flow, value, trend) | Partly In Magic Clips |
| Speaker tracking / reframe | Partly Single-speaker auto-reframe to 9:16 that locks onto whoever is speaking and cuts on the exact frame of a speaker switch (face tracking on Pro and up; centre crop on Free and Starter); facecam + screen and 2-speaker split layouts | Partly In Magic Clips |
| Animated captions | Yes 60 caption styles on every plan, including word-by-word highlight | Yes The core product; 35+ animated templates |
| One-click edits | Partly Smart trim and Get to the point (+1 token per clip each) | Yes Remove bad takes and silences (Pro), B-roll, brand kit |
| Export | Partly MP4 clips up to 1080p; no 4K | Yes 1080p 30 fps (Starter), 2K (Pro), 4K 60 fps (Business) |
| Prompt → faceless short (no footage) | Yes AI Shorts from a topic or script, with voice, visuals and captions, on every plan | Partly AI avatar videos from a short script |
| API | Partly MCP server with API keys, so AI agents can start clipping jobs, check them and publish; no REST API yet | Yes Business includes API minutes; API packs from $57/mo |
Pricing: ClipItX vs Submagic
The two products start from different places. Submagic plans are sized in short videos per month (15, 40 or 100) with a per-video length cap of 2, 5 or 30 minutes; long-video clipping is the Magic Clips subscription on top. ClipItX plans are token allowances that cover clipping on every plan: 5 tokens per clip, the first 10 source minutes free, then 0.8 tokens a minute (×1.5 with Deep Watch).
So a 60-minute podcast cut into 10 clips is 110 ClipItX tokens; Pro ($19) covers about 11 a month. In Submagic, that hour-long source needs Magic Clips, whose price we couldn't confirm on the live pages.
Submagic plans
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $19/member | $12/mo billed yearly | 45 credits = 15 videos/moVideos up to 2 min; 1080p 30 fps; no watermark |
| Pro | $39/member | $23/mo billed yearly | 120 credits = 40 videos/moVideos up to 5 min; 2K; brand kit; remove bad takes and silences; publishing |
| Business | $69/member | $41/mo billed yearly | 300 credits = 100 videos/moVideos up to 30 min; 4K 60 fps; API (100 min/mo) |
| Magic Clips | Unverified | Unverified | Long video → clipsSeparate subscription; price not shown on the live pages |
Per-member prices. Credits are spent on captions, B-roll or Magic Clips. File size limit 3,000 MB per video (help centre). Custom plans: contact sales.
ClipItX plans
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | 45 tokens, onceAbout 9 one-minute AI clips; videos up to 30 min; watermark |
| Starter | $9 | $7.50/mo $90 for 12 months | 600 tokens/moAbout 120 one-minute AI clips; videos up to 50 min; 1 job at a time |
| Pro | $19 | $15/mo $180 for 12 months | 1,250 tokens/moAbout 250 one-minute AI clips or 11 hour-long podcasts; videos up to 3 h; 3 jobs at a time |
| Creator | $49 | $39/mo $468 for 12 months | 3,200 tokens/moAbout 640 one-minute AI clips or 29 hour-long podcasts; videos up to 4 h; 5 jobs at a time |
| Studio | $149 | $119/mo $1,428 for 12 months | 9,800 tokens/moAbout 1,960 one-minute AI clips or 89 hour-long podcasts; videos up to 6 h; 7 jobs at a time |
| Enterprise | $299 | $239/mo $2,868 for 12 months | 19,500 tokens/moAbout 3,900 one-minute AI clips or 177 hour-long podcasts; videos up to 8 h; 8 jobs at a time |
How ClipItX tokens work: each clip up to 60 seconds costs 5 tokens (+2 for each extra 30 seconds, or 7 per clip with a transcript). The first 10 minutes of every source video are free. After that, each minute costs 0.8 tokens, ×1.5 with Deep Watch, which is on for every video up to 3 hours. Uploading the file instead of pasting a link takes 25% off the per-minute part. Example: a 60-minute podcast cut into 10 one-minute clips is 50 + 60 = 110 tokens; a 30-minute video with 8 clips is 64; a 10-minute video with 5 clips is 25. Clip counts above assume one-minute clips from videos up to 10 minutes; podcast counts assume that 110-token episode. Unused tokens don't roll over. Yearly prices are paid once for 12 months.
Finding the clips
Submagic finds clips in long videos through Magic Clips, a separate subscription. Its core plans caption and edit videos you've already cut.
ClipItX transcribes your video, then runs its proprietary clip AI: our own fine-tuned clip-selection model plus multimodal AI that watches and listens to every minute (Deep Watch, on for every video up to 3 hours). It finds hooks, punchlines and emotional peaks, then ranks every clip by virality (hook, flow, value, trend) so the strongest clips come first. On videos over 5 minutes you can choose Auto (up to 25 clips), or ask for a fixed number, and you can tell it what to look for.
Captions and one-click edits
Submagic is built around caption styling, with 35+ animated templates, plus one-click edits such as removing bad takes and silences, B-roll and a brand kit on Pro.
ClipItX includes 60 caption styles on every plan, including word-by-word highlights, and you can correct any word in the editor. Smart trim cuts dead air and filler, and Get to the point opens on the strongest line.
Where Submagic is the better choice
We'd rather you pick the right tool than churn in a month. Submagic is the stronger option if any of these matter most to you:
- Caption polish. Captions are Submagic's core product.
- One-click edits such as removing bad takes and silences, B-roll and a brand kit.
- Export quality. 2K on Pro and 4K 60 fps on Business; ClipItX exports up to 1080p.
- Teams. Per-member plans and a developer API with paid minute packs.
- Bigger files. Uploads up to 3,000 MB, against ClipItX's 2 GB.
How to switch from Submagic to ClipItX
- Create a free ClipItX account. No card; 45 free tokens.
- Paste the long video you'd send to Magic Clips, or upload the file.
- Pick a caption style from 60 and fix any word in the editor.
- Keep Submagic for polish if you like its captions; many creators use a clipper and a caption tool together.
ClipItX vs Submagic: FAQ
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Sources and method
Last verified October 7, 2026. We read each product's live pricing page (and, where a number isn't on it, the vendor's own help centre) on that date. Anything we couldn't confirm on a live page is marked “unverified” rather than guessed. ClipItX figures come from our own live plans. Prices are in USD before tax. Vendors change plans often, so check their pages before you buy. Spotted something out of date? Email [email protected] and we'll fix it.
- Submagic pricing (monthly and yearly views) · checked 2026-10-07
- Submagic help: size and video length limits · checked 2026-10-07
- Submagic API docs: Magic Clips (subscription required) · checked 2026-10-07
- Submagic AI caption generator (templates) · checked 2026-09-25
- Submagic AI Actors Studio · checked 2026-09-25
Try ClipItX on the video you'd send to Submagic
Paste the same YouTube link or upload the same file, and compare the clips yourself. The free plan needs no card.
45 free tokens. No card needed.