Prices checked September 30, 2026 · by ViralDrop team · 5 min read
Submagic pricing is per member and counted in videos. Starter is $19 a month for 15 videos of up to 2 minutes, Pro is $39 for 40 videos of up to 5 minutes, and Business is $69 for 100 videos of up to 30 minutes. Yearly billing brings those to $12, $23 and $41 a month.
Submagic is best for captioning and polishing short videos you filmed yourself. Skip it if what you need is research on why other creators' videos went viral: ViralDrop does that from $9 a month.
Checked on both sites on September 30, 2026. Submagic prices are per member a month.
| Submagic | ViralDrop | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Starter $19 · Pro $39 · Business $69; yearly $12, $23, $41 | Starter $9 · Creator $29 · Agency $59 a month |
| Free option | A trial: upload 3 short videos and edit them; watermark-free download needs a plan | Free welcome credits for new accounts |
| What a credit buys | 3 credits per video (45 credits = 15 videos on Starter) | One action on a video, priced per action |
| Video length | 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro, 30 on Business | Transcripts up to 120 minutes |
| Main job | Animated captions, B-roll, zooms, silence removal, publishing | Explain why a video worked and rewrite its structure for your offer |
| Export | 1080p on Starter and Pro, 4K and 60 FPS on Business, no watermark | Original MP4 download of a public video; SRT and VTT subtitles |
| Competitor tracking | Not offered | Included on every plan, with email alerts |
Starter ($19 a month, or $12 billed yearly). 45 credits, which Submagic equates to 15 videos, each up to 2 minutes long. AI auto captions, text-based trimming, free B-roll and audio, and 1080p export at 30 FPS without a watermark.
Pro ($39 a month, or $23 billed yearly). 120 credits, or 40 videos of up to 5 minutes. Adds Storyblocks B-roll and audio, AI auto zooms, removal of bad takes and silences, AI clean audio, publishing and analytics for social accounts, and a brand kit.
Business ($69 a month, or $41 billed yearly). 300 credits, or up to 100 videos of up to 30 minutes each, per member. Adds 4K and 60 FPS export, custom templates, logos and brand assets, a custom words dictionary, priority support and rendering, publishing from several social accounts, and 100 minutes a month of API use.
Custom. Priced by sales, with custom video and length limits, member counts, API limits, SSO and a customer success manager.
API minutes beyond the plan are sold as monthly packs, from 250 minutes for $57 a month down to $0.10 a minute on the largest packs.
Because a plan is a number of videos, the cleanest way to read the price is per video:
| Plan | Videos a month | Monthly billing | Per video | Yearly billing | Per video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 15 | $19 | $1.27 | $12 | $0.80 |
| Pro | 40 | $39 | $0.98 | $23 | $0.58 |
| Business | 100 | $69 | $0.69 | $41 | $0.41 |
The per-video figures are our arithmetic from the page, assuming every video in the plan is used. Yearly billing saves up to 41%, and the page prints the saving per plan: $84 a year on Starter, $192 on Pro and $336 on Business.
Length limits push you up a tier. A 3-minute video does not fit Starter at all, and a 10-minute one needs Business. The length limit, not the video count, is often what decides the plan. Check the length of what you actually publish before comparing prices: a creator who posts 10-minute explainers is a Business customer on Submagic whatever their volume.
Per-member pricing. Each person on the team is billed a full plan, so a three-person team on Pro pays $117 a month on monthly billing.
Unused videos. The page does not say that unused credits carry over, so a slow month is lost capacity.
ViralDrop meters research, not editing, and it counts actions rather than videos. Credits you leave unspent carry into the next month while you stay subscribed, up to two months' worth, and a run that fails gives its credits back.
A short-form editing workload: caption and export 30 videos a month, each under 2 minutes, without a watermark. That is up to 60 minutes of video. Prices checked on September 30, 2026.
| Tool | Cheapest plan that covers it | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Submagic | Pro, 40 videos (Starter stops at 15) | $39, or $23 billed yearly |
| OpusClip | Starter, 150 credits at 1 credit per minute | $15, monthly only |
| Vizard | Creator, 600 credits at 1 credit per minute | $29, or $14.50 billed yearly |
| ViralDrop | Does not burn in captions; it exports SRT and VTT subtitle files | — |
On minutes alone, OpusClip Starter is the cheapest here. Submagic's case is its editing: captions, zooms, B-roll and silence removal tuned for talking-head shorts.
Paste a public TikTok, Reels or Shorts link and see its hook and structure. New accounts start with free welcome credits.
Yes. Submagic's help center says you can upload 3 short videos for free and edit them as you want. Downloading without a watermark needs a subscription, and the pricing page says no card is required to start.
On September 30, 2026, Submagic cost $19, $39 or $69 per member a month for Starter, Pro and Business on monthly billing, or $12, $23 and $41 a month billed yearly.
For captions, compare free tiers: OpusClip's free clips carry a watermark and Vizard's free plan exports at 720p. For researching which videos to make, ViralDrop gives new accounts free welcome credits.
It depends on your videos. Submagic is built for short talking-head clips with animated captions and zooms; OpusClip and Vizard cut long videos into captioned clips. Try each on the same video before paying. For a plain subtitle file, ViralDrop turns a link into SRT.
It is worth it if you publish several short videos a week and value captions, zooms and B-roll done in minutes. If you post a few videos a month, the per-video cost on Starter is high.