OpusClip, Submagic, Exolyt and compared: which tool for which job
Four tools come up when you want more out of short video: OpusClip, Submagic, Exolyt and . Each one is built for a different job. Here is what each has, what it costs, and which one fits which job best.
By Will Kann, Co-founder & CEO12 November 20265 min read
What each one has
Below we put the four tools next to each other on the jobs that get the most questions: finding what works, cutting long videos, subtitles and posting. We checked the other three on their own pricing pages on 12 November 2026.
| OpusClip | Submagic | Exolyt | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clips from a long video | ||||
| Animated subtitles |
The ranking by job
Note that we rank by job, as no one buys all of these jobs from one list. There is no single winner.
The whole line in one subscription:
See what's hot in your niche, turn it into a video idea, clip the best parts of a long video, add subtitles and post. It is the only one of the four that does both the research and the making.
Clipping alone: OpusClip
It has a free plan and one task that it does well: long video in, scored clips out.
Captions on videos you already cut: Submagic
Its editor is designed with talking-head shorts in mind: subtitles, hook titles, b-roll and trimming in one pass.
TikTok reporting in a team: Exolyt
Accounts, hashtags and sounds tracked, plus influencer campaigns and social listening. Making videos is not part of Exolyt.
What it costs and what that buys
The cost of these tools is not easy to compare, because each one counts something else: OpusClip counts minutes, Submagic counts videos, Exolyt counts tracked accounts and counts credits. The table below gives the lowest paid entry point of each, along with what that buys you.
| Starts at | What that buys | Free plan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| €24.99$24.99 a month | 780 minutes of source video, clipped and subtitled (2,000 credits), plus research and all of Studio for 1 account | ||
| OpusClip | $15 a month | 150 minutes of source video |
It watches the video not just the numbers
intelligence is our own short-video intelligence. It watches every frame (the hook, the faces, the text on screen and the products), listens to everything in it (every word, every sound, every song) and reads the caption.
It then sets that against the account's own history and what the niche did over the past week. The result is simple: what the hook of a video was, what format it took, how long it was, what sound was in it and, most importantly, what you can learn from it and apply to your own videos.
