Both tools take a long recording and turn it into short-form clips. The overlap stops there — how each one prices that, what happens after you cut a clip, and whether you still need a separate tool for captions and social copy is where the real decision lives.
Pricing model — this is the biggest structural difference
Opus Clip's plans (Free, Starter at $15/mo, Pro at $29/mo, and custom Business pricing) run on a minute-credit system: one credit equals one minute of source video processed, regardless of how many clips that video produces. A 60-minute podcast costs 60 credits whether Opus finds 3 clips or 15. Monthly credits expire after 60 days; annual credits after 12 months. The free plan's exports are watermarked and disappear after 3 days — and importantly, cancelling any paid plan deletes your projects within 3 days, even with unused credits remaining.
Unified's plans (Starter $30/mo, Pro $75/mo, Studio $150/mo) count videos per month, each with a length cap (45/90/180 minutes respectively), not source-minutes consumed. There's no credit expiration window to track, and your account data — transcripts, clip metadata, generated text — isn't deleted on a countdown after you cancel. Teams that outgrow Studio can move to a custom Agency plan instead of Opus's Business tier.
Captions, brand kit, and text pack
Opus Clip's Pro tier includes a brand kit with custom fonts and supports all aspect ratios plus a social scheduler and team workspace. What it doesn't do is generate the written social copy to go with the clips — you're still writing your own LinkedIn posts, newsletter blurb, and tweets separately.
Unified generates burned-in captions, a persistent brand kit (logo, caption color, font — applied automatically to every render), and a full text pack (LinkedIn posts, a newsletter blurb, and tweet-length quotes) drawn directly from the same transcript analysis that found your clips, in one pass.
Where Opus Clip has the edge
Opus Clip has been at this longer and its AI virality scoring is a genuinely well-regarded, mature feature, and its native social scheduler/auto-posting (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram) means you can go from clip to published post without leaving the tool. If your workflow already lives inside Opus's scheduler and you don't need written copy generated alongside the clips, that's a real advantage.
| Metric | Unified | Opus Clip |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing basis | Videos/month, flat | Source-minutes, credit-based |
| Credit expiration | None | 60 days (monthly) / 12 months (annual) |
| Data after cancellation | Account data retained | Projects deleted within 3 days |
| Burned-in captions | Included, all plans | Included |
| Brand kit (logo/font/color) | Basic on all plans, full customization (custom fonts, logo placement, caption styling) on Pro+ | Pro plan and above |
| Filler-word/silence removal | Included | Not a listed feature |
| Text pack (LinkedIn/newsletter/tweets) | Included, all plans | Not offered |
| Native social auto-posting | Not offered | Pro plan and above |
| Entry price | $30/mo | $15/mo (limited features) |
Who should choose which
If you want clip-finding plus native scheduling/auto-posting and you're comfortable writing your own captions copy separately, Opus Clip's Pro tier is a reasonable fit. If you want the clips, captions, brand styling, and the social copy done in one upload — without tracking a credit-expiration clock — that's what Unified is built for.
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