MakeRoll vs Opus Clip
The honest Opus Clip alternative.
Opus Clip popularized one-click AI clipping, and a pricing model its own users describe as buying and subscribing at the same time: credits that expire, a free tier whose clips are gone in three days, and projects that stop opening three days after your subscription ends. MakeRoll keeps the part that works (AI finds the moments) and fixes the part that doesn’t: a real editor to finish the clips, a price that’s just math, and files that stay yours.
| MakeRoll | Opus Clip | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | €15/mo · 600 min | $15/mo · 150 min |
| Price per source minute | €0.025 | ~$0.10 |
| Free plan | 1 video up to 1 hr / mo, full AI + editor, 720p, kept 7 days | 60 min/mo, watermarked, clips expire in 3 days |
| Watermark on paid plans | Never, on any paid plan | No, since the $15 Starter tier |
| Your files if you cancel | Kept a week after you cancel; anything you exported is yours for good | Projects unreachable 3 days after the subscription ends |
| AI clipping | Included in every plan | Included |
Opus Clip figures from their public pricing pages as of .
Why people switch
A real editor, not an export button
When Opus picks the wrong in/out point, your options are nudging sliders or exporting XML to Premiere. In MakeRoll the transcript is the timeline: strike a sentence and the cut ripples through, frame-accurately, in the browser.
Four times the video, same €15
Opus Starter is $15 for 150 minutes (~$0.10/min). MakeRoll Creator is €15 for 600 minutes (€0.025/min): four times the footage on the same monthly line. Opus dropped the watermark from Starter in the meantime, so what is left between the two plans is simply how much video the money buys.
Credits that do not evaporate
Opus deletes your projects three days after your subscription ends, even with paid credits remaining. On MakeRoll your library is kept for a week after you cancel, and every clip you exported is yours to keep regardless.
Where Opus Clip is ahead
MakeRoll already does one-click publishing and bulk scheduling to TikTok and YouTube. Opus Clip goes wider: it also posts to Instagram, LinkedIn and X, with post analytics, AI B-roll and team workspaces. If you need those extra platforms or built-in analytics today, it’s ahead there; we’re focused on clip quality, editing control and honest pricing first.