Comparison
Best AI video editor with b-roll: 7 tools compared
The best AI video editors with b-roll are Cutroom, Submagic, Jupitrr, Captions, VEED, Kapwing and OpusClip. Each one is the strongest choice for a different kind of video.
In short
- The best AI video editors with b-roll are Cutroom, Submagic, Jupitrr, Captions, VEED, Kapwing and OpusClip, each for a different job.
- Cutroom is best for turning one video of you talking into a finished upright ad, with b-roll that matches what you say.
- Submagic is best for captioned short clips at volume, from $12 a month billed yearly.
- Jupitrr is best for b-roll matched to your script, from $18 a month billed yearly. Publishing needs Pro, at $39.
- VEED and Kapwing place b-roll inside a full editor. Captions is best on a phone, and OpusClip for long videos.
Try for freeYour first video is free · 7 days to make it · 600 credits · no card
- VEED Creator per user a month, billed yearly, the lowest paid price here
- $10
- Submagic Starter a month, billed yearly, for 15 videos
- $12
- your first Cutroom video, no card
- Free
The seven tools at a glance
Each of these tools adds b-roll to your video for you, each in a different way.
Seven AI video editors with b-roll, side by side
Prices as each company lists them. Every name except Cutroom is a trademark of its owner, and we are not affiliated.
| Tool | Best for | Editing approach | Platform | Pricing from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cutroom | One video of you talking into a finished 9:16 ad | Reads your words, places b-roll on them, adds captions and cuts | Web browser | First video free, no card; Lite $19.99/month |
 Submagic | Captioned short clips at volume | Captions, b-roll and zooms added to short videos automatically | Web | Free to try, no card; Starter $12/month, annual |
 Jupitrr | Coaches and consultants publishing every week | Edits your video on upload, then you adjust it | Web, mobile teleprompter app | No free plan; Starter $18/month, annual |
 Captions | AI editing of talking videos on your phone | AI edit styles applied to your video, with manual controls | iOS, Android, web | Free version; Max $24.99/month |
| A full browser editor with AI images as b-roll | Gen B-Roll makes still images from your transcript and places them; you finish on a timeline | Browser, mobile app | Free plan; Creator $10/user/month, annual | |
 Kapwing | Stock b-roll placed from your transcript, in a full editor | Smart B-roll places iStock, Pexels and Pixabay clips; you finish on a timeline | Browser | Free plan (watermark); Pro $16/month, annual |
 OpusClip | Turning long videos into short clips, with AI b-roll | AI picks clips from a long video and captions them | Web, mobile | Free plan (watermark); Starter $15/month |
Cutroom
- Best for
- One video of you talking into a finished 9:16 ad
- Approach
- Reads your words, places b-roll on them, adds captions and cuts
- Platform
- Web browser
- Pricing from
- First video free, no card; Lite $19.99/month
- Submagic
- Best for
- Captioned short clips at volume
- Approach
- Captions, b-roll and zooms added to short videos automatically
- Platform
- Web
- Pricing from
- Free to try, no card; Starter $12/month, annual
- Jupitrr
- Best for
- Coaches and consultants publishing every week
- Approach
- Edits your video on upload, then you adjust it
- Platform
- Web, mobile teleprompter app
- Pricing from
- No free plan; Starter $18/month, annual
- Captions
- Best for
- AI editing of talking videos on your phone
- Approach
- AI edit styles applied to your video, with manual controls
- Platform
- iOS, Android, web
- Pricing from
- Free version; Max $24.99/month
VEED
- Best for
- A full browser editor with AI images as b-roll
- Approach
- Gen B-Roll makes still images from your transcript and places them; you finish on a timeline
- Platform
- Browser, mobile app
- Pricing from
- Free plan; Creator $10/user/month, annual
- Kapwing
- Best for
- Stock b-roll placed from your transcript, in a full editor
- Approach
- Smart B-roll places iStock, Pexels and Pixabay clips; you finish on a timeline
- Platform
- Browser
- Pricing from
- Free plan (watermark); Pro $16/month, annual
- OpusClip
- Best for
- Turning long videos into short clips, with AI b-roll
- Approach
- AI picks clips from a long video and captions them
- Platform
- Web, mobile
- Pricing from
- Free plan (watermark); Starter $15/month
Prices and plans read from each vendor's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
Prices compared
Every tool here except Jupitrr lets you start free. VEED and Submagic have the lowest paid prices, if you pay for a year.
Free plans, first paid plans and where the b-roll comes from
As each company lists them on 21 September 2026.
| Tool | Free | First paid plan | B-roll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cutroom | First video free, with a Cutroom mark | Lite: $19.99 a month | Your clips, then Pexels and Pixabay, matched to what you say |
| Submagic | Free to try, no card | Starter: $12 a month, billed yearly | Free b-roll on Starter, Storyblocks on Pro |
| Jupitrr | No free plan | Starter: $18 a month, billed yearly | Getty and iStock, matched to your script |
| Captions | Free version | Max: $24.99 a month | Part of the AI edit style |
| VEED | Free plan | Creator: $10 per user a month, billed yearly | AI still images, free to try once |
| Kapwing | Free plan, 720p with a watermark | Pro: $16 a month, billed yearly | iStock, Pexels and Pixabay clips, on credits |
| OpusClip | Free plan, with a watermark | Starter: $15 a month | A few clips a month on Starter, far more on Pro |
Tool: Cutroom
- Free
- First video free, with a Cutroom mark
- First paid plan
- Lite: $19.99 a month
- B-roll
- Your clips, then Pexels and Pixabay, matched to what you say
Tool: Submagic
- Free
- Free to try, no card
- First paid plan
- Starter: $12 a month, billed yearly
- B-roll
- Free b-roll on Starter, Storyblocks on Pro
Tool: Jupitrr
- Free
- No free plan
- First paid plan
- Starter: $18 a month, billed yearly
- B-roll
- Getty and iStock, matched to your script
Tool: Captions
- Free
- Free version
- First paid plan
- Max: $24.99 a month
- B-roll
- Part of the AI edit style
Tool: VEED
- Free
- Free plan
- First paid plan
- Creator: $10 per user a month, billed yearly
- B-roll
- AI still images, free to try once
Tool: Kapwing
- Free
- Free plan, 720p with a watermark
- First paid plan
- Pro: $16 a month, billed yearly
- B-roll
- iStock, Pexels and Pixabay clips, on credits
Tool: OpusClip
- Free
- Free plan, with a watermark
- First paid plan
- Starter: $15 a month
- B-roll
- A few clips a month on Starter, far more on Pro
This is the whole editor
Highlight a phrase and a clip lands on those exact words. No timeline, no keyframes, no layers.
Submagic
Submagic adds captions, b-roll and zooms to short videos you have already cut.
- Best for: people who post many captioned short clips a month.
- Strengths: captions in 123 languages, Magic Clips for cutting long videos into shorts, and a scheduler.
- Price: Starter is $12 a month billed yearly, or $19 monthly, for 15 videos of up to 2 minutes.
- Tradeoff: Starter caps you at 15 videos a month, 2 minutes each, and Submagic's help centre says it gives no refunds.
Jupitrr
Jupitrr edits your video as soon as you upload it and matches b-roll to your script. It works the most like Cutroom.
- Best for: coaches and consultants who publish every week.
- Strengths: hooks, subtitles, b-roll and music placed for you, using Getty and iStock clips.
- Price: Starter is $18 a month billed yearly, or $22 monthly, with uploads up to 5 minutes. Pro is $39 a month billed yearly.
- Tradeoff: there is no free plan, Starter allows 10 exports a month, and the scriptwriter, calendar and publishing need Pro.
Captions
Captions is a phone app that films, captions and edits videos of you talking.
- Best for: people who film, edit and post from a phone.
- Strengths: AI Edit cuts scenes and adds b-roll, captions in more than 100 languages, and an AI twin of you.
- Price: there is a free version. Max is $24.99 a month for 500 credits.
- Tradeoff: the AI edit applies a style rather than placing b-roll on words you pick, and the listed prices are for iPhone.
VEED
VEED is a full browser editor. Its Gen B-Roll reads your transcript, makes still images and places them for you.
- Best for: people who want a full editor with subtitles, translation and screen recording.
- Strengths: unlimited auto subtitles on paid plans, translation into 50+ languages on Pro, and a timeline for fine changes.
- Price: there is a free plan. Creator is $10 and Pro $21 per user a month, billed yearly.
- Tradeoff: Gen B-Roll makes still images, not video clips, and it is free to try once before you need a paid plan.
Kapwing
Kapwing is a browser editor for teams. Its Smart B-roll reads your transcript and places stock video clips for you.
- Best for: teams that edit many kinds of video, including landscape and long ones.
- Strengths: clips from iStock, Pexels and Pixabay, AI visuals if you want them, and shared team projects.
- Price: the free plan exports at 720p with a watermark. Pro is $16 a month billed yearly, or $24 monthly.
- Tradeoff: Smart B-roll uses credits, and you finish the rest of the edit on the timeline yourself.
OpusClip
OpusClip cuts long videos, like podcasts and webinars, into short clips with captions.
- Best for: turning one long video into many short clips.
- Strengths: ClipAnything, ReframeAnything to keep the speaker in the middle, and a virality score for each clip.
- Price: there is a free plan with a watermark. Starter is $15 a month and Pro is $29.
- Tradeoff: it needs a long video to work from, and most of its AI b-roll is on Pro.
Cutroom
Cutroom turns one video of you talking into a finished upright ad. Each b-roll clip plays while you talk about what it shows.
- Best for: founders and coaches who film short videos of themselves.
- Strengths: b-roll matched to what you say, from your own clips first, 40 caption styles, and changes made by clicking words.
- Price: your first video is free. A 30-second ad costs 110 credits: 100 for the edit and 10 for the export.
- Tradeoff: there is no timeline, uploads stop at 3 minutes, and it only makes upright 1080p video.
- Your first charge comes back in full if you tell us within 7 days.
Cutroom plans
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Credits | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 600, once | 1 video within 7 days, Cutroom mark across the middle |
| Lite | $19.99 | $14.99 a month | 1,250 a month | No mark on your videos, about 10 ads |
| Basic | $39.99 | $29.99 a month | 2,500 a month | Avatars and generated music, about 20 ads |
| Premium | $79.99 | $59.99 a month | 5,000 a month | Animated drawings and product photos |
Plan: Free
- Monthly
- $0
- Billed yearly
- $0
- Credits
- 600, once
- What it adds
- 1 video within 7 days, Cutroom mark across the middle
Plan: Lite
- Monthly
- $19.99
- Billed yearly
- $14.99 a month
- Credits
- 1,250 a month
- What it adds
- No mark on your videos, about 10 ads
Plan: Basic
- Monthly
- $39.99
- Billed yearly
- $29.99 a month
- Credits
- 2,500 a month
- What it adds
- Avatars and generated music, about 20 ads
Plan: Premium
- Monthly
- $79.99
- Billed yearly
- $59.99 a month
- Credits
- 5,000 a month
- What it adds
- Animated drawings and product photos
Which AI video editor should you choose?
It comes down to the job you need done.
Which AI video editor should you choose
Choose Submagic if you post many captioned short clips a month and want a scheduler.
Choose Jupitrr if you publish every week and want scripting, b-roll and posting in one tool, on Pro at $39 a month billed yearly.
Choose Captions if you film, edit and post everything from your phone.
Choose VEED if you want a full browser editor and are happy with AI images as b-roll.
Choose Kapwing if you edit many kinds of video in a team and want stock b-roll placed for you.
Choose OpusClip if you have long videos and want many short clips from each one.
Choose Cutroom if you film one video of yourself talking and want a finished 9:16 ad with b-roll that matches what you say. Your first video is free.
Questions people ask
- What is the best AI video editor with b-roll?
- Cutroom is best for a finished upright ad from one video of you. Submagic is best for captioned shorts at volume, Jupitrr for b-roll matched to your script, Captions for your phone, VEED or Kapwing for a full editor, and OpusClip for long videos.
- Which AI editor puts b-roll on the exact words?
- Cutroom plays each clip exactly while you say the words, and you can drag it onto other words. VEED and Kapwing also place b-roll from your transcript, and you adjust it on their timeline.
- Is there a free AI video editor with b-roll?
- Not fully free. VEED's b-roll generator is free to try once, Kapwing's runs on free credits, Submagic is free to try, and Cutroom makes your first video free, with a Cutroom mark across the middle. Jupitrr has no free plan.
- Can I download my Cutroom video, or is there a paywall at the end?
- You can download it. The export price shows on the Export button before you press it. The free video carries a Cutroom mark across the middle; paid plans put nothing on it. You get 600 credits and 7 days to make it.
- Will Cutroom work with my kind of video?
- Yes, if it is one upright video of a person talking, up to 3 minutes, with sound. You get back an upright 1080 by 1920 video. Landscape and silent videos are refused at upload, before any credits are charged.
- How many videos do I get with Cutroom?
- About 10 a month on Lite and 20 on Basic. A 30-second ad costs 110 credits: 100 for the edit, 10 for the export. Editing and previewing are free. Re-exporting an unchanged video is free too, unless the renderer was updated or your watermark changed. Unused credits stay in your account.
- Does Cutroom work in my language?
- Yes, in eight: English (US), English (UK), Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Dutch and Italian. You pick yours when you upload.
Upload something you already filmed and see where the b-roll goes. Your first video is free.
Try for freeYour first video is free, no card, and you have 7 days to make it. It carries a Cutroom mark; Lite at $19.99/month removes it