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Captions costs $24.99 a month before you can use AI Edit
Updated
Captions has a free plan, but AI Edit, the tool that edits your video in a set style, starts on Max at $24.99 a month. Here is what each plan gets you, and what Cutroom's Magic Editor charges for the same edit.
In short
- Captions costs $0 on Free, $24.99 a month on Max and $69.99 a month on Frontier, as its pricing page lists them for iOS in November 2026.
- AI Edit and the chat editor are not on the Free plan, and Captions doesn't say how many of Max's 500 monthly credits one AI Edit uses.
- Cutroom's Magic Editor tells you the price before you pay: 250 credits for the first edit plus 30 to save it, so a 45-second video costs 280 credits.
A personal trainer's 45-second squat tip, before and after Cutroom's Magic Editor
This edit costs 250 credits for the first edit and 30 to save it: 280 in all. Asking what a change costs is free.
Drawing of an example clip, not a customer video
Before · the clip as filmed
A 45-second phone video of a personal trainer giving one squat tip in the gym
“Um, so most people let their heels come up when they squat. Uh, keep your weight on your heels ... (pause) and push your knees out on the way down.”
struck through = what Jacob cuts
After · Jacob's first edit, Poster style
“Most people let their heels come up when they squat. keep your weight on your heels and push your knees out on the way down.”
- On “heels”: the word heels set big in stacked letters
- On “knees”: a black-and-white moment while you show the move
- On “down”: your logo closes the video
- Under the whole video: music under your voice
Then you ask Jacob
- “What does a change cost?”v2a free answer in the chat, and the video stays as it is
- “Make the key words stand out more”v3a new version with bigger key words, for 40 credits
What each Captions plan costs
Captions has one free plan and two paid ones. Frontier comes in three sizes, and the bigger sizes give you more credits and seats. Captions says these prices are for its iOS app.
Paying for a year up front is cheaper, but the pricing page doesn't show the yearly price or how much you save. Credits you don't use roll over to next month, up to three times your monthly amount.
- Captions doesn't say how many credits one AI Edit uses.
- That means you can't tell from the pricing page how many edited videos 500 credits buy.
- The safe way to budget is to try one month of Max and watch your credit balance.
Captions plans and prices
From captions.ai/pricing, checked 13 November 2026. Monthly prices in US dollars, iOS plans.
| Plan | Price a month | Credits a month | AI Edit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | None | No |
| Max | $24.99 | 500 | Yes |
| Frontier | $69.99 | 1,400 | Yes |
| Frontier 2x | $139.99 | 2,800 | Yes |
| Frontier 4x | $279.99 | 5,600 | Yes |
Plan: Free
- Price a month
- $0
- Credits a month
- None
- AI Edit
- No
Plan: Max
- Price a month
- $24.99
- Credits a month
- 500
- AI Edit
- Yes
Plan: Frontier
- Price a month
- $69.99
- Credits a month
- 1,400
- AI Edit
- Yes
Plan: Frontier 2x
- Price a month
- $139.99
- Credits a month
- 2,800
- AI Edit
- Yes
Plan: Frontier 4x
- Price a month
- $279.99
- Credits a month
- 5,600
- AI Edit
- Yes
What the free plan leaves out
The free plan is for simple edits by hand. Captions says it has basic tools like trimming, transitions and some stock media, and no AI credits.
Everything that edits for you needs Max or Frontier.
- AI Edit, the tool that edits your video in a set style, is not on Free.
- The chat-based editor, where you ask for changes in words, is not on Free.
- AI Music and AI Denoise, which cleans up background noise, are not on Free.
- Free gets one caption template, and Max and Frontier get more than 100.
How Cutroom's Magic Editor edits a video like this
Jacob is the AI editor inside Cutroom's Magic Editor: it edits your video for you, then changes it when you ask in a chat.
The 4 styles, as example edits
Steps
Three steps, four angles
Skit
Hook, hard stop, demo card
Verdict
The tester's verdict
Poster
Typography does the talking
Hover or tap an example to play it, without sound. These are example edits of each style; the presenters in them are generated with AI.
- Your take: one video of you talking, up to 3 minutes
- Your style: one of 4: Steps, Skit, Verdict or Poster
- Your files: screenshots, a screen recording or a logo, if you have them
- Your goal: what the video is for, in a few words, if you like
- Jacob makes it: normally 10 to 15 minutes, and you get an email
- Your edit: ask Jacob for changes in a chat, then export
Then you ask Jacob, for example
- “Make this about 10 seconds shorter”
- “Put a clip on the strongest sentence”
- “Change the music to something calmer”
Each change is a new version, and going back is free. First cut 250 credits, each change 40, questions free, export 30 credits per started minute.
What one edit costs in Cutroom's Magic Editor
Cutroom's Magic Editor turns one clip of you talking into a finished vertical video. You upload your clip and press "Make my video". It normally takes 10 to 15 minutes, and you get an email when your first cut is ready.
Then you change it by asking Jacob, its AI editor, in a chat. Credits are what you pay with in Cutroom, and Lite gives you 1,250 a month for $19.99.
- The first edit costs 250 credits.
- Saving the finished video costs 30 credits for each minute, and a 45-second video counts as one minute.
- A change you ask for costs 40 credits.
- A question that changes nothing is free, up to 20 a day.
Captions and Cutroom prices side by side
Captions is a bigger app with more kinds of AI video. Its Max plan also lists AI actors, digital twins and turning a long video into short clips. Cutroom does one job: it edits a short clip of you talking into a vertical video.
So compare them on that one job. Cutroom's clip limit is 3 minutes, and it doesn't remove background noise, which Captions' AI Denoise does.
One 45-second edit: Captions and Cutroom
As each company publishes it, checked 13 November 2026. Captions doesn't list a credit price per AI Edit.
| Captions | Cutroom | |
|---|---|---|
| Free start | Free plan, no AI Edit | Your first video is free, no card |
| Cheapest plan that edits for you | Max, $24.99 a month, 500 credits | Lite, $19.99 a month, 1,250 credits |
| The first edit | Not published | 250 credits |
| Saving a 45-second video | Not published | 30 credits |
| A change you ask for | Not published | 40 credits, a question is free |
| Videos a month on the cheapest plan | Not published | 4 at 280 credits each |
: Free start
- Captions
- Free plan, no AI Edit
- Cutroom
- Your first video is free, no card
: Cheapest plan that edits for you
- Captions
- Max, $24.99 a month, 500 credits
- Cutroom
- Lite, $19.99 a month, 1,250 credits
: The first edit
- Captions
- Not published
- Cutroom
- 250 credits
: Saving a 45-second video
- Captions
- Not published
- Cutroom
- 30 credits
: A change you ask for
- Captions
- Not published
- Cutroom
- 40 credits, a question is free
: Videos a month on the cheapest plan
- Captions
- Not published
- Cutroom
- 4 at 280 credits each
Questions people ask
- How much is Captions a month?
- $24.99 a month for Max, the cheapest paid plan, as of November 2026. Frontier is $69.99 a month, and its bigger sizes cost $139.99 and $279.99. Captions says these are iOS prices.
- Is Captions free?
- Yes, there is a free plan, but it has no AI credits. It covers basic editing like trimming and transitions. AI Edit and the chat editor need Max or Frontier.
- How many credits does AI Edit use?
- Captions doesn't say on its pricing page. It lists 500 credits a month on Max and 1,400 on Frontier, but no cost per AI Edit. In Cutroom, the first edit is a fixed 250 credits and a change is 40.
- Do Captions credits expire?
- Not right away. Captions says unused credits roll over, and your balance can hold up to three times your monthly amount.
If you want to know what an edit costs before you make it, film one short clip and let Jacob make the first edit.