shortshort cuts one long video into vertical shorts chosen to end where the sentence ends, frames the face with automatic zooms, and costs €0.025 per minute of video before VAT, less than a quarter of the price per minute of quso.ai. Below, side by side with quso.ai (formerly Vidyo.ai): the numbers first, then 18 criteria with a check or a cross, then the plans of both.
30 free credits, no cardUp to 2 GB per videoMP4 · 9:16 or 4:5
shortshort turns one long video of up to 2 GB into 9:16 shorts chosen to end where the sentence ends, framed on the face on screen with automatic zooms, captioned word by word, for €0.025 per minute of source video before VAT, less than a quarter of the price per minute of quso.ai. 30 minutes are free, no card.
quso.ai, formerly Vidyo.ai, finds the best moments in a long video and turns them into clips. It may fit better for bigger files, longer videos, a crop that follows whoever is speaking; the table below says where, with the source.
Facts checked against the product on . Prices before VAT.
Four things the product does by design; the table below checks the rest, both ways.
€0.025 per minute here, before VAT: €12 a month for 480 minutes on Starter. $0.29 per minute at quso.ai: $29 a month, Lite. Priced per minute of source, not per short: 1 short or 5 cost the same on Starter, up to 20 per video on the Studio plan.
The AI reads the whole transcript and picks complete, quotable passages, chosen to open and close on a sentence rather than on a timer; the end of each short is checked against the transcript.
The 9:16 crop follows the face on screen and adds automatic zooms between x1.0 and x1.6; slides and wide shots stay whole. Framing is automatic; cuts, title and captions stay editable.
Drop the file, choose how many shorts and how long, check the proposals, export the MP4s. No timeline, no template to configure.
One line per criterion, the same shape on both sides. The quso.ai column is derived from quso.ai's own site: the number after a cell points to the source, and the exact wording is under the table.
Reading note. Vidyo.ai was renamed quso.ai: vidyo.ai redirects there, so this column is read from quso.ai and its help center. Their pricing page varies by country and runs a pricing test; the plans quoted are the ones it serves by default.
| Criterion | shortshort | quso.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Getting the video in | ||
| Longest video | Set by the 2 GB file size, 12 hours at mostOne file of up to 2 GB and at most 12 hours, on every plan; below that, how many hours fit in 2 GB depends on the bitrate. | 5 h per video [1]Videos up to 5 hours; AI Clips need a video over 3 minutes with spoken words. |
| Largest file | 2 GB per fileMP4, MOV or WebM. | 5 GB free, 15 GB on paid plans [2]Free plan up to 5 GB per file, paid plans up to 15 GB per file; formats mp4, mkv, mov and webm. |
| How the video gets in | File upload or a YouTube linkMP4, MOV or WebM from your disk, or a public or unlisted YouTube link of your own, downloaded on our servers at up to 720p with its audio. | Upload, YouTube, Drive, Dropbox, Zoom and more [3]Import from YouTube, Vimeo, X, Facebook, Twitch, Rumble, Loom, LinkedIn, Zoom, Google Drive, Dropbox or a local upload; every source works on the free plan. |
| What comes out | ||
| Crop follows the face | Follows the face, zooms x1.0 to x1.6The 9:16 crop follows the face with automatic zooms; slides, screens and wide shots stay whole; framing is set automatically. | CutMagic, help center says paid plans only [4]Face and speaker tracking keep the subject centered in 9:16; the pricing page lists CutMagic on Free but the help center says paid users only. |
| Automatic captions | Word by word, 4 stylesSpotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal; timed on the audio; SRT import and export. | Yes, word-level animated captions, 50+ languages [3]Language count varies across their pages: 50+, 100+ or over 20 languages and accents; filler-word removal included. |
| Aspect ratios | 9:16, or 4:5 for the Instagram feedChosen at export for the whole series; a 4:5 export tracks the face again for that frame. No 1:1 or 16:9. | 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 [5]Export in 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 on Lite and above; the editor offers landscape, square and portrait. |
| Export | MP4 1080 × 1920 or 1080 × 1350, 30 fpsH.264, rendered on our servers on every plan: 1080 × 1920 in 9:16, 1080 × 1350 in 4:5. | 1080p on paid plans, 720p on Free [5]Free plan renders at 720p with a watermark; paid plans get unlimited 1080p clips. |
| Editing and export | ||
| Manual editor | Yes, on the AI proposals, with a free accountClips and their bounds, title, description, caption words and caption style of each AI proposal; the editor and the MP4 export need a free account. | Advanced desktop editor on Lite and above [5]Timeline with cut and remove segments, caption editing, b-roll, music, text overlays, aspect ratio changes and a transcript-based editor. |
| Brand presets | One preset, Studio planCaption colour and font, preselected on every new video. | Growth on the pricing page; paid plans per FAQ [5] [3]Brand kit, branded templates, logos, colors and fonts on Growth; their FAQ says brand kit templates apply on paid plans; their pricing test lists one on every tier. |
| Edit export | JSON edit plan on every planThe studio exports the plan of the open short on every plan; the Studio plan adds the plan of every saved short from My projects. | Not stated on their siteNo XML, EDL, Premiere or DaVinci export was found; the editor offers Export Transcript, and paid plans add SRT caption download. |
| Extras | ||
| Translation or dubbing | Not offeredCaptions in the language spoken, transcribed by OpenAI's whisper-1 (98 languages according to OpenAI); nothing is translated or dubbed. | Caption translation in 100+ languages, no dubbing [6]Their comparison page says captions can be generated and translated in 100+ languages, and marks dubbing with voice cloning as not supported. |
| Virality score | None, by designThe AI keeps complete, quotable sentences; you choose what goes out. | Yes, each clip scored 75 to 99 [7]Score covers four categories: Trends, Hook and Flow, Engagement, Shareability. |
| B-roll, music, titles | None addedThe short is your video, reframed and captioned. | Yes, stock, uploads and AI-generated b-roll [8]Editor Media tab searches stock footage by keyword and adds image, video or audio overlays; music and text overlays also available. |
| Publishes to social | YouTube on a calendar, TikTok in early accessConnect a YouTube channel, pick a day and time per short or auto-fill the calendar. TikTok is in early access. One MP4 per short, or a ZIP, for the rest. | Yes, 7 platforms; Free and Lite post to TikTok only [3] [5]Publish or schedule to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X and Pinterest from one calendar; scheduling to all 7 starts at Essential. |
| Team and price | ||
| Team seats | One account, one login | Paid plans, up to 4 seats at $9 a month each [9]All paid plans allow up to 4 team members; each seat is billed at $9 a month or $90 a year. |
| API | None | Not offered [10]Their FAQ says not at the moment; you can contact support to register interest. |
| Free plan | 30 credits once, no cardThe account never expires; the 30 credits are given once, not every month. Up to 3 shorts per video, watermarked, exports join the public community. | Free plan, 75 credits a month, 720p [5] [11] [12] [3]720p exports with a watermark, TikTok publishing, CutMagic, 7 days data retention; their FAQ says the free plan exists only in some countries. |
| How you pay | 1 credit = 1 minute of videoWhatever the number of shorts. Plans from 12 EUR a month for 480 minutes, before VAT. Unused credits roll over and never expire, even after cancelling. | Credits, 1 credit is about 1 minute of video [5] [13] [14]Clipping, captioning and editing draw from monthly credits; yearly is shown at half price until 1 Nov 2026; a pricing test shows some visitors EUR credit tiers instead. |
Their pages can change after that date; the table does not update itself.
quso.ai plans as listed on quso.ai/pricing, read on 16 October 2026 [5]. By the minute of source video: $0.29 per minute on quso.ai's cheapest plan ($29 a month, Lite, 100 credits, about 100 minutes a month), against €0.025 per minute on shortshort Starter, before VAT. Every plan, per minute, in the price index.
Prices before VAT, from the product. Annual billing: Starter €115 a year, Creator €278 a year, Studio €758 a year. Full detail on the pricing page.
shortshort for the price per minute and the cuts; quso.ai when you need bigger files or longer videos. Both lists come from the table.
A published transformation from the community: the original on top, the shorts it became below. Click one to see it next to the original video.
3 of 6 shorts shown · The Override That Saved Humanity · watch it in the community, with the transcript of each short
Demo footage: Tears of Steel © Blender Foundation, licensed CC BY 3.0. Cut, cropped and captioned by shortshort.
Three things the table can only name. The passage, the frame and the captions below are illustrations; the community shows the real thing.
The reason most clips fail is that they stop before the idea lands, and a viewer who never hears the end of the sentence has no reason to share it. ✂ mid-sentence
The reason most clips fail is that they stop before the idea lands, and a viewer who never hears the end of the sentence has no reason to share it. ✂ on the full stop
Same passage, same 30-second target. shortshort keeps going to the end of the sentence, 37 seconds here, which is inside the 25% margin it allows.
Spotlight, one of the four caption styles. Impact, Karaoke and Minimal use the same word timing.
Yes. quso.ai's own site lists a lasting free plan. On quso.ai: Free plan, 75 credits a month, 720p. 720p exports with a watermark, TikTok publishing, CutMagic, 7 days data retention; their FAQ says the free plan exists only in some countries (their own site, read on 16 October 2026).
quso.ai's pricing page lists 4 plans. On quso.ai: Free, $0 a month (75 credits a month); Lite, $29 a month, $348 a year list price (100 credits a month); Essential, $39 a month, $468 a year list price (300 credits a month); Growth, $49 a month, $588 a year list price (600 credits a month) (their own site, read on 16 October 2026). They are listed on this page under "quso.ai pricing (checked 16 October 2026)". By the minute of source video, that is $0.29 per minute on quso.ai's cheapest plan ($29 a month, Lite), against €0.025 per minute on shortshort Starter, before VAT. shortshort charges 1 credit per minute of source video, whatever the number of shorts: Starter is 12 EUR a month for 480 credits, Creator 29 EUR for 1,600 and the Studio plan 79 EUR for 6,000, before VAT, and every account starts with 30 free credits, given once.
shortshort can be tried for free: 30 credits given once at sign-up, no card, which cover 30 minutes of video, with up to 3 shorts per video and a small watermark on the export. Your upload stays private until you export; exported shorts join the public community gallery by default. It is a one-time allowance, not free minutes every month: the tools that give free minutes every month are listed, with the limits of their free plans, in the price per minute index.
It depends on what you need. shortshort turns one long video of up to 2 GB into vertical shorts, 3 per video on the Free plan and up to 20 on the Studio plan, cut on complete sentences, framed on the face on screen and captioned word by word in one of four styles. quso.ai may fit better if you need bigger files, longer videos and a crop that follows whoever is speaking, according to its own site. If the job is cutting long talks into shorts, try it with the 30 free credits and compare the result with what you get from quso.ai.
On shortshort, one file of up to 2 GB and at most 12 hours on every plan; the file size is what usually limits, and how many hours fit depends on the bitrate. On quso.ai: 5 h per video. Videos up to 5 hours; AI Clips need a video over 3 minutes with spoken words (their own site, read on 16 October 2026).
shortshort times every word on the audio, in one of four styles (Spotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal), with SRT import and export. On quso.ai: yes, word-level animated captions, 50+ languages (their own site, read on 16 October 2026).
The fastest comparison is your own video: 30 minutes are free, no card. Your upload stays private until you export; exported shorts join the community with their source video by default, and any paid plan can keep them out.