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, cheaper per minute than Vizard. Below, side by side with Vizard: 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, cheaper per minute than Vizard. 30 minutes are free, no card.
Vizard turns a long video into short clips for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts. It may fit better for bigger files, longer videos, square or landscape exports; the table below says where, with the source.
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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. $0.048 per minute at Vizard: $29 a month, Creator. 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 Vizard column is derived from Vizard's own site: the number after a cell points to the source, and the exact wording is under the table.
| Criterion | shortshort | Vizard |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | 60 min free, 600 min on paid plans [1]Upload length is 60 minutes on Free and 600 minutes on Creator and Business per the pricing page; a help article says no longer than 10 hours. |
| Largest file | 2 GB per fileMP4, MOV or WebM. | 1 GB free, 30 GB on paid plans [1]Pricing page: 1 GB on Free, 30 GB on Creator and Business; help articles and API docs cite 8 GB to 10 GB limits instead. |
| 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 or link: YouTube, Drive, Vimeo, TikTok, more [2]Local upload or Upload from Link in the web app; the API takes remote files plus YouTube, Google Drive, Vimeo, TikTok, Twitch, Loom, Dropbox and more. |
| 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. | Yes, auto reframe on all plans [1]Auto reframe is listed on Free, Creator and Business; the homepage says AI clipping centers key subjects in vertical format. |
| Automatic captions | Word by word, 4 stylesSpotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal; timed on the audio; SRT import and export. | Yes, auto subtitles on all plans [1]Auto subtitling, AI emojis, AI highlight keywords and custom templates on every plan; brand templates only on Business. |
| 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. | 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 and 16:9 [3]The four ratios are exposed through the API ratioOfClip parameter; the homepage also advertises one-click Change ratio. |
| 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. | 720p free, 4K on paid plans [1]Export 720p on Free and 4K on Creator and Business; upload quality is 1080p on Free and 4K on paid plans. |
| 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. | Yes, full video editor listed on Free [1]Full access to video editor is listed on Free; the homepage adds edit by text and timeline editing down to seconds. |
| Brand presets | One preset, Studio planCaption colour and font, preselected on every new video. | Business only, custom templates on all plans [1]Brand templates and brand kit are on Business only; custom templates are on every plan and custom fonts on Business only. |
| 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 found; transcript downloads are TXT on Free and TXT or SRT on paid plans. |
| 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. | Subtitle translation on paid plans, dubbing via Agent [4]Subtitle translation into dozens of languages (29 listed) on Creator and Business only; Vizard Agent offers subtitles, a dubbed voice, or both. |
| Virality score | None, by designThe AI keeps complete, quotable sentences; you choose what goes out. | Yes, viral score from 0 to 10 per clip [5]Each clip gets a viral score and a viral reason, and clips are sorted by that score. |
| B-roll, music, titles | None addedThe short is your video, reframed and captioned. | Yes, AI B-rolls on all plans [1]AI B-rolls are included on Free, Creator and Business. |
| 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, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Facebook [6]Free connects 1 TikTok account only; Creator up to 6 accounts, Business up to 20; the pricing table gates scheduled posts to paid plans. |
| Team and price | ||
| Team seats | One account, one login | Business only, $10 per extra seat monthly [1]Shared workspace, invite team members and add editor are Business only; extra seats cost USD 10 a month each, or USD 5 a month on yearly billing. |
| API | None | Creator and Business only [1]Rate limit 3 per minute and 20 per hour on Creator, 10 per minute and 60 per hour on Business; Free shows a cross in the API row. |
| 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. | Yes, 60 credits a month, watermark, 720p [1]Free plan: 60 credits a month, 60 minute uploads, 1 GB files, 10 minute exports at 720p, 3-day storage, 1 social account, Vizard watermark. |
| 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 = 1 minute of video [1]Creator runs from $29 for 600 credits to $295 for 6,200 a month, Business from $39 to $445; their help center says unused minutes carry into the next month. |
Their pages can change after that date; the table does not update itself.
Vizard plans as listed on vizard.ai/pricing, read on 16 October 2026 [1]. By the minute of source video: $0.048 per minute on Vizard's cheapest plan ($29 a month, Creator, 600 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, the cuts and the framing; Vizard 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. Vizard's own site lists a lasting free plan. On Vizard: yes, 60 credits a month, watermark, 720p. Free plan: 60 credits a month, 60 minute uploads, 1 GB files, 10 minute exports at 720p, 3-day storage, 1 social account, Vizard watermark (their own site, read on 16 October 2026).
Vizard's pricing page lists 3 plans. On Vizard: Free (60 credits a month (1 credit = 1 minute)); Creator, $29 a month; $14.5 a month billed yearly (600 to 6,200 credits a month); Business, $39 a month; $19.5 a month billed yearly (600 to 6,200 credits a month) (their own site, read on 16 October 2026). They are listed on this page under "Vizard pricing (checked 16 October 2026)". By the minute of source video, that is $0.048 per minute on Vizard's cheapest plan ($29 a month, Creator), 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. Vizard may fit better if you need bigger files, longer videos and square or landscape exports, 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 Vizard.
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 Vizard: 60 min free, 600 min on paid plans. Upload length is 60 minutes on Free and 600 minutes on Creator and Business per the pricing page; a help article says no longer than 10 hours (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 Vizard: yes, auto subtitles on all plans (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.