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. Below, side by side with WayinVideo (also known as Wayin AI or Wayin Video): 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. 30 minutes are free, no card.
WayinVideo is an AI video workspace that turns long recordings into clips, summaries, transcripts and captions. It may fit better for bigger files, a crop that follows whoever is speaking, 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 on Starter, before VAT, whatever the number of shorts, up to 20 per video on the Studio plan. $0.028 per minute at WayinVideo ($13.99 a month, Starter); the pricing section below puts both side by side.
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 WayinVideo column is derived from WayinVideo's own site: the number after a cell points to the source, and the exact wording is under the table.
Reading note. WayinVideo is a video AI workspace (summaries, transcripts, moment search) where clipping is one tool. Its pricing page opens on yearly billing with a first-year discount; monthly prices are read from the Monthly toggle.
| Criterion | shortshort | WayinVideo |
|---|---|---|
| Getting the video in | ||
| Longest video | Set by the 2 GB file sizeOne file of up to 2 GB, on every plan; how many hours fit depends on the bitrate. | Over 10 hours, no cap stated [1] [2]Their clip maker page says it takes videos over 10 hours; plan limits apply to AI auto reframe, 10 min on Free up to unlimited on Scale. |
| Largest file | 2 GB per fileMP4, MOV or WebM. | 10 GB on Starter, 30 GB on Pro and Scale [2] [3]No local upload on Free, which takes video by link only. |
| 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, TikTok, Drive, Zoom, more [4] [3]Links from YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Twitch, Zoom, Loom, Google Drive, Dropbox and more; MP4, MOV, WebM uploads on paid plans. |
| 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, AI Reframe follows faces and speakers [5] [6]Keeps faces and subjects centered and switches layouts as speakers change: split, trio, grid, picture-in-picture, screen first, gameplay. |
| Automatic captions | Word by word, 4 stylesSpotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal; timed on the audio; SRT import and export. | Yes, animated, 100+ languages, SRT export [2] [7]All subtitle styles on paid plans and a free set on Free, bilingual subtitles, speaker colors; TXT, SRT and VTT export. |
| 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, 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5 on every plan [2] [8]The comparison table lists all four ratios on every plan, Free included; the API outputs the same four. |
| 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 on Free up to 4K on Scale [2] [9]720p on Free, 1080p on Starter, up to 2K on Pro, up to 4K on Scale, in MP4 and never above the source resolution. |
| 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, editor and text-based editing on all plans [2] [10]Basic editor on Free, advanced on paid plans; trimming, reframing, subtitles and text use no credits. |
| Brand presets | One preset, Studio planCaption colour and font, preselected on every new video. | Yes, brand kit from Pro, templates from Starter [2] [11]Brand kit with logo and colors on Pro and Scale; 1, 3 or 10 custom templates; custom fonts on Pro and Scale. |
| 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 site |
| 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 yes, dubbing no [12] [13]Subtitles translate into 100+ languages; their help center says voice translation and dubbing are not offered yet. |
| Virality score | None, by designThe AI keeps complete, quotable sentences; you choose what goes out. | Yes, a score on every clip [2] [14]Free shows the overall score; paid plans add grades for hook, story, value, engagement and reach. |
| B-roll, music, titles | None addedThe short is your video, reframed and captioned. | Yes, AI B-roll, music and hooks from Pro [2] [1]AI image and video B-roll, AI music and a royalty-free library, AI hook generation and speech enhancement on Pro and Scale. |
| 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, scheduled auto-publish from Pro [2] [15] [16]Starter posts manually to 3 accounts; Pro schedules to 10 accounts and Scale to 50, on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X and LinkedIn. |
| Team and price | ||
| Team seats | One account, one login | Scale only, 4 seats [2]Team workspace with 4 seats and owner, admin and member roles on Scale; Enterprise seats are tailored. |
| API | None | Yes, pay-as-you-go API from $10 [8] [1]Prepaid API units that never expire, bought apart from the plans: clipping, moment search, transcription, captions, reframe. |
| 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, 100 credits once, no card [2] [10]Given once at sign-up: 720p export, clips exportable for 3 days, no local upload, no auto-post; no watermark on any plan. |
| 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 source video [2]500, 1,000 or 6,000 credits a month; yearly plans give the whole year upfront; unused credits do not roll over, monthly or yearly. |
Their pages can change after that date; the table does not update itself.
WayinVideo plans as listed on wayin.ai/pricing, read on 16 October 2026 [2]. By the minute of source video: $0.028 per minute on WayinVideo's cheapest plan ($13.99 a month, Starter, 500 credits, 1 per source minute), 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 cuts; WayinVideo when you need bigger files or a crop that follows whoever is speaking. 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.
Only once. WayinVideo gives a one-time free allowance rather than a monthly free plan, according to its own site. On WayinVideo: yes, 100 credits once, no card. Given once at sign-up: 720p export, clips exportable for 3 days, no local upload, no auto-post; no watermark on any plan (their own site, read on 16 October 2026).
WayinVideo's pricing page lists 5 plans. On WayinVideo: Free (100 credits once); Starter, $13.99 a month, $4.99 billed yearly (500 credits a month); Pro, $26.99 a month, $9.58 billed yearly (1,000 credits a month); Scale, $139.99 a month, $69.99 billed yearly (6,000 credits a month); Enterprise, Custom, contact sales (Custom credits and seats) (their own site, read on 16 October 2026). They are listed on this page under "WayinVideo pricing (checked 16 October 2026)". By the minute of source video, that is $0.028 per minute on WayinVideo's cheapest plan ($13.99 a month, Starter), 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. WayinVideo may fit better if you need bigger files, a crop that follows whoever is speaking 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 WayinVideo.
On shortshort, one file of up to 2 GB on every plan; the file size is what usually limits, and how many hours fit depends on the bitrate. On WayinVideo: Over 10 hours, no cap stated. Their clip maker page says it takes videos over 10 hours; plan limits apply to AI auto reframe, 10 min on Free up to unlimited on Scale (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 WayinVideo: yes, animated, 100+ languages, SRT export (their own site, read on 16 October 2026).
Yes. The 30 free credits cover 30 minutes of video, with up to 3 shorts per video, no card needed. Your upload and drafts stay private until you export: an exported short is published to the community with its full source video and the transcript of the short, unless your account is set to keep it out, which every paid plan can do.
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.