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 Wisecut. Below, side by side with Wisecut: 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 Wisecut. 30 minutes are free, no card.
Wisecut is an AI video editor that cuts, captions and reframes long videos into clips. 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 here, before VAT: €12 a month for 480 minutes on Starter. $0.32 per minute at Wisecut: $19 a month, Starter editing-only. 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 Wisecut column is derived from Wisecut's own site: the number after a cell points to the source, and the exact wording is under the table.
Reading note. wisecut.video redirects to wisecut.ai and the help center stays at help.wisecut.video. Their pricing page opens on monthly billing; where an older help article disagrees with it, the pricing page is followed.
| Criterion | shortshort | Wisecut |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Not stated on their siteOnly a max export duration is stated: 3 min on Free, 60 min on Starter+ and Starter, 90 min on Professional+ and Professional. |
| Largest file | 2 GB per fileMP4, MOV or WebM. | 4 GB, 5 GB on Professional [1]4 GB on Free, Starter+ and Starter; 5 GB on Professional+ and Professional; custom on Enterprise. |
| 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 a file or paste a link [2]Imports from YouTube, Google Drive, Instagram Reels and more; Autopilot watches a YouTube channel for new uploads, lives or both. |
| 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, crop tracks the active speaker [3]Auto Reframe follows whoever is talking and adjusts the framing between speakers. |
| Automatic captions | Word by word, 4 stylesSpotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal; timed on the audio; SRT import and export. | Yes, styled, burned in or as a subtitle file [4]Every word transcribed, timed and styled; template count and word-level highlighting are not stated. |
| 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. | Vertical, square and horizontal [3]9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 shown on the Auto Reframe page. |
| 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. | 4K on Professional, 1080p on Starter [1]480p on Free, 1080p on Starter+ and Starter, 4K on Professional+ and Professional, 4K+ on Enterprise. |
| 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, transcript editing and plain-text requests [5]Cuts follow the transcript; WISH applies edits described in plain words; highlights can be edited, extended or replaced; the frame can be repositioned per segment. |
| Brand presets | One preset, Studio planCaption colour and font, preselected on every new video. | No brand kit named, logo applied automatically [6]The Business page says styled captions, hook titles, logo and watermark are applied automatically; no saved template is named. |
| 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. | Caption translation, dubbing not stated [4] [7]Translates captions in languages including English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German and Italian; the help center lists 11 supported languages. |
| Virality score | None, by designThe AI keeps complete, quotable sentences; you choose what goes out. | Scores moments, no numeric score shown [8]The Highlights page describes a Score moments step that finds the strongest hooks; no numeric score is stated. |
| B-roll, music, titles | None addedThe short is your video, reframed and captioned. | Not stated on their site |
| 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 on Starter+ and Professional+ [9]Social Hub schedules and auto-publishes to YouTube, Instagram Business, TikTok, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads and Bluesky. |
| Team and price | ||
| Team seats | One account, one login | Team capabilities on Enterprise only [1]No seat count is stated for the standard plans; the Enterprise plan lists team capabilities and custom support. |
| API | None | API on Enterprise, MCP on every plan [1]API access is ticked only for Enterprise; the MCP connector for ChatGPT, Claude, Codex and other assistants is ticked on every plan, Free included. |
| 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. | Always free, 30 min a month at 480p [1]Exports and downloads up to 3 min, no watermark, no Autopilot or Social Hub; an older help article still says downloads need a paid 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. | Subscription with credits, 1 credit = 1 minute [1]Monthly or yearly billing, up to 30% off yearly; Autopilot uses 2 credits per minute; extra packs from 150 credits for $25, valid 12 months. |
Their pages can change after that date; the table does not update itself.
Wisecut plans as listed on wisecut.ai/pricing, read on 16 October 2026 [1]. By the minute of source video: $0.32 per minute on Wisecut's cheapest plan ($19 a month, Starter editing-only, 60 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; Wisecut 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.
Yes. Wisecut's own site lists a lasting free plan. On Wisecut: Always free, 30 min a month at 480p. Exports and downloads up to 3 min, no watermark, no Autopilot or Social Hub; an older help article still says downloads need a paid plan (their own site, read on 16 October 2026).
Wisecut's pricing page lists 6 plans. On Wisecut: Free, $0 a month, always free (30 credits a month, Editor time up to 30 min); Starter+, $33 a month, $23.25 a month yearly (300 credits, 5 h Editor, 2.5 h Autopilot); Professional+, $118 a month, $83.25 a month yearly (1,200 credits, 20 h Editor, 10 h Autopilot); Starter (editing-only), $19 a month or $189 a year (60 credits a month, Editor time up to 1 h); Professional (editing-only), $49 a month or $499 a year (300 credits a month, Editor time up to 5 h); Enterprise, Personalized, contact us (Custom volume) (their own site, read on 16 October 2026). They are listed on this page under "Wisecut pricing (checked 16 October 2026)". By the minute of source video, that is $0.32 per minute on Wisecut's cheapest plan ($19 a month, Starter editing-only), 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. Wisecut 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 Wisecut.
shortshort times every word on the audio, in one of four styles (Spotlight, Impact, Karaoke, Minimal), with SRT import and export. On Wisecut: yes, styled, burned in or as a subtitle file (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.