The unit is the source minute
A 45-minute interview costs 45 credits. Ask for 3 shorts or ask for the maximum your plan allows, the price is the same, because the cost is the analysis of the full recording, not each clip.
PRICING MODEL
One credit per minute of video, however many shorts.
You pay for the length of the video you upload, not for what comes out of it. In the shortshort studio a 60-minute recording costs 60 credits whether it yields 3 shorts or the 20 the Studio plan allows, and unused credits roll over and never expire, even after cancelling; the 30 welcome credits are given once.
30 free credits, no cardUp to 2 GB per videoMP4 · 9:16 or 4:5
Credits: the short answer
1 credit per minute of source video, whatever the number of shorts. 30 free credits at sign-up, no card. Starter 480, Creator 1,600, Studio plan 6,000 a month.
Credits in shortshort: every plan, Free included.
- Included on
- Every plan, Free included
- Cost
- 1 credit per minute of source video, however many shorts
- Unused credits
- Roll over and never expire, even after cancelling; the 30 welcome credits are given once
- Top-ups
- On the Creator and Studio plans; top-up credits never expire
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30 free credits, no card
A new account can analyse 30 minutes of video before paying anything, in one recording or spread over several shorter ones. On the Free plan that gives up to 3 shorts per video, with a watermark on the export and the exported shorts published to the community.
Three monthly allowances
Starter, 12 EUR per month or 115 EUR per year, brings 480 credits, which is 8 hours of video. Creator, 29 EUR per month or 278 EUR per year, brings 1,600 credits, 26 hours 40 minutes. The Studio plan, 79 EUR per month or 758 EUR per year, brings 6,000 credits, 100 hours. Prices are before VAT.
Top-ups when a month runs long
On the Creator and Studio plans you can buy extra credits: 400 for 9 EUR, 1,200 for 24 EUR or 4,000 for 69 EUR, before VAT. Starter has no top-up, so a Starter account that needs more than 8 hours in a month moves up a plan.
How it works, step by step
4 steps, all in the same shortshort studio.
- 01Sign up for the shortshort studio and receive 30 credits without entering a card.
- 02Upload a video: its length in minutes is the number of credits it will use.
- 03Choose the number of shorts your plan allows, from 3 on the Free plan to 20 on the Studio plan, at no extra cost.
- 04When the monthly credits run out, wait for the next month or, on the Creator and Studio plans, buy a top-up.
On a real video
A published transformation from the community, made with the same studio: the original on top, the shorts below, with the transcript of each short.
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.
Questions people ask
How much does a 60-minute video cost?
A 60-minute video costs 60 credits, whatever the number of shorts you ask for. A new account's 30 free credits cover a video of up to 30 minutes, so a full hour needs a paid plan. On Starter, 480 credits a month is eight such videos; on Creator, 1,600 credits is twenty-six; on the Studio plan, 6,000 credits is a hundred.
Do credits depend on the number of shorts?
No. Credits count the minutes of the source video only. One short or the ceiling of your plan, the video is charged once, at 1 credit per minute, for the analysis of the whole recording.
Do unused credits expire?
No. Unused credits roll over and never expire, even after cancelling; the 30 welcome credits are given once. Monthly credits stay on your balance from one month to the next, and top-up and welcome credits are spent only once the monthly ones are gone.
What do I get for free?
30 credits at sign-up, no card. That is 30 minutes of video. Free-plan shorts carry a watermark, are limited to 3 per video, and are published to the public community when exported. Any paid plan removes the watermark and lets you keep shorts out of the community.
Can I buy credits without a subscription?
No. Top-ups are available on the Creator and Studio plans only: 400 credits for 9 EUR, 1,200 for 24 EUR, 4,000 for 69 EUR, before VAT. Free and Starter accounts cannot buy extra credits.
Are the prices with or without VAT?
The prices shown, 12, 29 and 79 EUR per month, are before VAT. VAT is added on top at checkout.
Is editing a short charged in credits?
No. Changing the clips, bounds, title or captions of a proposed short and exporting the MP4 cost no credits. Credits are spent once per video, when the AI reads the recording and picks the passages; nothing you do in the editor afterwards costs a credit.
See it on one of your videos.
Free to try with 30 credits, no card. Exported shorts are listed in the public community gallery by default; any paid plan lets you keep them out of it.