Opus Clip pulls short clips out of a long recording. So does TrimTake, but it removes the ums and dead air first, keeps the full clean video and MP3, and never watermarks, even on the Free plan.
Opus Clip is one of the best-known clip makers. At the time of writing its free plan gives 60 credits a month, watermarks the clips and expires exports after 3 days; paid plans are Starter $15/mo and Pro $29/mo. TrimTake starts from a different place. It was built to clean talking-head recordings: every filler word and dead pause removed with word-level precision. Clips are then cut from that clean version, cropped to 9:16 around the speaker and captioned word by word. One upload returns the full clean video, a clean MP3 and the clips, on every plan including Free, with no watermark and no credits. There is also a REST API and MCP server on every plan.
$0.99 per video. Preview every cut before you download.
Paste your transcript. We’ll count every filler word in your script.
| Feature | TrimTake | Opus Clip |
|---|---|---|
| Removes filler words and dead air before clipping | ✓ | ✗ No |
| Captioned 9:16 clips with face-centred crop | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Word-by-word highlighted captions | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Full clean long-form video | ✓ | ✗ No |
| Clean MP3 of the recording | ✓ | ✗ No |
| No watermark on the Free plan | ✓ | ✗ No |
| Free exports that don’t expire in 3 days | ✓ | ✗ No |
| Credits | None — footage allowance | Credit-based |
| REST API + MCP server on every plan | ✓ | See their site |
| Scheduling and posting | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| Pay per video, no subscription | $0.99 | ✗ No |
| 9-minute or free guarantee | ✓ | ✗ No |
| Plan | TrimTake | Opus Clip |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free, no watermark | 60 credits/mo, watermarked, exports expire in 3 days |
| Try it once | $0.99 / video | — |
| Entry monthly plan | $9 / month | $15 / month (Starter) |
| Next plan up | $19 / month | $29 / month (Pro) |
| Clips, clean video and MP3 together | Every plan | Clips |
At the time of writing, yes: the free plan watermarks clips and its exports expire after 3 days. TrimTake’s Free plan has no watermark and your downloads stay available for 14 days.
Its focus is finding and cutting clips, not cleaning the whole recording. TrimTake removes fillers and dead air across the entire video first, then cuts clips from the clean version, and hands back the full clean video as well.
It reads the cleaned transcript and selects self-contained 15–60 second moments: a clear claim, a story, a tip, an answered question. Each clip gets a title and a strength score, and you can regenerate at any time.
Yes. Clean the recording with TrimTake first. You get the clips straight away, and if you prefer another tool’s caption styles you can run the clean full video through it.
No. You download them, or your agent fetches them through the API, and you post with the tools you already use.