Unlimited video editing subscriptions compared on cost per finished video

Divide the monthly price by the videos you will actually get. On the plans that publish a count, that comes to $14 to $50 per short-form video across 8 plans, and $45 to $200 per long-form video across 8 plans. Plans that only promise “unlimited” can’t be compared that way until you ask how many finished videos a month a client like you really gets.

Every figure below comes from the company’s own pricing page, linked in each row with the date we read it. None of it is a rating.

Cost per finished video, plan by plan

Short-form (Reels, TikToks, Shorts)

Long-form (YouTube, podcasts, demos)

Plans that mix short and long

ShortVids sells one bundle of short- and long-form videos per plan, so its cost is per video of either kind.

Some plans offer one kind or the other. Vidpros and VidChops appear in both tables above: you get the short-form count or the long-form count, not both.

What “unlimited” really means

“Unlimited” on a pricing page almost always has a limit somewhere else on the page. These are the ones the companies state themselves:

• One video at a time. VidChops says it works on one of your videos at a time and starts the next when that one is done; you can queue as many as you like. Video Husky says the same in its FAQ, and adds that its clients get 4 to 6 videos finished a month on average. ShortVids caps active requests by plan: 1 on StartUp, 3 on Growth.
• Revisions use up your output. Vidpros offers unlimited revisions, but each round counts toward your monthly output, and output doesn’t roll over.
• Credits expire. EditVideo.io’s monthly video credits reset each billing cycle and unused ones expire. Videos with heavy motion graphics or several revision rounds can use more than one credit.
• Hours, not videos. Flocksy sells daily hours of a creative team that also does design (its 2 Daily plan is $1,199/month billed annually ($1,699 month to month)), and unused hours roll over for 30 days. ManyPixels sells a number of daily outputs, shared across design and video.
• A budget, not unlimited. Superside’s plans start at a monthly minimum on an annual term, and unused budget rolls over for up to three months.
• Annual only. Shootsta sells annual subscriptions of prepaid video credits and doesn’t offer month-to-month plans.

Plans that don’t publish a count

These plans publish a price but no number of finished videos, so they aren’t ranked above. Ask each one how many videos a month a client with your footage and turnaround needs actually gets, in writing.

Which kind of plan fits which team

• One or two videos a week: a plan with a fixed monthly count (credits or a set number of videos) is easy to budget, and the tables above show what each one costs per video. Check what happens to unused credits.
• Daily short-form: look at the short-form table and the active-request limit. One request at a time with a two-day turnaround caps you at roughly ten finished videos a month, whatever the plan says about “unlimited”.
• Video plus design work: an hours-based creative subscription can cover both, but you’ll pay for design capacity too. Compare the cost per hour against what video alone would cost.
• A few big videos a quarter: a monthly subscription is probably the wrong shape. See the per-video studios in the price index, or freelancer vs subscription vs in-house.

Before you sign anything, use the brief template so the first video tells you whether the plan is worth keeping.