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Choppity's API starts on the Creator plan: $32 a month for 300 minutes, about $0.11 a minute, or $0.075 billed yearly. clipsdk bills $0.03 per source minute, per second, with no plan.
Choppity API alternative: clipsdk at $0.03 a minute
Choppity returns previews and renders each clip with a second call; clipsdk renders 1 to 20 finished clips with SRT and VTT in one job.
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Or one API call
$0.03per source minute
- Every clip included, up to 1080p60 and 20 Mb/s
- $1 free to start, 33 minutes of video
- Prepaid credit, no subscription
Choppity or clipsdk: who each fits
Pick Choppity when
- You send YouTube links, or public files up to 8 GB.
- You want caption styles from your own templates.
- You want the API to post to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn.
- You want to preview clips and render only the ones you keep.
Pick clipsdk when
- You want $0.03 per source minute with no plan, where Choppity Creator works out to about $0.11.
- You want finished MP4s, posters, SRT and VTT from one job, kept for 7 days.
- You want 4:5 as well as 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9.
- You want a
webhook_urlon each request, with attempts spread over more than 30 minutes.
Choppity API and clipsdk side by side
| Choppity API | clipsdk | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Creator: $32 a month for 300 minutes, or $22.40 a month billed yearly | $0.03 per source minute, $0.02 past 2,000 in a UTC month |
| Per minute at full use | About $0.11 monthly, $0.075 billed yearly | $0.03, billed per second |
| API on | Creator and Team; Starter at $24 has none | Every account, $1 free to start |
| What you send | A YouTube link, a public file URL up to 8 GB, or an upload up to 5 GB | An upload or a direct file URL, up to 3 hours and 5 GB |
| Clips per call | Set with clip_count | 1 to 20 |
| Aspect ratios | 9:16, 1:1, 16:9 | 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, 16:9 |
| Output | Previews, then a render call per clip; links last one hour | Finished MP4, poster, SRT and VTT, kept 7 days |
| Webhooks | Set in the dashboard, signed, 5 retries within about 31 s | webhook_url per request, signed, 5 attempts over more than 30 min |
Source: Choppity pricing and API docs, checked 7 November 2026
Moving a Choppity request to clipsdk
Field by field, from Choppity's POST /v1/clips to ours.
| Choppity | clipsdk |
|---|---|
source.url or source.upload_id | video_url: a direct file URL, or the one POST /v1/uploads gives you |
clip_count | clips |
target_duration | min_seconds and max_seconds |
aspect_ratio | aspect: 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9 |
caption_style | captions: bold, karaoke, minimal or false |
criteria | prompt |
GET /v1/clips/:jobId, then POST /v1/clips/:clipId/renders | GET /v1/jobs/{id}: clips come back rendered |
| Dashboard webhook | webhook_url on each request |
The same kind of job on clipsdk
We ran this request on a NASA lesson just over 4 minutes long, asking for up to 3 clips of 15 to 45 seconds in 4:5 with minimal captions. All 3 came back as finished MP4s.
At $0.03 a minute that job costs $0.13. Try it opens New clips with the same video and settings.
curl https://api.clipsdk.com/v1/clips \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CLIPSDK_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"video_url": "https://api.clipsdk.com/f/lib/demo/thermal-energy-lesson.mp4",
"clips": 3,
"min_seconds": 15,
"max_seconds": 45,
"aspect": "4:5",
"captions": "minimal"
}'Price per minute
Choppity's API comes with Creator and Team; Starter, at $24 a month for 3 hours, has none. Creator is $32 a month, or $22.40 a month billed yearly, for 5 hours (300 minutes). Used in full, that is about $0.11 a minute monthly and $0.075 yearly.
clipsdk has no plan: $0.03 per source minute, $0.02 past 2,000 minutes in a UTC month, billed per second, with $1 of free credit to start. Choppity Creator is 3.6x that rate monthly and 2.5x billed yearly.
Sending video and getting clips back
Choppity's POST /v1/clips takes a YouTube link, a public file URL up to 8 GB or an upload up to 5 GB, with criteria, target_duration, clip_count and aspect_ratio in 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9. The job returns previews. A full-quality MP4 takes a render call per clip, and its output_url lasts one hour.
clipsdk takes an upload or a direct file URL (MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV) up to 3 hours and 5 GB; page links such as YouTube are refused. One job renders 1 to 20 clips of 10 to 90 seconds in 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9, reframed on the speaker with one of 3 caption presets burned in, plus a poster, SRT, VTT and a 0 to 100 score.
Webhooks and limits
Both sign webhooks with HMAC-SHA256. Choppity's are set in the dashboard, expect a reply within 30 seconds and retry up to 5 times, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 s apart, about 31 s in all. Its API allows 60 requests a minute per team.
clipsdk takes a webhook_url on each request (how to verify) and tries 5 times: at once, then 10 s, 1 min, 5 min and 30 min after each failure. You can run 3 jobs at once and 200 a day.
Questions, answered
Can I send YouTube links to clipsdk like I do with Choppity?
No. clipsdk takes an upload or a direct link to an MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV file, up to 3 hours and 5 GB. Choppity takes YouTube links and public file URLs up to 8 GB.
Do I need a second call to get the final video?
Not on clipsdk: one job returns finished MP4s with captions burned in, a poster, SRT and VTT, kept for 7 days. Choppity returns previews first and renders each clip with a second call; its MP4 link lasts one hour, and polling again gives a fresh one.
How do the webhook retries compare?
Choppity retries up to 5 times, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 s apart, so its retries end within about 31 seconds. clipsdk tries 5 times: at once, then 10 s, 1 min, 5 min and 30 min after each failure. Both sign with HMAC-SHA256.
What do I give up by moving from Choppity?
YouTube links, files over 5 GB, caption styles beyond our 3 presets, and posting to social accounts.
Keep reading
- clipsdk vs Vizard for developersVizard's API needs a paid plan: $0.048 a minute monthly, $0.024 yearly. clipsdk: $0.03 a minute, no plan, uploads, signed webhooks.
- clipsdk vs Spikes Studio for developersSpikes Studio's API Pro is $350 a month for 5,000 minutes, $0.07 a minute. clipsdk: $0.03 a minute, no plan, self-serve keys, signed webhooks.
- clipsdk vs OpusClip for developersclipsdk costs $0.03 per source minute with no monthly cap. OpusClip is about $0.097 on Pro credits, with a 15 hour monthly API cap. Prices, limits and a migration guide.
- Cut every lesson and webinar into teaser clipsUpload a lesson or webinar and get up to 20 ranked teaser clips with minimal captions and SRT files. A 45 minute lesson costs ~$1.35 and a 90 minute webinar ~$2.70.
- clipsdk vs Klap for developersKlap bills $0.44 per video plus $0.80 per finished short. clipsdk bills $0.03 per source minute with every clip included up to 1080p60 and 20 Mb/s: ~$1.80 for a 60 minute video.
- OpenShorts vs clipsdkSelf-host OpenShorts free, use its paid Cloud from $12 a month, or call clipsdk at $0.03 a source minute with nothing to run.
Sources
- Choppity pricing, checked 7 November 2026
- Choppity API: clips, checked 7 November 2026
- Choppity API: uploads, checked 7 November 2026
- Choppity API: renders, checked 7 November 2026
- Choppity API: posts, checked 7 November 2026
- Choppity webhooks, checked 7 November 2026
- Choppity rate limits, checked 7 November 2026
- clipsdk API reference, checked 7 November 2026
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