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Spikes Studio's API Pro plan is $350 a month for 5,000 minutes of auto-edit, $0.07 a minute, or $0.056 billed yearly. clipsdk bills $0.03 per source minute, per second, with no plan.
Spikes Studio API alternative: clipsdk at $0.03 a minute
Spikes takes YouTube and Google Drive links and styles captions in detail; clipsdk takes uploads and file URLs, returns 1 to 20 clips and posts a signed webhook.
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$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
Spikes Studio or clipsdk: who each fits
Pick Spikes Studio when
- You send YouTube links or Google Drive share links.
- You want clips as short as 5 s or as long as 180 s.
- You want to style captions yourself: font, size, color, shadow and animations such as bounce.
- You also want endpoints for video summaries, timestamps and hashtags.
Pick clipsdk when
- You want $0.03 per source minute with no plan, where Spikes' API Pro works out to $0.07.
- You want to create a key yourself and start with $1 of credit, about 33 minutes.
- You want to upload files, set 1 to 20 clips and bound their length from 10 to 90 s.
- You want a signed
webhook_urlon each request instead of polling.
Spikes Studio API and clipsdk side by side
| Spikes Studio API | clipsdk | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | API Pro: $350 a month for 50,000 credits, or $3,360 a year | $0.03 per source minute, $0.02 past 2,000 in a UTC month |
| Per minute at full use | $0.07 monthly, $0.056 billed yearly | $0.03, billed per second |
| Getting a key | API Studio is in beta; Spikes Studio provides the token | Sign up and create one, $1 of free credit |
| What you send | A YouTube link, a Google Drive share link, or a link to an MP4, MOV, AVI or WMV file | An upload or a direct file URL, up to 3 hours and 5 GB |
| Clips | 10 clips per video, no count field | 1 to 20, as a field |
| Captions | Your own fonts, colors, shadows and animations | 3 presets: bold, karaoke, minimal; plus SRT and VTT |
| Results | Poll the project every 5 seconds | Signed webhook_url per request, 5 attempts |
Source: Spikes Studio API pricing and docs, checked 7 November 2026
Moving a Spikes Studio request to clipsdk
Field by field, from Spikes' POST /api/v1/api/project to POST /v1/clips.
| Spikes Studio | clipsdk |
|---|---|
url | video_url: a direct file URL, or the one POST /v1/uploads gives you |
clip_length_request | min_seconds and max_seconds |
| No count field | clips, from 1 to 20 |
style_properties | captions: bold, karaoke, minimal or false |
GET /api/v1/api/project?id= every 5 s | GET /v1/jobs/{id}, or a webhook_url |
clip_ranking | score, from 0 to 100, with a reason |
headline and description | title and post_caption |
The same kind of job on clipsdk
We ran this request on a 10-minute NASA live stream, asking for up to 10 funny or surprising moments. It found 5 worth clipping.
At $0.03 a minute that job costs $0.30. 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/silicon-valley-live-stream.mp4",
"clips": 10,
"aspect": "9:16",
"reframe": "auto",
"captions": "bold",
"prompt": "funny or surprising moments"
}'Price per minute
Spikes Studio prices its API apart from its app. API Pro is $350 a month for 50,000 credits, or $3,360 billed yearly. Auto-edit costs 10 credits per input minute, so Pro covers 5,000 minutes: $0.07 a minute monthly and $0.056 yearly.
clipsdk has no plan: $0.03 per source minute, $0.02 past 2,000 minutes in a UTC month, billed per second. Spikes' API Pro is 2.3x that rate monthly.
Sending video and getting clips back
You send Spikes a YouTube link, a Google Drive share link or a download link to an MP4, MOV, AVI or WMV file, and can set clip_length_request from 5 to 180 seconds; there is no clip count field. Captions are styled through style_properties: font, size, color, shadow and animations such as karaoke and bounce.
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. You set 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. There are no custom styles, but SRT and VTT come with every clip so you can render your own.
Webhooks and limits
Spikes' docs recommend calling the project endpoint once every 5 seconds until the clips are ready.
clipsdk takes a webhook_url on each request, signs it with HMAC-SHA256 (how to verify) and tries 5 times: at once, then 10 s, 1 min, 5 min and 30 min after each failure. Files stay up for 7 days, and you can run 3 jobs at once and 200 a day.
Questions, answered
Can I send YouTube or Google Drive links to clipsdk?
No. clipsdk takes an upload or a direct link to an MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV file, up to 3 hours and 5 GB. Spikes Studio takes both YouTube links and Google Drive share links.
How does caption styling compare?
Spikes sets font, size, weight, color, background, shadow and animations through style_properties. clipsdk has 3 burned-in presets, bold, karaoke and minimal, and returns SRT and VTT so you can render your own.
How do I know when a job is done?
Spikes recommends polling the project endpoint every 5 seconds. clipsdk posts the finished job to your webhook_url, signed with HMAC-SHA256, or holds a GET on the job open for up to 300 seconds.
What does it cost to start?
clipsdk is self-serve, and the first $1 is free, about 33 minutes. Spikes Studio's API is in beta with tokens from its team, and API Pro is $350 a month for 5,000 minutes of auto-edit.
Keep reading
- clipsdk vs Choppity for developersChoppity's API starts on Creator at $32 a month for 300 minutes, about $0.11 a minute. clipsdk: $0.03 a minute, no plan, rendered clips in one job.
- 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.
- Turn hours of stream VOD into ranked highlight clipsUpload a stream VOD of up to 3 hours and get up to 20 ranked highlight clips with captions. A full 3 hour VOD costs ~$5.40, and longer streams split into two jobs.
- Animated captions, burned in word by wordBurn word-by-word captions into every clip in one of 3 presets: bold, karaoke or minimal. Or set captions to false for clean clips with SRT and VTT files. $0.03 per source minute.
- clipsdk vs Ssemble for developersSsemble bills 1 credit per request of up to 20 minutes, $0.01 a minute on Pro, billed yearly. clipsdk: $0.03 a minute, whole videos, no plan.
- clipsdk vs Submagic: $0.03 a minute against $0.10 to $0.23Submagic sells plans from $19 a month, API minutes at $0.10 to $0.23 and a separate Magic Clips subscription for clipping. 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, sources up to 3 hours.
Sources
- Spikes Studio API pricing, checked 7 November 2026
- Spikes Studio API home, checked 7 November 2026
- Spikes Studio API docs, checked 7 November 2026
- Spikes Studio API: auto-edit, checked 7 November 2026
- Spikes Studio API: authentication, checked 7 November 2026
- Spikes Studio API: get project, checked 7 November 2026
- clipsdk API reference, checked 7 November 2026
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