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Vizard's API comes with its paid plans: Creator is $29 a month for 600 minutes of video, $0.048 a minute, or $0.024 billed yearly. clipsdk bills $0.03 per source minute, per second, with no plan.
Vizard API alternative: clipsdk at $0.03 a minute
Vizard returns up to 100 clips from a file or a link on 12 platforms; clipsdk returns up to 20 from an upload or a file URL, with signed webhooks and nothing to subscribe to.
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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
Vizard or clipsdk: who each fits
Pick Vizard when
- You send links: Vizard takes a file URL or a link from 12 platforms, YouTube, TikTok and Twitch among them.
- Your sources run past 3 hours (up to 600 minutes and 30 GB), or you want up to 100 clips from one video.
- You also want Vizard's web app, which connects 6 social accounts on Creator.
- Your volume is high and steady: at full use, Creator is $0.048 a minute monthly and $0.024 billed yearly.
Pick clipsdk when
- You want to pay per minute with no plan: $0.03 per source minute, billed per second, $1 free.
- Your video is a file: upload it, or send a direct file URL.
- You want a signed
webhook_urlon each request, with 5 attempts. - You want 1 to 20 clips of 10 to 90 s, each with a 0 to 100 score, SRT and VTT.
Vizard API and clipsdk side by side
| Vizard API | clipsdk | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Creator: $29 a month for 600 minutes, or $174 a year for 7,200 | $0.03 per source minute, $0.02 past 2,000 in a UTC month |
| Per minute at full use | $0.048 monthly, $0.024 billed yearly | $0.03, billed per second |
| Free to start | 60 minutes a month, 720p, watermark, no API | $1 of credit, about 33 minutes, no watermark |
| What you send | A remote file, or a link from 12 platforms | An upload or a direct file URL |
| Source limits | Up to 600 minutes, 30 GB and 4K | Up to 3 hours and 5 GB |
| Clips per call | Up to 100 | 1 to 20 |
| Clip length | Auto, or 4 buckets from under 30 s to 3 min | A range from 10 to 90 s |
| Score | 0 to 10 | 0 to 100, with a reason |
| Results | Poll, or one webhook URL per workspace | Signed webhook_url per request, 5 attempts |
Source: Vizard pricing and API docs, checked 7 November 2026
Moving a Vizard request to clipsdk
Field by field, from Vizard's project/create to POST /v1/clips.
| Vizard | clipsdk |
|---|---|
videoUrl with videoType and ext | video_url: a direct file URL, or the one POST /v1/uploads gives you |
maxClipNumber | clips |
preferLength | min_seconds and max_seconds |
ratioOfClip | aspect: 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9 |
subtitleSwitch | captions: bold, karaoke, minimal or false |
keywords | prompt, in plain words |
GET .../project/query/{projectId} | GET /v1/jobs/{id} |
| Workspace webhook URL | webhook_url on each request |
The same kind of job on clipsdk
We ran this request on an 8-minute NASA talk, asking for up to 8 clips of 30 to 60 seconds with karaoke captions. It found 3 worth clipping.
At $0.03 a minute that job costs $0.24. 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/artemis-moon-speech.mp4",
"clips": 8,
"min_seconds": 30,
"max_seconds": 60,
"aspect": "9:16",
"captions": "karaoke",
"language": "en",
"prompt": "moments about going back to the Moon"
}'Price per minute
Vizard's API comes only with paid plans. Creator is $29 a month for 600 credits, or $174 billed yearly for 7,200, and Business is $39 a month or $19.50 a month billed yearly. A credit is a minute of video, API jobs included, so Creator works out to $0.048 a minute monthly and $0.024 yearly if you use every credit. The clip_v2 model costs 1.25x.
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. Minutes you don't send cost nothing.
Sending video and getting clips back
Vizard takes a remote file or a link from 12 platforms through videoType, up to 600 minutes, 30 GB and 4K. maxClipNumber caps the clips at up to 100, and each clip gets a viralScore from 0 to 10.
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. It returns 1 to 20 clips of 10 to 90 seconds in 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9, reframed on the speaker with captions burned in, plus SRT, VTT and a 0 to 100 score.
Webhooks and limits
Vizard posts results to one webhook URL set in the workspace, or you poll every 30 seconds. Creator allows 3 project creates a minute and 20 an hour.
clipsdk takes a webhook_url on each request and signs the body with HMAC-SHA256 (how to verify). It 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 clipsdk pull videos from YouTube or TikTok like Vizard?
No. clipsdk takes an upload or a direct link to an MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV file, up to 3 hours and 5 GB. Vizard takes a remote file or a link from 12 platforms, YouTube and TikTok included.
How do the per-minute prices compare?
Vizard Creator is $29 a month for 600 minutes, $0.048 a minute if you use them all, or $174 a year for 7,200, $0.024 a minute. clipsdk is $0.03 a minute with no plan, billed per second.
How do webhooks differ?
Vizard has one webhook URL per workspace, or you poll. clipsdk takes a webhook_url on each request, signs it with HMAC-SHA256 and tries 5 times: at once, then 10 s, 1 min, 5 min and 30 min after each failure.
How long do the clip files last?
Vizard's clip links last 7 days, and a new query returns fresh ones. clipsdk keeps the MP4, poster, SRT and VTT for 7 days.
Keep reading
- clipsdk vs Reap for developersReap's API needs Creator or Studio: $0.028 a minute monthly, $0.017 yearly. clipsdk: $0.03 a minute, no plan, signed webhooks with retries.
- 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 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.
- 10 video clipping APIs compared, $0.01 to $0.11 a minute10 APIs that turn long videos into vertical shorts, compared on price per source minute, how the API is sold, max source length, clips per video, captions, reframe, webhooks and rate limits. clipsdk is $0.03 a minute for files up to 3 hours.
- WayinVideo API vs clipsdkWayinVideo takes YouTube and Twitch links and sells API units at about $0.04 to $0.07 a source minute. clipsdk takes files at $0.03 a source minute.
- 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.
Sources
- Vizard pricing, checked 7 November 2026
- Vizard API quickstart, checked 7 November 2026
- Vizard API: submit a video, checked 7 November 2026
- Vizard API: retrieve clips, checked 7 November 2026
- Vizard API pricing, checked 7 November 2026
- Vizard API rate limits, checked 7 November 2026
- clipsdk API reference, checked 7 November 2026
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