Pay for minutes, not “uploads”. A real free tier, the editor on every plan, and entry pricing at £19.99 instead of $29. Prices checked June 2026.
| Klap | ClipDocker | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | None — one watermarked test video | 60 credits at signup, top clip watermark-free, full editor |
| Entry paid plan | Starter $29/mo — 10 uploads, max 45 min each, 100 clips, 1080p | Pro £19.99/mo — 500 minutes spent however you like, 20 clips per job |
| Mid plan | Pro $79/mo — 30 uploads up to 2 h, 300 clips, 4K, AI dubbing | Studio £39.99/mo — 1,000 minutes, 30 clips per job |
| Top plan | Pro+ $151/mo — 100 uploads up to 3 h, 1,000 clips | Max £79.99/mo — 2,000 minutes, 30 GB uploads |
| Billing model | Per upload — a 6-minute video consumes a whole upload | Per minute — a 6-minute video costs 6 credits |
| Klap | ClipDocker | |
|---|---|---|
| Free to try | One watermarked test video | ✓ 60 credits, no card |
| Clip editor | ✓ built-in | ✓ on every plan — trims, per-word captions, intro titles, logo overlays |
| Caption styles | ✓ vendor lists 52+ caption languages | ✓ five named styles — Hormozi, TikTok, Karaoke, Minimal, Boxed — 99 languages |
| Export quality | 4K on Pro and above | 1080p — the native resolution TikTok, Reels and Shorts deliver to viewers |
| AI dubbing / translation | ✓ 29 languages on paid tiers | Captions auto-detect and render 99 languages — including correct right-to-left Arabic |
| Speaker reframing | ✓ AI Reframe | ✓ AI AutoFrame — face + body detection per frame |
| Custom AI instructions | Not advertised (June 2026) | ✓ Director Mode — type what the AI should hunt for |
| TikTok publishing | ✓ direct publishing | ✓ publish free on every plan; scheduling + content calendar on paid plans |
| Short-video economics | 10×6-minute videos = all 10 Starter uploads | 10×6-minute videos = 60 credits (12% of Pro's monthly 500) |
| Upload your own files | ✓ | ✓ up to 30 GB / 10 h by plan |
Klap's per-upload billing quietly punishes the way most creators actually work — lots of varied-length source videos. A 6-minute clip costs the same “upload” as a 45-minute one, and there's no free tier to find that out on.
ClipDocker charges for exactly what you process — one credit per minute — starts free with the full editor included, and runs the whole pipeline: scored clips, speaker-tracked 9:16, five caption styles, then straight to TikTok with scheduling and a content calendar from the first paid plan. The platform is the pipeline, not just the cutter.
No — you can process one test video with a watermark. ClipDocker's free tier includes 60 credits, the full editor, every caption style, and your top-ranked clip exports watermark-free.
ClipDocker, structurally: ten 6-minute videos cost 60 credits (about 12% of Pro's monthly 500), while on Klap's $29 Starter the same ten videos consume the entire monthly upload allowance.
Yes — up to 2 hours / 10 GB on Pro and up to 10 hours / 30 GB on Max, alongside YouTube link import on every plan. Klap's entry plan caps each video at 45 minutes.