Kapwing
Online collaborative video editor with AI subtitles and trimming.
Watch the demoOfficial walkthroughKapwing is Online collaborative video editor with AI subtitles and trimming. Freemium, with paid plans from $16/mo.
About Kapwing
Kapwing is a browser-based video editor with a strong layer of AI features aimed at creators, marketers and social teams. The editor itself includes a timeline, subtitles with automatic transcription, green-screen removal, image and video resizing for every platform aspect ratio, and a stock library. AI tools include Smart Cut to remove silences and filler words, a video translator that dubs into many languages with lip sync, AI voiceover, AI image and video generation, an Auto Highlight Reel feature that turns long videos into short clips, and a Brand Kit for consistent fonts and colors. Kapwing is offered as a freemium web app and is popular with marketing teams, students, educators and TikTok and YouTube creators who want a fast collaborative editor without installing software.
Kapwing pros and cons
Hand-derived from the catalog data, strengths and trade-offs to weigh before signing up.
- Free tier available; paid plans from $16/mo
- Auto-subtitles
- Silence removal
- Smart Cut
- No autonomous agent, handles single prompts, not multi-step workflows
- Competition is strong in this space, see Captions and Descript for comparison
4 plans from Kapwing
Pulled from Kapwing’s public pricing page. Prices may change, verify on the vendor’s site before purchasing.
Free
Try Kapwing
- 10 credits
- Watermarked exports
- Videos up to 1 minute
- 720p quality
Pro
For individual creators
- 1,000 credits/month
- No watermark, 4K resolution
- Videos up to 2 hours
- Brand Kit, 6GB uploads
Business
For teams and studios
- 4,000 credits/month
- Custom voice clones
- Lip sync capability
- Additional credit purchases
Enterprise
For larger orgs
- Custom billing
- Dedicated account manager
- SAML SSO
- Onboarding & training
Kapwing vs Video Editing
Side-by-side with the top 3 other video editing in this category.
| Picked from the top tools in video editing | Online collaborative video editor with AI subtitles and trimming. | Mobile-first AI video app for talking-head creators. | Edit video and audio by editing the transcript. | Turn long videos into viral shorts with one click. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STARTS AT | $16/mo | $9.99/mo | $16/mo | $15/mo |
| PRICING | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| AI AGENT | No | No | No | No |
| EDITOR'S PICK | No | No | No | No |
| KEY FEATURES | Auto-subtitles, Silence removal, Smart Cut | AI Edit, Eye Contact, Lip Dub | Text-based editing, Studio Sound, Overdub | ClipAnything, Virality score, Auto reframe |
| BEST FOR | Social video, Subtitling, Reformatting | Talking-head video, Shorts and Reels, Subtitling | Podcast editing, Video editing, Screen recording | Repurposing podcasts, YouTube shorts, TikTok content |
| WORKS WITH | #video#subtitles#browser | #video#mobile#shorts | #video#podcast#transcript | #shorts#repurpose#social |
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