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CapCut vs Opus Clip vs Runway

All three are video generation tools. Here is what separates them.

	CapCut	Opus Clip	Runway
What it is	Edit YouTube and Instagram videos with CapCut's AI-powered video editor, smart templates, and creative effects. Download CapCut on desktop, mobile, or edit	OpusClip turns long videos into high-quality viral clips, and publishes them to all social platforms in one click. We help 10M+ creators create and grow faster.	Runway is building foundational Real-World Intelligence that can understand, simulate and act in the world. We offer products and services built on-top of this intelligence to empower individuals and organizations to do more in the world.
Category	Video Generation	Video Generation	Video Generation
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium · Free · from $9/mo	Freemium · $12-$76/mo
How it bills	Not published	Flat monthly	Flat monthly
Free tier	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated	4.5 from 3,800 reviews
Features	—	Long video to short vertical clips Virality scoring per clip Automatic speaker reframing Animated captions Scheduling to social platforms	Gen-3 Alpha video generation Text-to-video Image-to-video Motion tracking Inpainting Super resolution Green screen removal Custom model training
What works	Has a free tier, so it can be tried before paying Sits in Video Generation, one of the better-covered categories here — easy to compare	Turns an archive into weeks of posts Reframing is reliable Good free tier	Best AI video quality Comprehensive creative tools Professional-grade output Regular model updates Great for filmmakers
What does not	Does not publish a price on its own site, so the cost is only clear after signing up 134 other tools in this catalogue claim to do the same job	Clip selection misses context Caption errors need checking Watermark on free exports	Expensive for heavy use Credits run out quickly Short video length limits Rendering can be slow

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