Both of them are built around your own content — video you upload, or the account you connect. We watch channels, ten at once, and they do not have to be yours. If you clip for other people that is the whole story.
At the top tier these cost the same to within a penny. Eklipse clips the stream on your own connected account; Opus Clip cuts up video you upload. Both are built around your content. Pro monitors ten channels at once, and they do not have to be yours — which is the entire job if you clip for other people.
Opus prices the other axis: Pro is 300 credits a month and one credit is one minute of source video. That is five hours — one long stream, and the month is spent. Someone going live four nights a week produces closer to sixty. When the credits run out you buy the plan again, and what you did not use does not roll over. Nothing here is metered by the minute.
And the subscription is the price. Eklipse asks monthly and semi-annual subscribers for a separate VIP Pass per game to auto-clip premium titles, charges $18.99 an edit for human touch-ups, and costs $27.99 rather than $24.99 if you subscribe inside the mobile apps.
Both competitors sell a subscription and then meter it. The plan buys an allowance of minutes; when the allowance is gone the tool stops until the next cycle or the next purchase. This is the part of the price that only shows up after you have signed up.
| Highlightz | Opus Clip | Eklipse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What is metered | Nothing. You pay for channels, not minutes. | Credits. One credit is one minute of the video you upload. | Minutes of YouTube video (YT Credits). Live clipping has its own per-stream and per-day caps on top. |
| What the plan includes | Every second of every channel you watch: 1 on Free, 3 on Starter, 10 on Pro. | 60 credits a month on Free, 150 on Starter, 300 on Pro (3,600 a year if paid annually). | 30 minutes a month on Free, 600 a month on Premium (7,200 a year on the annual plan). |
| When it runs out | It does not run out. | Credits cannot be bought on their own. You buy your plan again for another allotment, or add a pack for good: each Pro pack is another 300 credits and two seats at the plan price. Free cannot buy any. | You buy another pack: $39.98 a month for 1,200 minutes, or $299.98 a year for 14,400. Past that you arrange it with support. Free cannot buy any. |
| Unused allowance | There is nothing to lose. | Does not roll over. Monthly credits expire after 60 days, annual ones after 12 months, and cancelling does not extend them. | Tied to the month or the year of the pack you bought. |
| Paid extras | None. Highlight clips, review and the library are inside the plan. | Seats only come bundled with packs; there is no other meter. | Human Pro Edits: $18.99 each, three for $49.99, seven for $99.99. A VIP Pass per game to auto-clip premium titles unless you pay annually. $27.99 a month instead of $24.99 inside the mobile apps. |
Read on 2 September 2026 from each company’s own help centre: Opus Clip: How do credits work?, Eklipse: How do I purchase extra credit?, Eklipse: What are YT Credits?, Eklipse: How does the pricing for Pro Edits work?, Eklipse: VIP Pass FAQ. Credit rules change without notice; follow the links before deciding anything on the strength of a number here.
| Feature | Highlightz | Opus Clip | Eklipse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catches the moment while the stream is still liveBoth competitors work on video that already finished — an upload, or the stream recording afterwards. We are watching the live feed. | Yes | — | — |
| Monitors several channels at the same timeThe clipper's actual job. Elsewhere you feed in one video at a time; here you point it at ten channels and leave. | 3–10 | — | — |
| Priced by channel, with nothing to run out ofOpus meters credits by the minute of source video. Eklipse caps highlights per stream and hours processed per day. We cap neither. | Yes | — | — |
| A real Twitch clip and the video fileEvery moment becomes a normal Twitch clip through Twitch's own API, under your account, and Highlightz also keeps the video itself, recorded from the live broadcast at source quality. The clip is on Twitch and the file is yours to download, edit and post. On Kick, where there is no clip API, the file is the clip. | Yes | — | — |
| Shows you why each clip firedChat velocity, audio spike, keywords and sentiment, scored per clip, so you can tune it rather than guess. | Yes | — | — |
| Point it at channels you do not ownOpus works on video you upload; Eklipse clips the account you connect. Watching somebody else's live stream is our default case, not an edge one. | Yes | — | — |
| Clips are not on a storage timerThe Twitch clip is permanent and lives on Twitch; the working file we keep is a 30-day copy you can re-make from it. Their exports sit in their storage for a window that depends on your tier. | Yes | 3-29 days | 14-90 days |
| The subscription is the whole priceEklipse asks monthly and semi-annual subscribers for a VIP Pass per game to auto-clip premium titles, and $18.99 per human edit. | Yes | Yes | — |
| Vertical reframing and auto-captionsTheirs today; ours shortly. The Clip Editor is built and in testing — five vertical templates, transitions, a title and burned-in captions, rendered frame by frame in the browser from the clip Highlightz already caught. It is not open to accounts yet, so this row is not a tick. | Soon | Yes | Yes |
| Auto-posts to Shorts and ReelsTheirs today; ours shortly. The Scheduler is built and in testing — connect YouTube or Instagram and it posts at the time you set, with Autopilot cutting and queueing every clip you approve. TikTok will be one press from the clip. Not open to accounts yet, so this row is not a tick either. | Soon | Yes | Yes |
| Works on any uploaded video, not just live streamsWe scan Twitch VODs, but we are not a general video tool — feed us a podcast export and we are the wrong product. | VOD only | Yes | Yes |
| Unwatermarked on the free planNot generosity on our part. The clip is a Twitch clip made through Twitch's own API and the file we keep is the broadcast as sent, so there is nothing of ours in the picture to stamp a logo onto, on any plan. Their free tiers render video, which is where a watermark can live and does. | Yes | — | — |
If you edit finished video into vertical posts, Opus Clip or Eklipse will serve you better than we will. If you are watching streams go live and trying to catch the moment before it scrolls past — one channel or ten — that is the entire thing this was built to do, and nothing above is metered.