AI shorts generator (short-video-maker) vs Opus Clip

Side by side, as alternatives to Opus Clip. Rows that differ are highlighted; the strongest value in a row is marked. Unknown means no source yet.

Also replaces Opus Clip: + AutoClip + OpenShorts + AI YouTube Shorts Generator + SupoClip + AutoShorts (JayWebtech)+ YT Short Clipper

AI shorts generator (short-video-maker)mushigaite/short-video-maker

Opus Clippaid product

Cost and coverage

Price

$0 software; you run it

See pricing page source ↗

AI picks highlight clips from a long video

Partly

Yes

Auto-reframe to vertical 9:16 (speaker or face tracking)

Partly

Yes

Animated burned-in captions on clips

Partly

Yes

Virality score per clip

Partly

Yes

Schedule and publish clips to social platforms

Yes

Jobs covered

4 of 5 jobs

All 5

Popularity and activity (from GitHub)

Stars

631

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Gain this week

Unknown

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Signal

Building history

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Commits / 4 wk

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Latest release

Unknown

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Commits / 12 wk

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People committing / 12 mo

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Issues opened / closed, 30 days

0 / 0

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Facts, with sources on each project page

Runs on my machine?

Yes, runs on your machine; transcription is local, highlight ranking calls a cloud LLM

Hosted by the vendor

Code licence

MIT

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Model weights licence

No separate model weights

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Commercial use

Yes, MIT (LLM provider terms apply separately)

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Paid services needed?

Needs an LLM API key; Gemini has a free tier with a daily limit, OpenAI and MuAPI are paid

Subscription

Hardware

Python 3.10+; Whisper runs on CPU or CUDA GPU, model size selectable

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Operating systems

Windows, Linux and macOS install steps in the README

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Setup effort

Easy-medium, clone, pip install requirements and add an API key to .env (README clone URL uses an older repo name)

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Stars over time

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AI shorts generator (short-video-maker) (as alternatives to Opus Clip)
Figures from RepoQuarry, 21 Oct 2026. Sources: https://repoquarry.dev/compare?ids=short-video-maker&product=opus-clip

Opus Clip: See pricing page
AI shorts generator (short-video-maker): free software; does 4 of 5 Opus Clip jobs

- AI shorts generator (short-video-maker): 631 GitHub stars, 17 commits in 12 weeks, licence MIT

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AI shorts generator (short-video-maker) vs Opus Clip

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