ChatCut

Key features

• Prompt-based structural editing: the agent watches footage, finds highlights, and assembles a first cut
• Text-based editing via transcript — delete filler words or sentences and the timeline follows
• AI motion graphics from a sentence: chapter cards, charts, timelines, emphasis effects without keyframing
• Auto captions in 100+ languages with 20+ styles
• AI image generation inside the edit for thumbnails, references, and missing B-roll
• AI video generation for shots you couldn't film, using a reference image for consistency
• Royalty-free AI music generated to the exact length you need
• Runs on desktop, in the browser, or through plugins for ChatGPT and Claude Code

Pricing

Read from ChatCut's homepage on 1 September 2026 (verify current before purchase). Monthly tiers with the discounts displayed at the time:

• Free — $0: a free plan is referenced in the site's FAQ; its limits were not published on the page we read. Confirm before relying on it.
• $25/month — 100 credits: roughly 263 seconds of the entry video model, 500 motion-graphics clips, or 454 images per month, plus all agent editing capabilities.
• $50/month — 200 credits (displayed as $45 with a limited-time discount): doubles the monthly allowance.
• $100/month — 400 credits (displayed as $88 with a discount).
• $200/month — 800 credits (displayed as $160 with a discount).

An annual billing toggle exists on the page; the discount framing changed while we read it, so treat every figure above as promotional. Credits are consumed differently by each model — video seconds cost far more than images — and the vendor can change those rates.

Pros and cons

Pros

• The agent-plus-timeline design means AI speed without giving up manual control — every change stays editable
• Motion graphics from plain-English descriptions replaces the most common After Effects busywork
• Text-based editing (cut a sentence in the transcript, the video follows) is the fastest way to clean up talking-head footage

Cons

• Young product with no third-party reviews and a thin public company identity — the site lists a contact address but no named team
• Credit pricing with stacked limited-time discounts makes real monthly cost hard to pin down
• The free plan's limits are unpublished, so the free-to-paid cliff is unknown until you sign up
• The agent-plugin angle (ChatGPT, Claude Code) is aimed at technical users; a non-technical owner may never touch that half of the product

Who should use ChatCut?

ChatCut fits a podcaster, course creator, or small brand that records real footage — interviews, tutorials, product demos — and dreads the edit. Its strongest single feature for that audience is transcript editing: strip filler words and dead air by deleting text. A one-person marketing team making weekly YouTube or short-form content is the center of the target.

If you don't have footage and need ads generated from a product link, Topview is the closer fit; if you only need captions on finished videos, SubtitleGenerator does that one job for less. ChatCut's Product Hunt standing (#4 of 26 August 2026, 289 points, 22 comments) is launch-day community interest, not reviews — we found no independent review history to cite this run.

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