Lightning publish per-package prices in euros, starting at 50 euros for course creators. We publish $2,000 a month for a ceiling of 200 short-form and 30 long-form. One is a purchase, the other is capacity.
Everything below about Lightning Video Editors comes from their own public pages, read on 24 September 2026. Check it yourself
Lightning Video Editors sell something structurally different from almost everyone else on these pages, which is individual packages you buy outright rather than a subscription, and that alone makes them worth understanding.
On their site, read on 24 September 2026, the packages are 50 euros for silence cuts and colour, 250 euros for one video and 1,000 euros for five videos, which they describe as 200 euros per video at a 20% discount. The 50 and 250 euro tiers are marked as being for course creator students specifically, and their hero line says starting at 50 euros, exclusively for course creators, so this is a service aimed squarely at one audience rather than the general market. Custom projects have a stated minimum of five thousand and upward.
They are also unusually specific about their people. They publish in-house editors located within a thirty minute drive of their main offices, remote editors since 2020, recruitment of native English, Dutch, French and German editors, twenty eight team members, and operations focused in LA, New York, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Brussels, with two teams working London and New York hours.
We publish $2,000 a month for up to 200 short-form and 30 long-form videos with thumbnails included, produced by close to 50 editors in-house in Dubai, so the comparison is really purchase against capacity.
Their column is what Lightning Video Editors publishes, ours is what we publish. Where they do not state something, the row says so instead of guessing.
| Pixel Samy Studio | Lightning Video Editors | |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | $2,000 a month entry point | 50 euros silence cuts and colour, 250 euros for one video, 1,000 euros for five, with the lower tiers marked for course creator students |
| Pricing model | Monthly capacity with a published ceiling | Packages bought outright, plus custom projects with a stated five thousand minimum |
| Video length | No published cap, long podcasts are routine | Up to 8 minutes of raw video on the full package, up to 60 minutes on the basic silence cut package |
| Camera angles | Multicam handled as standard | All packages include only 1 camera angle |
| Turnaround | 24 hour turnaround on the podcast line | First draft within 7 days, with a 24 to 48 hour express option |
| Revisions | Included, handled by the editors on your account | 1 feedback round on the paid video packages, none on the basic silence cut tier |
| Where the team sits | Close to 50 in-house editors in Dubai | In-house editors with operations stated in LA, New York, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Brussels, 28 team members |
There is a detail on their pricing that matters and I want to get it right, because quoting 50 euros without the qualifier would be misleading.
The 50 euro and 250 euro packages are both marked on their page as being for course creator students, and their hero line describes the offer as exclusively for course creators. So these are not general market prices available to anybody who walks in, they are the pricing of a service built around one specific audience.
The five video package at 1,000 euros works out at 200 euros a video, and their custom work has a stated minimum of five thousand and upward, with a plain statement that projects below that are not something they can help with, which I respect.
Ours is one number, $2,000 a month for up to 200 short-form and 30 long-form pieces, and it is available to whoever needs that volume.
So the comparison only becomes meaningful once you know which side of their audience line you sit on, and if you are a course creator publishing lessons, honestly, you should just go and buy the 50 euro package and see what comes back.
Their full editing package publishes a limit of eight minutes of raw video with one camera angle, and the basic package handles up to sixty minutes but only cuts silences and corrects colour.
Those are sensible constraints for a productised service. Capping input length is how you make a package price predictable, and anybody who has quoted a flat fee for an unbounded edit has learned that lesson expensively.
But they do decide who the service is for. A forty minute talking-head video, a ninety minute podcast, a two camera interview, a webinar recording, none of those fit the full package, and longer videos mean buying extra packages.
Our side has no equivalent cap, because the ceiling is measured in finished pieces rather than input minutes, and long recordings are the normal input here rather than the exception. More than 400 podcast episodes a month go through the studio, most of them far longer than eight minutes and many of them multicam.
The honest summary is that they priced for short, single angle pieces and we priced for long recordings that get chopped up, and neither model stretches comfortably into the other.
They are more specific about staffing than almost anybody in this category and I think it deserves pointing out, because it is the question most agencies dodge.
They publish that they use in-house editors located within a thirty minute drive of their main offices, that they have encouraged remote editors since 2020, that they recruit native English, Dutch, French and German speakers because of their corporate clients, that they have twenty eight team members, and that operations are focused in LA, New York, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Brussels with teams on London and New York hours.
We publish ours for the same reason, close to fifty editors in-house in Dubai, on our payroll, in one building.
The interesting difference is what each staffing model optimises for. Theirs optimises for language and timezone coverage across Western markets, which is exactly what you want when the same video has to ship in four languages. Ours optimises for depth on a single account, since the same editors staying on your content for a year is what makes them stop guessing about your voice.
Both of those are real answers to a real question, which is more than most of this industry offers.
Their standard delivery is a first draft within seven days, with express delivery of 24 to 48 hours available as an add-on, and their basic silence cut package delivers in 24 to 48 hours as standard because it is automated.
That is a perfectly workable rhythm for course content, where lessons are planned in advance and nothing is time sensitive.
It is a harder rhythm for social content, where a seven day turnaround means a moment from Monday's recording appears the following week, and for anything reactive it simply does not work.
Our podcast line runs on a 24 hour turnaround, and the reason we can hold that as standard rather than as an add-on is the size of the team, since fast turnaround is really just capacity that is not already committed to something else.
At the end of the day speed is a cost decision, not a magic one. A studio that promises fast delivery either carries spare capacity, charges more for it, or is quietly hoping nobody uses it at once, and it is worth asking any studio which of those three applies.
This one splits cleanly by what you are making.
If you are a course creator with lesson recordings, or a company that needs the same handful of videos in several European languages, Lightning have built precisely that service and their prices for it are good.
If you are a founder or a company whose raw material is podcasts, long interviews, webinars and multicam recordings, and whose goal is to publish daily rather than to finish a set of lessons, the package caps get in the way and you want monthly capacity instead.
And there is a middle case worth naming, which is companies that need both, a tidy set of course videos and a running social presence. Those are two different suppliers and that is fine. Buying the wrong one for either half is what wastes money, not paying for two.
If you want to see what the volume side looks like in practice, our content flywheel page walks through how one recording becomes a month of published pieces.
The useful version of this page, because a comparison where the other studio never wins is a comparison nobody believes.
Go with Lightning if you are a course creator, which is who they openly built this for, and especially if what you need is long lesson recordings tidied up rather than social content produced, because 50 euros to have silences cut and colour corrected on a sixty minute video is genuinely good value and nothing in our model competes with it.
They are also the better choice if your content needs to exist in several languages, since scaling a project across many languages with subtitles and voiceover is something they name as a core competency and we simply do not offer.
Come to us when the constraint is the format itself. Their full editing package caps raw video at eight minutes with one camera angle and basic colour correction, and a lot of founder content does not fit inside that, particularly podcasts and multicam recordings.
Come to us also when you need a month of output rather than a video. Two hundred short-form pieces bought at package rates would be an enormous number, whereas inside a monthly ceiling it is just a normal month, and that is what our podcast editing pipeline is built to produce.
Superside publish a $15,000 monthly minimum on an annual term for their whole creative offering. We publish $2,000 a month for a video output ceiling. These are not competing products, and I would rather explain that than pretend otherwise.
Vidchops publish $495 and $995 a month in credits, where one credit is one long-form video or four short-form videos. We publish $2,000 for up to 200 short-form and 30 long-form. Here is how those actually compare.
Vidpros sells you a dedicated editor's hours every workday. We sell a finished content operation with a volume ceiling on top. Here is the honest split, with both sets of published numbers.
Tasty Edits publish a clear price for every single video. We publish a monthly ceiling. The maths flips somewhere around fifteen pieces a month, and here is exactly where.
If your footage is short, single angle and planned in advance, buy the package and skip the subscription entirely. If it is long recordings piling up on a drive, that is the conversation I am useful for. So yeah. That's my way of saying it.