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.
Everything below about Vidchops comes from their own public pages, read on 24 September 2026. Check it yourself
Vidchops are one of the easiest services in this category to understand, and that is a genuine compliment, because on their site, read on 24 September 2026, they publish a credit model in plain language, one credit is one long-form video of five to sixty minutes, or one credit is four short-form videos, and you can mix and match.
The Weekly plan is $495 a month for four credits, the Pro plan is $995 a month for eight credits, and there is a full time editor option at forty hours a week whose price is not published. Weekly includes three revisions per video, Pro includes unlimited revisions plus a dedicated account manager, and both include a dedicated video editor and a stated one to two day turnaround guarantee with a fourteen day money back guarantee and no contract.
They also publish their exclusions, which almost nobody does, so I will repeat them, no voiceovers, no 2D or 3D animation, and subtitles cost extra at $95 a month on all plans.
We publish $2,000 a month for a ceiling of up to 200 short-form and 30 long-form videos with thumbnails included, produced by close to 50 editors in-house in Dubai, so this comparison comes down almost entirely to how much you publish.
Their column is what Vidchops publishes, ours is what we publish. Where they do not state something, the row says so instead of guessing.
| Pixel Samy Studio | Vidchops | |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | $2,000 a month entry point | $495 a month Weekly, $995 a month Pro, full time editor price not published |
| What the money buys | Up to 200 short-form and 30 long-form videos a month | 4 credits on Weekly or 8 on Pro, where 1 credit is 1 long-form or 4 short-form videos |
| Short-form at the top tier | Up to 200 a month inside the entry price | Up to 32 short-form videos a month on the $995 Pro plan |
| Turnaround | 24 hour turnaround on the podcast line | 1 to 2 days turnaround guaranteed, revisions in 1 business day |
| Subtitles | Included in the work | $95 a month extra on all plans |
| Stated exclusions | No animation, no voiceovers, and we say so too | No voiceovers, no 2D or 3D animation, published openly |
| Where the team sits | Close to 50 in-house editors in Dubai | Not stated on their site |
Their model converts cleanly, so let me convert it.
On the $995 Pro plan you get eight credits. Spend them all on short-form and that is thirty two vertical videos a month, which works out at about thirty one dollars per video. Spend them all on long-form and that is eight finished long videos at about a hundred and twenty four dollars each. Both of those are reasonable prices for good work.
On our side, $2,000 with the ceiling used properly is two hundred shorts and thirty long-form pieces. Even if you only use half of it, you are at a hundred shorts and fifteen long cuts for the same two thousand, which is roughly thirteen dollars a short.
Now the honest direction of that argument. Below about sixteen shorts a month, Vidchops is cheaper, clearly and obviously. Between sixteen and thirty two it is close. Above that, a credit model starts charging you for every additional piece while a ceiling model does not, and that gap widens fast once you are publishing daily.
So the real question is not which service is better value in the abstract. It is where on that curve you actually sit, and most founders sit lower than they think in month one and much higher by month six.
Two things sit outside the credit count and they are worth naming because they change the comparison.
Subtitles are $95 a month extra on all Vidchops plans. That is a fair way to price something that costs real time, and I would rather they charged for it openly than buried it. But it means a $995 plan is $1,090 in practice for anybody publishing vertical video, since short-form without captions is barely worth posting.
Thumbnails are the bigger one. Neither a credit nor a subtitle add-on covers the thumbnail and title, and on YouTube that is not a detail, it is most of the outcome. If you are buying eight long-form edits a month and still designing your own thumbnails at midnight, the bottleneck has not actually moved.
On our side captions are part of the work and thumbnails are designed by ClickTheory as part of the same package, because we do not think a video is finished until the thing that makes people click is finished too.
That is not a criticism of their pricing, to be clear. It is just the thing to add up before comparing two numbers that are not measuring the same thing.
Vidchops publish a short list of what they cannot do. No voiceovers. No 2D or 3D animation. Subtitles are extra. There are also stated limits on raw upload length and total file size, and a cap on finished video length that appears as fifteen minutes in one FAQ answer and twenty minutes in another, so worth confirming which applies to you.
I think publishing exclusions is one of the strongest trust signals an agency can give, and it is rare, because the temptation is always to say yes to everything on the website and sort it out later.
Ours are similar and I will say them plainly. We do not do animation. We do not do voiceover. We are not a shoot crew, so we work from footage that already exists rather than sending a camera team. And we are a poor fit for anybody publishing five pieces a month, because you would be paying for a ceiling you never reach.
At the end of the day, a studio that tells you where it stops is telling you it knows what it is good at, and that is a better signal than a services page that lists everything.
Their model gives you a dedicated video editor, and on the Pro plan a dedicated account manager as well. Ours puts several editors on an account with a producer holding the standard.
The dedicated model has a real advantage, which is continuity of taste. One person learns your preferences deeply and you stop re-explaining things, and for a founder publishing four or eight videos a month that is probably the nicest experience available.
The team model has a different advantage, which is that it does not have a single point of failure and it does not have a ceiling set by one person's working hours. Two hundred short-form pieces cannot come from one editor no matter how good they are, so above a certain volume the dedicated model stops being a feature and starts being the constraint.
Which is why I would frame the choice like this. If your volume fits inside what one person can do in a month, a dedicated editor is genuinely better and you should want it. If it does not, you need a floor of people and a producer keeping them consistent, and that is what we are built as.
If you are early, start cheap. I mean that. Take the $495 plan, publish for two months, and find out what your real cadence is rather than the one in your content calendar, because almost everybody overestimates it at the beginning.
Then do the arithmetic again with real numbers. If you are producing four long-form videos a month and twenty clips, stay where you are, it is the right fit and moving would waste money.
If you find yourself buying extra credits most months, adding the subtitle fee, designing thumbnails yourself and still feeling behind, that is the moment the model has stopped fitting, and that is the moment a ceiling like ours starts making sense.
And if you want to see what the higher volume actually looks like before you commit to anything, our podcast editing page shows how one recording turns into 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 Vidchops when your volume is modest and predictable, because at four to eight finished long-form videos a month their pricing is hard to argue with and the credit system means you always know exactly what you have left.
They are also the sensible choice if you want to start small with the downside capped, since $495 a month with no contract and a fourteen day money back guarantee is about as low risk as this category gets, and starting there to learn what you actually need is a perfectly good plan.
Come to us when the numbers stop working, which usually happens somewhere around thirty or forty finished pieces a month.
At that point a credit model is charging you per item while a ceiling model is charging you for capacity, and our $2,000 covers up to 200 short-form and 30 long-form pieces with captions and thumbnails included rather than added on, which is the economics behind our short-form video editing work.
KIMP sell unlimited video requests with two active at a time. We sell a published ceiling of 200 short-form and 30 long-form videos for $2,000. The difference is not the word unlimited, it is the throughput underneath it.
Video Husky publish the clearest spec sheet in this category, from $849 to $2,749 a month with weekly editor hours stated. We publish $2,000 for up to 200 short-form and 30 long-form videos. The split is cleaner than usual.
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.
Send me your real publishing count from last month and I will tell you honestly whether a credit plan or a ceiling is the cheaper way to get where you are going. So yeah. That's my way of saying it.