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By the toolist.ai editors. Researched from Clipchamp's own pages and hands-on tests published by others, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 23, 2026.

Clipchamp review: pricing, features and what testers found

Clipchamp is Microsoft's video editor for desktop browsers and Windows: a beginner-friendly timeline with free AI captions, voiceovers, silence removal and noise suppression. Free exports reach 1080p without a watermark; 4K, premium stock and a brand kit come with Microsoft 365 Personal at $9.99 a month.

Our take

Clipchamp is a video editor with AI tools, not an AI-first product: a beginner-friendly timeline in desktop Edge or Chrome and in a Windows app that may already be installed on Windows 11, whose autocaptions, text-to-speech voiceovers, silence removal, noise suppression, image background removal and auto compose are free on every personal plan, with no usage limit stated. The free plan exports up to 1080p without a watermark; 4K export, premium stock and a brand kit come with Microsoft 365 Personal at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year (Family $12.99 or $129.99, Premium $19.99 or $199.99), which also include Office apps, Copilot and 1 or 2 TB of OneDrive. A standalone Clipchamp Premium is still listed in the US Microsoft Store at $11.99 a month or $119.99 a year, more than Microsoft 365 Personal, with only 5 GB of OneDrive for projects. Testing the free version for a review dated July 22, 2026, TechRadar's Krishi Chowdhary found editing smooth and easy to pick up, though much of the music library is for paying users only; MakeUseOf's Oluwademilade Afolabi (February 2026) found its captions consistently accurate on podcast clips, tutorials and heavy accents; and Windows Central's Sean Endicott (September 2026) was pleased with the new on-device upscaler on his Intel Core i9 laptop. In PCMag's review, updated March 15, 2025 and linking to Clipchamp through sponsored buttons, Michael Muchmore found that auto compose's one-minute draft was not usable as it stood and that a five-minute 1080p project took over five minutes to export. The catches are a Microsoft account and OneDrive for every project (5 GB free), no app for phones since the iPhone app's retirement on June 9, 2026, no generation of video footage or images from prompts, and a work version that Microsoft's help pages say lacks templates and auto compose. This verdict rests on those four published tests and Microsoft's own pages.

Based on Clipchamp's published plans and the hands-on tests linked below, not on a test of our own.

Good for

  • Beginners and Windows 11 users who want a free timeline editor with watermark-free 1080p export and free AI captions, voiceovers and silence removal
  • Microsoft 365 Personal, Family or Premium subscribers, who already have Clipchamp's 4K export, premium stock and brand kit at no extra cost
  • Screen-and-webcam tutorials, presentations and quick social clips: built-in recorders, silence removal, captions with SRT download, templates and vertical or square presets
  • Companies on Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium, whose plans include Clipchamp's work version for editing videos stored in OneDrive and SharePoint

Watch out for

  • There is no Clipchamp price of its own on clipchamp.com: premium features come with Microsoft 365 Personal ($9.99 a month or $99.99 a year), Family ($12.99 or $129.99) or Premium ($19.99 or $199.99), so you pay for Office apps, Copilot and OneDrive storage too. The standalone Clipchamp Premium is still listed in the US Microsoft Store at $11.99 a month or $119.99 a year, though Clipchamp's pricing and help pages no longer offer it, Microsoft encourages existing subscribers to switch to Microsoft 365, and it keeps projects to 5 GB of OneDrive against 1 TB with Personal; TechRadar's review says there is no standalone plan at all. We did not try to buy it.
  • Since late August 2025, free personal accounts save projects to OneDrive, with 5 GB of storage; a project archived to your own disk has to be uploaded to OneDrive again before you can edit it. You need a personal Microsoft account to sign in; cancelling Microsoft 365 affects everyone you share it with and can reduce your OneDrive allowance, which may stop uploads, edits and syncing if you are over it; and projects cannot be moved from a personal account to a work account.
  • Desktop only: the web editor needs a current desktop Edge or Chrome and does not work in phone or tablet browsers. The iPhone app lost support on June 9, 2026 (projects kept only in the app could be deleted) and is no longer in the US App Store, and there is no Android app. Microsoft recommends at least 8 GB of RAM, preferably 16 GB, and Video Super Resolution runs only in the Windows app on supported hardware.
  • The AI tools have limits of their own: captions handle one language per video, and Microsoft's help page reserves the right to restrict transcription with reasonable notice to curb excessive use or fraud, although Clipchamp's feature pages say there is no limit; text-to-speech has a per-voiceover character limit that varies by language; silence removal ignores pauses under 3 seconds; background removal works on still images only; auto compose may not follow exact order, timing or text requests; and Speaker Coach, the narration coaching tool, was removed on December 1, 2025.
  • Stock rights: Microsoft's help page lets you use exported videos commercially when they contain stock you paid for through a subscription, but not the raw stock files on their own, and Storyblocks tracks can still draw YouTube Content ID claims that you have to dispute, with Storyblocks' help.
  • Refunds follow Microsoft's subscription policy: a refund within 30 days of the first purchase or before the first renewal, whichever is sooner, and one refund per account and product of a renewal cancelled within 30 days of payment; no prorated refunds in the US. Microsoft 365 renews automatically at the regular price unless cancelled.
  • The work version differs: Microsoft's help pages say it has no templates and no auto compose and cannot export straight to YouTube or TikTok, and Microsoft's pages disagree on what Clipchamp Standard includes (the Clipchamp product page lists 1080p for Editor Standard and 4K for Editor Premium; the service description, updated February 26, 2026, and the help comparison give Standard 4K and brand kits, and the service description lists auto compose for both work plans). Work plans bill yearly, give 7 days to cancel for a prorated refund, and delete associated data when cancelled.
  • The cited tests are thin on paid features: TechRadar's covers only the free version's editing, MakeUseOf's is one writer's account of everyday use, and Windows Central's tries only the upscaler. PCMag's is from March 2025, links to Clipchamp through sponsored buttons, prices the standalone Premium, and describes Speaker Coach and the iPhone app, both since removed. On Trustpilot, Clipchamp scores 4.8 out of 5 from 7,254 reviews on a claimed profile that has not invited reviews recently; Trustpilot's AI summary praises the easy editor but notes login hurdles, browser slowdowns and freezes in longer projects.

What Clipchamp does

Price

Free plan: Free with a personal Microsoft account, in desktop Edge or Chrome (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook) or the Windows app: unlimited watermark-free exports up to 1080p, the editing tools, screen, camera and voice recording, free stock media, filters and effects, and every AI tool (autocaptions, text-to-speech, silence removal, noise suppression, image background removal and auto compose), which Clipchamp says have no usage limit. Projects are saved to OneDrive, with 5 GB of storage on a free account. No 4K export, premium stock or brand kit.

PlanBilled monthlyBilled yearly, per monthIncludes
Free free free Unlimited watermark-free exports up to 1080p; editing tools, templates, screen, camera and voice recording; free stock, filters and effects; every AI tool (autocaptions, text-to-speech, silence removal, noise suppression, image background removal, auto compose); projects in OneDrive with 5 GB of storage; needs a personal Microsoft account
Microsoft 365 Personal $9.99 $8.33 $99.99 a year billed yearly, or $9.99 a month; one-month free trial; for 1 person: Clipchamp's premium features (4K export, premium stock, premium filters and effects, one brand kit), 1 TB of OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote with Copilot, and Microsoft Defender
Microsoft 365 Family $12.99 $10.83 $129.99 a year billed yearly, or $12.99 a month; one-month free trial; as Personal for up to 6 people, each signing in to Clipchamp with the account the plan is shared with, with 2 TB of OneDrive shared; Copilot's AI only for the subscription owner
Microsoft 365 Premium $19.99 $16.67 $199.99 a year billed yearly, or $19.99 a month; one-month free trial; everything in Family, including Clipchamp's premium features, plus extensive Copilot usage and agentic Copilot features
Clipchamp Premium (standalone, Microsoft Store) $11.99 $10 $119.99 a year, or $11.99 a month; still listed for purchase in the US Microsoft Store, though Clipchamp's own pages no longer offer it; premium features with only 5 GB of OneDrive for projects; costs more than Microsoft 365 Personal
Clipchamp Editor Standard (work accounts) not listed $3 $3.00 a user a month, paid yearly ($36 a year), self-serve with a Microsoft 365 work account and a one-month trial (card required); the work version: timeline editor, webcam and screen recording, stock, free filters and effects, video storage and sharing in OneDrive or SharePoint; exports up to 1080p on the product page, 4K by the service description; also included in Microsoft 365 Business Standard ($14.00 a user a month) and Business Premium ($22.00), both paid yearly
Clipchamp Editor Premium (work accounts) not listed $7 $7.00 a user a month, paid yearly ($84 a year), self-serve with a one-month trial (card required); everything in Editor Standard plus 4K export, premium stock content and advanced video analytics in Microsoft Stream

Prices last checked: 2026-10-23 on Clipchamp's pricing page. Full breakdown: Clipchamp pricing.

Price history

No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 23, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.

What hands-on testers found

We have not tested Clipchamp ourselves. These are the published tests we found that used it hands-on, newest first; follow the links for the full reviews.

Windows Central · Sean Endicott · September 22, 2026

What they tested: Video Super Resolution in the Clipchamp Windows app, written up the day after Clipchamp's blog post of September 21, 2026, on his laptop with an 11th-generation Intel Core i9-11950H and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, which he gives as an example of a PC without an NPU that can still upscale: several kinds of clips, some high-contrast and some with objects in motion. A short how-to with his impressions; his account type and plan are not stated, and he tested nothing else.

  • Clipchamp coped well with his high-contrast clips and clips with moving objects, enlarging them enough for bigger, sharper displays, though he says no button will save badly shot footage.
  • There is no way to upscale a whole project, only the clips you select, and a single click restores the original clip.
  • He dislikes Microsoft's requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account to edit projects, but calls Clipchamp a capable editor, more so with the upscaler.

TechRadar · Krishi Chowdhary · updated July 22, 2026

What they tested: The free version, signed in with a Microsoft account: a new project built from a five-second clip, free filters (Golden Hour, Vibrant Blogger) and effects with intensity sliders, a recorded voiceover, a stock rain track and keyword search of the content library. The review names no device, browser or app version, and its account of testing covers none of the AI tools or premium features it describes. Published July 22, 2026, before Video Super Resolution (September 2026).

  • Editing went smoothly and the editor took little learning: clips and elements are dragged onto the timeline, and each selected item's settings open in a right-hand panel.
  • A large part of the music and audio needs the premium plan, though free users still get a reasonable amount, and the keyword search spared him from browsing the whole content library.
  • He rated it 4 out of 5 as an easy editor with a generous free plan, watermark-free exports and plenty of stock, but counted against it that it cannot generate video or images from prompts and that premium features need a Microsoft 365 subscription, from $99.99 a year, which he thinks is expensive if bought only for Clipchamp.

Their score: 4 out of 5 stars

MakeUseOf · Oluwademilade Afolabi · February 15, 2026

What they tested: Clipchamp on his Windows 11 PC for his own light editing, written up in February 2026 as a first-person feature: autocaptions on podcast clips, tutorial recordings and videos with heavy accents, the silence remover, the green screen effect and the February 2025 interface update. He names no plan or version, gives Premium as $11.99 a month (the standalone price), and wrote before Video Super Resolution and the iPhone app's retirement.

  • Autocaptions were consistently accurate on his podcast clips, tutorials and videos with heavy accents, and the captions could be edited, restyled and downloaded as an SRT file.
  • He calls the silence remover, which flags pauses longer than three seconds to review one by one or remove all at once, a big help for voiceovers and tutorials, and says the green screen effect is what impressed a friend who edits in CapCut.
  • He found the timeline clean and easy to learn, good for quick edits, social clips, tutorials and family or business videos, but missing advanced color grading, motion tracking and multicam editing for high-end work.

PCMag · Michael Muchmore · updated March 15, 2025

What they tested: Clipchamp on Windows 11 (and Windows 10 for saving a clip's audio), on a Surface Laptop for touch editing and a Surface Laptop 3 (Core i7, Intel Iris Plus Graphics, 16 GB of RAM) for a timed 1080p export: timeline editing, transitions, filters and effects, auto compose, templates, titles, autocaptions, Speaker Coach and noise suppression; the plan is not stated. Updated March 15, 2025, before the OneDrive change of August 2025, Speaker Coach's removal (December 2025), the iPhone app's retirement (June 2026) and Video Super Resolution (September 2026); it gives the standalone Premium's $11.99 a month or $119.99 a year. PCMag's 'See It' links to Clipchamp are sponsored.

  • Auto compose made a one-minute horizontal video that exported in about 40 seconds but was not usable as it stood (a patterned vertical bar along one side showed in much of it); its ideas could still be built on in the timeline, and the review rates it above many rival auto-movie tools, though it adds no titles.
  • Autocaptions were good but not flawless and could be corrected, the filler-word finder missed some 'uhs', and noise suppression, used after detaching the audio, removed wind noise from an outdoor clip very well.
  • A five-minute project of clips from 720p to 8K took over five minutes to export at 1080p on the Surface Laptop 3, which the review counts among Clipchamp's weaknesses with its lack of keyframes, motion tracking and output settings; it rated Clipchamp 3.5 out of 5 as a simple, template-driven tool for social and small-business video.

Their score: 3.5 out of 5 (Good)

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