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By the toolist.ai editors. Researched from Submagic's own pages and hands-on tests published by others, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 6, 2026.

Submagic review: pricing, features and what testers found

Submagic adds animated captions and automatic edits such as B-roll, zooms and silence removal to short vertical videos; cutting long videos into shorts is a separate add-on. Paid plans start at $19 a month for 15 videos.

Our take

Submagic is a captioning tool first: testers found its animated captions accurate on clean audio and quick to produce, and one creator measured higher completion rates with them. It does not find clips in long videos unless you add Magic Clips for $19 a month more, each plan caps video length, and fees are non-refundable. Pick it if you already have short clips that need captions and polish.

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

Good for

  • Creators with short clips who want styled captions fast
  • Social teams who want captions, B-roll and zooms in one pass

Watch out for

  • Clipping long videos needs the Magic Clips add-on, $19 a month on top of a plan.
  • Each plan caps video length: 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro, 30 on Business.
  • Fees are non-refundable (EU consumers have a 14-day withdrawal right).
  • The free trial does not let you export finished videos from the editor.

What Submagic does

Price

Free plan: None; a free trial for a few short videos, with editor exports blocked or watermarked until you subscribe.

PlanBilled monthlyBilled yearly, per monthIncludesPrice per captioned video
Starter $19 $12 15 videos a month up to 2 minutes each, 1080p, no watermark $1.27
Pro $39 $23 40 videos a month up to 5 minutes each, stock B-roll, premium templates, audio cleanup, publishing $0.975
Business $69 $41 100 videos a month up to 30 minutes each, 4K 60 fps, custom templates, API minutes $0.690
Magic Clips add-on $19 not listed Long-to-short clipping for 10 uploads a month, on top of any plan –

Price per captioned video is our calculation: the monthly-billing price divided by what the plan includes, assuming you use all of it. It is not a measured cost.

Prices last checked: 2026-10-16 on Submagic's pricing page.

Price history

No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 6, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.

What hands-on testers found

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

CreatorIntelHQ · Gaurav Sharma · updated September 28, 2026

What they tested: The free trial on a 28-second and a 90-second clip, through the editor and the API, in May, August and September 2026.

  • Editor export was blocked by an upgrade screen on the trial.
  • Captions still needed a read-through.
  • The trial terms changed during 2026.

Tried By Humans · Miriam Alonso · May 5, 2026

What they tested: Over 50 short clips across 30 days: talking heads, podcast clips and product demos posted to TikTok and Reels.

  • Captions on clean English audio needed 0-2 corrections per minute; noisy audio needed 4-8.
  • Upload to first captions took 35-50 seconds per one-minute clip.
  • In a small test of 20 clips, animated captions had higher completion than plain ones.

Their score: 4.4 out of 5

The Business Dive · Aron Kantor · January 3, 2026

What they tested: A creator's own uploads through the caption workflow and editor.

  • Uploads took 5-10 minutes, which felt slow.
  • Captions were accurate except for brand names.

What users say

Test result

toolist.ai has not run its own test of Submagic; the findings above come from the published tests linked. See how we research and test.

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