FlowHalo vs Submagic: captions, cuts and long videos
A side by side comparison: price, credits, captions, editing and exports, and who each one suits.
Checked on 11 November 2026
FlowHalo clips long videos of up to 3 hours into shorts and edits your own footage too, with 60 caption styles and a timeline, on every plan. Submagic is an AI editor for short videos, with a limit of 2, 5 or 30 minutes a video depending on the plan. It suits you if you need captions in 118 languages or publishing built in.[1][2]
Why choose FlowHalo over Submagic
- You have long videos to clip as well as short ones to edit, and want both on one plan.
- You like a timeline to cut on, next to the transcript.
- Your videos run past two minutes and you would rather not move up a plan for that: the editor takes 5 minutes on every plan.
- You want 60 caption styles to choose from.
Feature comparison
Submagic's side is what Submagic's own pages said when they were checked on 11 November 2026. FlowHalo's side comes from the product itself.
| Feature | FlowHalo | Submagic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | FlowHaloStarter $15, Creator $49 and Pro $99 a month. Quarterly billing takes 10% off and yearly 40%. | SubmagicStarter $19, Pro $39 and Business $69 a month for each member billed monthly, or $12, $23 and $41 billed yearly.[1] |
| Trying it | FlowHaloA 7 day trial with 30 credits, on any plan. There is no plan that costs nothing. | SubmagicA free trial of 3 short videos. Downloading one without a watermark needs a subscription.[8] |
| What a credit buys | FlowHaloOne credit is one minute of video. Starter has 50 a month, Creator has 300 and Pro has 800. | SubmagicUploading a video costs 3 credits and a Magic Clips project 8. Starter has 45 credits a member each month, Pro 120 and Business 300.[1][7] |
| Where videos come from | FlowHaloA link from YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo or Loom, or a file you upload, up to 5 GB. | SubmagicA file you upload, or a YouTube link for Magic Clips.[5] |
| Video length | FlowHalo5 minutes to 3 hours for a video you clip, or 2 hours on Starter and during the trial. | SubmagicA video can run 2 minutes on Starter, 5 on Pro and 30 on Business.[1] |
| Caption styles | FlowHalo60 animated styles, each one editable, with speech transcribed in 60 languages. | SubmagicIts captions page says 35+ caption styles in one place and 12+ animated styles in another. Its home page says 118 languages.[2][3] |
| Editing | FlowHaloA transcript and a timeline for every clip, an AI editor you ask in plain words, and a first cut of your own footage with the retakes, filler words and pauses taken out. | SubmagicText-based trimming in place of a timeline, and Iris, an AI editing agent with 43 editing styles. Pro adds auto zooms, Storyblocks b-roll and the removal of bad takes and silences.[1][2][4] |
| Posting | FlowHaloEvery clip downloads as a file, ready to post where you like. | SubmagicPublishing and scheduling to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts, on the Pro and Business plans.[6] |
| Exports | FlowHalo1080p with no watermark on every plan and 4K on Pro, in 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9. | Submagic1080p at 30 FPS on Starter, up to 2K on Pro, and up to 4K at 60 FPS on Business. No watermark on any of the three.[1] |
| AI agents | FlowHaloAn MCP server and an API on every plan, so Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can clip for you. | SubmagicAn API on every plan, with 10 minutes a month on Starter and 100 on Business.[1] |
FlowHalo pricing
A video takes one credit for each minute, plus one for the AI's first edit, and each change you ask the AI for after that takes one more. Editing by hand costs nothing extra. Starter is $15 a month with 50 credits, and paying yearly takes 40% off.
See the plansFlowHalo vs Submagic questions
For a talking video that needs cleaning up and captioning, yes: both transcribe what you say, add animated captions and take out silences and filler words. Submagic goes further with zooms, b-roll and publishing, mostly from its Pro plan up. FlowHalo is the one that also clips long videos into shorts.
See what FlowHalo makes of your next video
Plans from $15 a month. Cancel anytime.
When Submagic may suit you better
- Captions in 118 languages. Submagic's home page says its caption styles come in 118 languages.[2]FlowHalo transcribes and captions speech in 60 languages, and detects which one for you.
- More AI extras in the edit. From its Pro plan Submagic adds auto zooms, Storyblocks b-roll and audio and clean audio, and its plan table also lists eye contact correction and AI actors.[1]FlowHalo's first cut works on the words: retakes, filler words and pauses come out and captions go on.
- Publishing and scheduling. Submagic publishes and schedules videos to TikTok, Instagram Reels and Stories, and YouTube Shorts, and says scheduling needs its Pro or Business plan.[6]With FlowHalo, count on downloading each clip and posting it yourself.
- 60 FPS, and seats for a team. Submagic's Business plan exports in 4K at 60 FPS and takes videos of up to 30 minutes, and every one of its prices is per member.[1]FlowHalo exports 4K on its Pro plan, edits videos of up to 5 minutes, and a plan is for one person.
Where Submagic's facts come from
Everything this page says about Submagic was read on Submagic's own pages, on the day shown beside each one. Plans and features change, so check their site for today's.
- [1]Pricing page, checked on 11 November 2026www.submagic.co/pricing
- [2]Home page, checked on 11 November 2026www.submagic.co/
- [3]AI caption page, checked on 11 November 2026www.submagic.co/ai-caption
- [4]AI video editor page, checked on 11 November 2026www.submagic.co/ai-video-editor
- [5]Magic Clips page, checked on 11 November 2026www.submagic.co/features/magic-clips
- [6]Social media scheduler page, checked on 11 November 2026www.submagic.co/social-media-scheduler
- [7]Help centre: what it costs, checked on 11 November 2026care.submagic.co/en/article/how-much-does-it-cost-to-use-submagic-1xm83pa/
- [8]Help centre: the free trial, checked on 11 November 2026care.submagic.co/en/article/does-submagic-have-a-free-trial-7opyg3/
Submagic is a trademark of its owner. FlowHalo is not affiliated with Submagic, and this page is not endorsed by it.
See what FlowHalo does
All tools- Add captions to videoPut animated, word by word captions on a video you already have, in the style you pick.
- Remove filler wordsCut the ums, the retakes and the false starts out of a video, with every cut in plain view.
- Talking head video editorRecord to camera, upload the take, and get it back with the stumbles cut and captions on.
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