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Crayo vs VEED

As of October 9, 2026, Crayo is the better pick if you clip long videos into shorts and want ranked moments, a face-aware camera, a timeline editor on every plan, published USD prices and credits that reset monthly, all on one $19 plan. VEED is the better pick if you need a free tier, avatars, dubbing, an iOS app, team seats or 4K export. The evidence, with dated sources, is below.

Pick Crayo if

  • You clip podcasts and streams and want one credit to equal one finished clip: AutoClip returns 1 to 20 ranked clips with a face-aware camera, while VEED does not publish how many credits one clip costs.
  • You want a price you can read before you sign up: Crayo Hobby is $19 a month or $160 a year in plain HTML, while VEED's pricing page renders prices with JavaScript and showed Canadian dollars from Canada on Oct 9, 2026.
  • You want credits that reset every month: Crayo Hobby gives 250 workflow credits a month, while VEED's yearly plans hand over a year's credits up front and reset them at renewal.

Pick VEED if

  • You need a free tier: VEED's Free plan gives 10 minutes of video a month at 720p with a watermark. Crayo has no free plan and no trial.
  • You need avatars, voice cloning, dubbing or translation to 50+ languages. Crayo has none of these.
  • You work in a team or on an iPhone: VEED prices per user with Teams and Enterprise tiers and has an iOS app. Crayo has no team seats and is a browser app.

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At a glance

At a glanceCrayoVEED
Entry priceHobby $19/mo or $160/yr (about $13.33/mo)Creator CA$29/mo; annual CA$14/mo (CA$171/yr)
What the entry plan buys250 clips (workflow credits), 2 hours of export, 25GB storage, the timeline editor and the API; also 30 voiceover minutes, 100 AI images and 1 tracked account500 AI credits a month (6,000 a year on yearly billing), about 1,500 AI videos a year, no watermark, unlimited auto subtitles
Metering unit1 workflow credit per finished clip, plus export minutesAI credits, 500 a month on Creator monthly billing or 6,000 a year on yearly billing; the credit cost of one clip is not published
Free tierNone. Twelve free browser tools need no account and never upload the file.10 minutes of video a month at 720p with a watermark and 2 minutes of auto-subtitles, per VEED's own article
Export resolutionUp to 1080p720p on Free; the live page lists 1080p and 4K Ultra HD exports on paid tiers, with 4K on Pro per VEED's article
Auto clippingIncludedAutoClip, 1 to 20 clips per runIncludedAI Clip Generator
Face-aware reframingIncludedFace-aware camera trackNot statedNot stated for clips
Timeline editor on every planIncludedCamera, keyframes, zooms, speed rampsIncludedFree plan too, with a watermark
Native schedulingNot includedDownload and post yourselfNot included
Public APIIncluded34 endpoints on every planIncludedFabric and a subtitle API
Cancel in appIncludedOne click in SettingsNot statedNot stated on the pricing page

VEED facts from www.veed.io/pricing, checked Oct 9, 2026. Crayo facts from the live plan table at crayo.ai/pricing.

Pricing side by side

A worked example for a clipper's month, then every plan from both vendors. VEED prices were checked Oct 9, 2026.

A typical monthCrayoVEED
Plan neededHobbyCreator
Cost$19/mo or about $13.33/mo yearly, in USDCA$29/mo monthly or CA$14/mo billed yearly as CA$171
Allowance used32 of 250 workflow credits and about 32 of 120 export minutesCreator CA$29/mo monthly; credits per clip not published. 500 credits a month on monthly billing, 6,000 a year on yearly, but VEED does not state how many credits one clip costs, so the share used is unknown.
NotePrices from the live plan table.Rendered in Canadian dollars on Oct 9, 2026. Fluxnote lists a 25-minute source cap on the older Lite plan and 120 minutes on Pro; the Creator cap was not shown.

Scenario: One 60-minute source a week, eight clips each: 240 source minutes and 32 clips a month.

All VEED plans (5)Show
VEED planMonthlyAnnualWhat is meteredIncludes
FreeLimits from VEED's own veed-vs-capcut article; the live pricing page offers Start for free.$0n/a10 minutes of video a month
  • 720p export
  • Watermark on exports
  • 2 minutes of auto-subtitles
  • Timeline editor
CreatorRendered in Canadian dollars on Oct 9, 2026; the USD list price was not displayed.CA$29/moCA$14/mo (CA$171/yr)500 AI credits a month on monthly billing, 6,000 a year on yearly billing
  • About 1,500 AI videos per year of credits
  • No watermark
  • Unlimited auto subtitles
  • Priced per user
ProRendered in Canadian dollars on Oct 9, 2026; the USD list price was not displayed.CA$39/moCA$19/mo (CA$229/yr)2,500 AI credits a month on monthly billing, 30,000 a year on yearly billing
  • Multiple brand kits
  • Translate to 50+ languages
  • Up to 144 hours a year of AI voice
  • 4K export and 120-minute uploads, per VEED's article
  • Priced per user
StudioRendered in Canadian dollars on Oct 9, 2026; the USD list price was not displayed.CA$79/moCA$39/mo (CA$465/yr)15,000 AI credits a month on monthly billing, 180,000 a year on yearly billing
  • Custom templates
  • Up to 960 hours a year of AI voice
  • Priced per user
EnterpriseCustomCustomCustom
  • Contact sales
  • Per-seat pricing

From www.veed.io/pricing, checked Oct 9, 2026. The raw HTML of veed.io/pricing contains no prices (JavaScript-rendered). Opened in a real browser from Canada on Oct 9, 2026: Creator CA$29/mo or CA$14/mo billed yearly as CA$171, Pro CA$39/mo or CA$19/mo billed yearly as CA$229, Studio CA$79/mo or CA$39/mo billed yearly as CA$465, Enterprise custom, toggle Save up to 51%. Prices rendered in CAD and USD list prices were not displayed; a USD browser check is still needed. Free plan limits (10 minutes a month, 720p, watermark, 2 minutes of auto-subtitles) come from VEED's veed-vs-capcut article, which still describes an older Lite and Pro ladder in USD.

All Crayo plans (3)Show
Crayo planMonthlyYearlyClips (credits)ExportStorage
Hobby$19/mo$160/yr (about $13.33/mo)250 per month2 hours25GB
Clipper$39/mo$327/yr (about $27.25/mo)1,000 per month10 hours100GB
Pro$79/mo$664/yr (about $55.33/mo)3,000 per month30 hours500GB

Read from the live plan table, the same source as crayo.ai/pricing. Credits reset each cycle and do not roll over; one-time top-up packs are separate.

Feature by feature

FeatureCrayoVEED
Clipping
Long video to short clipsIncludedAutoClip, 1 to 20 clips per runIncludedAI Clip Generator
Moment rankingIncludedVirality ranking in AutoClip and Find Viral MomentsIncluded0 to 10 score on four factors
Face-aware reframingIncludedFace-aware camera trackNot statedNot stated for clips
Max source length3 hours or 4 GB per upload120 minutes on Pro, per VEED's article
LayoutsSpeaker, streamer, split, fullNot statedNot enumerated
Captions and editing
Timeline editor on every planIncludedCamera, keyframes, zooms, speed rampsIncludedFree plan too, with a watermark
Caption styles32 stylesNot statedCount not published
Caption languages56 spoken languages50+ on VEED's own pages
B-rollPartialAdd your own clips in the editorIncluded
4K exportNot included1080p maximumPartialPro and up, per VEED's article
Distribution
Native schedulingNot includedDownload and post yourselfNot included
Post analyticsPartialSocial Tracker, not per-post statsNot included
Creator trackingIncludedInstagram, YouTube, TikTok; 1 to 10 accountsNot included
Public APIIncluded34 endpoints on every planIncludedFabric and a subtitle API
WebhooksIncludedNot statedNot stated
Platform
Web appIncludedIncluded
Desktop appNot includedNot included
Mobile appNot includedBrowser app onlyPartialiOS app; Android listed as in development
Team seatsNot includedIncludedPer-seat pricing, Teams and Enterprise
Billing
Free tierNot includedFree browser tools onlyIncluded10 minutes a month, 720p, watermark
Free trialNot includedNot statedNot advertised; the Free plan stands in
Metering1 credit per finished clipAI credits, monthly or a year's worth up front
Credit rolloverNot includedTop-up packs are separateNot includedYearly credits reset at renewal
Refund policyNo refunds, all sales finalFAQ entry exists; terms not captured
Cancel in appIncludedOne click in SettingsNot statedNot stated on the pricing page
Also included
AI imagesIncluded100 to 500 per month by planIncluded
AI voiceoverIncludedHundreds of voices, 30 to 180 minutes by planIncludedMetered in hours per year on paid plans
Voice cloningNot includedIncluded
AI avatarsNot includedIncluded
Reddit story videosIncludedNot included
Fake text videosIncludediMessage-styleNot included

Included, Partial and Not included describe what each product publishes as of the prices-checked date. Not stated means the vendor does not publish it.

Where Crayo wins

  1. 01

    Crayo's clipper is built for shorts; VEED's AI Clip Generator is one tool inside a general suite.

    Crayo AutoClip runs 1 to 20 clips per source, 15 to 120 seconds each, in speaker, streamer, split or full layouts at 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5, with a face-aware camera, and every clip opens in the timeline editor on every plan. VEED's clip generator page describes a 0 to 10 score on four factors and does not state face-aware reframing for clips. Source

  2. 02

    Crayo credits reset monthly; VEED's yearly plans front-load a year's credits that reset at renewal.

    On Oct 9, 2026 the VEED pricing page listed 6,000 credits a year on Creator yearly and 30,000 a year on Pro yearly, with a FAQ heading How do AI credits work?. Fluxnote's guide, updated Sep 23, 2026, states the 30,000 credits reset at renewal and unused ones are forfeited. Crayo resets every plan's credits each month, one credit per finished clip. Source

  3. 03

    Crayo publishes its prices in plain HTML; VEED's prices are rendered by JavaScript and differ across VEED's own pages.

    The raw HTML of veed.io/pricing contains no prices. A browser check on Oct 9, 2026 showed Creator, Pro and Studio in Canadian dollars, while VEED's own veed-vs-capcut article still lists Lite at $19 a month and Pro at $49. Crayo's pricing page lists monthly and yearly prices in US dollars for every plan. Source

  4. 04

    Crayo cancels in one click from Settings and says so on its own site.

    VEED's pricing page does not describe how to cancel as of Oct 9, 2026. Crayo's policy is published: cancel from Settings, the plan stays active to the end of the cycle, nothing further is charged. Source

Where VEED wins

  1. 01

    VEED has a real free tier.

    VEED's own article lists Free at $0 with 10 minutes of video a month, 720p export, a watermark and 2 minutes of auto-subtitles, and the live page offers Start for free. Crayo has no free plan and no trial. Source

  2. 02

    VEED has avatars, voice cloning, dubbing and AI video generation.

    VEED Pro lists translation to 50+ languages and up to 144 hours a year of AI voice on the live page checked Oct 9, 2026, and its site sells avatars and AI video models. Crayo offers hundreds of voiceover voices but no cloning, avatars or dubbing. Source

  3. 03

    VEED has an iOS app, per-seat team plans and a broader API.

    VEED sells per-user pricing with Teams and Enterprise tiers, an iOS app with Android listed as in development, and the Fabric and subtitle APIs. Crayo is a browser app with one API key per account and no team seats. Source

  4. 04

    VEED Pro exports 4K and accepts 120-minute uploads.

    VEED's veed-vs-capcut article claims 4K on Pro, and the live page lists 4K Ultra HD exports; the same article caps Pro uploads at 120 minutes. Crayo exports up to 1080p and accepts sources up to 3 hours or 4 GB. Source

Billing and cancellation

Each side's published terms. At most two dated user quotes, each tied to a row in the table above. No scores.

Crayo

  • No free tier and no trial.
  • No refunds. All sales are final.
  • Cancel any time in one click from Settings. The plan stays active to the end of the cycle and nothing further is charged.
  • Credits reset monthly and do not roll over; top-up packs are separate.

Source: crayo.ai/refund-policy

VEED

  • Refunds: VEED's pricing FAQ has a heading titled What is your refund policy?; its text was not captured, so see VEED's FAQ at https://www.veed.io/pricing. A Capterra reviewer in May 2026 stated that downloading anything voids the 14-day refund policy (https://www.capterra.com/p/193780/VEED/reviews/?rating=2).
  • Cancellation: Cancellation steps are not described on the pricing page.
  • VEED's yearly plans carry the whole year's credits up front (6,000 on Creator, 30,000 on Pro, 180,000 on Studio) and reset them at renewal, per VEED's FAQ heading How do AI credits work? and Fluxnote's Sep 23, 2026 guide. Prices rendered in Canadian dollars on Oct 9, 2026 and the USD list price was not displayed; VEED's refund terms sit behind a FAQ entry titled What is your refund policy? on the same page.

Source: www.veed.io/pricing, checked Oct 9, 2026

“charged me for an extra year, and are refusing to refund”

“token allowance was too small to decide”

Hands-on test

Superiority claims need a described test behind them. This is the test and its status.

Status
Scheduled, not yet run
Source
A 45-minute two-person podcast recording owned by Crayo
Plans
VEED Creator and Crayo Clipper, same file, same day, defaults first then one tuned run each

Until this test runs, the page shows no timings, clip counts or screenshots, and every claim above comes from published pricing and documentation. The results table replaces this note when it is done.

Show the protocol
  1. Same source file through both tools on the same day, defaults first, then one tuned run each.
  2. We pay for the competitor's entry paid plan and Crayo's Clipper plan and record browser, date and plan.
  3. We record time to first clip, total wall time, clips produced, clips judged usable, credits spent, list-price dollars for the run, export resolution, caption word errors on a fixed 60-second segment, and whether the speaker stayed framed.
  4. Usable means: starts and ends on a complete sentence, hook in the first two seconds, speaker framed, captions accurate enough to post without edits. Two reviewers, disagreements noted.
  5. If the competitor wins a row, it stays. If a run fails, we say so and show the error.

Switching from VEED to Crayo

  1. 01

    Paste a link or upload the file

    AutoClip accepts YouTube and TikTok links or file upload (up to 4 GB, 1 minute to 3 hours). Nothing to migrate from the other tool.

  2. 02

    Pick a layout and an intensity

    Speaker, streamer, split or full layout; subtle, balanced, dynamic or max editing; 1 to 20 clips per run.

  3. 03

    Export at 1080p or open the editor

    Download the clips as they are, or open any clip in the timeline editor to change captions, camera, zooms and music.

Your source files are yours on both sides. Crayo does not need an export from VEED; it works from the original video, and clips you already made in VEED stay wherever you saved them.

Questions clippers ask

It depends on which VEED price you see. Crayo Hobby is $19 a month or $160 a year in US dollars for 250 workflow credits, and one credit is one finished clip. VEED Creator showed CA$29 a month or CA$171 a year on Oct 9, 2026, rendered in Canadian dollars, with 500 credits a month on monthly billing. VEED does not publish how many credits one clip costs, so a per-clip price cannot be computed. If you need the Free plan's 10 minutes a month, VEED is cheaper because Crayo has no free tier.

For most clippers, Crayo, because clipping is the main product rather than one tool in a suite. AutoClip takes a YouTube or TikTok link or a file up to 3 hours, returns 1 to 20 ranked clips of 15 to 120 seconds, and reframes faces across speaker, streamer, split and full layouts, and every clip opens in the timeline editor on every plan. VEED's AI Clip Generator scores moments 0 to 10 on four factors and feeds a full editor with brand kits and avatars, which suits marketing teams more than solo clippers. No head-to-head test has run yet; one is scheduled on the same podcast file.

No. Crayo has no free plan and no trial; the only free products are twelve browser tools at crayo.ai/features/free that need no account and never upload the file. The entry plan is Hobby at $19 a month. VEED (often written VEED.IO) offers a Free plan with 10 minutes of video a month, 720p export, a watermark and 2 minutes of auto-subtitles, per VEED's own article. One VEED reviewer on Sep 28, 2026 wrote that the token allowance was too small to decide, so budget a paid month on either side to judge properly.

Because VEED renders prices with JavaScript and its own pages disagree. VEED's article at https://www.veed.io/learn/veed-vs-capcut lists Lite at $19 a month or $108 a year and Pro at $49 or $288. Fluxnote (https://fluxnote.io/guides/veed-io-pricing-2026, updated Sep 23, 2026) lists Lite at $19 or $12 annual and Pro at $49 or $24 annual with 30,000 AI credits a year forfeited at renewal. Dupple (https://dupple.com/pricing/veed, Sep 24, 2026) lists Lite at $9 and Pro at $24 annual-equivalent. The live page at https://www.veed.io/pricing on Oct 9, 2026 showed none of these: Creator, Pro and Studio, priced in Canadian dollars from Canada. Check it in your own browser before buying.

VEED meters AI features in credits: 500 a month on Creator monthly billing, or 6,000 a year on Creator yearly, 30,000 a year on Pro yearly and 180,000 a year on Studio yearly, per the pricing page on Oct 9, 2026. The yearly figures are granted up front and, per Fluxnote's Sep 23, 2026 guide and VEED's FAQ heading How do AI credits work?, reset at renewal with unused credits forfeited. Crayo meters by finished clip: 250 workflow credits a month on Hobby, reset every month with no rollover, and one-time top-up packs sold separately.

Switching is simple and there is nothing to migrate: paste a YouTube or TikTok link or upload the file, pick a layout and intensity, and export at 1080p or open the clips in the timeline editor. Your source files stay yours on both sides. Crayo does not auto-post or schedule; you download the file and post it yourself. VEED does not schedule either, per its tools pages checked Oct 8, 2026, so neither product replaces a scheduler.

No. Crayo has AI voiceover with hundreds of voices, a voice changer and Enhance Speech, but no avatars, no voice cloning and no dubbing. VEED sells all three: its Pro plan lists translation to 50+ languages and up to 144 hours a year of AI voice as of Oct 9, 2026, and the suite includes avatars and AI video models. If a talking avatar or a dubbed version of each clip is the deciding feature, VEED wins that row outright.

Crayo's policy is published and short: all sales are final, no refunds, cancel any time in one click from Settings with the plan active to the end of the cycle. VEED's pricing page has a FAQ entry titled What is your refund policy?, and its text was not captured here, so read it on VEED's FAQ before paying. A Capterra reviewer in May 2026 stated that downloading anything voids VEED's 14-day refund policy, and a Trustpilot reviewer on Oct 5, 2026 wrote that VEED charged for an extra year and refused to refund. Both are reviewer statements, linked in the billing section.

Try it on your own clips

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About this page

What changed and when. The updated date above only moves when something here does.

  • First published. VEED prices checked Oct 9, 2026 in a browser: Creator CA$29/mo or CA$14/mo billed yearly (CA$171), Pro CA$39/mo or CA$19/mo yearly (CA$229), Studio CA$79/mo or CA$39/mo yearly (CA$465), rendered in Canadian dollars with no USD list price shown.

VEED is a trademark of its owner, used here only to identify the product compared. Sources: www.veed.io/pricing.

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