Captions vs VSDC Free Video Editor
Captions
captions.ai
VSDC Free Video Editor
videosoftdev.comSide by side
| Figure | Captions | VSDC Free Video Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4.99/mo | $1.67/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 12 | 6 |
| Spec score · Video Editing Software | 9.4 (#2) | 8.9 (#18) |
| Company headquarters | LinkedIn lists New York, NY as Mirage’s headquarters. | The maker’s About page does not state a headquarters location. |
| Company size | LinkedIn lists Mirage as a privately held software company with 51–200 employees. | The About page describes VSDC as an SMB company but does not give an employee count. |
| Documentation | The help center covers onboarding, billing, generation, editing, export, project management, troubleshooting and API reference pages. | The online user manual covers the program’s Free and Pro options together. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The help center lists Clay as an integration for creating personalized AI avatar sales and talking-head videos. | The maker’s privacy page says the software can use YouTube API Services to render and upload videos to a YouTube account. |
| Licence | The product site presents Captions as proprietary software, gives no open-source licence, and displays an all-rights-reserved notice. | VSDC is proprietary software licensed under the maker’s EULA; the EULA identifies Flash-Integro LLC as the intellectual property owner. |
| Rating on Apple App Store | 4.7 out of 5 from 38K ratings | 3.9 out of 5 from 17 ratings. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.5 out of 5 from 1 review | 4.2 out of 5 from 55 reviews. |
| Rating on Trustpilot | 4.4 out of 5 from 506 reviews | 4.3 out of 5 from 235 reviews, as shown in the opened Trustpilot result. |
| Self-hosting | The published API and product documentation describe hosted services and do not state a self-hosted deployment option. | The maker describes VSDC as downloadable software and does not describe a self-hosted server edition on the product page. |
| Support | The Enterprise plan includes a dedicated account management team, customer onboarding, priority training and hands-on support. | The maker lists technical support among its contact channels on the About page. |
| What it does | Captions is an AI video editor and generator that turns uploaded footage or prompts into edited, captioned and shareable videos. | VSDC is a non-linear video editor for combining and editing video, images, and audio, with separate control over objects’ position and timing. |
Plans
Captions
- Max$24.99 a month
- Frontier$69.99 a month
- Frontier 2x$139.99 a month
- Frontier 4x$279.99 a month
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Lite$4.99 a month
- Basic$9.99 a month
- Frontier$69.99 a month
- Frontier 2x$139.99 a month
VSDC Free Video Editor
- FreeFree
- Pro$29.99 a year
- VSDC Free Video EditorFree
- VSDC Free Video EditorFree
- VSDC Pro$19.99 a year
- VSDC Video Editor Pro for iOSPrice not published
In their own words
Captions
Captions is an AI video platform for creating and editing videos from footage or prompts. AI Edit can apply cuts, captions, music, and formatting to uploaded material. The service offers automatic transcription, more than 100 caption styles, and translation into over 100 languages. Users can dub videos into more than 30 languages with a cloned version of their voice. Prompt to Video creates talking-head videos from scripts using built-in actors or an AI Twin. The platform is aimed at creators, marketers, and developers making materials such as ads, listing videos, and podcast clips. Its Mirage API generates content from scripts, image references, or actor IDs and uses credit-based billing. The free plan costs nothing and includes no AI usage credits, one caption template, and basic editing tools. Max costs $24.99 a month and includes 500 monthly credits; Frontier plans provide higher credit allowances. Unused credits can roll over for up to two extra months, capped at three times the monthly allowance. Captions is available on Android, iOS, and web, with an API offering.
VSDC Free Video Editor
VSDC Free Video Editor is a nonlinear editor for creating and editing videos with visual and audio effects. Its free Windows editor supports 4K, 5.3K, and up to 8K video at up to 120 frames per second. The maker says free exports add no watermark and have no file-size or duration limits. More than 200 built-in video effects, filters, and color-grading tools are included, along with audio effects, animated text, and a subtitle editor. Multicamera synchronization can switch between two videos captured from different angles. Export profiles cover Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Vimeo, with direct YouTube uploading. Pro adds hardware acceleration, advanced masking and chroma key, audio waveform, voiceover, stabilization, and GPX GPS telemetry synchronization. A desktop app and mobile app are listed for Windows and iOS; there is no web app or team collaboration. The free plan is available, while paid plans are listed at $29.99 a year and $19.99 a year.