Is Kapwing free? Kapwing pricing, plan by plan
Kapwing is free to use with a watermark on every free export, exports up to 4 minutes at 720p and 10 credits for the life of the account. The watermark goes from Kapwing Pro: $24 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly, for each member. Here is every plan, credit and limit as Kapwing's own pages state them, read on 7 November 2026, where those pages disagree with each other, and the cheaper route if captions or clips are all you need. Written by Burncaps, which makes a rival tool. Free: 2 videos every 30 days, each with captions and up to 3 clips, no watermark, no sign-up. Then try Pro free for 7 days, no card. Pro is $29 a month for unlimited clips and captions; Starter is $9.98 a month or $49 once.
- Read 7 Nov 2026
- Every plan, both billings
- Video never uploaded
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Kapwing's plans
| Plan | Billed monthly, per member | Billed annually, a month per member | Credits | Exports | Watermark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 10, for the life of the account | Up to 4 minutes, 720p, 30 minutes a month | Yes, on every export |
| Pro | $24 | $16 ($192 a year) | 1,000 a month | Up to 2 hours, 4K, no monthly cap | No |
| Business | $64 | $50 ($600 a year) | 4,000 a month, more can be bought (500 for $50) | Up to 2 hours, 4K, no monthly cap | No |
| Enterprise | On request | On request | A custom amount | Up to 2 hours, no monthly cap | No |
Read on kapwing.com/pricing and its help pages Subscription FAQ (updated 31 August 2026) and How do Kapwing Credits Work? (updated 10 September 2026), on 7 November 2026, signed out, in US dollars. The pricing page opens on annual billing; the monthly prices show after the Monthly switch, and the help page states them. The switch reads "Save 33%", which is Pro's saving ($24 to $16); Business saves about 22% ($64 to $50), our arithmetic. Paid plans are billed for each member of a workspace, and the monthly allowances are for the whole workspace, reset on the first of each month. Plans are subscriptions only, not one-off payments. If Kapwing's pages have changed since, they are the authority.
Is Kapwing free?
Yes, with a watermark and tight limits. This is the free plan as Kapwing's pricing page lists it, row by row.
| On Kapwing's free plan | As its pricing page states it |
|---|---|
| Watermark | On every export: "Unlimited exports with a watermark" |
| Export length | Up to 4 minutes |
| Export quality | 720p |
| Exports a month | 30 minutes |
| Auto-subtitling | Up to 10 minutes |
| Auto-translating | Up to 5 minutes |
| Subtitle files (SRT, VTT) | Not included |
| Credits | 10, for the life of the account |
| Storage | 5 GB, and project files kept for 3 days |
| Upload size | 2 GB a file (its help pages say 250 MB: see below) |
| Brand kit, custom fonts | Not included |
The watermark
Kapwing's watermark policy (updated 21 May 2026) says a watermark is added to all projects made on the free plan, in the bottom right corner of the export. Its own route to remove it is to upgrade and export again: projects made before the upgrade lose the watermark when re-exported. We do not describe ways around it.
No trial for paid plans
The pricing page says Kapwing does not currently offer a free trial for its paid plans. One help page mentions a week-long trial for businesses interested in more than 7 licences.
No refunds after upgrading
The pricing page says Kapwing does not issue refunds once you upgrade to Pro or Business. You can cancel at any time (help page of 3 December 2025); an annual plan cannot be switched to monthly until its year ends. Its education programme stopped taking applications on 15 December 2022, and we found no student or non-profit price.
Kapwing credits, and what each feature costs
Kapwing's AI features draw on one pool of credits. The rates, from its help page "How do Kapwing Credits Work?" (updated 10 September 2026):
| Feature | Credits | What 1,000 credits buy (Pro, a month) |
|---|---|---|
| Subtitles | 1 a minute | 1,000 minutes, about 16.7 hours |
| Translation | 2 a minute | 500 minutes |
| Repurpose Studio (clips from a long video) | 2 a minute | 500 minutes, about 8.3 hours |
| Dubbing | 10 for every 30 seconds | 50 minutes |
| Lip sync | 30 a minute | About 33 minutes |
| Text to speech | 1 for every 100 characters | 100,000 characters |
| Clean Audio, Enhance Voice | 2 and 4 a minute | 500 and 250 minutes |
| Split Vocals, Eye Contact | 10 and 30 a minute | 100 and about 33 minutes |
| Video resize | 4 a video | 250 resizes |
| AI image, AI audio | 4 to 6 an image; 10 a song or sound effect | About 166 to 250 images, or 100 sounds |
What that means for captions and clips
Every use costs at least 1 credit, and the features share one pool, so a month that dubs a video has fewer minutes left for subtitles. Spent only on Repurpose Studio, Pro's 1,000 credits are about 8.3 hours of video a month: $1.92 an hour billed yearly ($16 for 8.3 hours) or $2.88 billed monthly, our arithmetic. Free's 10 credits are 10 minutes of subtitles, once. The credits page and the pricing page agree on these figures: Pro's 1,000 minutes of auto-subtitling and 50 minutes of dubbing a month are the same 1,000 credits.
Where Kapwing's own pages disagree
We read every figure on Kapwing's own pages. On these, two of its pages give different answers; both are here, and the pricing page is the one we use above.
| Question | Kapwing's pricing page | Another Kapwing page |
|---|---|---|
| Free upload limit | 2 GB a file | No larger than 250 MB (Is Kapwing Free?, updated 31 August 2026, and both subscription FAQs) |
| Free export length | Up to 4 minutes | An exporting time limit of 1 minute (Subscription FAQ) |
| Pro export quality | 4K | HD quality, 1080p (Is Kapwing Free? and Subscription FAQ 2) |
| Pro subtitle minutes | 1,000 a month | Up to 300 minutes in one section of the Subscription FAQ, 1,000 in another |
| Pro storage | 200 GB | Unlimited cloud storage (Subscription FAQ 2) |
| Translation languages | Over 60 | 100+ (the subtitle generator page) |
| Two members, billed monthly | $24 each | An example of 2 members billed at $64 monthly (Subscription FAQ); 2 x $24 is $48 |
| Trials | No free trial for paid plans | A week-long trial for more than 7 licences (Subscription FAQ); the refund policy says there are no free trials |
All read on 7 November 2026, signed out. If you are deciding on one of these limits, ask Kapwing which page is current.
When Kapwing is the right buy
A team that edits together
A shared workspace, a brand kit and custom fonts on paid plans: Kapwing is made for groups that make a lot of content. Burncaps has no shared projects; each video is made in one browser.
Long or 4K exports
Its pricing page lists exports of up to 2 hours in 4K on Pro. Burncaps burns captions into a whole video of up to ten minutes, and makes clips of up to 3 minutes from recordings up to three hours.
Dubbing and voice tools
Dubbing on Pro (up to 50 minutes a month), and custom voice clones and lip sync on Business. Burncaps makes no spoken voice; it writes captions and subtitles.
The cheaper route if you only need captions or clips
Captioned videos: Starter
Unlimited captioned videos with no watermark for $9.98 a month or $49 once. Starter paid once is not a subscription. Subtitle files, SRT, VTT, ASS and text, are free without limit for recordings up to ten minutes, on every plan.
Clips: Pro
$29 a month for unlimited clips and captions. Burncaps finds the best moments of a talk, podcast or interview and gives each back as a ranked, captioned 9:16 clip with ums and dead air removed. Try it free for 7 days, no card.
Free first
2 videos every 30 days, each with captions and up to 3 clips, no watermark and no sign-up. The video is read in your browser and never uploaded: up to 1.2 GB for captions on the whole video, and 10 GB for clips.
| For captions | Burncaps | Kapwing |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 2 videos every 30 days, each with captions and up to 3 clips, no watermark, no sign-up | Exports up to 4 minutes at 720p with a watermark, 10 minutes of auto-subtitling |
| Subtitle files | SRT, VTT, ASS and text, free without limit for recordings up to ten minutes | SRT and VTT from Pro |
| No watermark from | The first free video | Pro, $24 a month or $16 a month billed yearly |
| 12 months of captioned videos | $49 once, Starter | $192, Pro billed yearly |
| Clips from long videos | Pro, $29 a month, every clip, unlimited | Repurpose Studio at 2 credits a minute: about 8.3 hours a month on Pro |
| Where the video is processed | On your device, in your browser | Uploaded to Kapwing's cloud |
Kapwing column as read on its own pages on 7 November 2026 (sources above); its watermark policy says every project costs it money to process and store in the cloud. Burncaps column from the product as it works today. Billed monthly, Kapwing Pro at $24 costs less a month than Burncaps Pro at $29; Burncaps Pro exports every clip, unlimited.
Questions, answered plainly
Is Kapwing free?
Kapwing has a free plan, with limits. As its pricing page read on 7 November 2026 states it: unlimited exports with a watermark, exports up to 4 minutes long at 720p, 30 minutes of exports a month, auto-subtitling up to 10 minutes, 10 credits for the life of the account, 5 GB of storage, and project files kept for 3 days. Subtitle files (SRT and VTT) are not on the free plan.
Does Kapwing put a watermark on videos?
On the free plan, yes. Kapwing's watermark policy says a watermark is added to all projects made on the free plan, in the bottom right corner of exported projects. Kapwing Pro and Business export without it.
How do I remove the Kapwing watermark?
Kapwing's own route is to upgrade: its watermark policy says that after upgrading you can remove the watermark from projects you made before by exporting them again. We do not describe ways around another company's watermark. Burncaps has no watermark on its free videos, its trial or its paid plans.
How much is Kapwing Pro?
Kapwing Pro is $24 a month billed monthly, or $16 a month billed annually ($192 a year), for each member of a workspace, with 1,000 credits a month. Business is $64 a month, or $50 a month billed annually ($600 a year), with 4,000 credits. Enterprise is priced on request. Prices as read on kapwing.com on 7 November 2026, in US dollars.
Does Kapwing have a free trial?
Not for Pro or Business. Its pricing page says it does not currently offer a free trial for paid plans. One of its help pages mentions a week-long free trial for businesses interested in more than 7 licences.
Does Kapwing give refunds?
Its pricing page says it does not issue refunds for subscriptions once you upgrade to Pro or Business. Its help centre says you can cancel at any time, and an annual plan cannot be switched to monthly until the annual billing cycle ends.
How do Kapwing credits work?
Each AI feature spends credits from one monthly pool: subtitles 1 credit a minute, translation 2 a minute, Repurpose Studio (clips from a long video) 2 a minute, dubbing 10 for every 30 seconds, text to speech 1 for every 100 characters, a video resize 4. Every use costs at least 1 credit. Free gets 10 credits for the life of the account, Pro 1,000 a month and Business 4,000, reset on the first of each month.
Is Kapwing worth it?
For a team that edits together, with a shared workspace, a brand kit, dubbing and 4K exports of up to 2 hours, Kapwing Pro is built for that job. If you only need captions burned into a talking video, or short captioned clips from a long one, a tool made for that one job costs less or nothing: Burncaps is free for 2 videos every 30 days with no watermark.
Is there a free Kapwing alternative without a watermark?
For captions and clips, Burncaps. Free: 2 videos every 30 days, each with captions and up to 3 clips, no watermark, no sign-up. Then try Pro free for 7 days, no card. Pro is $29 a month for unlimited clips and captions; Starter is $9.98 a month or $49 once. The video is read in your browser and never uploaded.
Burncaps facts, checked 7 November 2026
What it is: a browser tool that burns animated word-by-word captions into a talking video, or finds the best moments of a talk, podcast or interview and gives them back as ranked, captioned 9:16 clips.
Price: free for 2 videos every 30 days, each one recording with its captioned video and up to 3 clips, no mark and no sign-up; then the free 7-day Pro trial, no card (your email only); then Pro, $29 a month, gives unlimited clips and captioned videos, or Starter, $9.98 a month or $49 once, gives unlimited captioned videos. Starter paid once is not a subscription.
Privacy: the video never leaves your browser. The sound goes only to our speech service, on a phone unless you switch it off, on a computer only if you choose it. Because the video never reaches us, we cannot keep it or train AI on it, and we train no AI on anything you make.
Files: MP4 or MOV in, MP4 out. Captions on the whole video: up to ten minutes. Clips: up to three hours, on a phone or a computer. SRT, VTT, ASS and text files are free without limit for recordings up to ten minutes; a longer recording, up to three hours, gives its script and those files (the first ten minutes free, all of it as one of your free videos, in the trial or with Pro or Starter) and its clips (every one found and shown before you sign up; up to 3 from each free video exported free, every one in the trial or with Pro).
Clips: about one clip for every two minutes of talk, up to 30, ranked, the ones we would post first circled, each showing the words it opens and ends on and the reason it was chosen; each cut to 9:16 with ums and dead air removed, an opening card and captions, framed on whoever is talking. Every clip of the whole recording is found and shown, free and with no sign-up; each free video exports up to 3 of them, and the 7-day trial and Pro export every clip, unlimited.
Languages and styles: captions in the language spoken, twelve Indian languages heard on your device, translation into 59 languages, 60 caption styles.
After it listens: correct any word (one click changes it everywhere), add or cut words, one to six words at a time, position, size, text and highlight colours, and names this browser remembers, all free and without listening again.
Made by: Jordan Labs Ltd, UK company no. 17358646.
Against other tools: sixteen caption tools compared, from the vendors' own pages.