Kapwing Freemium
Collaborative browser video editor with subtitles, dubbing and AI model studio
What Kapwing makes and what you get
- ✓ Model choice
- – Commercial use
- – No watermark (free)
- – API
- – Official MCP server
- – MCP client
- – Agent Skills
- – Brand kit
- ✓ Teams
- – Content Credentials
- – Mobile app
- – 20+ languages
Features and rights come from Kapwing's own pricing and terms pages; check them before you publish commercially. Compare commercial use and watermarks across apps.
AI models inside Kapwing
Models you can pick when you generate in Kapwing, from the vendor's documentation. Compare every app on the model map.
What is Kapwing?
What it is
Kapwing is a collaborative, browser-based video editor from Kapwing Inc. in San Francisco. It combines a timeline editor with auto subtitles, translation, dubbing, text-to-speech, repurposing tools and an AI Studio that lets you generate video, images and audio with third-party models and drop them into your project.
Key features
- Browser timeline editor with shared workspaces, comments and brand assets
- Auto subtitles, subtitle translation and AI dubbing
- Smart cut (silence removal), clip-maker for shorts, resizing for every platform
- Text-to-speech and custom voice clones (Business)
- AI Studio for text/image-to-video, image generation and editing, and music
- 5 GB cloud storage on free, more on paid plans
Models inside
Kapwing's model pages list Wan, Google Veo, Seedance and Kling for video; ChatGPT Image (GPT Image), Seedream and Nano Banana for images; and MiniMax, Google Lyria and ElevenLabs for audio. Its guides suggest using Nano Banana to prepare start frames before animating them with Veo.
Pricing and rights
Free: $0, 10 AI credits a month (about 10 minutes of subtitles), 720p exports up to 4 minutes, a Kapwing watermark on every export, and 5 GB storage. Pro: $24/month or $16/month billed annually ($192/year), 1,000 credits a month, enough for up to 1,000 subtitle minutes or 50 dubbing minutes. Business: $64/month or $50/month annually ($600/year), 4,000 credits, up to 200 dubbing minutes and voice clones. Enterprise is custom. Paid plans remove the watermark. Generative model credit costs are not listed on the pricing page.
Who it is for
Small marketing teams, educators and social creators who want to edit together in a browser and handle subtitles, translation and quick AI assets in one place.
Verdict
Kapwing is a well-rounded team editor with a useful model menu. The free plan is limited (watermark, 720p, 4 minutes), dubbing minutes are tight on Pro, and credits are shared across subtitles, dubbing and generation, so check your monthly use before choosing a plan.
Pros
- Real-time collaboration in the browser
- Subtitles, translation and dubbing in one editor
- Model studio with Veo, Kling, Seedance, Nano Banana, Seedream, Lyria
- Annual Pro plan is $16/month
Cons
- Free exports are watermarked, 720p and max 4 minutes
- Only 50 dubbing minutes on Pro
- One credit pool for subtitles, dubbing and generation
- Browser editing slows on long, heavy projects
Kapwing pricing
Free plan, paid from $24/mo. Prices and credit allowances change often, so confirm on the official pricing page. See every AI content app's pricing side by side.
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Verdict
Kapwing scores 8.0/10 in our AI video editors ranking. Real-time collaboration in the browser.