The honest price of clipping: what to count before comparing
A price list is not a price
Comparing services by their pages is pointless: one charges per minute of source video, another per minute of finished clips, a third sells "credits" you still have to convert into minutes. The same file costs wildly different amounts in those units — different by multiples.
The only honest method is to count by what is charged: take one file, run it through both services, and look at what left the balance. That is what we did on 08.09.2026, on a single video. What follows is the result. It is one experiment on one day, not a market survey, and we say so plainly.
What the run showed
On the published pages the other service looked almost three times cheaper than us. By the actual charge it came out more expensive: about 91 ₸ per minute of source video against our 67 ₸ on the entry package and 25 ₸ on the large one.
The gap comes from three places, none of them visible on a pricing page:
- what the minutes are counted on. A minute of source and a minute of finished clips are not the same thing. An hour of recording yields well under an hour of clips, so charging by clips sounds cheaper than it turns out to be;
- how many clips a minute yields. In our own measurement (order #409) it was 0.65 clips per minute of recording; in that run the other service produced 0.40. The same money buys a different amount of material;
- what the free start actually includes. The promised ten minutes came out as a little over eight: the service counted them its own way. With us the first video is processed free up to 20 minutes, and a trial order returns up to 5 clips — both numbers stated here, not in a footnote.
The third road people forget
In Kazakhstan the choice is not between five clipping services. It is between three roads: pay a service, pay a human editor, or do it yourself.
What one clip costs
A human editor charges from 3 690 ₸ per video.
Price from profi.kz: video editing in Astana, Aug. 25, 2026.
With us it is 130 ₸ per clip on the «Start» package. The larger the package, the cheaper the clip: on «Agency» it is 50 ₸.
That is 28 times cheaper. And the count favours the editor: his lowest price against our most expensive clip.
How we differ from him. A human editor watches the whole recording and picks moments understanding what they mean. Here the moments are picked by a model, while the clip boundaries, the title and the subtitles you adjust yourself in your account — rebuilding is free and costs no minutes.
The editor's price above is the mildest figure we found: overviews quote 1,000–15,000 ₸ per clip, professional editing from 20,000 ₸. We deliberately compare ourselves against the one that is hardest to argue with — and take our own most expensive clip while doing it.
Work out your own price in five minutes
- take your typical file and its length in minutes;
- multiply by each service's price per minute of source — if the price is per something else, convert it into source minutes, not the other way round;
- divide by the number of clips you actually got. Not the promised one;
- compare with what an editor charges for the same set of clips.
If that arithmetic does not come out in our favour, tell us. A number someone disproves with evidence is worth more than a number we boast with. We reply within one business day.