CapCut Pricing in 2026: What the Free Plan Does, and What Pro Costs

CapCut still has a free plan; what changed in 2026 is the ladder of paid plans above it, and the table below gives each one's US price as read on 12 November 2026.

The prices come from the vendor's own plan comparison page and its US app store listing, and they change by country, store and platform. Behind them sits a price story: annual Pro rose to over twice its old rate in February, and the free tier had already lost its cloud storage in August 2024.

Hokai chart of CapCut's annual Pro price change, from Newsweek's 17 February 2026 report and CapCut's own help center.

CapCut Plans and Prices, November 2026

Paying yearly for Pro works out to about $15 a month, roughly $60 a year less than paying month to month.

Standard bought monthly in the app store comes to $119.88 a year.

CapCut says its prices vary by region, platform, taxes and promotions, and its help center sends new subscribers to the subscription page inside the app for the figure that applies to them.

Two rows lean on other sources. Ultra's figure, about $79 a month, comes from BIGVU's 3 November 2026 check of the US pricing page; the vendor's own desktop guide of 7 August 2026 confirms the tier and says its newest video model runs on per-second credits for Pro and Ultra members.

Team's "around $24.99" is the vendor's own wording, while the same outside check found $107.50 per seat a year on the web, so a team should read the checkout before it commits.

What Actually Changed, and When

CapCut's own pricing comparison page, captured 23 Aug 2026 and dated Aug 20, 2026 in its byline.

Newsweek reported on February 17, 2026 that annual Pro had risen from roughly $78 to $179.99. The vendor's pricing-change notice, dated 25 March 2026, says the previous price is no longer offered to new subscribers and lists what Pro gained in exchange: AI credits up from 550 to 1,200 a month and cloud storage up from 100GB to 1TB. The same notice introduced Standard as the cheaper paid plan.

The bigger change is easy to miss, because it never appeared on a pricing page at all. The free tier's 1GB of cloud storage was discontinued in August 2024, more than a year before the price story broke. A free account today can still edit and export. It cannot sync a project between a phone and a laptop the way it could three years ago.

The AI Pitch Sitting Behind the Price

CapCut's own EditPilot walkthrough, captured 23 Aug 2026 and dated Aug 6, 2026 in its byline.

EditPilot is described in the company's own guide as an agent built into the desktop timeline: type an instruction like turning a 12-minute tutorial into a 90-second cut, and it produces a first pass to review and refine. The video model behind the newest AI features is paid for with per-second credits rather than a flat monthly cap.

The company's own documentation points the agent at webinars, interviews and product demos: footage-heavy, long-form work that used to belong to desktop editors. OpusClip sells the neighbouring job: its homepage, read on 13 November 2026, pitches turning vlogs, interviews and explainer videos into short clips in one click.

Who Gets Their Money's Worth From Pro

The vendor's own documentation aims the desktop agent at interviews and webinars, and Pro's 1TB of storage and 1,200 monthly AI credits suit a team that edits long recordings on more than one device. If that is you, price Descript against Pro for your own minutes. Its free plan covers 60 minutes of media a month with 720p export, per its pricing page on 12 November 2026, and its paid plans charge for the same kind of long-form, transcript-led editing.

Who the Free Tier Left Behind

The reader this app built its reputation on is a single creator posting vertical video to one or two platforms, who never needed an editing agent or much cloud storage until the sync option disappeared. For that person the free plan lost cross-device sync in August 2024, and the paid plan above it now costs more than twice its old annual rate.

Veed's pricing page still says "start for free", and Filmora offers a free download for Windows and macOS, both read on 13 November 2026. A rival app from Meta, Edits, launched in April 2025 promising watermark-free exports at no cost, according to TechCrunch's reporting at the time.

The Case This Changes Less Than It Looks

The rebuttal writes itself: most free users never hit the old storage limit even when it existed, and a price increase on a paid tier doesn't touch anyone who wasn't already paying for it. That's true, and it is why the price story reads as a subscriber complaint rather than a free-tier one.

So far the app's store rating gives no sign of a revolt either: on 12 November 2026 we read the US app store listing, which showed it at 4.6 stars from 1.1 million ratings. That is one reading, not a trend.

What Would Change This Verdict

If that 4.6 rating slips by more than a few tenths of a point before the end of 2026, the pricing bet did more than annoy the subscribers who noticed.

The Ultra price in the table rests on an outside check of the pricing page, not on a figure the vendor prints in its help center. A vendor page that states it, or a different figure at your own checkout, overrides it.

Which Plan to Pick

If you are still deciding whether this is the right editor at all, answer a few questions and get a shortlist of editors matched to your use. If it is, the plan follows from how you work:

• Free if you cut short clips on one device and never need a project to follow you to a laptop.
• Standard if you edit only on your phone and want the paid templates and tools without the AI credits.
• Pro, paid yearly, if you edit on a phone and a desktop and need the 1TB of storage or the 1,200 monthly AI credits.
• Ultra only if you generate a lot of AI video, since that is billed by the second against your credits.

If none of those describes you, keep the free plan.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is CapCut Pro?

In the US, CapCut Pro costs $19.99 a month or $179.99 a year, which is about $15 a month when paid yearly. CapCut says prices vary by country, platform and store, so the in-app subscription page shows the figure for your account.

Does CapCut cost money?

No, not to start. CapCut's free plan still edits and exports video. Paid plans add more: Standard is $9.99 a month in the US App Store, Pro is $19.99 a month, and an Ultra tier above Pro adds more AI credits.

Why did CapCut's price go up in 2026?

Newsweek reported on February 17, 2026 that annual Pro rose from roughly $78 to $179.99. CapCut's own notice of March 25, 2026 says the old price is closed to new subscribers and that Pro's AI credits rose from 550 to 1,200 and its storage from 100GB to 1TB.

What is CapCut's EditPilot and who is it for?

EditPilot is an AI agent inside CapCut PC that turns a written instruction into a first-pass edit on the timeline. CapCut's own guide points it at footage-heavy projects like webinars, interviews and product demos rather than short vertical clips.

Does CapCut's free tier still include cloud storage?

No. CapCut says the free tier's 1GB of cloud storage was discontinued in August 2024. Pro subscribers get 1TB of cloud storage instead, up from 100GB before the 2026 change.

Covered in this guide

• CapCut: AI-powered video editor for creating trending content across all platforms
• Descript: AI-powered video & audio editing as easy as editing text
• Filmora: Professional video editing made accessible to everyone with AI-powered features
• OpusClip: AI-powered video editing tool that turns long videos into viral short clips in one click
• Veed: Browser-based video editor with AI subtitles, avatars, voice cloning, and text-to-video: no download needed.

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