InVideo vs CapCut (2026): Pricing, AI Video and Which One to Use

InVideo vs CapCut at a glance

What is the difference between InVideo and CapCut?

InVideo and CapCut start from opposite ends of video production. InVideo is an AI video platform: you type a prompt, and its agent plans the shots, generates clips with third-party models and assembles a finished video. CapCut is a video editor, developed by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok: you bring footage and cut it on a multi-track timeline on mobile, desktop or the web, with templates, effects and captions built for short-form platforms. The two have moved toward each other in 2026. InVideo launched a browser-based manual editor on September 1, and CapCut added AI clip generation with the Seedance 2.0 model in the spring. Comparisons written before those launches describe the tools as more different than they now are. The core split still holds, though: InVideo is built to create footage, and CapCut is built to edit it.

How do InVideo and CapCut prices compare?

CapCut is cheaper than InVideo at every comparable step. CapCut’s Pro plan costs $19.99 a month, or $179.99 a year, which works out to about $15 a month; its Standard plan is $9.99 a month in the US App Store. InVideo’s Starter plan is $20 a month for 400 credits, Plus is $60 a month for 2,000 credits, or $50 a month on annual billing, and Max is $150 a month for 5,000 credits. The bigger difference is the pricing model. CapCut charges a flat subscription for access to features. InVideo charges for credits that are spent on every generation and do not roll over.

Two cautions. InVideo showed different plans and prices to a US and a Vietnamese connection on the same day, so your page may not match these; our InVideo AI pricing guide shows the regional lineup we saw. And CapCut restructured its plans in early 2026: Newsweek reported the annual Pro price rising from $77 to $179.99 in February, so any older article quoting CapCut Pro at $8 or $10 a month is out of date.

Which is better for AI video generation?

InVideo is better for AI video generation, mainly because of how much of the work it does. InVideo’s agent chooses among Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 and other models, plans a sequence of shots and assembles the result, so one prompt can produce a complete video. CapCut has a script-to-video maker built on stock footage, and an AI video feature that its App Store listing says supports Seedance, Veo 3 and other models; Seedance 2.0 clips run up to 15 seconds and are rolling out in phases to paid accounts. What CapCut does not offer is an agent that assembles the whole video. The cost of InVideo’s approach is credits. Its pricing page puts a five-second Seedance 2.0 Fast clip at about 30 credits, so Starter’s 400 credits cover about 13 clips, or roughly 65 seconds of footage a month. InVideo’s own FAQ says usable shots average three generations each. We found no published CapCut table of credit costs per AI generation.

Which is better for editing?

CapCut is better for editing, mainly because it has had years to mature. Its editor runs on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and the web, with a multi-track timeline, keyframes on all settings, speed curves, chroma key, stabilization, text-to-speech and background removal, and its template library is tied to TikTok trends. InVideo’s editor is one month old. It runs in the browser with a multitrack timeline, keyframes, color grading and an audio mixer, and InVideo says the manual editor is free for everyone. It has one feature for which we found no CapCut equivalent: exporting an editable project to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve. If you edit on a phone or rely on trending templates, CapCut is the practical choice. If you want to hand an AI rough cut to a professional editor, InVideo’s export matters.

What do the free plans include?

Both InVideo and CapCut are usable for free, with different limits. CapCut’s free editor is a full editor, but paid features are fenced off. CapCut’s help center says that on desktop, options such as 4K, 60 fps and “No Watermark” are locked without Pro, that a project using Pro content exports with a CapCut watermark unless you subscribe, and that long free exports are blocked, at about 15 minutes with the limit varying by region. It also says materials can move from free to paid over time. InVideo’s free plan gives limited credits that reset weekly, with no card required, but InVideo does not publish the number or the free plan’s export limits; its help center says that once a paid plan lapses to Free, edits to a video need a paid plan to download without a watermark. CapCut’s free editor is the more mature of the two. For a first taste of prompt-to-video, InVideo’s free plan is the place to start.

Who can use the videos you make?

InVideo’s terms are more protective of your content than CapCut’s. InVideo says you retain ownership of your content and outputs, limits its own license to hosting and processing “solely as reasonably necessary to provide the Services” to you, comply with the law and enforce its terms, and states that it “will not use your User Data to train or fine-tune” its models. CapCut’s current US terms, updated April 15, 2026, say “We don’t own your User Content,” but grant TikTok USDS Joint Venture “and our affiliates, agents, services providers, partners and other connected third parties” “an unconditional, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual and worldwide license to use your User Content” for operating, developing and providing the services, subject to your platform settings. They also state: “All User Content will be considered non-confidential.” The word “irrevocable,” part of the June 2025 clause that drew criticism, is no longer in that sentence.

Is CapCut still available in the US?

CapCut is available in the United States as of October 1, 2026. It is live on the US App Store and on Google Play, where it was last updated on September 28. The history explains why people still ask. CapCut went offline for US users on January 18 and 19, 2025, alongside TikTok, when the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act took effect; The Verge reported it back online on January 21. The deal creating TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC closed on January 22, 2026. CapCut’s US terms, updated April 15, 2026, name that company as the contracting party. According to the joint venture’s announcement, Silver Lake, Oracle and MGX each hold 15%, ByteDance retains 19.9%, and its safeguards “will also cover CapCut.” InVideo has no comparable history: its US contracting entity is a Delaware company, Invideo Inc.

What do users say about InVideo and CapCut?

InVideo and CapCut both rate well on the US App Store and poorly on Trustpilot, where billing complaints are prominent among recent reviews. CapCut holds 4.6 out of 5 from about 1.1 million US App Store ratings, and 1.2 out of 5 from 1,316 Trustpilot reviews, 88% of them one-star. Recent Trustpilot complaints describe charges after cancellation, features moved behind the paywall and export freezes. InVideo’s AI app holds 4.5 out of 5 from 27,769 App Store ratings, and the invideo AI profile on Trustpilot holds 3.0 out of 5 from 892 reviews, 61% five-star and 29% one-star. Google Play scores are lower for both: 3.9 for InVideo and 3.6 for CapCut. Its recurring complaints are credits running out faster than expected, credits spent fixing the AI’s mistakes, and refunds refused once anything has been generated; its praise centers on support staff and the speed of a first draft. Read both Trustpilot scores with care, since Trustpilot reviewers are self-selected, but take the pattern seriously: cancel CapCut at least 24 hours before renewal, as CapCut itself advises, and watch your InVideo credit balance.

Verdict: should you choose InVideo or CapCut?

• Choose CapCut if you film your own footage and publish to TikTok, Reels or Shorts. It is the better editor and costs less at every tier.
• Choose InVideo if you run a faceless channel, make explainers or ads without filming, or need AI-generated shots. Plan on the $60 Plus tier for regular use.
• Choose InVideo for client work where the content is confidential or the license terms matter.
• Use both if you generate in InVideo and finish in CapCut. That is two subscriptions, about $80 a month at Plus and Pro monthly rates.

The audience for both is large. YouTube’s chief executive wrote in January 2026 that Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, and that more than a million channels used YouTube’s own AI creation tools daily in December 2025.