StreamLadder

The Free plan is a manual editor. It imports clips from Twitch, Kick, Trovo and YouTube, applies the default vertical layouts and exports at 720p and 30 fps, with uploads capped at 200 MB. The plan comparison marks captions, stickers, zoom, sound effects and custom layouts as Starter features.

The homepage FAQ says basic editing never adds a watermark on any plan. If you use Starter editor features while on Free, the export carries a watermark so you can try them first. Free has no Content Publisher, so clips are downloaded and posted by hand.

ClipGPT is the part that watches a whole stream for you. It analyzes a VOD, scores each detected moment from 0 to 100 for virality potential, and returns up to 30 clips per stream that are already cropped to 9:16 with captions and hashtags. Saying “clip that” or “clip this” on stream marks extra moments for the same run.

The plan table puts every ClipGPT row on Creator and Pro only; Free and Starter show none of them. Creator lists ClipGPT use as unlimited. The FAQ offers new users a 7-day free trial with ClipGPT included, which is the only way to try it without paying.

ClipGPT takes a pasted Twitch or Kick VOD link, or an uploaded file of up to 10 GB. The help article on imports states that ClipGPT supports only Twitch or Kick broadcasts and that YouTube VOD links are not supported, even though the homepage lists YouTube among ClipGPT sources. The ClipGPT page asks YouTube streamers to upload the stream file instead.

Two setup details stop a run before it starts:

• Subscriber-only Twitch archives must be switched off in the Twitch Creator Dashboard, or ClipGPT cannot access the VOD.
• The Clip Editor needs a clip URL, such as clips.twitch.tv or kick.com/clips, not a full broadcast link.

Starter and higher plans connect unlimited social accounts and schedule to TikTok, YouTube and Instagram; X posting appears only in the Pro column. Facebook is listed but labelled Coming soon. The platforms keep their own caps: TikTok allows around 15 posts per account in 24 hours through apps, with a separate limit of 6 upload requests a minute and 5 drafts awaiting approval.

On YouTube, uploads count against the channel daily cap and a daily API quota that refills at midnight Pacific Time. Failed posts are not resent automatically; you press Retry in the Content Publisher, or download the clip from Exports and upload it yourself, which skips the API quota.

Editorial assessment

Stay on Free if you pick your own moments and post by hand, and move to Starter at €15 a month when captions, 1080p exports or scheduling save you real time. Creator at €27 is worth pricing only when scrubbing long VODs is the bottleneck, because ClipGPT is its main addition.

Pro at €39 adds two things that work today: 4K/60 fps export and posting to X. Auto Pilot, editor invites and per-editor permissions carry a Soon label on the pricing page, so a team that needs shared editing should not buy Pro for those items yet. Yearly billing charges ten months for twelve.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period. You can cancel at any time and keep access until the billing period ends, but the terms say payments are non-refundable, with no credits for partial periods or unused service unless agreed in writing. The terms were last updated on May 21, 2021 and fall under Dutch law.

You keep ownership of uploaded content but grant StreamLadder a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sub-licensable license to use it, which ends when you delete the content, except where it was used in commercial or sponsored material. Clip only streams you own or have permission to use, since the terms bar uses that infringe third-party rights. The privacy policy names StreamLadder B.V. as data controller and says user data is not shared with AI models or third parties for processing.

1. Record the plan shown in the account, the VOD length and the time ClipGPT takes to return results.
2. Check how many of the five known moments and both “clip that” markers appear among the returned clips.
3. Open three clips and confirm the facecam framing, caption accuracy and cut points without manual edits.
4. Schedule one clip each to TikTok and YouTube and confirm that YouTube files it as a Short.
5. Cancel before the trial ends and note which exports remain downloadable.

Accept the run if at least four known moments and both markers are found and three clips need no reframing. Reject it if subscriber-only settings, missed markers or caption errors force manual rework on most clips. No clip count or quality result is reported until the run is actually done.

If you need AI video made from scripts or links rather than cut from streams, see Cliptalk; for editing a long recording by its transcript, see Descript. Other tools for the same job are gathered under AI tools for content repurposing.