Video editing software pricing, discounts and cancellations
Work out what video software costs per year, compare subscription and one-time licences, and check refund and cancellation terms before paying.
Answer two questions before comparing plans: how many years you expect to use the tool, and whether you need extra paid add-ons such as AI credits, team seats or stock libraries. A cheap first month can cost more over three years than a one-time licence, and the reverse is also true.
Begin with the yearly cost calculator and the subscription versus perpetual licence comparison to set a budget, then read the pricing guide for each tool on your shortlist. The discount guides list only the savings each vendor publishes on its own site, so check them just before you buy rather than searching for codes.
Read the refund and cancellation guide for a tool before you start a paid plan, not after. It tells you how long you have to ask for a refund, how auto-renewal works and what happens to your projects and exports when a plan ends.
Compare one-time video editor licences (Filmora Perpetual, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve Studio) with subscriptions over three years, with break-even points and the upgrade and OS caveats that change the answer.
What Blackmagic says the free version handles, what Studio adds (10-bit, above-UHD, over 60 fps, Neural Engine AI tools, extra Resolve FX, multi-GPU, Dolby Vision) and a checklist to tell whether you have hit a free-version limit.
A cross-vendor table of AI credit allowances, expiry, top-ups and published per-feature costs for Filmora, FlexClip, Descript and CapCut, with a worked month showing when an allowance runs out.
One dated table of the free tiers of Descript, FlexClip, Riverside, CapCut, Filmora and Screen Studio: watermark, export resolution, length caps, storage and AI allowances, plus which limit usually forces an upgrade for common projects.
A dated table of maximum export resolution, frame rate, length and file caps on each paid tier of Descript, FlexClip, Riverside, CapCut and Filmora, with a worked match of plans to a 4K YouTube channel and to 1080p social clips.
Every current Filmora plan from the official US pricing pages, what each includes in AI credits and updates, and what one and three years actually cost a solo YouTuber.
How many AI credits each Filmora plan includes, what common AI features cost per minute or per use, when credits expire, and how to estimate a month of usage.
What Screen Studio's monthly and yearly plans cost, what happened to one-time licences, what the terms say about devices, refunds and cancellation, and how the yearly cost compares with Loom, Camtasia and OBS.
A five-line yearly cost model for video editing software (licence, AI credits, stock, storage, seats) with prices checked on 30 October 2026 plugged into hobbyist, weekly-creator and small-team examples.
Refund windows, renewal rules, cancellation steps and what happens to projects and rights after cancelling Descript, FlexClip, Filmora and Screen Studio, from their official policies.
The Filmora education prices Wondershare displayed on 30 October 2026, how Student Beans verification works, the educator request form, and a worked cost example against the standard annual plans.
Turn off Filmora auto-renewal from the Wondershare Account Center, the App Store or Google Play, see which refunds Wondershare's policy allows, and export your projects before the plan lapses.
The only FlexClip savings we could verify on its own site on 30 October 2026: annual billing, a 40% education discount and Team annual pricing. No public code was published, and this site has no exclusive code.
FlexClip's cancellation steps, the 48-hour deadline in its terms, the 7-day first-payment refund rule, and what happens to projects, Cloud Space files and commercial rights after you drop to Free.
The savings Screen Studio itself publishes on the date checked: yearly versus monthly billing, the 40% student and educator discount, what is not offered, and a worked two-year cost example.
What Screen Studio's terms say about refunds, renewal and cancellation, what happens to the app, local projects and shareable links after a plan ends, device limits, and a checklist before buying.
Storage quotas, per-file upload caps and monthly recording or media-minute allowances for Descript, Riverside, FlexClip, CapCut, Filmora and Screen Studio, with worked GB math for a weekly show and what each vendor says happens at the cap.
Per-user and per-device rules for Filmora, Screen Studio and Descript from their official licence, pricing and help pages: Mac plus Windows entitlements, moving to a new computer, and what a team actually has to buy.
A worked annual software budget for 52 screen-recorded tutorials at three levels, from about US$132 to about US$516 a year, using current Screen Studio, Filmora, Descript and Google One prices, with storage math and what each step up buys.
A worked annual software budget for two product demos a month plus release clips, comparing a one-person setup with a three-person team using current Screen Studio, FlexClip Team and Loom prices, including seat rules and per-video cost.
A worked software budget for recording, editing, captioning and exporting about four hours of course lessons, showing when monthly plans beat annual ones, the Descript media-minute trap, file-size math and a planning checklist.
A year's software budget for a voiceover-plus-stock channel: AI voice allowances, stock licences and editor plans from CapCut, FlexClip and Filmora, plus the YouTube reused and inauthentic content rules that decide whether it can be monetized.