In short
AutoCut is a Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve plugin sold in two tiers: $9.90 a month for silence cutting alone, $19.80 for all ten modules. The alternatives worth comparing in 2026 are FireCut, AutoPod, PremiereCopilot, Phantom Editor, Black Hat Editor Tools, browser tools, and Premiere Pro itself.
In this article · 8 sections
Before the table. I am a video editor and I built one of the tools compared here, Black Hat Editor Tools.
Every price below carries the page it came from and the date I read it — 26 September 2026 — and the section on what AutoCut does better than everyone else, including us, is the part I would read first if I were you.
What is AutoCut, and what do you get for the money?
AutoCut is a plugin that works inside your editing software rather than in a browser. Its homepage is explicit about it: "Works inside Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. No export or re-import." — "Stay in your timeline from first cut to final export." It advertises 4.8/5 on Trustpilot across 293 reviews and 4.7/5 on Google across 262 (autocut.com1, read 26 September 2026).
Two plans plus an enterprise tier, from autocut.com/en/pricing2 the same day:
| AutoCut plan | Monthly | Yearly | Contains |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $9.90/mo | $79/year ($6.60/mo) | AutoCut Silences only |
| AI | $19.80/mo | $178.80/year ($14.90/mo) | All 10 modules |
| Enterprise | — | $238.80/year per seat | AI plan + priority support, team licensing, central billing |
The 14-day trial requires no credit card and gives access to the full AI feature set. That is rarer than it should be: of every tool on this page, only AutoCut and the free tiers state that they ask for nothing up front.
The ten modules of the AI plan, as listed on their pricing page: AutoCaptions, AutoCut Silences, AutoCut Podcast, AutoCut Angles, AutoZoom, AutoViral, AutoB-Rolls, AutoCut Repeat, AutoProfanity Filter, AutoChapters.
it has its own page on autocut.com but appears in neither plan on the pricing page (checked 27 September 2026).
Why editors look for an AutoCut alternative
- The $9.90 plan is one module. Silences, nothing else. Everything people actually shop for — captions, zooms, podcast angles, B-roll — is on the $19.80 plan. Compare against that number, not the headline one.
- Ten modules, two or three used. Most editors run silences and captions and never open AutoViral or AutoChapters. Paying $19.80 for ten when you use three is a fair reason to look elsewhere.
- No AI generation. AutoCut inserts B-roll and resizes; it does not generate shots from a prompt. If that is what you came for, this is the wrong shelf.
- Premiere already does part of it. Pause and filler-word deletion is native and free. So is a transcript-driven rough cut since Premiere 26.5.
- It is not the only plugin on Resolve any more. FireCut covers both hosts too, with dedicated Resolve plans.
AutoCut vs the alternatives, side by side
Prices in USD, read from each vendor's own pricing page on 26 September 2026. "Where it lands" is the column editors underestimate: a sequence you can still fix, or a rendered file you have to redo.
| Tool | Entry price | Full-featured price | Quota model | Where the result lands | Free route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoCut | $9.90/mo (silences only) | $19.80/mo ($14.90/mo yearly) | No published per-month cap | Editable sequence, Premiere + Resolve | 14-day trial, no card |
| FireCut | $19/mo ($10/mo yearly) | $34/mo Pro ($20/mo yearly) | 25 h transcription/mo (Pro), 100 h (Max) | Editable sequence, Premiere + Resolve | 7-day trial |
| AutoPod | $29/mo, single plan | $29/mo | No published cap | Editable sequence, Premiere | 30-day trial (monthly billing) |
| PremiereCopilot | Free | $7.99/mo Pro+ | Daily counters (free), 10× on Pro+ | Editable sequence, Premiere | Free plan, no card |
| Phantom Editor | Free | $19/mo yearly ($228/yr) | 20 h AI minutes/mo (Pro) | Editable sequence, Premiere | Free plan |
| Black Hat Editor Tools | Free · $15/mo Essentiel | $40/mo Pro | 5 caption exports/month (free), 4,000 AI video credits/mo (Pro) | Editable sequence, Premiere | Free plan, no card · 14-day Pro trial, card required |
| Premiere Pro (native) | Included | Included | None | Editable sequence | Already paid for |
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Module by module: who else does each AutoCut job?
This is the useful way to shop. Find the module you actually use, then look across the row.
| AutoCut module | Closest alternatives | Free option |
|---|---|---|
| AutoCut Silences | FireCut Starter, PremiereCopilot Smart Silences, our AutoCut tool | Premiere's Pauses filter, native |
| AutoCaptions | FireCut Pro captions, Submagic and browser tools, our captions tool | Premiere captions from transcript |
| AutoCut Podcast / Angles | AutoPod Multi-Camera (10 cameras), PremiereCopilot Podcast & Jump Cut, Phantom Wraith | — |
| AutoZoom | FireCut zoom cuts, PremiereCopilot Auto Zoom, our Auto-Zoom | A hand-made Scale effect preset |
| AutoB-Rolls | FireCut (Storyblocks), AI generation tools | Stock sites, manually |
| AutoCut Repeat | FireCut filler and repetition removal, transcript-driven cleanup | Premiere's Filler words filter |
| AutoChapters | FireCut chapters, Phantom AI Chapter Markers, PremiereCopilot Auto Chapters | — |
| AutoViral | FireCut Shorts, Submagic, Opus-style browser clippers | Watermarked free tiers |
| AutoResize | Premiere's own Auto Reframe | Native |
| AutoProfanity Filter | FireCut profanity removal (Pro tier) | — |
Two rows deserve a note. AutoResize overlaps with Premiere's built-in Auto Reframe, which ships motion presets — Slower Motion for talking-head interviews, Default, Faster Motion for action — and lets you edit the resulting keyframes in Effect Controls7. And AutoProfanity Filter has almost no competition: if bleeping is part of your job, that single module may decide the whole subscription.
The alternatives, one by one
FireCutthe other plugin that covers both hosts
Starter $19/mo ($10/mo yearly) for silences and J-cuts; Pro $34/mo ($20/mo yearly) adds 25 hours of transcription a month, captions in 50+ languages, podcast editing, zoom cuts, filler and profanity removal, chapters and Storyblocks B-roll; Max $44/mo (down from $59) raises transcription to 100 hours and adds script-guided editing, magic cut and AI voiceover. 7-day trial3.
transcription allowances stated in hours, AI voiceover and script-guided editing, and a browser sibling for clipping.
twice the entry price, a trial half as long, and no equivalent to AutoResize.
The mirror-image comparison is here: FireCut alternatives in 2026.
AutoPodfor multicam podcasts above all
$29/mo, one plan, 30-day trial on monthly billing. Multi-Camera Editor up to "10 cameras and 10 microphones", Jump Cut Editor, Social Clip Creator8.
raw multicam capacity and a studio track record on it.
no captions, no transcription, no B-roll, Premiere only, and $29 for three modules against AutoCut's $19.80 for ten.
Detail in the AutoPod alternatives comparison.
PremiereCopilotfree every day, cheap every month
Free plan with daily counters: 2 jump cuts / smart silences, 4 smart captions, 5 smart subtitles, 4 auto zooms / virals / chapters, 2 Vibe Motion, commercial use allowed. Pro+ at $7.99/month (20% off annually) adds Podcast & Jump Cut, GenAI and 10× the quotas. Studio is $63/mo for four seats5.
the cheapest paid plan in this comparison, and a free tier you can genuinely ship with if your volume is low.
those daily counters. AutoCut publishes no per-day cap, which for a full editing week is a different kind of product.
Phantom Editorone price, everything
A free plan and Phantom Pro at $19/month billed annually ($228/year), covering 14+ tools: silence removal, multicam (Wraith), captions (Banshee), transcription (Echoe), chapter markers, stock media, a video downloader, folder management.
On 27 September 2026 its pricing page limited the free plan to three tools — Dopple Copy & Paste, Silence Remove and Transition Assistant — with no AI minutes: the full toolset and the 20 hours of AI minutes a month are Pro only6.
breadth per dollar, and utilities AutoCut does not ship at all (folder manager, downloader).
Premiere only, and one paid tier: past the three free tools, it is all or nothing.
Black Hat Editor Toolsone panel, and generation on the timeline
Mine. Free plan, no card: local transcription, 5 caption exports a month, Auto-Zoom, Transitions, Web Capture, Media Finder and Media Library. Essentiel $15/mo ($144/year) for every tool with no generation credits.
Pro $40/mo ($384/year) with 4,000 AI video credits a month, the in-panel agent and the AI analysis of the edit. The 14-day Pro trial requires a card — unlike AutoCut's (pricing).
Against AutoCut Silences specifically, the difference is the undo history. Our AutoCut tool decompresses the .prproj, removes the silent segments, recomputes positions with a prefix sum and reimports: one operation, and one click on Restore to get the previous sequence back.
Four presets set the three parameters — Podcast −38 dB / 0.3 s, Interview −42 dB / 0.5 s, Aggressive −32 dB / 0.2 s, Gentle −45 dB / 0.8 s — and a live preview recalculates as you move the sliders.
DaVinci Resolve, which we do not support at all; a $9.90 entry ticket against our $15; a 14-day trial with no card against our card-required one; and two modules we simply do not have, AutoProfanity Filter and AutoResize. Our head-to-head page says the same thing in fewer words.
AI video generation placed directly on the timeline, a conversational agent running on your own Claude subscription, and a local media library indexed with ffprobe and searched semantically.
Premiere Pro itselfstart here
Transcribe, open the funnel filter in the Transcript panel, choose Pauses, Delete All. Repeat with Filler words. Since 26.5 (September 2026), Paper Edit assembles a sequence from transcript selections: you "select the sentences or dialogue you want to keep, and preview your selections before creating a new sequence"9. Auto Reframe handles the resize job natively.
Filler words are only half of AutoCut Repeat's job; retakes and false starts are covered in how to auto-derush in Premiere Pro.
Its limit is structural: it reads the transcript, not the waveform, so there is no decibel threshold, no minimum length and no padding. The full guide to removing silences explains what those three numbers do and when the native route stops being enough.
What AutoCut does better than all of them
- A genuine $9.90 entry point. If silences are the whole job, nothing else here is cheaper for a plugin that works in both Premiere and Resolve.
- A 14-day trial with no credit card. The only full-feature trial on this page advertised as card-free. Ours asks for a card; FireCut's lasts seven days.
- Ten documented, named modules. They are listed, they are separate, and you know what you bought.
- AutoProfanity Filter. A dedicated module for bleeping; FireCut Pro also advertises profanity clean-up. If broadcast-safe language is a deliverable, compare those two.
- Both hosts, one subscription Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, free version included.
- Public review volume. 293 Trustpilot reviews at 4.8/5 and 262 Google reviews at 4.7/5 is more third-party evidence than most plugins in this category can show.
Which one should you pick?
- Silences only, on Premiere or Resolve AutoCut Basic at $9.90/mo. Try Premiere's native pause deletion first; if it holds up, keep the money.
- You need a trial without handing over a card AutoCut, PremiereCopilot's free plan, or our free plan.
- You need bleeping AutoCut, or FireCut Pro, which also advertises profanity clean-up.
- You cut long interviews and want transcription hours you can count FireCut Pro or Max.
- Multicam podcasts, many cameras AutoPod, or PremiereCopilot's Podcast & Jump Cut module.
- You mostly want punch-ins don't buy a suite for it. Automatic zoom in Premiere Pro covers the free preset route and the plugins side by side.
- You want captions, B-roll, zooms and AI generation in one panel Black Hat Editor Tools or Phantom Pro. The comparison of AI plugins for Premiere Pro sorts the field by use case.
The short version
AutoCut's structure is its argument: $9.90 if you only cut silences, $19.80 if you want the ten modules, both hosts, and a trial that does not ask for a card. It loses when you use three modules out of ten, when you need AI generation it does not do, or when Premiere's own pause deletion was already enough.
Work out which single module justifies the subscription, then check the row for that module in the table above. If your answer is "captions and zooms and B-roll and generation", one panel is cheaper than four; start with the AI plugin comparison, and the AutoCut help page lists the four presets and the three clicks it takes to run ours.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best AutoCut alternative in 2026?
FireCut is the closest like-for-like: both are plugins, both cover Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, both cut silences and caption. FireCut costs more at entry ($19/mo vs $9.90) but publishes transcription hours and adds AI voiceover. For a cheaper route, PremiereCopilot's free tier. For breadth in one panel, Phantom Pro or Black Hat Editor Tools.
How much does AutoCut cost in 2026?
On 26 September 2026, autocut.com listed Basic at $9.90/month or $79/year ($6.60/month) for silence cutting only, and the AI plan at $19.80/month or $178.80/year ($14.90/month) for all ten modules. Enterprise is $238.80/year per seat. The 14-day free trial requires no credit card.
Is there a free alternative to AutoCut?
Yes. Premiere Pro deletes pauses and filler words natively and reframes with Auto Reframe, at no extra cost. PremiereCopilot's free plan covers silences, captions, auto zoom and chapters under daily counters, with commercial use allowed. Black Hat Editor Tools has a free plan with no card: transcription, 5 caption exports a month and Auto-Zoom.
AutoCut or FireCut?
AutoCut if you want the cheapest entry, a card-free trial, bleeping or automatic resizing. FireCut if you transcribe many hours a month and want that allowance stated in hours, or if you need AI voiceover and script-guided editing. Both run on Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve and both edit your sequence rather than exporting a file.
Does AutoCut work on DaVinci Resolve?
Yes. AutoCut sells one subscription covering both Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, including the free version of Resolve. Among the alternatives here, only FireCut also runs on Resolve, with separate Resolve plans — AutoPod, PremiereCopilot, Phantom Editor and Black Hat Editor Tools are Premiere Pro extensions.
Do I lose my edits if I cancel the subscription?
No. These plugins write cuts, captions and effects into your sequence, so what they produced stays in the project after the subscription ends. What you lose is the ability to run a new pass. This is the practical advantage of plugins over browser tools, where the work lives on someone else's server until you export it.
How current are these prices?
Every number here was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 26 September 2026, with the URL next to it. Discounts in this category are frequent and temporary — FireCut's Max tier was marked down on the day I checked. Open the links before you commit to an annual plan.
