In short
FireCut cuts silences, captions, zooms and podcasts inside Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, from $19 a month ($10/month billed yearly). The alternatives worth comparing in 2026 are Premiere's own Text-Based Editing, AutoCut, AutoPod, PremiereCopilot, Phantom Editor and Black Hat Editor Tools. They range from free to $40 a month.
In this article · 7 sections
Read this before the table. I am a video editor and I built one of the six tools compared here, Black Hat Editor Tools.
So every price below carries the page it came from and the date I read it — 26 September 2026 — and the paragraph on what FireCut does better than us is not a formality. These products change their pricing monthly; open the links before you pay anything.
What does FireCut actually do, and what does it cost?
FireCut is a plugin, not a website. Its Premiere Pro page lists silence cutting, animated captions in 50+ languages, automatic podcast editing with camera switches, Storyblocks B-roll, chapters and auto zooms, and it is explicit about where the work lands: "Because the editing is done in your sequence, you can still edit the cuts that are made." The same page claims "10,000+ creators" (firecut.ai/premiere-pro1, read 26 September 2026).
Three tiers, checked on firecut.ai/pricing/all2 the same day:
| FireCut tier | Monthly | Billed yearly | What it unlocks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $19/mo | $10/mo | Silence cutting (basic and advanced), J-cuts |
| Pro | $34/mo | $20/mo | + 25 h transcription/month, captions in 50+ languages, podcast editing, zoom cuts, filler and profanity removal, chapters, premium B-roll, background music |
| Max | $44/mo (from $59) | $34/mo (from $39) | + 100 h transcription/month, script-guided editing, magic cut, AI voiceover (25,000 characters), 4K B-roll, unlimited caption templates |
Team starts at $34/mo per user. Every tier gets a 7-day free trial. There are also standalone DaVinci Resolve plans (Captions $12.99/mo, Pro $20.99/mo, Max $59.99/mo) and a separate browser product, FireCut Shorts, whose free plan outputs 720p with a watermark.
That last detail is the one to hold on to: FireCut the plugin edits your sequence, FireCut Shorts hands you a rendered file. Those are two different products and two different workflows.
Why editors look for a FireCut alternative
Four reasons come back constantly, and only one of them is about quality:
- The 7-day trial is short. A week is enough to test silence cutting on one video, not to find out how the captions behave on a real client project.
- The useful tier is not the advertised one. $10/mo billed yearly is the headline, but that tier is silences and J-cuts. Captions, zooms and podcast switching live on Pro, which is $20/mo yearly, $34 monthly.
- Transcription is metered. 25 hours a month on Pro, 100 on Max. If you cut long-form interviews, count your hours before you pick a tier.
- You may already own half of it. Premiere removes pauses and filler words natively, and since 26.5 it assembles rough cuts from the transcript. Paying for silence cutting without having tried the free route is the most common mistake in this category.
None of that makes FireCut a bad plugin. It makes it a plugin you should price against what you actually use.
FireCut vs the alternatives, side by side
Prices in USD, read from each vendor's own pricing page on 26 September 2026. The column that matters most is the last one: an editable sequence lets you fix a bad cut, a flattened export does not.
| Tool | Entry price | Automates | Where the result lands | Free route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FireCut | $19/mo ($10/mo yearly) | Silences, captions, zooms, podcast, B-roll, chapters | Editable sequence (Premiere / Resolve) | 7-day trial |
| Premiere Pro (native) | Included in your Adobe plan | Pauses, filler words, rough cut from transcript | Editable sequence | Already paid for |
| AutoCut | $9.90/mo ($6.60/mo yearly) | Silences; 10+ modules on the AI plan | Editable sequence — "no export or re-import" | 14-day trial, no card |
| AutoPod | $29/mo, single plan | Multicam up to 10 cameras, jump cuts, social clips | Editable sequence | 30-day trial (monthly billing) |
| PremiereCopilot | Free tier · Pro+ $7.99/mo | Smart silences, captions, auto zoom, reframe, chapters | Editable sequence | Free plan, no card |
| Phantom Editor | Free tier · Pro $19/mo yearly | Silences, multicam, captions, chapters, stock media | Editable sequence | Free plan |
| Black Hat Editor Tools | Free tier · $15/mo Essentiel · $40/mo Pro | Silences, captions, Auto-Zoom, podcast, AI B-roll, in-panel agent | Editable sequence (project XML rewritten) | Free plan, no card · 14-day Pro trial, card required |
| Browser tools (Submagic & co.) | Priced in our separate comparison | Captions and clipping, end to end | Flattened export you reimport | Watermarked free tiers |
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The alternatives, one by one
Premiere Pro itselfthe one you have already paid for
Text-Based Editing transcribes the clip, then the funnel filter in the Transcript panel selects every Pause and every Filler word so you can delete them in one action. Premiere 26.5, September 2026, added Paper Edit: you "select the sentences or dialogue you want to keep, and preview your selections before creating a new sequence"7.
Retakes and false starts are another job, covered in how to auto-derush in Premiere Pro.
it costs nothing extra, it is already installed, and on clean voice in a quiet room the result is the same.
it works from the transcript, not the waveform. No decibel threshold, no minimum length, no padding — so on music beds, noisy rooms and multicam it is the wrong tool. The full walkthrough is in our guide to removing silences in Premiere Pro.
Try this first. Genuinely. If it works on your footage, close this page.
AutoCutthe cheapest way in, and Resolve too
Basic is $9.90/mo ($79/year, so $6.60/mo) and contains silence cutting only. The AI plan is $19.80/mo ($178.80/year, so $14.90/mo) and unlocks the ten modules listed on its pricing page: AutoCaptions, AutoCut Silences, AutoCut Podcast, AutoCut Angles, AutoZoom, AutoViral, AutoB-Rolls, AutoCut Repeat, AutoProfanity Filter, AutoChapters.
Enterprise is $238.80/year per seat. The 14-day trial asks for no credit card (autocut.com/en/pricing3, 26 September 2026).
Its homepage makes the same promise FireCut does about staying put: "Works inside Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. No export or re-import."
half the entry price and a trial advertised as card-free.
script-guided editing and AI voiceover on Max have no AutoCut equivalent, and FireCut's transcription hours are stated in plain numbers.
We went through AutoCut's own competitors in a separate piece: AutoCut alternatives in 2026.
AutoPodif the real job is multicam
One plan, $29/mo, 30-day trial on monthly billing. Three modules: Multi-Camera Editor ("up to 10 cameras and 10 microphones"), Jump Cut Editor, Social Clip Creator8.
the camera ceiling. Nothing else on this page states 10 cameras and 10 mics.
everything that is not multicam. No captions, no B-roll, no transcription at AutoPod. And FireCut runs on Resolve; AutoPod does not.
The detailed version is in our AutoPod alternatives comparison.
PremiereCopilotthe lowest paid price, and a real free tier
The free plan carries daily rate limits: 2 jump cuts / smart silences a day, 4 smart captions, 5 smart subtitles, 4 auto zooms / virals / chapters, 2 Vibe Motion — with commercial use allowed. Pro+ is $7.99/month, or $6.39/month billed annually ($77/year), and adds Podcast & Jump Cut, GenAI, and 10× the daily quotas.
Studio is $63/mo for 4 seats. Two modules are also sold as one-time licenses: Podcast & Jump Cut at $59 (up to 10 speakers and cameras) and GenAI Studio at $24 (checked 27 September 2026, premierecopilot.com/en/pricing5).
you can work for free, today, with no card and no watermark — just a daily counter.
volume. Four auto zooms a day is a demo, not a workflow, and FireCut's transcription allowance is measured in hours rather than clips.
Phantom Editor14+ tools in one paid plan
Phantom lists a free plan and a single paid plan, Phantom Pro, at $19/month billed annually ($228 a year).
On 27 September 2026 its pricing page reserved the 14+ toolset and the 20 hours of AI minutes per month for Pro; the free plan keeps three tools — Dopple Copy & Paste, Silence Remove and Transition Assistant — with no AI minutes6.
the toolset is broad (silence removal, multicam, captions, transcription, chapter markers, stock media, a video downloader) and the free tier is not watermarked.
Resolve support, published transcription limits, and a tier structure you can reason about.
Black Hat Editor Toolsbreadth in one panel, and an agent that acts
Mine, so weigh it accordingly. The free plan needs no card: local transcription, 5 caption exports a month, Auto-Zoom, Transitions, Web Capture, Media Finder and Media Library. Essentiel is $15/mo ($144/year) for every tool with no generation credits.
Pro is $40/mo ($384/year) and adds 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 (pricing).
On the silence job specifically, the difference is the undo. Our AutoCut tool decompresses the .prproj, removes the silent segments, recomputes every position and reimports — one operation instead of several hundred, and one click on Restore brings back the previous sequence.
Four presets set the three parameters that matter: Podcast −38 dB / 0.3 s, Interview −42 dB / 0.5 s, Aggressive −32 dB / 0.2 s, Gentle −45 dB / 0.8 s.
DaVinci Resolve, full stop — we are a Premiere Pro CEP extension and we simply do not install on Resolve. FireCut is also cheaper than our Pro plan, and its Storyblocks integration gives you licensed stock rather than generated shots.
AI video generation straight onto the timeline, an agent you talk to that runs on your own Claude subscription, and a local media library indexed with ffprobe. The head-to-head with AutoCut spells out the same trade-offs against the other plugin on this list.
What FireCut does better than every alternative here
Said plainly, because a comparison that only flatters its author is worthless:
- Two hosts. Plugins for Premiere Pro and for DaVinci Resolve, with a plan per host; only the Team offer and the lifetime license cover both. AutoCut covers both with a single subscription; everything else on this page is Premiere-only.
- Transcription hours you can count. 25 h on Pro, 100 h on Max. Most competitors describe their allowance in credits or clips, which tells you nothing until you have burned through it.
- AI voiceover and script-guided editing on Max. Feed it a script, get an edit shaped to it.
- Named stock, not generated stock. Storyblocks B-roll is licensed footage of real things. AI generation is better for the impossible shot and worse for "a wide of Paris".
- A browser sibling. FireCut Shorts handles clipping when you do not want to open Premiere at all — at the cost of a flattened export.
Which one should you pick?
- You have not tried Premiere's native pause deletion do that today, before paying anyone. Start with the silence removal guide.
- You cut on DaVinci Resolve FireCut or AutoCut. Every other tool on this page is a Premiere extension and will not install.
- Silences are the only thing you automate AutoCut Basic ($9.90/mo, card-free trial) or PremiereCopilot's free tier. FireCut Starter at $10/mo yearly is competitive only if you commit to a year.
- Long-form interviews, many hours a month FireCut Max for the 100 transcription hours, or a plugin that transcribes locally with no hour cap.
- Multicam podcasts on 8+ cameras AutoPod. The ceiling decides it.
- You want one panel for silences, captions, zooms, B-roll and generation Black Hat Editor Tools or Phantom Pro. The full AI plugin comparison breaks that down per use case.
- You only ever want punch-ins on talking heads do not buy an editing suite for it. Read automatic zoom in Premiere Pro first; part of it is a free effect preset.
The short version
FireCut earns its place: two hosts, stated transcription hours, and edits that land in your sequence rather than in an export. It stops being the obvious choice when you only need one of its modules, when a week is not enough to evaluate it, or when Premiere's own pause deletion already handles your footage.
Price it against the one job you actually automate — silences, captions, multicam, zooms — and buy that job. If the honest answer is "all of them", one panel beats four subscriptions; the AI plugin comparison covers that case, 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 FireCut alternative in 2026?
It depends on the job. For silences alone, AutoCut Basic at $9.90/month (14-day trial, no card) is the cheapest like-for-like swap and also runs on DaVinci Resolve. For multicam, AutoPod. For a free route, PremiereCopilot's free tier or Premiere's own Text-Based Editing. For one panel covering captions, zooms, B-roll and generation, Black Hat Editor Tools or Phantom Pro.
Is there a free FireCut alternative?
Yes, three of them. Premiere Pro removes pauses and filler words natively at no extra cost. PremiereCopilot's free plan covers smart silences, captions, auto zoom and chapters with daily limits and commercial use allowed. Black Hat Editor Tools has a free plan with no card: transcription, 5 caption exports a month and Auto-Zoom.
How much does FireCut cost in 2026?
On 26 September 2026, firecut.ai listed Starter at $19/month ($10/month billed yearly), Pro at $34/month ($20/mo yearly) and Max at $44/month, marked down from $59 ($34/mo yearly, from $39). Team starts at $34/month per user. Every tier has a 7-day free trial. Standalone DaVinci Resolve plans run from $12.99/month.
Does FireCut work with DaVinci Resolve?
Yes, and that is one of its strongest arguments. FireCut ships plugins for both Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, with dedicated Resolve-only plans. Of the alternatives compared here, only AutoCut also supports Resolve — AutoPod, PremiereCopilot, Phantom Editor and Black Hat Editor Tools are Premiere Pro extensions.
Do these plugins edit my timeline or export a new file?
Every plugin in the table above edits your sequence: the cuts, captions and zooms land on the timeline and you can still adjust them. FireCut states it explicitly, AutoCut advertises "no export or re-import". Browser tools such as Submagic work the other way — you upload, they render, you reimport a flattened file. That is the difference between a tool you can correct and a tool you have to redo.
Can I run FireCut and another plugin at the same time?
Yes. They are separate Premiere Pro extensions with separate bundle identifiers, so keeping FireCut for silences and adding another panel for captions or B-roll breaks nothing. The cost is two subscriptions and two interfaces, which is exactly the maths an all-in-one panel is trying to win.
Are these prices still accurate?
Every figure on this page was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 26 September 2026, and the URL sits next to it. This market discounts aggressively — FireCut's Max tier was marked down from $59 to $44 on the day I checked, and FireCut Shorts was running a 50% launch discount. Open the links before you buy.
