# Short AI review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Faceless video generator with captions, auto clips and scheduling Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Short AI creates faceless short videos for TikTok and YouTube, with AI scripts, captions, auto clipping and posting to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. It also lists image and video model pages such as Veo 3.1 and Kling. Plans are sold by monthly credits. - **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators - **Made by:** Short AI - **Website:** https://www.short.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: the free tier's limits are not on the pricing page. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Short AI has a free plan, and paid plans start at $19 per month, billed yearly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** The site presents itself as a free AI video generator, but the pricing page does not list the free tier's limits. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $19 per month, billed yearly | 1,600 credits a month (up to 40 faceless videos or 53 minutes of auto captions), 300MB uploads and basic voices. | | Pro | $30 per month, billed yearly | 3,600 credits a month (up to 90 faceless videos or 120 minutes of auto captions), 300MB uploads and basic plus pro voices. | | Enterprise | $60 per month, billed yearly | 7,200 credits a month (up to 180 faceless videos or 240 minutes of auto captions), 500MB uploads and basic plus pro voices. | Read from https://www.short.ai/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Short AI before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save up to 15% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page advertises up to 15% off for yearly billing. Source: https://www.short.ai/pricing ## Key features - **Faceless video:** Generates story, Reddit, dialogue and text-message style videos at roughly 20 to 30 credits each. - **Auto captions:** Captions cost 30 credits a minute of video. - **Auto clip:** Clips cost 20 credits a minute. - **Posting:** Publishes to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. - **AI scripts:** Every plan includes unlimited AI script generation. ## Good for - Faceless channel creators making story and Reddit videos - Creators who want captions, clips and posting together ## Worth knowing - The pricing page was read with its yearly view; the monthly-billing prices were not shown. - Credits set how many videos a plan makes, and uploads are capped at 300MB on Basic and Pro. - The page labels a Channel Plan tab separately from the Creation Plan; only the Creation Plan was read. - The Free tier's limits are not on the pricing page. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Short AI makes faceless short videos with AI scripts, captions and auto clipping, and posts them to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Plans start at $19 a month billed yearly and are measured in monthly credits. The free tier is advertised but its limits aren't on the pricing page. - **Value for money: C.** $19 a month billed yearly, which sits in the dearer quarter of AI image and video tools ($15 and up) without reaching the dearest tenth. Monthly prices weren't shown. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The site presents itself as a free video generator, but the pricing page gives no limits for the free tier. - **Features: C.** Faceless video, auto captions, auto clip, scripts and posting to four networks. Credits decide how many videos you get: 40 on Basic. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You pick a video type and make it, with accounts to connect for posting. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with posting to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. No app or API is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Short AI's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI image and video generators - Short AI's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 63 of the 168 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 42. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 75 of 168) and worst on features (C, above 6). - Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $11.88 for the category: 89 of the 120 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 41 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Short AI you would be making a video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $228 a year. - You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. - You could not: A video editor. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook **Tags:** Video generation, AI features, Video editing, Text to speech ## Alternatives - [Revid AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/revid-ai): AI short-form video maker with auto-publishing to social channels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/revid-ai-vs-short-ai) - [Vadoo AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vadoo-ai): AI video and image generation across many models, on credits. 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