Vidyo.ai is now Quso: what changed, what it costs, and the open source alternative
Checked October 2026 Prices and plans read on Quso's public pricing page; vendors change them without notice.
Vidyo.ai is now Quso: the rebrand went live in January 2025, vidyo.ai redirects to quso.ai, and accounts carried over. Quso has a free plan of 75 credits a month at 720p and paid plans from $19/month billed yearly ($29 monthly).
Quso grew into a social suite (scheduling, a content planner, analytics) around the original clipper. OpenShorts stays a clipper: two-speaker, screencast and webcam-inset layouts, and dubbing into 30+ languages with your own ElevenLabs key.
OpenShorts is open source: free when you run it yourself, or hosted from $12/month billed monthly.
Your first video free up to 60 minutes, then 20 free minutes a month, no credit card. Or self-host it free under MIT.
What is Quso (formerly Vidyo.ai)?
Quso is the new name of Vidyo.ai. The rebrand went live in January 2025, vidyo.ai now answers with a permanent redirect to quso.ai, and logins, plans, credits and projects carried over unchanged. What did change is the pitch: Quso sells itself as an all-in-one suite for creating, editing, scheduling and analysing social content, with the AI clipper as one part of it.
Is OpenShorts a real alternative to Quso?
Yes, with one honest caveat. Quso kept the Vidyo.ai clipper and built a social suite around it. If the clipper is the part you use, OpenShorts replaces that part and leaves the scheduling to whatever you already use, or posts straight to TikTok, Reels and Shorts itself. Where it goes further is the clipping itself: two speakers stacked when both are on camera, screen recordings kept readable over the presenter, and a webcam inset enlarged instead of cropped out. What you give up is the zero-setup start: free means Docker on your own machine, and the hosted edition is paid beyond its free 20 minutes a month.
Real OpenShorts output, not a mock-up. A two-person podcast: both speakers stacked in half-frames, captions on the seam where they cover nobody. Source: Turn the Tables with Dan and Shoshana Jordan, Heritage of Faith, CC BY.
What does Quso cost?
- Free: 75 credits a month (one credit is about one minute of video), 720p, data kept 7 days, no scheduling
- Lite: $29/month, or $19/month billed yearly: 100 credits (200 on yearly), 1080p, desktop editor
- Essential: $39/month, or $26/month billed yearly: 300 credits (600 on yearly), scheduling, filler and silence removal, content planner
- Growth: $49/month, or $33/month billed yearly: 600 credits (1,200 on yearly), brand kit, AI assistant, analytics
Quso bills credits, and a credit is roughly a minute of processed video, so a 60-minute podcast uses 60 of them whatever it yields. The yearly plans double the credits, which makes month-to-month billing about three times as expensive per minute.
What would you pay for your own usage?
A meter on source length makes the price depend on what you import, not on the clips you keep. Drag to your monthly minutes and read the cheapest plan at each tool.
Cheapest published plan that covers that many minutes, per month. Prices checked 2026-10-05. Self-hosted needs Docker and your own Gemini key, whose free tier covers 1,500 requests a day.
What does OpenShorts cost?
Two editions, two prices. Self-hosted, OpenShorts costs nothing: MIT licence, Docker, your own API keys, no watermark and no cap. Hosted, OpenShorts Cloud gives you the first video clipped whole up to 60 minutes, then 20 minutes a month with a watermark and no credit card; paid plans run from $12/month for 100 minutes to $59 for 750. Quso, by comparison, is metered in credits (~1 per minute of video) and starts at $19/month billed yearly ($29 monthly).
Quso vs OpenShorts, feature by feature
| Feature | OpenShorts | Quso |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $0 self-hosted · $0 hosted for 20 min/mo · $12/mo hosted without watermark | $19/month billed yearly ($29 monthly) |
| Open source | Yes, MIT | No |
| Self-hostable | Yes, Docker Compose | No, cloud only |
| Source video stays on your machine | Yes when self-hosted | No |
| AI viral moment detection | Yes, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | Yes |
| Face-tracked 9:16 reframing | Yes, MediaPipe + YOLOv8 | Yes |
| Word-level auto subtitles | Yes, faster-whisper | Yes |
| AI voice dubbing, 30+ languages | Yes, with your own ElevenLabs key | Not listed on its pricing page |
| AI UGC video with lip-synced actors | Yes, from $0.65/video | Not listed on its pricing page |
| Free AI YouTube thumbnail & title studio | Yes when self-hosted · thumbnails on paid Cloud plans | Not listed on its pricing page |
| Usage cap | None when self-hosted · metered on Cloud | Metered in credits (~1 per minute of video) |
What Quso does better
- Scheduling, a content planner and analytics in the same app, which a pure clipper does not have
- A free plan that is larger than most in minutes
- A mature product: the Vidyo.ai clipper has been on the market since before most of this category existed
When to stay on Quso
- You use the content planner, scheduling and analytics, which a clipper does not replace.
- You can commit to a yearly plan: it doubles the credits.
- Its 75-minute free plan already covers what you clip each month.
Where the two differ
- OpenShorts is MIT-licensed and self-hostable; Quso is a closed cloud service.
- OpenShorts is a clipper first: moment scoring, face-tracked reframing, two-speaker and screencast layouts, dubbing into 30+ languages with your own ElevenLabs key. Quso spreads across scheduling and planning too.
- OpenShorts Cloud starts at $12/month billed monthly; Quso's cheapest paid plan is $29 month to month or $19/month on a yearly commitment.
- If you want one app that also plans and schedules your whole social calendar, Quso covers more ground than we do.
Migrating from Quso to OpenShorts
- Download what you need: free-plan data is kept 7 days.
- Compare per minute on the billing you would actually use. Quso's yearly plans double the credits, so month to month it costs about three times as much per minute.
- Run one long source through OpenShorts (first video free up to 60 minutes) and check the two-speaker and screencast layouts on your footage.
- Decide where scheduling lives: OpenShorts posts directly to TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, but it has no content planner or analytics.
Which one should you pick?
- You want clipping, scheduling and analytics in one app
- You can commit to a yearly plan
- You want a content planner for your whole calendar
- Clipping quality and control are the job
- You want to pay monthly from $12, or $0 self-hosted
- You need two-speaker, screencast or webcam-inset layouts
Quso is the better pick if you want clipping, scheduling and analytics in one subscription. OpenShorts is the better pick if clipping quality and control are the job, or you want it free and self-hosted.
Common questions
- Is there a free alternative to Quso?
- Quso's free side, as checked in October 2026: 75 credits a month (one credit is about one minute of video), 720p, data kept 7 days, no scheduling. OpenShorts gives you two free routes instead: the MIT edition on your own machine, with no watermark and no cap, or the hosted free plan, the first video clipped whole up to 60 minutes, then 20 minutes a month with a watermark and no credit card.
- Is there an open source alternative to Quso?
- Yes: OpenShorts, under the MIT licence, with every stage of the pipeline readable on GitHub (github.com/mutonby/openshorts). Quso publishes no source and has no edition you can run yourself.
- How do I switch from Quso to OpenShorts?
- Download what you need: free-plan data is kept 7 days. Compare per minute on the billing you would actually use. Quso's yearly plans double the credits, so month to month it costs about three times as much per minute. Run one long source through OpenShorts (first video free up to 60 minutes) and check the two-speaker and screencast layouts on your footage. Decide where scheduling lives: OpenShorts posts directly to TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, but it has no content planner or analytics.
- Does Quso add a watermark, and does OpenShorts?
- Quso's pricing page lists 75 free credits a month at 720p without stating a watermark either way; OpenShorts says it plainly: free Cloud clips are watermarked, self-hosted and paid ones are not. On OpenShorts the mark exists only on the free Cloud plan: the self-hosted edition has no watermark code, and paying from $12/month removes it, including from clips made before you upgraded.
- What happened to Vidyo.ai?
- It was renamed Quso.ai in January 2025. vidyo.ai redirects to quso.ai, and accounts, plans and credits carried over. Quso added social scheduling, a content planner with analytics and a brand kit around the original clipper.
- Is Vidyo.ai (Quso) free?
- Quso has a free plan with 75 credits a month (about 75 minutes of video), 720p exports and 7-day data retention. Paid plans start at $19/month billed yearly or $29 month to month. OpenShorts self-hosted is free with no cap and no watermark; OpenShorts Cloud clips your first video free up to 60 minutes, then 20 minutes a month.
Sources
- Quso pricing, checked 2026-10-05 on the vendor's public pricing page.
- OpenShorts pipeline details from the project source at github.com/mutonby/openshorts.