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Open source Opus Clip alternatives for AI agents
2 alternatives to Opus Clip. 2 have an interface an agent can drive. 2 are open source.
| Listing | License | Agent interface | Reach | Effort | Last activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenShorts | MIT (cloud/ directory under a commercial license) | MCP server, from the builder | 5 of 9 jobs | Config only | Sep 2, 2026 |
| podcli | AGPL-3.0 | MCP server, from the builder | 9 of 10 jobs | Config only | Sep 2, 2026 |
OpenShorts
Self-hosted AI clip generator with an eight-tool MCP server for clipping, captioning, and publishing shorts.
Self-hosted · Cloud Free: Free · Cloud paid: $12 per month
- I publish a weekly podcast and want clips cut, captioned, and posted without a $20/mo clipper subscription
- I want an agent to turn every new livestream VOD into shorts overnight on my own GPU box
- Generate AI Shorts with UGC actors
- YouTube Studio: titles, thumbnails, descriptions
- Dub clips into other languages
- Force a reframing layout per video
- The cloud/ directory is under a commercial license, not MIT; GitHub shows the license as 'other' for that reason
- CPU-only by default: 5 to 8 minutes per 8-minute video; NVIDIA Container Toolkit needed for NVENC
- Self-hosted /mcp only answers while your machine is on; the hosted endpoint at mcp.openshorts.app needs an osk_ API key
- Provider keys go into the dashboard Settings, not .env
podcli
Local podcast clipper with face tracking and burned captions, driven from a CLI, a web studio, or 26 MCP tools.
Free · Commercial license
- I host a weekly podcast and want captioned vertical clips without uploading episodes to a cloud clipper
- I want Claude Code to clip, title, and publish shorts from a transcript as one conversation
1 more job is undetermined.
- AGPL-3.0; a commercial license is offered by email
- 58 stars and a young repo: thin evidence of users beyond the Builder
- First run downloads Python, Node, ffmpeg, whisper.cpp, and models into a managed folder
- Intel Mac support is in progress
Questions
Is there an open source alternative to Opus Clip?
Yes. Both listings here are open source: OpenShorts (MIT (cloud/ directory under a commercial license)), podcli (AGPL-3.0).
Which Opus Clip alternatives have an MCP server?
OpenShorts and podcli have MCP servers from their builders.
Which Opus Clip alternative can an agent do the most with?
podcli: 9 of 10 recorded jobs reachable. Jobs differ by listing, so read each list before you choose.
Listings come from reading each repo and its docs. Reach counts the jobs an agent can do through the stated interface, and each listing page shows the evidence. Order follows fit. For agents: Markdown · JSON