vidyo.ai Is Now Quso.ai: What Changed and 5 Alternatives Worth Testing
If you typed vidyo.ai into your browser recently and ended up on a site called Quso, nothing went wrong. vidyo.ai now redirects to quso.ai. The product was rebranded rather than discontinued, and accounts moved across with it. Most articles recommending "vidyo.ai" were written before the change and never updated, which is why the name still circulates.
That leaves two groups of people searching for it: those who want to know whether the tool they read about still exists, and those who tried it and want something different. This guide covers both - what the rebrand actually changed, what Quso costs today, and five alternatives sorted by the job you are trying to do.
What the Rebrand Changed
The short version: the name and the positioning. vidyo.ai launched as a clipping tool - feed it a long video, get short vertical clips with captions. Quso presents itself more broadly as a social content platform, with the clipping engine as one part of a wider workflow that includes scheduling, a content planner, and an AI assistant.
If you only ever used it to cut podcasts into clips, the core of that still works the same way. If you are evaluating it fresh, be aware that the pricing model is built around credits rather than clips, which changes how you should compare it to everything else.
What Quso.ai Costs Now
Quso prices in credits, where one credit is roughly one minute of processed video. That is a meaningful distinction: a 60-minute podcast consumes around 60 credits whether it yields three usable clips or thirty. Tools that charge per finished clip behave very differently on long source footage.
At the time of writing, Quso lists four tiers:
- Free - 75 credits a month, capped at 720p output, 7-day data retention.
- Lite - $29 a month, unlimited 1080p clips, publishing to six platforms, 10GB storage.
- Essential - $39 a month, adds AI filler and silence removal plus a content planner, 25GB storage.
- Growth - $49 a month, adds a brand kit, social analytics, and priority support, 75GB storage.
Annual billing cuts roughly a third off each paid tier and doubles the monthly credit allowance. The free tier's 720p ceiling is the detail most people miss - it is fine for evaluating the output, but 720p is below what every major platform now prefers for vertical video.
Choosing an Alternative Based on the Job
"Best alternative" depends entirely on which of two very different problems you have. Almost every tool in this category does one of them well and the other poorly.
Job one: you have footage and need clips. Podcasts, webinars, interviews, streams. The tool's value is finding the good moments and framing them correctly. This is what vidyo.ai was built for.
Job two: you have no footage at all. You need a video to exist from nothing but a topic. This is faceless content - script, voiceover, stock visuals, captions - and it is a fundamentally different pipeline. Clipping tools generally cannot do it.
Be honest about which one you are solving before comparing feature lists, because a tool that is excellent at one is frequently useless for the other.
Five vidyo.ai Alternatives
1. Shortzly - clipping plus faceless generation on autopilot
Shortzly covers both jobs. It clips long videos with AI highlight detection, face tracking, and animated captions, and it also generates faceless videos from a topic alone - writing the script, producing a neural voiceover, sourcing matching stock visuals, and rendering a captioned vertical video with no source footage involved.
The part that has no real equivalent in Quso is autopilot. You define a niche once, and Shortzly invents a fresh topic for each run, checks it against recent topics so the series does not repeat itself, renders the video, and publishes it directly to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn on a schedule you set. Plans are $19 a month for Starter (30 clips, 10 faceless videos, autopilot with one rule) and $49 for Pro (100 clips, 100 faceless videos, three rules, fact-grounded scripts, premium voices). The free plan gives 3 clips and 1 faceless video a month at full render quality.
Where it is weaker: source videos are capped at 33 minutes on Starter and 3 hours on Pro, so a six-hour stream archive needs splitting first. There is no team-seat model yet.
2. Quso.ai - the tool vidyo.ai became
Worth evaluating on its current merits rather than dismissing. The content planner and multi-platform scheduling are genuinely useful if your bottleneck is organising output rather than producing it, and the Growth tier's analytics close a loop most clipping tools ignore. If you liked vidyo.ai, you may simply like Quso.
Where it is weaker: credit-based pricing punishes long source footage, the free tier is limited to 720p, and it does not generate faceless video from a topic.
3. 2short.ai - cheapest entry point for pure clipping
The most affordable paid tier in this comparison at $9.90 a month, which buys 5 hours of AI analysis. Pro at $19.90 raises that to 15 hours with unlimited fast exports, and Premium at $49.90 covers 50 hours. All tiers export 1080p without a watermark, and the free Starter tier includes 30 minutes of analysis a month.
Where it is weaker: it clips and nothing more - no faceless generation, no automated publishing pipeline.
4. OpusClip - the category default
The most widely known tool in the space, with a free tier and Starter at $15 a month, Pro at $29. The free tier watermarks animated captions and holds media for only three days, which is the main thing to know before testing it. Its virality scoring is the feature most people cite.
Where it is weaker: the free tier's caption watermark makes output unusable for publishing, and advanced features are gated behind paid tiers.
5. Vizard - clipping with a generous free allowance
Vizard offers a free tier with 60 credits and 60 minutes of upload a month, though free output carries a watermark and is capped at 720p with a 10-minute export limit. Paid Creator and Business tiers remove the watermark and raise exports to 4K with unlimited length, and Business adds team collaboration and a brand kit.
Where it is weaker: the watermark on free output rules it out for publishing without paying, and like the others it does not generate faceless video.
How the Five Compare
| Tool | Free tier | Entry paid price | Clips existing video | Generates faceless video | Auto-publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortzly | 3 clips + 1 faceless | $19/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quso.ai | 75 credits, 720p | $29/mo | Yes | No | Scheduling |
| 2short.ai | 30 min analysis | $9.90/mo | Yes | No | No |
| OpusClip | Watermarked captions | $15/mo | Yes | No | Scheduling |
| Vizard | 60 credits, watermarked | Credit-based | Yes | No | Scheduling |
Pricing and limits change frequently in this category. Check each vendor's current pricing page before committing - the figures above reflect what was published at the time of writing.
Which One Should You Pick
If you have a library of long videos and a tight budget, 2short.ai at $9.90 is the most efficient way to turn it into clips.
If you liked vidyo.ai and want continuity, stay with Quso. It is the same lineage, and the planner and analytics are real additions.
If your actual problem is that you have nothing to clip - no podcast, no stream, no talking-head footage - then no clipping tool solves it, regardless of price. That is the case for a faceless generator, and it is the gap Shortzly was built to fill: you supply a topic, it supplies the video, and autopilot keeps the channel publishing without you opening the app.
Start with the free tier of whichever matches your job. Every tool listed here has one, and an afternoon of testing settles the question faster than any comparison table - including this one.