Wayin.ai, sold under the name WayinVideo, is an AI video platform that clips long videos into shorts and also summarizes, transcribes and searches them. Its Pro plan costs $26.99 a month for 1,000 credits, and one credit processes one minute of source video, so clipping costs about $0.027 a minute. On yearly billing that falls below a cent. It is one of the cheapest clippers per source minute we have priced, with a free plan, 4K export on Pro, and publishing to six networks. Payments are nonrefundable, and scheduled posting starts on Pro.
Disclosure: I run ScaleReach, which publishes this review and competes with Wayin. I did not pay for a Wayin plan, and I did not run my own videos through it, so there is no verdict here on clip quality. There is no affiliate relationship. Everything below comes from Wayin’s own pricing, help center, plugin, API and terms pages, read from a US connection on 7 November 2026, plus its public Trustpilot page. Where Wayin beats us, I say so.
The 60-second verdict
Choose Wayin if you want the lowest cost per source minute, 2K or 4K exports, posting to X, Facebook or LinkedIn as well as TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, or tools that summarize and search inside videos as well as clip them.
Look elsewhere if you want scheduled posting on the cheapest paid plan, a refund path, or a free plan that accepts file uploads.
Check first: credits pay for more than clipping. AI Notes costs 1 credit per minute, and editor tools such as AI Hook, AI B-roll and subtitle translation can use credits each time you run them.
Bottom line: cheap minutes and a wide feature list. Test the free credits on a public video link, then start monthly, because nothing you pay is refunded.
What is Wayin.ai?
Wayin.ai is a web app branded WayinVideo. Its terms do not name the company behind it or the country whose law governs them, and its Trustpilot profile lists the United States. Per its pricing page and plans guide, it:
- Finds clip-worthy moments in a long video with AI Clipping, Game Clipping for gameplay, and Find Moments, where you describe a quote, person, scene or action and get matching clips.
- Scores every clip. Free shows an overall score, and paid plans add feedback on Hook, Story, Value, Engagement and Reach.
- Adds animated subtitles in 100+ languages, reframes video to 9:16, 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5, and edits through a text-based editor.
- Turns a video into notes: summaries, transcripts with speaker labels, mind maps and a chat that answers questions about the video.
- Publishes to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn on paid plans.
- Connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI agents through an MCP server.
The home page says it is “Trusted by 5M+ Happy Creators”. It does not say how that was counted.
How much does Wayin.ai cost in 2026?
Wayin has four self-serve plans and a custom Enterprise plan. Read on 7 November 2026 from a US address, in US dollars:
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly (per month) | Charged per year | Credits | Export | Social accounts | Publishing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | $0 | 100 once | 720p | None | None |
| Starter | $13.99 | $4.99 | $59.88 | 500 a month | 1080p | 3 | Manual |
| Pro | $26.99 | $9.58 | $114.96 | 1,000 a month | 2K and 4K | 10 | Scheduled, up to 50 posts a day |
| Scale | $139.99 | $69.99 | $839.88 | 6,000 a month | 2K and 4K | 50 | Scheduled, up to 300 posts a day |
Source: wayin.ai/pricing (verified 2026-11-07). The page states the monthly prices and the yearly per-month rates. The “charged per year” column is 12 times the yearly rate, which the page does not print. Yearly plans get the whole year’s credits upfront: 6,000 on Starter, 12,000 on Pro and 72,000 on Scale. Pro adds a team workspace with 2 seats, and Scale has 4. On Pro and Scale you can buy a bigger credit “Pack” without changing plan, and the help center does not list Pack prices.
A few things the cards do not make obvious:
- The “65% OFF” badge is the yearly rate. It compares the yearly per-month price with the monthly price. $4.99 against $13.99 and $9.58 against $26.99 are both about 64% off. Scale’s badge says 50%. A countdown banner sits above the cards. I did not check whether it resets.
- Starter cannot schedule. Starter publishes manually to up to 3 accounts. Scheduled auto-publishing starts on Pro.
- Processing speed is described two ways. The plan cards and the help center call Starter “Standard” and Pro “Fast”. The comparison table on the same pricing page says Starter is “Fast” and Pro “Faster”.
- Downgrading is not self-serve. The plans guide says you contact support to move to a lower plan.
The Starter price has moved before. When we read the same page from a US connection on 26 October 2026, Starter showed $13.99 on some loads, $15.99 on others, and no Starter plan on others. Two loads on 7 November both showed $13.99.
Is Wayin.ai free?
Yes. Free gives 100 one-time signup credits and a separate 30 credits a day that only work for Video Notes features: transcripts, subtitles, summaries, mind maps, Deep Questions and AI Chat. The daily credits cannot be used for clipping. Per the Free plan help article, Free exports at up to 720p, keeps videos for 3 days in 512 MB of storage, and has no local uploads and no publishing. You paste a link instead. Wayin adds no watermark on any plan, Free included.
Two of Wayin’s seven Trustpilot reviews are 1-star complaints from people who expected free clipping and were asked to pay, one of them when uploading a file. That matches the Free plan rules: links work, uploads need a paid plan.
How do Wayin credits work?
The help center’s credits article sets the rates:
| Task | Credits |
|---|---|
| AI Clipping, Game Clipping, Find Moments | 1 per input minute |
| Find Moments on a video you already clipped | 0.5 per input minute |
| AI Notes (summary and transcript) | 1 per input minute |
| Editor tools such as AI Hook, AI B-roll, AI Thumbnail, subtitle translation, Speech Enhance, AI Music | Varies, charged when a result is generated or applied |
| Trimming, manual reframe, text and timeline edits | Free |
The article does not give a rate for each editor tool. Regenerating a result can use credits again. Failed tasks that deliver no result get their credits back.
Monthly credits reset each billing cycle and do not roll over. Yearly plans get the year’s credits upfront, and the balance resets to the annual allowance at renewal, so unused credits expire then.
How does Wayin compare on cost per source minute?
At one credit per minute of clipping:
| Plan | Monthly price | Minutes a month | Cost per source minute, monthly | Cost per source minute, yearly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayin Starter | $13.99 | 500 | $0.028 | $0.010 |
| Wayin Pro | $26.99 | 1,000 | $0.027 | $0.0096 |
| Wayin Scale | $139.99 | 6,000 | $0.023 | $0.012 |
| ScaleReach Pro | $18 | 400 | $0.045 | $0.031 |
| ScaleReach Agency | $99 | 5,000 | $0.020 | $0.0098 |
Calculated from Wayin’s pricing page (2026-11-07) and our pricing page. Wayin’s figures are a best case: any AI Notes task or credit-using editor tool comes out of the same balance.
Wayin is cheaper than ScaleReach Pro per source minute on both monthly and yearly billing. Wayin Pro on yearly billing gives 12,000 minutes for $114.96, about the same per minute as ScaleReach Agency yearly for a fifth of the upfront payment. At high monthly volume, ScaleReach Agency ($99 for 5,000 minutes) costs less per minute than Wayin Scale ($139.99 for 6,000). One oddity: on yearly billing, Wayin Scale costs more per minute than Wayin Pro.
For more tools priced the same way, see our ranking of Opus Clip alternatives by cost per source minute.
What videos can Wayin clip?
Paid plans accept local uploads in MP4, MOV, WEBM and AVI, up to 10 GB per file on Starter and 30 GB on Pro and Scale. Every plan can import links. The upload sources article lists 17 sources, including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Kick, Zoom, Loom, StreamYard, Google Drive, Dropbox and Box. The pricing page lists 15 of them.
I found no maximum video length on Wayin’s pages. The limits that matter are by feature. AI auto reframe handles videos up to 10 minutes on Free, 30 minutes on Starter, 120 minutes on Pro, and has no cap on Scale. AI Montage, which joins moments into one longer video, takes up to 60 minutes of input on Starter and 10 hours on Pro.
Does Wayin post to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube?
Yes, on paid plans. The pricing page lists six publishing targets on Starter, Pro and Scale: TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn. Starter posts manually. Pro and Scale add scheduled auto-publishing, plus AI titles, descriptions and hashtags. Free cannot connect accounts.
TikTok limits posts from apps it has not audited, and that applies to every tool. We explain what it means in which clip tools auto-post to TikTok, Reels and Shorts. I did not connect an account to Wayin to test it.
Does Wayin work with Claude and other AI agents?
Yes. Wayin runs a remote MCP server at https://wayinvideo-api.wayin.ai/open/mcp that you sign in to with your Wayin account. Its install page offers a plugin for Claude Code and Codex, the MCP server for Cursor, VS Code and Gemini CLI, and a custom connector for Claude Desktop and claude.ai. Through it, an agent can clip a video, find moments, export clips, write notes, answer questions about a video and publish or schedule clips. Tasks use the same credits as the web app, and publishing needs a paid plan. The plugin page says local uploads through the agent support files up to 5 GB.
Wayin also sells a REST API for clipping, Find Moments, summaries and transcription, billed separately on pay-as-you-go credits from $10. The API page says those credits do not expire.
ScaleReach has an MCP server too, which we cover in clipping YouTube videos from Claude with our MCP server. Wayin’s reaches further: its notes, Q&A and six-network publishing are all available to the agent.
Does Wayin offer refunds?
No. The pricing FAQ says “payments are nonrefundable”. The terms, last updated 12 February 2026, say you get no prorated refund when you cancel and that, except as the agreement states, Wayin “does not provide refunds for any fees already paid”.
You can cancel at any time from your plan settings, and access lasts until the end of the period you paid for. Plans renew automatically. The terms also allow Wayin to change prices, plans or benefits during an active subscription, with notice.
Wayin’s own Free plan guide suggests a way to test paid features: subscribe monthly, then turn off auto-renewal straight away. On Starter that costs $13.99 for one month.
What do real users say about Wayin?
There is little independent evidence. Wayin’s Trustpilot page, claimed in June 2026, shows a TrustScore of 3.0 from 7 reviews. One 5-star and one 4-star review praise how easy it makes finding clips. Four are 1-star: two from people asked to pay after expecting free clipping, one about account deletion, and one about credits running out faster than expected. The longest review, updated in October 2026, describes scheduled posts going out late and a storage paywall that support later cleared. Trustpilot notes the company has not invited reviews recently, so seven reviews may not be representative. The home page testimonials are posts on X that the vendor selected.
What does Wayin do better than ScaleReach?
Several things:
- Cost per source minute. Wayin Starter and Pro cost less per minute than ScaleReach Pro, on monthly and yearly billing.
- Export quality. Pro and Scale export in 2K and 4K. ScaleReach exports 1080p on paid plans.
- Publishing reach. Six networks, including X, Facebook and LinkedIn.
- No watermark on Free. ScaleReach’s free minutes are watermarked.
- Video understanding. Summaries, mind maps, chat with a video, and Find Moments that searches for scenes and actions, not just speech.
- Agent access. Its MCP server covers notes and Q&A as well as clipping and publishing.
Wayin vs ScaleReach: which should you pick?
| Wayin.ai | ScaleReach | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | Starter, $13.99/month or $4.99/month yearly, 500 credits | Pro, $18/month or $12.50/month yearly, 400 minutes |
| Cheapest plan with scheduling | Pro, $26.99/month or $9.58/month yearly | Pro, $18/month or $12.50/month yearly |
| Usage unit | 1 credit per source minute, plus credits for AI Notes and some editor tools | Minutes of source video |
| Best cost per source minute | $0.0096 (Pro, yearly) | $0.0098 (Agency, yearly) |
| Free plan | 100 credits once, 720p, no watermark, links only, files kept 3 days | 100 free minutes, watermarked, 720p, 30 minutes max per upload |
| Max export | 4K on Pro and Scale | 1080p on paid plans |
| Direct publishing | TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn | YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels (TikTok private until TikTok’s app audit) |
| Social accounts | 3 Starter, 10 Pro, 50 Scale | 5 Pro, unlimited Agency |
| Team seats | 2 Pro, 4 Scale | 3 Pro, 10 Agency |
| Split-screen gameplay backgrounds | Not listed on its pricing page | Yes, on Pro |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes |
| Refunds | No, payments are nonrefundable | Not compared here |
Wayin figures from its own pages, ScaleReach figures from our pricing page, verified 2026-11-07. “Not compared here” means I did not verify the other side of that row. The ScaleReach vs Wayin.ai page has the longer feature-by-feature table.
Pick Wayin if price per minute decides it, you need 4K or X, Facebook and LinkedIn publishing, or you also want notes and search for long videos. Pick ScaleReach if you want scheduling on the cheapest paid plan, split-screen gameplay backgrounds, or 5,000 minutes, unlimited social accounts and 10 seats for $99 a month.
FAQ
Is Wayin.ai free?
Yes. Wayin’s Free plan gives 100 one-time credits for clipping and other AI tasks, plus 30 credits a day that only work for transcripts, summaries, mind maps and AI chat. Free exports at up to 720p with no watermark, keeps videos for 3 days, and cannot upload local files or publish to social accounts. You test it by pasting a link, such as a YouTube URL.
How much does Wayin.ai cost?
Starter is $13.99 a month, Pro $26.99 and Scale $139.99. Billed yearly they work out to $4.99, $9.58 and $69.99 a month, with the year’s credits granted upfront. Starter includes 500 credits a month, Pro 1,000 and Scale 6,000, and one credit processes one minute of source video. Prices are from Wayin’s US pricing page, read on 7 November 2026.
Do Wayin credits roll over?
No. Monthly credits reset at the end of each billing cycle and unused credits are lost. Yearly plans receive all their credits upfront, and the balance resets to the annual allowance at renewal, so anything left at the end of the year expires. The one-time Free credits never renew.
Does Wayin.ai have a watermark?
No. Wayin’s help center says it does not add a watermark to exports on any plan, including Free. What Free limits instead is resolution, at 720p, and storage, since videos are kept for only 3 days. Starter exports at 1080p, and Pro and Scale at up to 4K, limited by the resolution of your source video.
Can Wayin.ai schedule posts to TikTok and YouTube?
Yes, from the Pro plan. Wayin’s paid plans connect TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn, but Starter publishes manually only. Scheduled auto-publishing starts on Pro, with up to 50 posts a day across 10 accounts, and Scale raises that to 300 posts a day across 50 accounts. Free cannot connect social accounts at all.
Does Wayin.ai offer refunds?
No. Wayin’s pricing FAQ says payments are nonrefundable, and its terms rule out prorated refunds when you cancel. You can cancel at any time and keep access until the end of the paid period. To test paid features cheaply, Wayin’s own help center suggests a monthly plan with auto-renewal turned off.
The bottom line
Wayin is one of the cheapest ways to clip by the minute: $0.027 a source minute on Pro monthly and under a cent on yearly billing. It adds 4K export, six publishing networks, an MCP server, and video notes and search that most clippers do not have. The free plan is usable without a card, as long as you paste a link rather than upload a file.
The catches are in the terms and the plan lines. Payments are nonrefundable, scheduling starts on Pro, and editor AI tools and notes draw on the same credits as clipping. Wayin’s own pages also disagree on processing speed, and there is little independent evidence beyond seven Trustpilot reviews. Run your own footage through the free credits first, start monthly, and if a number here looks wrong, tell us at hevin@scalereach.ai.
Changelog
November 2026. First published. Wayin prices, plan limits and FAQ read from wayin.ai/pricing on 2026-11-07 from a US connection, twice, both showing the same Starter price. Credit rules, Free plan limits and upload sources from Wayin’s help center, MCP details from its plugin and install pages, API pricing from its API page and refund terms from its terms of use, all on the same date. Reviews from Trustpilot on the same date. ScaleReach figures from our pricing page. This review is sourced, not hands-on.
Last reviewed: November 2026 Next planned refresh: February 2027 Update hooks: whether the Starter price is still in a test; Pack prices for Pro and Scale; which processing speed each plan really gets; the Trustpilot score and review count.
About the author
Hevin K runs ScaleReach, an AI clip maker. Wayin.ai is a competitor and there is no affiliate relationship. Every Wayin fact here comes from pages it controls or its public Trustpilot page, linked and dated, and I did not run my own videos through it.
