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Crayo is a browser editor that hands you a finished file to upload; ShortFast generates the video and posts it to your accounts on a schedule.
Crayo is an editor. It clips long videos, builds Reddit-story and fake-text videos from templates, adds subtitles in a browser, and hands you a file to upload. ShortFast is a pipeline. It writes the script, generates the video, and posts it to your accounts on a schedule, so the channel keeps going whether or not you open the app.
If you already have footage to cut, or you want the specific formats that Reddit-story and split-screen channels run on, Crayo is the better pick. It has more editing tools, more templated formats, and a face swap and voice changer that ShortFast does not offer. Plan on doing the posting yourself, though. Crayo does not connect to TikTok, Instagram or YouTube for publishing, and the social accounts on its pricing page are an analytics tracker.
If your goal is a video a day across a few accounts without the upload step becoming a job, that last step is the whole difference. ShortFast does less in the editor and more after it.
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| Dimension | ShortFast | Crayo |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A topic, a prompt or a script. No source footage needed. | A long video or YouTube/TikTok link to clip, a pasted story, or a script you write in its editor. |
| Core job | Generate the video, then publish it on a schedule. | Edit and export in a browser: auto-clipping, Reddit stories, fake texts, split-screen. Every video is a manual run. |
| Visuals | 27 styles: licensed stock footage, AI video, or AI images in a fixed art style. AI presenters for UGC-style video. | A gameplay and visual library, AI images and your own uploads, in templated formats such as fake-text and streamer blur. |
| Voice | 40+ narration voices, or a lip-synced AI presenter. No recording required. | 100+ AI voices, plus a voice changer and speech enhancer for your own recordings. |
| Auto-publishing | Built in. Schedules and posts to TikTok, Reels and Shorts via the official APIs. | None. Videos end at export, and you upload them yourself. |
| Platforms | TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts. | No platform connections for posting. You export and upload wherever you like. |
| Multi-account | 1, 3 or 6 social accounts by plan, each with its own queue and timezone-aware schedule. | No publishing accounts. A social tracker follows 1, 3 or 10 accounts for analytics. |
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with credits: $19 (1,000), $39 (5,000) and $99 (10,000). 20% off billed yearly. | Monthly plans at $19, $39 and $79, metered by workflow credits and export minutes at the same time. 30% off billed yearly. |
| Trial or free tier | $1 for a 3-day trial on monthly plans. No free tier. | No trial or free credits on the pricing page. Its refund policy states that all sales are final. |
| Developer access | REST API, webhooks, MCP server. | REST API with 34 endpoints and webhooks, included on any paid plan. |
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Crayo sells three plans, all with every tool included: Hobby at $19 a month, Clipper at $39 and Pro at $79, or $13, $27 and $55 a month when billed yearly, which its pricing page presents as a 30% annual discount. What separates the plans is capacity, and capacity is measured on two meters. Workflow credits cover each AI-generated video, one credit per video, and export minutes cover the total length you render. As of October 23, 2026, Hobby includes 250 workflow credits, 2 hours of export, 30 voiceover minutes and 100 AI images a month. Credits reset each billing cycle and do not roll over.
That two-meter design means you need to watch both numbers. On Hobby, 2 hours of export is the tighter limit: about 120 one-minute videos a month, well short of the 250 credits. Crayo's FAQ says it does not offer refunds, so the way to test it is a month at the lowest tier. Read its terms too: they grant use for personal, non-commercial purposes, while its FAQ says you own your videos and can monetize them.
ShortFast's plans are a monthly credit allowance. Starter is $19 for 1,000 credits a month with one automation and one social account, Pro is $39 for 5,000 credits, three automations and three accounts, and Advanced is $99 for 10,000 credits, six automations and six accounts. A typical stock-footage video uses about 12 credits, an AI art-style one about 25 and a fully animated one about 464. Yearly billing takes 20% off, and monthly plans start with a $1 three-day trial. The prices line up at the low end, but you are buying different things: Crayo's plans include clipping, face swap and a voice changer, and ShortFast's include the publishing.
Crayo's own description of its faceless channel workflow is a good summary of the product: pick a niche, write or generate a script, choose visuals from its gameplay and image library, add subtitles, then one-click export, ready to upload. Every video is a run through that flow. It is quick, and the editor is the point, but the last step is always you downloading a file and posting it.
ShortFast is built around the step Crayo stops at. You create an automation with a topic, a visual style, a voice and a posting schedule. From then on it writes each script and hook, generates the video from licensed stock footage, one of 27 fixed styles or an AI presenter, adds the voiceover and burned-in captions, and publishes it to TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts through the official APIs at the time you set. Each automation keeps writing new episodes on its theme, so a format that works becomes a series. A/B hook variations are coming soon.
Which is right depends on how much you want to be in the loop. If you like shaping every video by hand and posting is not a burden, Crayo's editor gives you more to work with. If you are trying to keep three accounts posting daily without it turning into a job, the manual upload is the part that fails first, and that is what ShortFast removes.
Both tools will turn a written or generated script into a captioned vertical video with an AI voice, and both are aimed at faceless channels. Both also have a REST API with webhooks, Crayo's on any paid plan and ShortFast's alongside an MCP server, so either can sit inside a larger pipeline you build yourself.
The overlap thins out at the visuals and at the finish line. Crayo's backgrounds come from a gameplay and visual library and its own AI images, with formats like split-screen and streamer blur that suit story channels. ShortFast uses licensed stock footage or one of 27 fixed styles for faceless videos and a lip-synced AI presenter for UGC-style videos, and does not do fake-text or split-screen formats. Crayo clips long videos; ShortFast does not.
Plenty of people would sensibly use both: cut clips and story videos in Crayo when you have the material, and let ShortFast fill the calendar on the days you do not. If you want to see the starting-from-nothing case before paying for anything, our free faceless video generator is the place to try it.
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