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Revid offers a wide menu of AI models, avatars and editing tools metered in credits; ShortFast runs a narrower faceless and UGC pipeline, also in credits, at about 12 per stock-footage video or 25 in an AI art style (typical).
Revid and ShortFast both write, render and publish short-form video on a schedule, so this one is a real head-to-head. The difference is scope. Revid offers a very wide menu: premium AI video models, avatars, music videos, a timeline editor, a viral-video database, and it meters all of it in credits. ShortFast does two things, faceless videos and UGC-style videos with AI actors, and its credits go on finished videos: typically about 12 for stock footage and 25 for an AI art style.
If you want Veo3 or Sora 2 in your scenes, a cloned voice, 16:9 or 4K exports, or talking avatars, Revid is the better pick, and ShortFast does not offer any of those. You pay for that range in credits. By Revid's own worked example, its 2,000-credit Growth plan yields roughly 40 to 50 thirty-second videos on AI images, or about 3 on Veo3.
If you want to set up a few automations, make mostly stock-footage or illustrated videos at a low cost per video, and have them posted across several accounts without tuning spend per scene, ShortFast is the simpler buy. Note that Revid's Hobby plan lists no publishing or automation, so autopilot on Revid starts at Growth.
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| Dimension | ShortFast | Revid |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A topic, a prompt or a script. No source footage needed. | Almost anything: a prompt, script, article URL, podcast audio, PDF, product page, a viral video to remix, or a long YouTube video to clip. |
| Core job | Generate the video, then publish it on a schedule. | Generate, edit in a timeline, publish, then learn from post stats. Auto-Mode workers can run a daily pipeline. |
| Visuals | 27 styles: licensed stock footage, AI video, or AI images in a fixed art style. AI presenters for UGC-style video. | Stock, gameplay, AI images, per-scene AI video from Seedance, Veo3 or Sora 2, 40+ style presets, avatars, face swap. |
| Voice | Generated voiceover, or AI actors. No recording required. | ElevenLabs voices in 70+ languages. Voice cloning on its top plan. Record your own with a teleprompter. |
| Auto-publishing | Built in on every plan. Timezone-aware schedules per automation. | Built in from the Growth plan up. Publish now or schedule through a queue. The Hobby plan lists no publishing. |
| Platforms | TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, via the official APIs. | TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. Also exports 16:9 and 1:1, and up to 4K, for use elsewhere. |
| Multi-account | 1, 3 or 6 social accounts by plan, each with its own queue. | Connected accounts per plan are not published. Parallel pipelines are capped by workers: 3, 5 or 10. |
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with credits: $19 (1,000), $39 (5,000) and $99 (10,000). 20% off billed yearly. | Credit-metered. Growth is $39 for 2,000 credits, Ultra $199 for 12,000. A video costs roughly 40 to 600+ credits depending on the model. |
| Trial or free tier | $1 for a 3-day trial on monthly plans. No free tier. | Free account with no card to explore the tools. Generating videos uses credits that come with paid plans. |
| Developer access | REST API, webhooks, MCP server. | REST API, webhooks, MCP server and an npm CLI, from the Growth plan up. |
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Revid's live pricing page lists three monthly plans. Hobby is $39, described as for occasional, hands-on creation, with no publishing or automation bullets. Growth is $39, shown against a struck-through $99, with 2,000 AI credits, publishing, three Auto-Mode workers and API access. Ultra is $199 with 12,000 credits and ten workers. Revid's own pricing document, updated August 2026, lists a different lineup of Growth, Elite at $89 and Ultra, and says yearly billing is roughly 17% cheaper. The lineup changes, so check the live page before deciding.
What a credit buys varies a lot. Revid's own table prices a 30-second video at around 40 to 50 credits using AI images, around 100 on the cheapest AI video tier, and 600 or more with Veo3. On that math, 2,000 credits is roughly 40 to 50 videos a month on images, about 20 on low-tier AI video, or about 3 on Veo3. Credits do not roll over, and one-time top-up packs start at 1,000 credits for $49.
ShortFast also sells credits. Starter is $19 for 1,000 credits a month, Pro is $39 for 5,000 and Advanced is $99 for 10,000, with 20% off billed yearly and a $1 three-day trial on monthly plans. The visual type sets the cost: a typical stock-footage video uses about 12 credits, an AI art-style video about 25 and a fully animated one about 464 (October 2026 averages). At $39, Revid's Growth and ShortFast's Pro are the two to compare directly: 2,000 Revid credits against 5,000 ShortFast credits, with the answer depending on which visuals you would actually use.
Revid's starting points cover almost anything you could hand it: a prompt, a script, an article or YouTube URL, a podcast, a PDF, a product page, a viral video from its remix database, or a long video to cut into shorts. Every result opens in a timeline editor. Visuals run from stock footage and gameplay to per-scene AI video from Seedance, Veo3 or Sora 2, 40 or more style presets, talking avatars, face swap and music videos with lip-sync. Voices come from ElevenLabs in 70 or more languages, with cloning on its top plan.
ShortFast covers a much narrower path on purpose. You set up an automation with a topic, choose faceless visuals from licensed stock footage or one of 27 fixed styles, or a UGC-style video with an AI presenter, then pick a voice and a posting schedule. It writes the script and hook, renders the video with burned-in captions, writes a new episode for every slot, and publishes to TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts through the official APIs. There is no per-scene model choice and no premium model tier to pay extra for.
Both can run on autopilot. Revid's Auto-Mode workers are always-on pipelines that generate and optionally publish a video a day, three on Growth and ten on Ultra. ShortFast's automations do the same job, one on Starter, three on Pro with up to three posts a day each, and six on Advanced, with each account on its own timezone-aware queue. The practical difference is that Revid asks you to choose a model for each pipeline, while ShortFast asks you to choose one of 27 styles; both draw on a monthly credit balance.
This is one of the most overlapping pairs on the site. Both write scripts, generate visuals, add an AI voice and captions, and publish to the same three platforms on a schedule. Both offer a REST API, webhooks and an MCP server for AI agents, and Revid adds an npm CLI. If your only requirement is captioned 9:16 video posted daily, either will do it.
Revid goes wider at every edge: 16:9 and 1:1 outputs, 4K export, avatars, voice cloning, music videos, video podcasts, and a research layer that watches channels and tracks post stats. ShortFast does none of those. What ShortFast adds instead is a fixed count, publishing on every plan including the cheapest, per-automation schedules, and long videos up to 15 minutes on Advanced.
If you are choosing between them, the honest test is a month of each at $39 with the workload you actually run. Revid offers a free account without a card to explore the interface, though generating videos uses credits that come with paid plans. ShortFast's $1 trial gives three days of full access, which is enough to set up an automation and watch it post.
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