The same job, priced by the minute instead of the seat
AutoCut is the Premiere Pro extension whose feature list reads closest to ours — silences, captions, zooms, B-roll and chapters, all inside the timeline. The real difference is how the two charge for a month: a flat seat price against your actual editing minutes.
AutoCut pricing as published on their own pricing page, September 2026 · $9.90–$19.80/month · Backstage Cut is $9/month with a 7-day free trial
The short version: AutoCut is the closest feature match to Backstage Cut — captions, zooms, B-roll and silences, inside Premiere. It's priced by seat, not by the minute, and it also runs in DaVinci Resolve.
| AutoCut | Backstage Cut | |
|---|---|---|
| Feature overlap | Silences, captions, zooms, B-roll, chapters, plus multicam angle-switching. | Same core set minus multicam angle-switching: captions, zooms, B-roll, chapters, silences. |
| Where it runs | Premiere Pro 2023–2026 and DaVinci Resolve 18.6+. | Premiere Pro 2021 (15.0) and later, only. |
| How you pay | $9.90/month for silences only, $19.80/month for the full AI plan — per seat, unlimited use. | $9/month for 300 transcribed minutes. Free 7-day trial to start. |
| Multicam | AutoCut Angles switches between multiple cameras automatically. | No multicam switching — built for single-camera talking-head and podcast setups. |
| Editing platform reach | Also works in DaVinci Resolve, useful for a mixed Premiere/Resolve team. | Premiere Pro only. |
Where AutoCut wins
Every comparison page on the internet says the other tool is worse at everything. Here is where AutoCut genuinely beats us — if one of these is your situation, buy theirs and save yourself the trial.
AutoCut does it better
- Multicam angle-switching is real and we don't attempt it
- Works in DaVinci Resolve too, not only Premiere
- A flat seat price is cheaper than us past a certain volume — run the numbers on your own monthly minutes
- More mature product with a broader team behind it
What you get here instead
- Per-minute pricing suits a light month instead of paying full price whether you edit or not
- $9/month gets the full AI plan — captions, zooms, B-roll and chapters — where AutoCut's $9.90 tier is silences only
- Free 7-day trial with every AI feature unlocked, no card
- One transcript captions, zooms, chapters and finds B-roll together
- $59/year (about $4.92/month) comes out well under $9.90/month if you'd rather pay once
You cut in both Premiere and DaVinci, need multicam angle-switching, or edit enough volume every month that a flat seat price beats per-minute billing. Past a certain volume, AutoCut is the cheaper choice — do the math on your own minutes.
Asked about AutoCut
AutoCut is the closest feature match to Backstage Cut — captions, zooms, B-roll and silences, inside Premiere. It's priced by seat, not by the minute, and it also runs in DaVinci Resolve. Backstage Cut is $9/month (₹699/month in India) for 300 transcribed minutes per rolling 30 days, after a 7-day free trial with no card, so the cheapest way to answer this for your own edit is to run the free trial on the video you are working on now and compare the result against AutoCut directly.
AutoCut is $9.90–$19.80/month, as published on their own pricing page in September 2026. Backstage Cut is $9/month (₹699/month in India) for 300 transcribed minutes per rolling 30 days, after a 7-day free trial with no card. Prices move, so check theirs before deciding — the date here is when we last read it.
Genuinely, these: Multicam angle-switching is real and we don't attempt it; Works in DaVinci Resolve too, not only Premiere; A flat seat price is cheaper than us past a certain volume — run the numbers on your own monthly minutes; More mature product with a broader team behind it. If one of those is your situation, AutoCut is the better buy and the trial will only cost you an evening finding that out.
Choose AutoCut if: You cut in both Premiere and DaVinci, need multicam angle-switching, or edit enough volume every month that a flat seat price beats per-minute billing. Past a certain volume, AutoCut is the cheaper choice — do the math on your own minutes. Choose Backstage Cut if what you want is: Per-minute pricing suits a light month instead of paying full price whether you edit or not; $9/month gets the full AI plan — captions, zooms, B-roll and chapters — where AutoCut's $9.90 tier is silences only; Free 7-day trial with every AI feature unlocked, no card; One transcript captions, zooms, chapters and finds B-roll together; $59/year (about $4.92/month) comes out well under $9.90/month if you'd rather pay once.
Try it on the video
you're editing tonight
7 days of unlimited transcription is plenty for a whole video, start to finish, on your own footage — no card, and nothing to undo if you don't like it.