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, August 2026 · $9.90–$19.80/month · Backstage Cut is $9/month with 30 free minutes
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 30 minutes 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 30 minutes 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.
Try it on the video
you're editing tonight
30 free minutes is a whole video, start to finish, on your own footage — no card, and nothing to undo if you don't like it.