Every major Premiere caption tool on one table. We lose seven of the eight categories.
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Eight categories, eight winners. Criteria first. Brevidy wins one.
Price, whose speech recognition you are actually using, and how much editing happens after the captions land.
| Tool | Price | Free tier | Transcription | Transcript editor | Caption styles | Beyond captions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BrevidyThis plugin | $14.99/mo Captioner, billed yearly | 10-min sample, no card | Own cloud ASR ~95% accuracy · 99+ languages | Doc-style Auto-applies to one layer | 700+ One-click, land formatted | AutoCrop, AutoCut, media All shipped |
| CaptioneerFull comparison | $15/mo Or $150 lifetime | Trial only 14 days · 60s transcription | Local Whisper Offline · unmetered | Per-template Sync All across .mogrts | ~15 styles Animated .mogrt library | Captions only |
| CaptionXFull comparison | ~$11.58/mo Pro, billed yearly | 5 generations forever | Cloud No published accuracy | Review step Full editor waitlisted | ~8 styles Plus saved presets | Silence, Studio Reframe waitlisted |
| AutoCutFull comparison | $14.9/mo AI plan, billed yearly | Trial only 14 days, no card | Cloud No published accuracy | Pre-launch editor Then back to timeline | Template-based Fewer than 700 | Ten-tool suite Resolve too |
| SubMachineFull comparison | $8/mo Or $150 lifetime | Trial only 1 week | None of its own · Uses Adobe's transcript | In-extension fixes Corrections start in Premiere | ~9 MOGRTs FPS-matched packs | Captions only |
| CutbackFull comparison | $13/mo Basic, billed yearly | 3 transcriptions/mo | Own cloud ASR No published accuracy | Word-level Sync breaks on timeline edits | Unpublished count Style library | Cleanup, multicam Plus Selects app |
| FireCutFull comparison | $20/mo Pro yearly, cheapest with captions | Trial only 7 days on Premiere | Own cloud ASR Non-English 70-80% | In-panel edits Re-adds to a new track | Unpublished count Unlimited custom on Max | Very broad suite Resolve, incl. Linux |
| SubmagicFull comparison | $23/mo Pro yearly, per member | 3 videos, watermarked | Cloud 98.8% claimed; flags own sub-90% words | Browser, text-based Not a Premiere timeline | ~35-42 Viral-style templates | Clips, B-roll, publishing No Premiere at all |
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Full breakdowns: pricing, editor reviews, and where each tool beats us.
Doc-style editor, one caption layer, 700+ presets. Captioneer still runs Sync All across .mogrts.
A captions-only Adobe extension that places each caption as a separate .mogrt clip, with local Whisper transcription and ~15 built-in styles.
Transcript edits auto-apply to one layer, 700+ presets, AutoCrop and AutoCut already shipped.
A freemium Premiere Pro caption plugin plus browser Studio: ~8 styles, Pop animation, a free tier with 5 generations, and waitlisted auto-reframe / viral-clip tools.
Social captions inside Premiere. AutoCut starts as a ten-tool cleanup checklist.
A Premiere Pro + DaVinci Resolve AI editing suite: silence removal, animated captions with 1000+ community presets, podcast multicam, viral clips, B-roll, and more cleanup tools.
Own ASR into a transcript editor that owns the caption set. SubMachine uses Adobe's transcript, an SRT hop, and ~9 MOGRTs.
A Premiere Pro captions extension that animates word-by-word MOGRTs from an SRT, powered by Adobe’s built-in transcription rather than its own ASR.
Captions on one layer you can keep editing. Cutback's eight-step path breaks sync when you edit the timeline.
Premiere Assistant by Cutback: a Premiere Pro CEP suite with its own cloud ASR, animated captions as native graphic clips, silence/filler/retakes cleanup, multicam speaker switching, and a separate Selects prep app for FCP/Resolve handoff.
One editable caption layer. FireCut re-adds PNG clips to a new track on every fix.
A Premiere Pro + DaVinci Resolve AI editing suite: silence, fillers, podcast multi-track, zooms, chapters, B-roll, highlights, and cloud captions rendered as PNG image clips on a new video track.
Captions stay on your Premiere timeline. Submagic is a five-step browser round trip.
A standalone browser AI short-form editor for Hormozi-style captions, B-roll, zooms, Magic Clips, and social publishing, with no native Premiere Pro integration.
One strength and one limitation per tool.
A Premiere Pro panel for social captions: own cloud ASR, a transcript editor that edits like a document, and 700+ one-click presets, plus AutoCrop, AutoCut, and stock media.
Premiere Pro and After Effects caption plugin that runs Whisper locally and places per-line .mogrt templates.
Freemium Premiere Pro caption plugin with a browser Studio, about 8 styles, Pop animation, and a permanent free tier.
Premiere and DaVinci Resolve cleanup suite: silences, podcast multicam, zoom, chapters, B-roll, profanity, and captions.
Premiere Pro extension that animates word-by-word MOGRTs from an SRT. Uses Adobe's built-in transcription, not its own.
Premiere Assistant by Cutback: own cloud transcription, animated captions as native graphic clips, cleanup tools, and multicam speaker switching.
AI editing suite for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve: silence, fillers, zooms, chapters, podcast multi-track, B-roll, and captions rendered as PNG clips.
Browser AI short-form editor with viral caption templates, clip extraction, and social publishing. Not a Premiere plugin.
Depends which criterion you weight. Fewest steps from raw footage to animated captions you can publish: Brevidy. It is the only tool here with its own published-accuracy transcription (~95%, ~5% WER) and a transcript editor whose edits auto-apply to a single caption layer. Offline or a lifetime license: Captioneer. Permanent free tier: CaptionX. Widest toolkit or DaVinci Resolve: FireCut. Silence-first editing: AutoCut. Multicam and text-based cleanup: Cutback. Cheapest animated captions: SubMachine at $8/mo. No Premiere at all: Submagic.
We make one of these plugins, so treat this page accordingly. Criteria come first. Seven of eight categories go to competitors. We publish what we cannot do (no offline mode, no After Effects, no DaVinci Resolve, no lifetime license) and date every price with a link. When a competitor's page states something false about Brevidy, we quote the claim and correct it. Check the linked sources before you buy.
SubMachine, at $8/mo, $80/yr, or $150 lifetime. Cutback Lite is also $8/mo yearly. Captioneer's $150 lifetime is the cheapest long-run option if you keep it more than about ten months. SubMachine has no transcription of its own; it uses Adobe's transcript via an SRT export. None of the three publishes an accuracy figure. Cheapest sticker and cheapest per finished caption are different numbers.
Captioneer. Whisper runs locally, nothing uploads, and transcription is unmetered. Everything else here is cloud-based. CaptionX marketing has claimed nothing leaves your machine, but their Studio and eye-contact pages describe uploading audio and clips, so treat them as cloud. SubMachine depends on Premiere's transcription, which is itself a Creative Cloud service. Cutback's help center recommends a 200 Mbps upload.
CaptionX: five caption generations, five silence removals, and a browser Studio, permanently, no card. Cutback's free Starter renews three transcriptions of up to 30 minutes every month, which can be better for ongoing use. AutoCut's trial is the most generous: 14 days of the full suite, no card. Brevidy's free plan is one sample caption on a sequence up to 10 minutes, narrower than either permanent free tier.
Fewest steps from rough transcript to a look you can publish: Brevidy. Edit the transcript like a document; changes auto-apply to one caption layer. No per-template Sync All, no SRT hop. Captioneer needs Sync All across per-line .mogrts. SubMachine needs an SRT export from Premiere into FPS-matched MOGRT packs. FireCut captions are PNG clips you re-add to a new track to change. Cutback documents an eight-step path and warns that timeline edits after transcribing desync captions. AutoCut's transcript editor is strong, but it runs before captions launch.
No. Submagic is a browser app with no Adobe integration. From Premiere you export, upload, style in the browser, download a rendered MP4, and reimport, then repeat when the edit changes. Captions come back as burned-in pixels, not an editable caption track. They export SRT and a green-screen caption plate; taking the SRT drops the animation.
Premiere transcribes and creates caption tracks natively, and for plain subtitles that is often enough. Plugins exist for animated word-by-word styling, one-click preset looks, and bulk restyling: the social-video finish native captions make you build by hand. If you only need burned-in subtitles on a talking head, save your money.
Yes. Captions already on your Premiere timeline are timeline objects and stay where they are when you install something else. Only new captions use the new tool's presets and editor. If you want a text handoff, export an SRT from your old plugin first. Plugins that place per-line .mogrts leave those graphics behind as-is.