Brevidy vs Submagic
Stay in Premiere, or export, upload, and reimport every time.
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The verdict
Brevidy is the clearer Submagic alternative for Premiere editors: finished captions stay on the timeline as one editable layer, not a five-step export → upload → style → download → reimport loop that starts over when the cut changes. Own cloud ASR (~95% / ~5% WER), 700+ one-click presets, a transcript editor in the panel, plus shipped AutoCrop, AutoCut, and in-panel stock. Submagic is the better product if you do not edit in Premiere. Browser speed, Magic Clips, social publishing, and no NLE required win that lane outright.
| Capability |  |  |
|---|---|---|
| Captions | ||
| Ease of use | Easiest in Premiere Transcript editor · one layer | Easy, but a round trip Leave the Premiere timeline |
| Works inside Premiere | Native panel workflow | Standalone browser app |
| Caption output | Editable layer Lives on the timeline | Burned-in pixels Or SRT / green-screen plate |
| Animated captions | Word-by-word engine | Hormozi-style templates |
| Style templates | 700+ One-click, formatted correctly | ~35–42 built-ins Plus custom on Pro/Business |
| Transcript editor | In-panel document edit Intuitive · auto-applies | Text-based Trim / silence via transcript |
| Transcription | ||
| Accuracy | ~95% ~5% WER · self-reported, like theirs | 98.8% / 99% Own editor flags words under 90% |
| Languages | 99+ Diarization · vocab · translate | Count drifts 50+ / 100+ / 123 in marketing |
| Offline | Cloud ASR only | Browser / cloud app |
| Beyond captions | ||
| AutoCrop | Active-speaker reframing | Magic Zooms Browser zooms, not Premiere crop |
| Silence / cleanup | AutoCut silence + AI clips | Pro+ silence / bad takes |
| B-roll | Stock in panel Place on the timeline | Magic B-rolls · Storyblocks |
| Stock media | In-panel library | Free stock · Storyblocks Pro+ |
| Social publishing | Premiere deliverable focused | TikTok · IG · YouTube |
| Teams & pricing | ||
| Teams / seats | Shared presets · roles | Workspace seats 1 / 3 / unlimited · per member |
| Price | $14.99/mo Captioner, billed yearly | $23/mo Pro Yearly · per member |
| Free plan | 10-min sample + 7-day trial | 3 videos · watermarked |
| Watermark | None · Free sample is clean | Free only Paid plans remove it |
| Export caps | Minute pools Not resolution-gated | Plan-gated Videos · length · res/FPS |
Finished Premiere captions vs browser re-render quota
Captioner $14.99/mo yearly vs Submagic Pro $23/mo yearly. Starter can undercut on sticker; you still leave the timeline.
Brevidy Captioner
$14.99/mo
Billed yearly
Billed yearly ($179.90/yr). $17.99 monthly. 100 captioning minutes, priced for the path from transcript to finished captions inside Premiere (own cloud ASR, panel transcript editor, 700+ presets). Producer ($29.99/mo yearly) adds unlimited captions plus 400 video-workflow minutes for AutoCut/AutoCrop.
Try before you buy
Free 10-min sample + 7-day trial.
Submagic Pro
$23/mo
$23/mo yearly ($39 monthly) per member: 40 videos/mo, 5 min max, 1080p + 2K / 30 FPS. Starter undercuts at $12/mo yearly ($19 monthly) but caps at 15 videos of 2 min at 1080p30. Magic Clips is a +$19/mo add-on (+$12 yearly). Care page: no refunds. Re-check https://www.submagic.co/pricing.
Try before you buy
3 free videos (watermarked), no card.
From real editors
Linked quotes from Trustpilot and Reddit. Submagic reviews well overall. The pain clusters around billing, credits, and the round trip.
On Brevidy
“My team and I have recently switched to using Brevidy. For one, it makes all the captions as one simple layer instead of generating multiple mogrts or PNG files in your timeline… it's the most convenient version that we have used yet.”
“I use Brevidy… works really well and has saved me a lot of time.”
“Brevidy works extremely well… the best part about it by far IMO is its accuracy transcribing… Premiere usually gives me ~80% accuracy… Brevidy's formatting tools are really easy to learn and use. Sometimes I'll use it just to create an SRT… because it's just so much better than Premiere.”
On Submagic
“I cancelled the service in March 2025, only to find out that they ignored my cancellation request and billed me back in January 2026… I would strongly recommend against using this company.”
“Worst Pricing Ever… upgraded to the paid plan of $20/month and got 0 credits.”
“We tried looking into submagic… none of them accept the file sizes on these things.”
Submagic’s overall Trustpilot score is strong (about 4.5 from ~691 reviews when checked). We’re quoting the recurring complaints, not claiming the product is broadly disliked.
Straight talk
When Submagic is the better fit
If you do not edit in Premiere, Submagic is the better product. You need no NLE at all; it is far faster for creators who are not editors; Magic Clips turns long videos into shorts; it publishes straight to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube; it has an API plus Zapier/Make/n8n integrations; the Hormozi-style template library is excellent; the free tier gives three videos to try; support is well reviewed; and Trustpilot sits around 4.5 from roughly 691 reviews. Stay with Brevidy when Premiere is where the edit lives and captions must remain an editable layer on the sequence.
What Submagic gets wrong
“98.8% accuracy,” rounded to 99% across Submagic marketing
Every part of this is Submagic's own publishing. Their care page (07/08/2024) qualifies the figure as “under optimal conditions,” varying with audio quality and technical terms; the homepage drops that qualifier. Their languages page then advertises a low-confidence highlighter that colors every word the transcript scores under 90%, sold as “don't miss a single mistake during the generation.” Read together, those pages describe an ordinary cloud transcript you still have to proofread. We are not claiming the number is invented, and ours is self-reported too: nobody on this page, Brevidy included, has published an independent WER study. Treat 98.8% and ~95% as marketing, and judge the tools on what happens after a word comes back wrong.
Brevidy pricing listed as “from $1” or “$99” in Submagic-alternative roundups
Stale aggregator noise. Live catalog: Captioner $14.99/mo yearly ($179.90/yr) or $17.99 monthly; Producer $29.99/mo yearly ($359.90/yr) or $35.99 monthly. Submagic itself does not publish Brevidy prices.
FAQ
Yes, if you edit in Premiere Pro. Brevidy keeps captions on the timeline as one editable layer with ~95% cloud ASR, 700+ presets, and a panel transcript editor, plus AutoCrop, AutoCut, and stock. If you do not use Premiere and want a browser shorts machine with Magic Clips and social publishing, Submagic is the better product.
No. Submagic is a standalone browser app with no native Adobe Premiere or After Effects plugin. They offer SRT/VTT download and a green/blue-screen caption plate you can key: compositing helpers, not Premiere integration. For captions that live on the Premiere timeline, use a Premiere product like Brevidy.
Yes, if you are not a Premiere editor. Submagic wins when you want raw video → captions, B-roll, zooms, Magic Clips, and publish to TikTok/Instagram/YouTube without opening an NLE. Choose Brevidy when your edit already lives in Premiere and you need an editable caption layer, 700+ presets, and in-panel AutoCrop/AutoCut without the export/upload/reimport loop.
Documented as five steps: export/render from Premiere, upload to Submagic, generate and style in the browser, export/download, then reimport. A sixth step appears whenever the Premiere edit changes; you start over from step one. Captions come back as burned-in pixels in an MP4 (or a green/blue-screen plate to key), not as an editable Premiere caption track. There is no XML, AAF, or EDL round trip.
Yes. Submagic exports SRT and VTT (and TXT). You can import the SRT into a Premiere caption track, but you lose the Hormozi-style animation that is usually why you used Submagic. The green/blue-screen caption plate keeps animation as pixels you key: still a re-render + composite, not a native editable layer.
On sticker, Submagic Starter ($12/mo yearly) undercuts Brevidy Captioner ($14.99/mo yearly) but caps at 15 videos of 2 minutes at 1080p30. Compare Captioner to Submagic Pro ($23/mo yearly): the serious-creator tier with 40 videos, 5 min max, and 2K. Submagic bills per member; Magic Clips is a +$19/mo add-on (+$12 yearly); their care page states no refunds. Judge cost per finished Premiere deliverable and revision cost of the round trip, not raw dollars per month.
Their published number is higher: 98.8% on the care page, rounded to 99% in marketing, against Brevidy’s ~95% (~5% WER). The care page qualifies it as “under optimal conditions,” and Submagic’s own languages page sells a feature that highlights every word the transcript scores under 90% confidence, so their product assumes you are still proofreading. Both numbers are self-reported and neither company has published an independent WER study, so the gap is marketing, not a lab result. When a word comes back wrong in Brevidy, you fix it in the panel transcript editor and the change auto-applies to one caption layer; in Submagic you fix it in the browser and re-export, re-download, and reimport the video.
No. Brevidy does not ship Magic Clips-style long-to-shorts finding, social scheduling/publishing, a mobile path, or an API. AutoCut can extract clip-worthy moments inside Premiere. For browser clip-finding plus publish-to-TikTok/IG/YouTube, Submagic is the stronger product.
Yes. Install Brevidy in Premiere, caption on the sequence, and skip the export/upload/reimport loop. Existing Submagic MP4s already on your timeline stay as ordinary clips; new captions use Brevidy’s editable layer and presets.