AutoShorts.ai costs $19, $39, and $69 per month on Starter, Daily, and Hardcore, buying 3, 7, and 14 posts per week. Annual billing is $190, $390, and $690, or $15.83, $32.50, and $57.50 per month. That works out to roughly $1.46, $1.29, and $1.14 per video monthly. The structural catch: every plan, including the $69 one, caps you at a single active series. Figures below come from the plan records AutoShorts publishes in its own homepage data, checked July 29, 2026.
Disclosure: Vidroot competes with AutoShorts.ai. Vidroot's own math appears further down using the same arithmetic.
Fast-scan summary:
- Entry price: $19 per month for 3 posts a week, about $1.46 per video.
- Annual saving: $190 versus $228, about 17 percent, roughly two months free.
- Hard ceiling: 14 posts a week on the top tier. You cannot buy more.
- One active series on every plan, free tier included.
- No standalone pricing URL. autoshorts.ai/pricing returns an error page.
What each AutoShorts AI plan costs and includes
AutoShorts publishes its plan records directly in the server-rendered data of its homepage. Those records are the source for the table below, and they carry annual prices that no third-party page we checked reports.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Annual per month | What is metered | Watermark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | One-time, not recurring | n/a | No posting frequency | Yes |
| Starter | $19 | $190 | $15.83 | 3 posts per week | No |
| Daily | $39 | $390 | $32.50 | 7 posts per week | No |
| Hardcore | $69 | $690 | $57.50 | 14 posts per week | No |
The frequency values in AutoShorts' plan records are 3, 7, and 14. SendShort's review, published January 11, 2026, independently describes these as "up to three times weekly," "daily," and "twice a day" (SendShort AutoShorts review, checked July 2026), which matches a weekly reading of those numbers.
Cost per video on each AutoShorts plan
Three posts a week is about 13 videos a month, since 3 multiplied by 52 and divided by 12 gives 13. The same conversion gives 30.3 on Daily and 60.7 on Hardcore.
| Plan | Posts per week | Videos per month | Cost per video (monthly) | Cost per video (annual) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 3 | ~13 | ~$1.46 | ~$1.22 |
| Daily | 7 | ~30 | ~$1.29 | ~$1.07 |
| Hardcore | 14 | ~61 | ~$1.14 | ~$0.95 |
The unit price improves by about 22 percent from Starter to Hardcore on monthly billing. That is a modest curve. Most credit-metered tools flatten faster than this because credits are fungible and posting slots are not.
Why you cannot buy more videos, only a faster cadence
AutoShorts sells posting frequency. There is no credit pool, no top-up pack, and no video allowance to increase.
The consequence is a hard ceiling. Hardcore at $69 produces 14 posts a week and that is the maximum the published plan set allows. If your plan is 30 posts a week on one channel, no AutoShorts tier serves it, regardless of budget.
The second consequence is the series cap. Every AutoShorts plan record, from Free to Hardcore, sets a maximum of one active series. The application's own error text confirms it: "You've reached your plans limit for how many Series can be active at a time. You can delete a previous series to create a new one."
So running three faceless channels means three subscriptions. At Starter that is $57 per month for 39 posts a week across three accounts, which is more than a single Hardcore plan at $69 for 14 posts on one account. The cheapest path to multiple channels is stacking cheap plans, not upgrading.
Our source audit and what the ranking pages get wrong
We compared AutoShorts' own published plan records against the first page of Google results for the same query, on July 29, 2026.
Finding one: no first-party pricing page ranks, because there isn't one. autoshorts.ai/pricing returns the site's error page. Plans render inside the homepage, client-side, from data most crawlers never execute. Every result on page one is a third-party review or a software directory.
Finding two: five of the top-ranking reviews are published by competitors. SendShort, Argil, Cutsio, Raitly, and Spocket all sell or promote substitutes. Their monthly figures happen to be right, which is worth saying, but the incentive is worth knowing.
Finding three: nobody reports the annual prices. $190, $390, and $690 per year appear in AutoShorts' own plan records and in none of the third-party pages we checked. The 17 percent annual discount is invisible to anyone comparing from search results.
Finding four: the watermark claim is contradicted by AutoShorts' own data. SendShort's review lists "No watermarks on exported videos" without qualification. AutoShorts' plan records set the watermark flag to 1 on the Free plan and 0 on Starter, Daily, and Hardcore. The paid tiers are clean. The free tier is not.
Finding five: the series cap is real and confirmed twice. It appears both in the per-plan maximum and in the application's own upgrade-prompt strings, including "Free users can only create one series."
What is not included in the headline price
More than one channel. One active series per plan means one channel per subscription. Multi-channel operators pay per channel.
Any way to exceed 14 posts a week. No top-ups, no credit packs, no overage.
An unwatermarked free tier. The $0 plan is watermarked according to AutoShorts' own record, and it is a one-time allowance rather than a recurring monthly one.
A published refund policy. We found no refund terms in the plan data or on the homepage. The annual plans commit $190 to $690 up front with no stated recovery path.
A visible pricing page. Plans render only after JavaScript executes on the homepage, so the prices are not quotable from a URL you can send to a colleague.
Who each AutoShorts AI plan actually fits
| Plan | Best for | Main tradeoff |
|---|---|---|
| Free $0 | Seeing one finished video before paying | Watermarked, and it is one video, not a monthly allowance |
| Starter $19 | A single faceless channel posting Monday, Wednesday, Friday | 13 videos a month is the whole plan, and there is no top-up |
| Daily $39 | One channel on a genuine daily cadence | Still one series, so no second channel |
| Hardcore $69 | A single channel at twice-daily volume | Costs more than three stacked Starter plans covering three channels |
| Three Starters $57 | Operators running three channels at low cadence | Three billing relationships and three dashboards |
Best for hands-off single-channel automation: Daily at $39 is the natural buy. A genuine once-a-day cadence at about $1.29 per published video, with generation, voice, captions, scheduling, and posting handled, is a clean deal for a solo faceless operator.
Best value on paper: Hardcore annual at $690 is about $0.95 per video, the lowest rate AutoShorts publishes.
When AutoShorts AI is the wrong buy
Skip AutoShorts if you run more than one channel. The one-series cap is not a soft limit you can negotiate on a bigger plan, because the bigger plan has the same cap. Multi-channel operators end up managing several subscriptions.
Skip it if output volume needs to flex. A launch week that needs 25 posts is not purchasable at any tier.
Skip it if your videos represent a product and a wrong claim carries real cost. The product is optimized for keeping a topic channel alive on a schedule, and that is a different risk profile from marketing something you sell.
Skip Hardcore for multi-channel work specifically. Three Starter plans cost $57 and cover three channels at 9 posts a week total; Hardcore costs $69 and covers one channel at 14.
How Vidroot compares on price
Vidroot meters credits per operation rather than posting slots, so volume is purchasable and the arithmetic is checkable.
A 30-second, six-scene short costs about 115 credits: 60 for six AI image scenes at 10 each, 5 for voiceover, 20 render base, and 30 for output seconds at 1 per second.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | Credits | Shorts per month | Cost per short (monthly) | Cost per short (annual) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator | $19 | $15.83 | 1,500 | ~13 | ~$1.46 | ~$1.22 |
| Growth | $49 | $40.83 | 4,000 | ~34 | ~$1.44 | ~$1.20 |
| Agency | $149 | $124.17 | 12,000 | ~104 | ~$1.43 | ~$1.19 |
Annual billing is two months free. Signup includes free credits, pricing is public without an account, and one-time top-ups are available. Credits reset monthly rather than rolling over.
Where AutoShorts is the better buy: at high single-channel volume it is cheaper. Hardcore at $69 for about 61 videos is roughly $1.14 each against Vidroot Growth at about $1.44, and Hardcore annual at about $0.95 beats every Vidroot tier. If you want one faceless channel running unattended on a fixed cadence and you never need a second one, AutoShorts is the simpler and cheaper product, and the entry tiers are priced almost identically to Vidroot's.
Where Vidroot is the better buy: no series cap, so multiple products and channels live in one subscription rather than several. Volume is purchasable through top-ups instead of capped at 14 posts a week. Prices are readable on a URL without executing JavaScript. Scenes and scripts are editable and reviewable before publish, which matters when the video is about something you sell.
The workflow differences are covered on the AutoShorts AI alternative comparison. The full category table is in What AI Video Generators Cost in 2026.
FAQ
How much does AutoShorts AI cost per month? Starter is $19, Daily is $39, and Hardcore is $69. Annual billing is $190, $390, and $690 per year, or $15.83, $32.50, and $57.50 per month.
How much does an AutoShorts AI video cost? About $1.46 on Starter, $1.29 on Daily, and $1.14 on Hardcore monthly. Annual billing takes those to about $1.22, $1.07, and $0.95.
Does AutoShorts AI have a free plan? Yes, at $0, recorded as a one-time allowance rather than a recurring one. AutoShorts' own plan record flags the free tier as watermarked while the three paid tiers are not.
How many series can you run on AutoShorts AI? One, on every plan including Hardcore. Three channels require three subscriptions.
Can you buy more videos on AutoShorts AI? No. Plans sell posting frequency, and 14 posts a week on Hardcore is the published ceiling with no top-up option.
Next step
Count your channels first, then your cadence. If the answer is one channel at seven posts a week, Daily at $39 is a straightforward buy and the annual rate at $32.50 makes it better. If the answer is two or more channels, price the stack of subscriptions before you assume an upgrade solves it.
If you need multiple products in one subscription and volume you can top up, start free on Vidroot and check the credit ledger against the 115-credit example above. The comparison pages cover the workflow differences price alone does not show.