Video Editing Cost 2026: Per Minute, Video & Month

Last checked: October 2026 (vendor prices read 24 October 2026)

If you are weighing up what to spend on video editing, this is the page we keep current. Increditors is a video editing agency, and we rebuilt this guide so that every price in it traces to a vendor’s own pricing page, with the date we read it. No figure here is a guess or a survey average.

This page is now our single cost hub. It differs from the earlier write-ups on the same question, the complete pricing guide and the 2026 pricing guide, by putting dated vendor prices in tables you can check. Those two stay live and link here. Our 2026 video editing pricing survey is the broader market benchmark; this page is the line-by-line price check.

How Much Does Video Editing Cost in 2026?

Video editing cost depends on three things: who edits (a marketplace freelancer, a subscription service, a specialist team), how you pay (per video, per month or per hour), and what a “video” means (a 30-second vertical clip or a 60-minute interview). The table below groups the models we could source. Every price is the vendor’s published figure; ranges come from the plans or packages that vendor lists.

Table 1: video editing cost by model. Prices in US dollars as published; monthly and per-video figures are not directly comparable without your volume.

Video Editing Cost Per Minute and Per Video

Few vendors price by the finished minute, so per-minute cost is arithmetic: the published price of a video divided by its length. Video Husky publishes both a credit price and a maximum length for each project type, which makes the conversion honest. Table 2 shows the results. We label every row “calculated” because the divisor is the length you choose.

Table 2: cost per minute from published prices. Video Husky credits cost $45.00 each on the 5- and 10-credit bundles and $40.50 each on the 50-credit bundle ($2,025), which sets the range. VidChops credit price is $495 divided by 4 credits (Weekly) and $995 divided by 8 (Pro).

Per-video prices are simpler. Tasty Edits publishes the clearest ladder, and the discount for volume is visible on the page:

Table 3: per-video prices. The VidChops short-form figures are our division of its monthly price by the number of shorts each plan covers.

Professional Video Editing Cost: Freelancer vs Agency vs Subscription

When teams compare professional video editing cost, they usually choose between three models. The honest comparison is on scope, not just price.

Freelance video editor

Freelancers are the most flexible option and the hardest to price from public sources. Marketplace listings change by the hour, and Upwork blocked our fetch (HTTP 403) when we tried to read its video editor cost page on 24 October 2026, so we publish no marketplace hourly rate. The one dated freelance-adjacent benchmark we can cite is the US employee wage in the next section. The hidden costs are management time, revision cycles and having no backup if your editor goes offline.

Subscription video editing services

Subscription services sell a flat monthly price for a capped amount of editing. Vidpros lists a $1,000-per-month month-to-month subscription after a $100 trial week, with no more than four clients per editor. VidChops sells credits: $495 a month for 4 credits and $995 for 8, where one credit is one long-form video or four short-form videos. Tasty Edits sells packages per video instead of a subscription. Read the limits before you compare: VidChops lists a 15-minute maximum video length and Video Husky’s Eskimo plan caps exports at 20 minutes.

Video editing agency (full-service)

An agency adds a team: editors, a project manager and review. The published retainer prices we found sit well above subscriptions. VideoEditingCompany lists $5,000, $9,500 and $16,000 a month for SaaS-focused retainer plans, and Superside publishes a $15,000 monthly minimum on an annual term plus a $1,000 monthly software fee. Increditors does not publish a rate card; we scope retainers on a call. For a deeper look at agency retainers, see our video editing retainer cost guide and comparison of editing subscriptions.

Video Editing Prices Per Hour: What We Could Verify

Searches for “video editing prices per hour” and “video editing cost per hour” expect a single hourly number. We found two defensible ones. First, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 2025 median of $36.10 per hour ($75,100 a year) for film and video editors and camera operators, and a $75,420 median annual wage for film and video editors in May 2025 (read 24 October 2026). That is an employee wage: it excludes payroll costs, software, equipment and management time.

Second, Video Husky publishes weekly editor hours with each plan, so you can calculate what an hour of included editor time costs. Table 4 does that with 52 weeks divided by 12 months.

Table 4: effective hourly cost inside Video Husky plans, from prices and hours on the Video Husky pricing pages, read 24 Oct 2026. Pom ($549 a month) does not list weekly hours, so it is omitted.

Treat these as a floor for what outsourced editing costs per hour, not a freelancer rate. The plans include a project manager and tooling, and the editor works to a template-driven scope. Senior editors on custom motion, color or story work are priced differently, and we will not estimate that range without a source.

Video Editing Pricing 2026: Cost by Video Type

Vendors price formats differently, so the clearest view is by format. Video Husky is explicit about credits per project type; Tasty Edits splits by orientation; VidChops splits by long-form and short-form.

Table 5: cost by video type. We removed the unsourced per-format ranges that previous versions of this page carried; only vendor-published prices remain.

Video Editing Cost Per Month

Monthly cost is where the models separate most. Subscriptions sit under $3,000; specialist retainers start near $5,000; creative subscriptions start at $15,000.

Table 6: monthly cost by provider, sorted from lowest to highest published price. Increditors is listed for completeness; its price is not published.

You can also build a monthly figure from per-video prices. Eight horizontal videos at Tasty Edits’ $278 package price is $2,224 a month; thirty vertical videos at its $80 price is $2,400 (our arithmetic). For a month of weekly YouTube output, our YouTube editing cost per video breakdown goes deeper.

What Drives Video Editing Cost Up (or Down)?

The vendor pages we read show which levers move a price. These are documented on the pages, not assumed:

• Length: Video Husky prices by credit and length. A 20-minute single-camera video is 2 credits; a 20 to 90 minute recording is 5.
• Camera and audio setup: multi-camera work costs 4 credits instead of 2, and requires separate audio per speaker.
• Resolution: 4K costs one extra credit on Video Husky Shorts; its Siberian plan is the first plan to list up to 4K.
• Volume: Tasty Edits discounts 7% and 15% on larger packages, and Video Husky’s 50-credit bundle drops the credit from $45.00 to $40.50.
• Add-ons: VidChops lists subtitles at $95 a month across all plans.
• Revisions: Video Husky credit projects include up to 2 revisions; its monthly plans and Tasty Edits list unlimited revisions.
• Billing term: Tasty Edits channel management is $1,490 a month paid quarterly and $1,266 paid yearly for the same Starter tier; Superside requires an annual term.
• Turnaround: Tasty Edits states 24 hours for vertical and 48 hours for horizontal edits; VidChops states 1 to 2 days.

How Much Does It Cost to Edit a YouTube Video?

For a standard long-form YouTube video, the published per-video prices we found run from $81–$90 at Video Husky (Basic, up to 20 minutes) to $278–$327 at Tasty Edits (horizontal packages), with VidChops at $123.75 per long-form credit on its Weekly plan. A multi-camera podcast episode costs $162–$180 at Video Husky. Channels that publish weekly usually move from per-video pricing to a plan once they pass four or five videos a month, because the monthly plans above spread cost across volume.

Our own video editor hourly rates guide covers the hiring side, and the YouTube cost-per-video breakdown covers channel economics.

Why Businesses Choose Increditors Over DIY or Budget Options

Subscriptions and credits fit predictable, template-driven formats. Companies that need a senior editor team, a consistent look across dozens of videos a month, or strategy behind the cut tend to outgrow them. That is where we sit. Increditors holds a Clutch rating of 5.0 from 12 reviews, has delivered 1,700+ videos for 340+ clients, and works with clients including Emerj/The Trajectory, TuMeke, Riley Coleman, Trade with Pat, VYVE Wellness, Dr. Jonathan Tam, eSafetyFirst and Rhythm Monster, plus a GoDaddy pilot.

See how a retainer looks in practice in our TuMeke case study or browse all Increditors case studies. Here is our 2026 reel:

VideoEditingCompany is the other name to know if your content is B2B or SaaS and you want a premium retainer: its published plans are in Table 6. We rank ourselves first on this page because of the proof above, and we publish its prices as printed.

Video Editing Cost: Is It Worth It?

The in-house alternative is a salary. At the BLS median wage for film and video editors, $75,420 a year, wages alone come to about $6,285 a month (our division by 12), before payroll costs, software, hardware and management time. Against that, the subscription plans in Table 6 run $495–$2,749 a month and the specialist retainers $5,000–$16,000. Whether outsourcing wins depends on volume and on whether one in-house editor can cover every format you need. Our video editor salary vs agency retainer comparison walks through that decision.

We do not quote retention or click-through uplift here. Previous versions of this page did; none had a named source, so we removed them.

How We Collected This Data

Method. On 24 October 2026 we read the public pricing pages of Video Husky (plans, plan detail pages and credit bundles), Vidpros, VidChops, Tasty Edits, Superside and VideoEditingCompany, plus the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook entry for film and video editors and camera operators. We saved each figure, its source URL and the read date in a dataset (n = 29 published price points, plus 4 credit-based per-video prices and 12 calculations, all shown above).

What we excluded. Upwork returned a 403 block when we tried to read its video editor cost page, so no marketplace or freelancer hourly rates are included. We did not estimate, average or round vendor prices. Calculated cells (cost per minute, cost per editor hour, monthly totals) are labelled and use the vendor’s own price as the numerator.

Disclosure. This guide is published by Increditors, a video editing agency, and includes our own services. We list our own price as “scoped on a call” because we do not publish a rate card.

Frequently Asked Questions About Video Editing Pricing

How much does video editing cost per hour in 2026?

We could not retrieve Upwork or Fiverr rate pages (Upwork returned a 403 block), so we do not quote marketplace hourly rates. What we can source: the US Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a 2025 median of $36.10 per hour for film and video editors and camera operators (an employee wage, read 24 October 2026), and Video Husky’s monthly plans work out to roughly $15.86–$19.59 per included editor hour (our arithmetic from its published plan prices and weekly editor hours).

How much does video editing cost per minute?

On the published credit and plan pages we could convert, finished-minute costs run from about $2.25 per minute (Video Husky long-format credits at the 90-minute cap) to $40.50–$45.00 per minute for sub-one-minute shorts. A 10-minute YouTube-style video on Video Husky’s Basic credit tier works out to $8.10–$9.00 per finished minute. These are our calculations from vendor prices read on 24 October 2026.

How much does professional video editing cost per month?

Published subscription plans run from $495 a month (VidChops Weekly) to $2,749 a month (Video Husky St. Bernard, 40 editor hours a week). Specialist retainer teams publish $5,000, $9,500 and $16,000 a month (VideoEditingCompany), and Superside starts at a $15,000 monthly minimum on an annual term. Agency retainers, including ours, are scoped on a call.

How much does it cost to edit a YouTube video?

Published per-video prices for long-form YouTube-style edits run from $81–$90 (Video Husky Basic credits, up to 20 minutes) to $278–$327 per horizontal video (Tasty Edits, depending on package size), with VidChops at about $124 per long-form credit. Multi-camera and 4K work costs more: Video Husky charges an extra credit for 4K.

Is a subscription cheaper than a freelancer or an agency?

For steady volume, usually yes on price per video: a flat plan spreads cost across many edits. But subscriptions cap video length, revisions or active requests, and do not usually include strategy or a team. We could not verify marketplace freelancer rates this month, so compare on scope as well as price.

What does Increditors charge?

We do not publish a rate card on this page. Increditors scopes retainers on a discovery call, based on monthly volume, video length and formats. Every price in the tables here belongs to the vendor named in the row and was read on its own site.

Changelog: 24 Oct 2026 — rebuilt as the cost hub; prices re-read from Video Husky, Vidpros, VidChops, Tasty Edits, Superside, VideoEditingCompany and BLS; Upwork not retrievable and excluded; unsourced ranges and Increditors prices removed.