How much does it cost to edit Shorts, Reels and TikToks?
One edited short costs $10–$50 from a Fiverr freelancer, with a median of $27.50. Monthly plans work out to about $14–$42 a short. AI clipping tools cost $14–$19 a month, and you review every clip yourself. Most editors deliver in 1–3 days.
Below: every option side by side, what a month of shorts costs each way, and what pushes the price up. Each figure links to the page it came from. The calculator gives DoneCut’s exact price for your footage.
What one short costs, by who edits it.
Published prices as of 8 October 2026, for a vertical clip of up to about a minute, before any marketplace or payment fees.
| Who edits it | Typical price | Turnaround | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freelancer on Fiverr1,2 | $10–$50 a short | Turnaround: 1–3 days | Median $27.50 across twelve basic packages. Most cover one clip of 30–60 seconds with one or two revisions. |
| Short-form editing plan3,4,5 | $14–$31 a short | Turnaround: 1–7 days | $99–$995 a month for 4–50 shorts, usually 1–2 days each (one plan takes 4–7 business days for the first batch). One plan caps each short at 90 seconds from up to 3 minutes of raw footage. |
| Agency bundle with long-form6 | $29–$42 a short | Turnaround: 24 hours a video | $999–$2,499 a month for 30–65 shorts plus two to five long-form edits. |
| Dedicated editor7,8 | From $849 a month | Turnaround: Overnight to 3 business days | Sold as editor time or projects, not a number of shorts: 4–6 projects a month, or an editor for two hours each workday. |
| AI clipping tool (you do the review)9,10,11 | $14–$19 a month | Turnaround: Self-serve | Turns a long video into captioned clips for you to pick, fix and post. OpusClip also has a free tier with a watermark. |
| DoneCut | $19–$29 a short | Turnaround: Typically under 90 minutes once it starts, in our test orders so far | $29 for one, $25 each for 2–5, $22 for 6–11, $19 for 12 or more. Up to 90 seconds each from 5 minutes of footage. Half to start, the rest after a watermarked preview. |
A month of shorts, three ways.
Fiverr at the median basic price, the cheapest monthly plan that covers it, and DoneCut with every short in one order. A plan wins at low volume; it also bills you every month, whether you post or not.
| Shorts | Fiverr1 | Monthly plan | DoneCut |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | $110 | $99 | $100 |
| 10 | $275 | $195 | $220 |
| 12 | $330 | $269 | $228 |
| 20 | $550 | $395 | $380 |
What makes a short cost more.
- Length1,3,11
- Basic packages usually stop at 30–60 seconds. Plans cap it too: 90 seconds on one, two minutes on an AI captioning tool.
- How much raw footage3
- Picking three good moments out of an hour-long podcast is more work than tidying one 40-second clip. One plan allows up to 3 minutes of raw footage per short.
- Captions1,5
- Eight of the twelve Fiverr basic packages include captions, but one plan lists subtitles at $95 a month extra.
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Questions
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How much does it cost to edit a YouTube Short?
A single short from a Fiverr freelancer costs $10–$50, with a median of $27.50 across the twelve basic packages we checked in October 2026. Monthly plans work out to about $14–$42 a short. DoneCut charges $29 for one and $19 each for 12 or more.
How much do editors charge for Reels and TikToks?
The same as Shorts: editors price by the clip, not the platform. A 30–60 second Reel or TikTok is $10–$50 on Fiverr, and the same 9:16 file works on all three apps.
Is a monthly short-form plan cheaper than paying per short?
Only if you use every short you pay for. The cheapest plan we found was $99 a month for four shorts; plans with more shorts each month cost less per short, down to about $14.
Are AI clipping tools worth it?
They cost $14–$19 a month and turn a long video into captioned clips. They are good for volume if you have time to review each clip, fix captions and choose what to post. An editor does that judgement for you.
How long does short-form editing take?
Fiverr basic packages deliver in 1–3 days; plans in 24 hours to 2 days per video, though one plan takes 4–7 business days for the first batch. In our test orders so far, DoneCut edits typically took under 90 minutes once they started.
How many shorts can I get from one video?
As many as it has moments that make sense on their own, so a long podcast gives more than a short talking video. On DoneCut each short includes 5 minutes of raw footage, so 6 shorts cover a recording of up to 30 minutes.
Sources
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