Free tier, explained honestly
A free AI faceless video generator for YouTube Shorts — no credit card needed
Yes, there's a real free tier: sign up and confirm your email address and Clip Viral gives you 300 credits, once, with no credit card and no subscription. That's enough to actually make faceless videos for YouTube Shorts, TikTok or Reels — script, voiceover, every scene, captions, title, description and tags, with no camera and no editing. What it isn't is unlimited: this page is honest about exactly what 300 credits buys and what happens once it's spent.
What "no credit card" actually means here
Registration asks for an email address (or Google/Apple sign-in) and nothing else. No card details are collected at signup, and nothing is charged automatically once your free credits run out — there's no trial that silently converts to a paid plan. The 300 credits land on your account once your email is confirmed, and you decide if and when to pay for more.
What 300 free credits actually gets you
One credit is one US cent, and every tool shows its price before you start, so this isn't a guess — it's what the same 30-second video costs today. A 30-second video with real stock footage (Motion Lite) is 60 credits, so 300 credits makes about 5 of those. The same 30 seconds with every scene drawn in a chosen art style (Storyboard) is 78 credits, so 300 credits makes about 3 of those instead. A longer Short, or a pricier style like full AI-generated video, buys fewer. Either way it's a couple of real, finished, postable videos to judge for yourself — not one, and not unlimited.
A video that fails isn't charged, and every price includes the upload pack: a title, description, tags, hashtags and a thumbnail written and drawn for it.
What happens after your free credits run out
Nothing happens automatically — you keep your account and simply can't start a new video until you add credits. The smallest top-up is US$5 for 500 credits, which lasts 12 months and never expires faster than that. If you're posting often, a monthly plan works out cheaper per video — the smallest is Starter at US$9/mo for 900 credits. Full pricing for every plan and top-up is on the homepage pricing section and the FAQ.
The other thing that makes this different: grounded in real sources
Past the free tier, the other reason people look for an alternative to the big incumbents is accuracy. For niches about real things — true crime, history, facts — Clip Viral writes to a subject grounded in real sources, not invented, the same way across every niche it supports, rather than letting a model make up details that sound plausible and aren't.
Faceless formats people start with
A few of the niches the free credits are enough to try first:
Try it on a real topic, free
300 credits land on your account once your email is confirmed — no credit card, no subscription. Enough for a couple of real videos before you decide whether to pay anything.