By Sauce Media · Compare your choices
When Vidpros still makes sense
Vidpros Part Time costs $1,000 a month for two hours with a dedicated editor per workday. Full Time costs $4,000 a month for eight hours a day. The Part Time plan includes stock video, music, AI captions, simple thumbnails, and three months of storage. A thumbnail is the cover image for a video.
Keep Vidpros on your list if you know what to make and need steady help doing it. The $1,000 plan costs less than Sauce Starter. If your work fits that daily time, paying more may not solve a problem you have. Ask how many of your usual edits fit. Two paid hours do not mean a finished video each day.
Replayed: buy the next edit
Replayed has no subscription. It offers flat and hourly rates at different editor levels. One Senior flat rate is $349 for 16–35 minutes of raw footage. Raw footage means the files you send, not the length of the finished video. Check the tier and files before you use that price.
This may fit if you record in bursts and want to price each job. Its flat plans include up to one hour of work on changes. Extra change work costs $35 an hour. Thumbnails and reformatting for short clips are listed as separate services. Ask what your full order will cost.
Sauce: plan a month of finished work
Sauce Creator costs $4,499 a month. It lists four long-form videos, 10–15 Shorts, A/B thumbnails, an editor, and a strategist. Long-form means full videos. A/B thumbnails are cover image options. The strategist helps plan content. File storage and a project board are included.
Starter is $2,799 a month for three full videos. Empire is $7,299 for unlimited editing, A/B thumbnails, and everyday Shorts. Check what each plan covers before choosing. Creator lists 48-hour priority turnaround and Empire lists 24-hour priority turnaround. Agree what those times mean for your footage and dates.
Sauce may fit when you want these types of work in one monthly plan. It may not fit if you only need a few hours of editing help. Compare the work you will use, not just the length of each feature list.
Turn your work list into a fair quote
Here is a made-up example: you need four full videos and twelve short clips next month. You also want cover image options. Write down the raw file lengths, style, due dates, and who picks the clips. Without those details, all three quotes could cover different jobs.
For Vidpros, ask how this list fits into the daily hours. For Replayed, ask for the full order cost, including clips and covers. For Sauce, check the work against Creator and agree on dates. Its listed counts fit this example, but counts alone do not settle the job.
- Who watches the raw files and picks the useful parts?
- Which changes use paid time or add to the bill?
- Are the cover images simple designs or a separate design job?
- Which files arrive first, and when do you need to send notes?
Find what is causing the wait
Before switching, look at your last few edits. Was the editor short of time? Were files missing? Did your team take days to send notes? More editing time helps with some delays. It cannot fix a brief that keeps changing.
Vidpros bases its overnight turnaround on how complex the work is. Ask each team to plan around your real footage and review dates. Ask when you will get the first draft and how long changes will take.
Keep a clear handoff
Keep copies of the files you own and can use. Ask about the edit project, fonts, music rights, and final drafts before you leave. Give the next editor one brief and one person to send notes. Use our brief template to get the first job ready.
Send each service the same scope before comparing
A fair comparison starts with one real week of your channel’s work. Send the same raw-footage volume, intended runtimes, graphics requirements and review expectations to each provider. Ask for the expected queue and turnaround for that workload rather than treating a headline delivery time as a complete production schedule.
Save the written answers beside the current plan price. A lower fee may make sense for a simpler workload; a broader team may be useful if you also need packaging and recurring strategy. Choose based on the work you will actually hand off.
- How many projects can be active at the same time?
- Which Shorts, graphics and thumbnails are included?
- How are revisions and unusual footage volumes handled?