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The price, in plain view

About €2.38 per hour of footage. Two hours free when you sign up.

You pay per month, and the meter runs on hours of footage analysed. Every run counts the footage it reads, a second run on the same interview too. Building the cut, the preview, the timelines, the sub-clips and the export cost nothing, because that runs on your own Mac. The numbers below are what a normal editorial month looks like.

Your editorial month, itemised

What it actually looks like on the invoice.

Editorial month · Solo plan

Solo · 8 hours of footage a month€19.00
  → building, preview, timelines, export€0.00
  → unused hours, rolled overkept

Recurring monthly cost, excl. VAT€19.00

or start at:

Free · 2 hours of footage a month€0.00

For a month of spotting that used to take a junior days each.

The shelf, in plain euro

What €1 buys in 2026, next to what it buys here.

🥐

€1

a croissant

one bite, 2026 prices

📮

€1

a postage stamp

one letter, domestic

🅿️

€1

12 minutes of parking

city centre

☕

€1

a third of a flat white

if you're lucky

🎬

€1

25 minutes of footage

watched, labelled, ready

On Solo, a euro buys 25 minutes of footage watched and labelled, with the cut, the preview and the export thrown in for nothing. The croissant is gone in a minute; that stretch of spotting was going to cost you most of an afternoon.

The benchmark, once

What that €19.00 would have cost in human time.

For honest framing, once and only here, then we'll stop banging this drum elsewhere on the site. A junior editor at €50/hour billing for a day-one kickoff (spotting, logging, structured selects) takes around 4 hours per project. CutPrep replaces about 80% of that work on the kickoff itself. 8 hours of footage is roughly 4 interview projects, each run once. The math:

4 kickoffs × 4 hours junior16 hr
at €50/hour, 80% of it replaced€640

CutPrep Solo, those same 4 projects€19.00

You save €621 in junior hours, every month.

And spend it on the work juniors actually want to do.

That's the comparison. Once on this page, never again on the rest. Want to play with your own numbers? The savings calculator is over here.

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