Best AI Video Editors in 2026: 11 Tools Tested

Best AI video editors at a glance

• Overchat AI — best AI video editor overall
• Kling AI — best for editing long clips
• Adobe Firefly — best for commercially safe edits
• Google Flow — best free AI video editor
• Hailuo AI — best for editing with reference images and audio
• Runway — best for professional video production
• Luma — best for fine control over the edit
• Higgsfield — best for choosing between edit models
• Dreamina — best for marking up the edit on the frame
• Wan — best for open-source video models
• Vidu — best for swapping objects with a reference image

Types of AI video editors

AI video editors can be divided into three types, which differ mainly in which video models they offer:

• AI platforms. They put video models from different companies in one app. If one model gets the edit wrong, you can run the same clip through another one without moving to a different service. Overchat AI and Higgsfield belong to this type.
• Apps from model developers. Companies that build video models usually have their own apps: Kuaishou has Kling AI for its Kling models, Google has Flow for Gemini Omni Flash, and MiniMax has Hailuo AI for MiniMax H3. Runway, Luma, Wan, Vidu and Dreamina by ByteDance also belong here. New versions of a developer's models usually appear in its own app first.
• Creative suites. Adobe Firefly combines Adobe's video model with partner models from Runway, Google and Kuaishou, as well as a timeline editor for cutting the edited clips together.

Timeline editors such as CapCut and Descript also have AI features, but they mostly help with cutting, captions and sound, so we didn't include them.

How we tested the AI video editors

For the test, we used a 5-second clip in which a woman walks down an autumn street and turns around at the end:

With the following prompt:

We'll be judging whether the model can:

1. Change the season and the weather in the whole scene.
2. Change the color of one piece of clothing.
3. Keep the woman's face and the details of the scene, such as her patterned shopping bag.

1. Overchat AI — best AI video editor overall

Overchat AI is an AI platform we've built which combines text, image and video models in one app — and features a Video Generator with video-to-video support.

Without further ado, here's how Overchat AI edited our video:

As you can see, the app successfully turned the street into a snowy winter day and changed the coat to red, while the subject's face, the pattern on her shopping bag, and the benches didn't change at all.

Also worth noting is that Overchat AI outputs edited videos in 1080p.

Usually you edit videos through prompts — text commands to the AI model that you write in plain English — but Overchat AI also has ready-made filters, including Background Swap, Character Swap, Replace Clothing and New Hairstyle, allowing you to make common edits quickly.

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2. Kling AI — best for editing long clips

Kuaishou, the company behind the Kling AI app, is not only an app developer but also a model developer — they make their own video models, some of the best in the industry.

As of the time of writing, Kling just recently released its newest model, Kling 4.0, which can edit clips of up to 30 seconds (many video-to-video models stop at 10 seconds). The official Kling app is one of the best places to access this model.

While filming results for this article, we tested video editing with Kling 3.0 Omni — for our test there shouldn't be much of a difference as that model used to be a flagship, and the result speaks for itself:

The Kling app is an excellent AI video editor choice if you want to use Kling AI models specifically.

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Another great benefit of Kling is that when you sign up with a free account you get 66 credits, which is enough to test the app, because a 5-second edit at 720p costs 45 credits, so the free trial covers it fully. This is subject to change, of course.

Note: There's a longer queue for free users, and you can't export without a watermark.

3. Adobe Firefly — best for commercially safe edits

Adobe Firefly is Adobe's generative AI app for images, video and audio. Adobe trains its Firefly models on licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, so they're safe for commercial use.

Adobe's model for video editing is Firefly Video 2. Paid plans also include Runway Aleph 2.0, Gemini Omni Flash and Kling 3.0 Omni.

We tested Firefly Video 2, which is available on the free plan:

Firefly Video 2 made the most realistic falling snow in our test. The woman's face, her bag and her walk stayed the same. The only miss is the coat, which came out orange-red.

The edited video comes out in 720p without a visible watermark.

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The free plan gives you one video edit a day with Firefly Video 2. Paid plans come with monthly generative credits for all models.

4. Google Flow — best free AI video editor

Google Flow is Google's AI filmmaking app. Videos in Flow are made and edited with Gemini Omni Flash, Google's newest video model.

In Flow, you edit videos in a chat with an AI agent. You attach the clip, describe the change and confirm the cost in credits. The edited version appears next to the original, so you can compare them.

This is the result we got from Gemini Omni Flash:

The winter scene looks good: the street is covered in snow, snow is falling, and the coat is red. However, the model redrew the whole frame. The woman got a different face and hair, and her patterned bag turned into a plain paper one.

The video comes out in 720p without a visible watermark.

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Out of all the apps we've researched, Flow has the best free plan. Every account gets 50 credits a day, with or without a subscription. Our edit cost 20 credits, so you can make two edits a day for free. At peak hours, though, free users may be unable to generate video.

5. Hailuo AI — best for editing with reference images and audio

Hailuo AI is MiniMax's video app. It edits videos with MiniMax H3, the newest MiniMax model.

Along with the video, you can attach up to nine images and three audio files to the prompt. This is useful when you need to put a specific product into the scene or give a person a particular voice.

We gave MiniMax H3 our clip with the same prompt:

The coat turned red and the woman's face stayed the same, but the winter came out only partly. The pavement looks wet, and some trees still have yellow leaves. Her turn at the end of the clip also differs from the original.

The video comes out in 768p with a MiniMax and Hailuo AI watermark.

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New users get 150 credits at sign-up. Our 5-second edit at 768p cost 70 credits, so the free credits are enough for two edits. Paid plans start at $9.99 a month.

6. Runway — best for professional video production

Runway released one of the first video-to-video models, Gen-1, in 2023. Its current model for video editing is Aleph 2.0, which works with clips of up to 30 seconds.

In Runway, you can edit only part of a clip: you select a range, preview the edit on one frame, and Aleph 2.0 applies the change to that part.

Runway also has plugins for Premiere Pro, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve.

Unfortunately, we couldn't test Runway: a new account gets 500 credits, but video editing with Aleph 2.0 is only available on paid plans.

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An edit with Aleph 2.0 costs 28 credits per second, so a 5-second edit costs 140 credits.

7. Luma — best for fine control over the edit

Luma edits videos of up to 18 seconds with its Ray models, in a feature called Modify Video.

In Modify Video, you set how closely the result follows the motion and the structure of the original. Face and body capture keeps the people in the clip moving the same way.

You can also edit a few frames of the clip as images, and Ray carries those changes through the whole video.

We couldn't run our test in Luma, because a new account has no credits. Modify Video also needs at least one edited keyframe before it starts.

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An edit with Ray3.2 at 720p costs 72 credits per second, so a 5-second edit costs 360 credits.

8. Higgsfield — best for choosing between edit models

Higgsfield, like Overchat AI, is an AI platform that brings together video and image models from different companies: Seedance 2.5 Edit, Kling 3.0 Omni Edit, Kling O1 Video Edit, FLUX.3 Video Edit, Grok Imagine Edit and Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 Edit.

Higgsfield also has tools for finishing the clip: you can extend a clip, reframe it, upscale it, increase the frame rate or remove the background.

We couldn't test Higgsfield, since its free plan doesn't include any credits.

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9. Dreamina — best for marking up the edit on the frame

Dreamina is an AI image and video app from ByteDance, the company behind TikTok and CapCut. For video, it uses ByteDance's Seedance models.

In Dreamina, you can draw a box, an arrow or a note right on the frame to show what to change. This helps when the frame has several similar objects, for example two people in coats.

We couldn't test Dreamina: an edit costs 370 credits, and a new account gets 216.

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10. Wan — best for open-source video models

Wan is a family of AI video models from Alibaba. Some of them are open-source: Wan2.1-VACE and Wan2.2-Animate are available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, so you can run them for free on a computer with a powerful graphics card.

The newest model, Wan 3.0, is available only in the Wan app and through Alibaba's API. It can replace objects in a video, change its style or lighting, and change what people in the video say.

In the app, a new account has no credits, so we couldn't test Wan 3.0. Each daily check-in gives 6 free credits, while our 5-second edit would cost 30.

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11. Vidu — best for swapping objects with a reference image

Vidu is an AI video app built on the Vidu models. Its video editor works with clips of up to 8 seconds. You can attach a photo of a product or a person, and Vidu puts it into the clip in place of something in the frame.

We couldn't test Vidu because a new account starts with no credits. You can earn a few by watching ads in the app.

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FAQ

What is the best AI video editor?

Overchat AI is the best AI video editor. In our test, it made the full edit in 1080p and kept the woman's face, her walk and the details of the scene. For common edits, such as a new background or outfit, it also has ready-made filters that don't need a prompt.

Is there a free AI video editor?

Yes. Google Flow gives 50 credits a day, which covers two edits with Gemini Omni Flash. A new Kling AI account gets 66 credits, enough for one 5-second edit at 720p with a watermark. Adobe Firefly allows one video edit a day with Firefly Video 2. Hailuo AI gives new users 150 credits, which is enough for two edits.

Which AI video editor has no watermark?

In our test, Overchat AI, Adobe Firefly and Google Flow returned edited clips without a visible watermark. Kling AI and Hailuo AI add their logo to videos on the free plan. Some apps also add invisible markers: Google embeds a SynthID watermark in its videos, and Adobe attaches Content Credentials that mark the clip as AI-edited.

Can Gemini edit a video?

Yes. Gemini Omni Flash edits uploaded videos of up to 10 seconds from a prompt. In the Gemini app, this requires a Google AI plan, and uploading videos for edits isn't available in the EEA, Switzerland, the UK and some US states. In Google Flow, you can edit videos with Gemini Omni Flash for free with 50 credits a day.

Can AI change the background of a video?

Yes. Video-to-video editors can replace the background from a prompt while the people in the frame keep their movements. In Overchat AI, you can also do it without writing a prompt, with the Background Swap filter. If you need to cut out the background instead, for example to put the person into a different video, you can remove the background from a video with a separate tool.