Telegram bots that clip long video into shorts, compared
Checked 19 August 2026. Two of the three products here have no formal pricing page - the bot is the whole product - so their figures come from a Product Hunt listing and a feature page, and are marked approximate where the source marked them so. ClipClap is our own product and this page says where it loses.
The short version
There are three of these, not thirty. Every listicle that promises you "the 15 best Telegram video bots" is padding the list with downloaders, converters and trimmers. If what you want is send a long video, get short vertical clips back in the chat, the real options as of 19 August 2026 are ClipClap, Clipline and Vyexa - and they are not variations on the same thing.
The single most useful fact on this page: Vyexa's Telegram bot does not choose moments for you. Inside the chat it cuts a fragment that you pick by timestamp and crops it to 9:16 with subtitles. Its AI highlight detection exists on the Vyexa website, not in the bot. If you found it while searching for an AI clipper in Telegram, that is worth knowing before you start.
Clipline is bot-only with no web app at all, uses Gemini to pick moments, and bills in a way none of the others do: pay per delivered clip, with a hold-and-refund model, so clips you reject are refunded. Its listing shows a free test of 5 minutes and 2 clips, then tiers at roughly $3, $9 and $22.50 - approximate, because that is how they are listed. It also does subtitle translation and custom watermarks, and deletes the source video after three hours.
ClipClap - ours - picks the moments, runs in both the bot and a browser, bills minutes of source video from $3 a week, and gives 40 minutes free once per account with no card and no watermark. It handles sources up to three hours on paid plans and puts webcam and gameplay in the same vertical frame for stream footage.
Side by side
| ClipClap | Clipline | Vyexa | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picks the moments for you | Yes | Yes | No - the bot cuts a timestamp you choose |
| Works without leaving Telegram | Yes, and there is a browser version too | Yes, bot only - no web app | Bot for manual cuts; AI features are on the website |
| What you pay for | Minutes of source video | Each clip delivered, refunded if rejected | Credits and clips; paid tiers not published where we could read |
| Entry price | $3 a week | About $3, then $9 and $22.50 as listed | Not published on the page we read |
| Free to start | 40 source minutes, once, no card | 5 minutes and 2 clips | 20 clips on signup, no card |
| Longest source | 3 hours on paid plans | Not published | Not published |
| Stream layout, webcam plus gameplay | Yes | No Twitch-specific handling described | Not applicable - manual cuts |
| Subtitle translation | No | Yes | Not described |
| Interface languages | 7 | Not published | 9 listed |
"Not published" means we could not read it on a page these products make public. It is not a claim that the thing is missing.
The billing model is the real difference
Ignore the headline numbers for a moment, because the three products are not selling the same thing.
Clipline charges for clips you keep. If a run produces six clips and you reject four, you are refunded for the four. That directly solves the worst thing about automatic clipping - that the tool decides what is good and you pay either way.
ClipClap charges for minutes you send, whether the clips are any good or not. That is better when you trust the output and want to process a lot of footage predictably, and worse when you do not. We are not going to pretend otherwise: if you expect to reject most of what a clipper produces, Clipline's model costs you less than ours.
Vyexa charges for clips you cut yourself, which is a different job entirely - closer to a trimming tool with automatic vertical cropping than to an AI clipper.
Which one fits which footage
A stream or gameplay VOD. ClipClap, for one specific reason: a 9:16 frame is not wide enough for both the webcam and the gameplay, and a naive crop keeps the face while losing what the face reacted to. ClipClap puts both in the frame. Neither of the others describes handling this case.
A podcast or interview, and you are picky. Clipline. Talking-head footage is the easiest case for any of these tools, so the selection quality gap narrows, and being refunded for clips you reject matters more than it does elsewhere.
You already know the exact moment you want. Vyexa. If you can give a timestamp, no AI needs to guess, and a manual cut with automatic vertical framing and subtitles is the shortest path there.
You want to see output before paying. All three let you, which is unusual for this category - the mainstream web tools mostly do not. ClipClap gives the largest free window at 40 minutes of source with no watermark; Clipline gives 5 minutes and 2 clips; Vyexa gives 20 clips.
What none of these three has
A review history. All three are small products. Clipline is a solo-founder product too new for review-site coverage; Vyexa we found no reviews for; ClipClap has none at all. If your rule is to only use software with a public track record, that rule rules out this entire category and points you at the web tools instead - Opus Clip, Submagic, Eklipse and the rest, which have thousands of reviews between them and none of the Telegram convenience.
None of the three offers an API, team seats, scheduled posting or analytics either. These are phone-first tools for one person clipping their own footage, and that is the whole shape of the category.
Questions
Which Telegram bots actually cut long video into clips?
Three that we could find and verify as of 19 August 2026: ClipClap, Clipline and Vyexa. ClipClap and Clipline both pick the moments for you. Vyexa's bot does not - inside Telegram it cuts a fragment you choose by timestamp, and its AI highlight detection lives on its website rather than in the chat.
Can a Telegram bot really replace a web app for this?
For clipping, yes, and that is the point of the format: you send a link or a file in a chat and the clips come back as videos in the same chat, on the phone you are already holding, with nothing installed. What you give up is a timeline editor, a library view and anything resembling a dashboard. If you want to hand-adjust a cut, none of these three is the right tool.
Which one is cheapest?
It depends on what you send, because they do not bill the same way. Clipline charges per delivered clip and refunds ones you do not take, with a free test of 5 minutes and 2 clips. ClipClap charges for minutes of source video, from $3 a week, with 40 minutes free once. Vyexa gives 20 free clips on signup, and its paid pricing we could not read. If you often reject the clips a tool produces, Clipline's model costs you less than ours does.
Do any of them handle a full stream VOD?
ClipClap takes sources up to three hours on paid plans and places webcam and gameplay together in the vertical frame, which is the case a stream needs. Clipline has no Twitch-specific handling that its listing describes. Vyexa's bot is for manual trims rather than long-form work. Maximum source lengths for the other two are not published anywhere we could read.
Where does ClipClap lose to the others here?
To Clipline, on billing: it charges per clip delivered and refunds what you reject, so a run that produces nothing you want costs you nothing. ClipClap charges the source minutes whether you like the clips or not. Clipline also translates subtitles and supports a custom watermark; ClipClap does neither. And all three are small products - ClipClap has no public reviews at all.
Try ours in the chat
40 minutes of source video, no card, no watermark. Send a link or a file and the clips come back in the same conversation.
Open the botNo Telegram? Use it in your browser - same clips, same free allowance.
Clipline and Vyexa are products of their respective owners and are named here only to identify the products being compared. Their figures were read on 19 August 2026 from a Product Hunt listing and a public feature page respectively, because neither publishes a conventional pricing page; ClipClap figures are its own current prices. All may have changed since.