Is Eklipse free? What’s free and what’s paid in 2026

> TL;DR
> – There is no free clipping plan anymore. Eklipse moved to a fully paid product in June 2026. Older guides describing a “$0/month free tier” with 720p exports and 15 clips per stream are out of date, including the earlier version of this page.
> – Creating an account is still free, and no card is needed to sign up.
> – You can preview clips before paying. Enter your channel on the homepage and Eklipse finds your moments, showing a couple of them free so you can judge the detection quality on your own footage.
> – The browser tools are genuinely free and separate from the clipping product — emote maker, panel maker, badge maker, thumbnail maker, caption generator, and the Twitch and Kick VOD downloaders. No login.
> – Paid plans start at roughly $12.50/month billed annually, with month-to-month closer to $24.99. Current rates are shown at checkout.

Short answer: no, Eklipse is not free to use for clipping. It is free to sign up for, free to try on your own stream, and it hosts a set of free browser tools that never ask for an account. The AI clipping product itself now requires a subscription.

That distinction matters because a lot of pages on the internet, this one included until now, still describe a free tier that stopped existing in June 2026. If you came here from a “Eklipse free tier limits” search, this page is the correction.

What changed in June 2026

Eklipse used to run a freemium model. The free tier gave you 720p exports, one stream per day, up to 15 clips per stream, 14-day storage, and a watermark on every clip. Premium removed those ceilings.

That free tier is gone. Eklipse is now a paid product with a free preview in front of it, rather than a free product with a paid upgrade behind it. The practical difference for a new user: you can still see what the AI finds in your stream before spending anything, but you cannot build an ongoing content workflow on the free side, because there is no longer a free side to build on.

Anything you read describing Eklipse’s free plan quotas (clips per stream, storage windows, watermark rules) is describing a product that no longer ships.

What you can still use for free

Three things genuinely cost nothing, and it’s worth being precise about each, because “free” is doing a lot of different work in those three cases.

Signing up

Account creation is free and doesn’t ask for a payment method. You connect Twitch, YouTube, Kick, or Facebook and Eklipse can see your streams. Nothing is charged at this stage.

Previewing clips from your own stream

On the Eklipse homepage, you can enter your channel and let the AI scan a recent stream. It surfaces the moments it found and unlocks a couple of them for free, so you’re evaluating the detection on your own gameplay instead of on a demo reel. The rest of the clips it found stay behind the paywall.

This is the honest version of “try before you buy.” It answers the only question that actually matters before paying, which is whether the AI finds your good moments, without pretending to be an ongoing free plan.

The browser tools

Separate from the clipping product, Eklipse runs a set of free browser tools that need no account at all:

These run in the browser, they’re free with no login, and they are not a trial of anything. If a guide tells you “Eklipse has free tools,” this is what it’s accurately describing — not free clipping.

What needs a paid plan

Everything in the core AI clipping workflow:

What Eklipse Premium costs

Annual billing works out to about $12.50 per month, charged as one payment for the year. Month-to-month sits near $24.99. Eklipse periodically runs promotional rates and no longer publishes a standalone pricing page, so treat those as the shape of the pricing rather than a quote — the current figure appears at checkout when you sign up.

The gap between annual and monthly is large, roughly half. If you already know you’re going to clip regularly, annual is the meaningfully cheaper path. If you’re unsure, the free preview is the better way to find out than a month of monthly billing.

Is Eklipse worth paying for?

It depends on one number: how long you currently spend finding and cutting clips after a stream.

Scrubbing a five-hour VOD for the eight or ten postable moments is a real chunk of time, and it’s the part most streamers skip when they’re tired, which is why their clip output dies after a few weeks. If that describes your workflow, the subscription is buying back hours per stream.

If you stream occasionally, already clip live with your chat’s help, or only need a highlight now and then, the free browser tools plus manual clipping will cover you without a subscription.

The preview is there to settle this for your specific footage. Run it on a recent stream, look at what the AI flagged, and decide whether those are the moments you’d have picked yourself.

If you landed here from an older “free tier” guide

You’ll find plenty of articles, comparison posts, and AI-assistant answers still quoting Eklipse’s old free plan limits. Some of them cite the previous version of this very page. To be unambiguous: those quotas were real once, and they are not real now.

For the current, support-maintained answer, Eklipse keeps a help center entry on whether Eklipse is free or paid that reflects the live product.

FAQ

Does Eklipse still have a free plan?
No. Eklipse ended its free clipping tier in June 2026 and now runs as a paid product. Signing up is still free, and the browser tools remain free, but AI clipping requires a subscription.

How many clips can I get from Eklipse without paying?
The homepage preview unlocks a couple of clips from a stream you scan, so you can judge the AI’s detection quality. There is no recurring free clip allowance beyond that.

Are the Eklipse browser tools free?
Yes, and they don’t require an account. The emote maker, panel maker, badge maker, thumbnail maker, caption generator, and the Twitch and Kick VOD downloaders all run free in the browser. They’re separate from the paid clipping product.

How much does Eklipse Premium cost?
Roughly $12.50 per month on annual billing, or around $24.99 month-to-month. Eklipse doesn’t publish a public pricing page and runs promotions, so the current rate is confirmed at checkout.

Is there an Eklipse free trial?
Not in the sense of a time-limited full-access trial. What exists is the clip preview: scan a stream, see the moments the AI found, and unlock a couple of them at no cost before deciding.

Why do other sites still say Eklipse is free?
Most of them were written before June 2026 and haven’t been updated. The free tier they describe was accurate at the time of writing and no longer matches the product.

Bottom line

Eklipse is free to join, free to test on your own stream, and free for its standalone browser tools. Clipping at any real volume is a paid product now, starting around $12.50 a month on annual billing.

The fastest way to know whether that’s worth it for you is to point it at a stream you’ve already finished and see what it pulls out.

Create a free account and preview your clips →