Free plans are easy to misread, so here is the list, with the limits in it. This is the Arsaze Free plan as it stands in October 2026.
Free on every plan, forever, on your own PC
These run in the Windows app, on your own computer, and cost you nothing on any plan.
- Transcription: word-timed, English on your PC, no credits and no per-minute charge.
- Background removal: cut a person out of a clip with no green screen.
- Motion tracking: blur, cover, spotlight, follow cam and the rest, with no AI credits.
- Exports: render on your own PC with no watermark and no export-hour limit.
- Local projects: unlimited, with your footage kept on your PC.
Included in the Free plan
- The full editor: multi-track timeline, trims, keyframes, color wheels, curves and LUTs, audio tools and captions. No editing feature is locked to a tier.
- 50 one-time welcome AI credits for cloud audio analysis: transcripts, captions and silence detection.
- Your AI assistant, connected over MCP: add Arsaze as a custom connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Grok.
- Arsaze Folio, a portfolio page that is free forever.
- The After Effects panel download, with an Arsaze account.
What needs a paid plan
- AI generation of video, image, voice, music and sound effects.
- The built-in AI assistant and Animate.
- Cloud rendering time, and background removal in the browser.
Paid plans add monthly AI credits and cloud export hours, and credit packs never expire. The numbers are on the pricing page, and they come from the same data the product uses.
The catch
There is one, and it is simple: the free forever tools run on your hardware. That is why we can give them away. If you work in the browser on a machine that cannot run the app, those jobs run in the cloud and use credits. The on-device tools are in the Windows app.
Who it suits
If you cut talking-head videos, tutorials, interviews or social clips on a Windows PC, the free list covers a lot of an edit by itself: transcribe, cut by text, remove silences, caption, track and export. If you want an AI to do the whole edit for you, that is where a paid plan and a connected assistant come in. You can also compare us with other editors on the comparison pages.
Questions people ask
Does the Arsaze free plan have a watermark?
Exports rendered on your own PC in the Windows app have no watermark and do not count against export hours.
Is Arsaze's free transcription limited?
No. Transcription on your own PC in the Windows app is free on every plan with no hour limit. It is English today, and other languages use cloud transcription.
What does the Free plan not include?
AI generation, the built-in AI assistant, Animate, and cloud rendering time need a paid plan.
Do I need a credit card for the Free plan?
No.