Kapwing slashes free-plan credit minutes: subtitling 50→10, TTS 3→1
What happened
Between the Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026 captures of Kapwing's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Free plan credit-usable minutes cut: auto-subtitling 50→10 min, auto-translating 25→5 min, text-to-speech 3→1 min, clean audio 25→5 min. Pro/Business/Enterprise limits unchanged. Pulse files it as a packaging change (limit decrease) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Sep 28, 2026) lists Pro at $16 and Business at $50.
It lands 28 days after Kapwing's previous change, "Kapwing: Free plan export length increased (1 min → 4 min)" (Aug 17, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Kapwing cuts permanent storage, files deleted when subscription ends" (Jun 29, 2026), "Kapwing: Cloud storage now capped (was unlimited)" (Jul 3, 2026) and "Kapwing cuts Business plan cloud storage in half to 500GB" (Jun 16, 2026). Kapwing has been tracked since 2026-03-01.
In the same window Canva, Piktochart and Adobe also changed their Marketing & Content pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Limit−80%5010 min
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Limit | 50 | 10 min | −80% |
Values as written on Kapwing's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Kapwing's pricing page (kapwing.com) from Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where limit reads 50 and then 10 min.
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Kapwing, the last 90 days
Full history- Sep 28, 2026improvedKapwing boosts cloud storage: Pro to 200 GB, Business to 800 GB
- Sep 14, 2026packagingKapwing slashes free-plan credit minutes: subtitling 50→10, TTS 3→1 · this change
- Aug 17, 2026improvedKapwing: Free plan export length increased (1 min → 4 min)
- Jun 29, 2026improvedKapwing cuts permanent storage, files deleted when subscription ends
- Jul 3, 2026packagingKapwing: Cloud storage now capped (was unlimited)
- Jun 16, 2026packagingKapwing cuts Business plan cloud storage in half to 500GB
Across Marketing & Content in the same window
All Marketing & Content changesQuestions about this change
Did Kapwing raise prices in September 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: limit decrease.
What changed on Kapwing's pricing page between Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026?
Limit: 50 → 10 min (−80%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 7, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Kapwing change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 4 other pricing-page changes for Kapwing in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Kapwing: Free plan export length increased (1 min → 4 min)" on Aug 17, 2026; Kapwing has been tracked since 2026-03-01.