Spikes Studio
Tool · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
Spikes Studio cuts long videos and streams into short clips for YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Reels. The moments are picked by AI — the function is named AI Curation, and a virality assessment, Virality Score, is attached to it. Next come animated subtitles, auto-framing with face tracking, AI selection of B-roll, transitions, effects and emoji, search by topic, trimming, a podcast editor, a social media scheduler and clip analytics. The composition is taken from the navigation and the "Compare all plans" table on the pricing page — that is, from places where each function is tied to a plan, rather than from advertising promises.
With languages the picture is incomplete. In the questions and answers of the pricing page it says: "We support over 99 languages, so you can reach a global audience. You can transcribe any video into its original language" — verbatim. The overall figure is confirmed, but the tool does not publish a list of languages by name. That means support for Russian, Arabic, Hindi or Chinese cannot be confirmed from the official pages. This is not a denial — these languages are named neither among the supported ones nor among the excluded ones; only the number declared by the tool is known.
Separately, the same quotation shows how the product is arranged: the transcription is done in the original language. Translating a clip into another language the pricing page does not declare.
Which platforms it works with
The platforms are named verbatim in the questions and answers: "You can connect your social media accounts and schedule your content directly from Spikes Studio. Whether you post on LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, or YouTube, you can manage and analyze them all from one dashboard". Four platforms — LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube; management and analytics are gathered into one dashboard.
This differs by plan, and the difference matters more than the list itself. In the "Compare all plans" table the rows "Direct Posting to Social Media", "Social Media Scheduler" and "Clip Analytics" are not ticked for the free plan. Put otherwise, on the free plan the platforms remain in that list, but connecting an account to them, scheduling a release and looking at analytics is not possible: the clip will have to be exported and published by hand.
Pricing
The prices are from the pricing page, the currency is dollars. The page shows two payment schemes as separate blocks, and the sums in them diverge considerably.
PRO+ — 14.09 USD a month with annual payment, which gives 3600 minutes a year, or 32.99 USD a month with monthly payment, which gives 300 minutes a month. The plan includes the absence of a watermark, 1080p export, animated auto-subtitles, AI selection of B-roll, the social media scheduler, music and sound effects.
Enterprise — 56.34 USD a month with annual payment (14400 minutes a year) or 115.99 USD a month with monthly payment (1200 minutes a month). Added are custom templates, an extended editor, a personal manager and unlimited storage.
The cheapest paid step is 14.09 USD a month with annual payment; if you pay monthly, nothing below 32.99 USD a month is available. Annual payment, by the page's own statement, saves up to 57%.
What is free
Here the source contradicts itself, and we do not choose on its behalf.
In the plan card it is written: "Basic plan / Your Free Plan for Growth — $0.00 /month" — verbatim. Lower on the same page, in the "Compare all plans" table, the column of that same free plan is labelled "Basic plan $12.99 /monthly". Which of the two figures relates to the free plan the page does not explain. Both values are given here as they stand.
The composition of the free plan according to the card: access to demo clips, no bank card needed, "Has watermark" — there is a watermark on the result, 720p export, auto-subtitles, a basic editor, 7 days of material storage. In the questions and answers of the same page the volume is named differently: "we offer a free trial with a monthly free plan that includes up to 30 minutes of video content".
What the free plan does not have: direct posting to social media and scheduling — the corresponding rows of the table are not ticked for it.
Restrictions
The quota is measured in minutes of video. The free plan — up to 30 minutes a month according to the questions and answers. PRO+ — 3600 minutes a year on annual payment or 300 minutes a month on monthly. Enterprise — 14400 minutes a year or 1200 minutes a month. As with the price, the counting base differs between the annual and the monthly scheme.
Clip resolution: 720p on the free plan, 1080p on the paid ones.
Material storage term: 7 days on the free plan, 90 days on PRO+, unlimited on Enterprise. This restriction is easy to overlook when planning work: on the free plan the sources and clips live for a week.
Processing speed is separated too: ordinary on the free plan, accelerated on the paid ones.
A separate technical restriction: the web editor in the "Add Captions" tab accepts video up to 5 minutes long — this is a limit on a single file, unrelated to the monthly quota.
Additional minutes, according to the questions and answers, can be obtained for invitations and for completing onboarding. This is the only way to increase the quota named by the page apart from changing plan; the terms on which such minutes accrue and their ceiling are not described.
Rights to the output
Establishing this did not succeed, and the reason is technical.
The "Terms of Services" link from the site footer leads to the terms page. The address answers with code 200, but returns the shell of a single-page application with the message "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app" — the text of the terms is not in the response. On the public pages of the site the rights to the output and commercial use are not described, and no differences by plan are declared.
What caused the gap matters. It is not a prohibition: the robots.txt of the app.spikes.studio subdomain permits everything — "Disallow:" stands there with an empty value. It is the way the page is served: the document is drawn by scripts, and the catalogue's streams do not use a browser panel.
From this it does not follow that there are no rights or that they are yours. From this only one thing follows: the document distributing the rights exists, but it cannot be read by our method.
Do they train on your data
It is not stated directly.
The only utterance by the tool about the fate of what is uploaded is an answer from the questions and answers of the pricing page: "Is my content secure and private? Yes, only you have access to your content" — verbatim.
About training models this phrase says nothing. The statement that only you have access to the content and the statement that models are not trained on the content are different statements; the first does not entail the second. The text of the terms, where such a clause might have stood, is not readable for the reason described above.
A mechanism for opting out is not described anywhere, and the possibility of training on uploaded video is not declared by the tool itself. There is formally nothing to opt out of — but there is no assurance that no training happens either.
How you earn with it
On commercial use of the output there is nothing substantive to say: the terms are not readable, and on the public pages the rights to the output are not described. Neither a permission to earn on the clips nor a prohibition is in the open documents. For someone planning monetisation this means the legal side will have to be clarified with the tool itself: the pricing page does not answer it, and the document that would answer it does not open by our method.
What is practically relevant is the watermark. On the free plan it is there, on the paid ones it is not, and the tool says so in a separate question: "Do the videos have watermarks? Yes, our free plan includes a watermark. To remove it, you'll need to subscribe to any of our paid plans" — verbatim. This does not substitute for a legal boundary.
What it will not do
Here the main thing must be said plainly: thematic prohibitions at Spikes Studio are ABSENT from the accessible pages. An acceptable use policy is not published, and the terms of use are not readable for the reason described above. Rules about other people's faces and other people's music in uploaded video are absent from the accessible pages too.
This is the absence of a document we could read, not a permission to do anything at all. For a tool that takes other people's streams and recordings wholesale, the absence of public rules about rights to what is uploaded is a noticeable gap in the documents.
What the tool will certainly not do, by the confirmed facts:
Remove the watermark on the free plan it will not — "our free plan includes a watermark", and it is removed only by a subscription.
Publish a clip for you from the free plan it will not be able to: the rows "Direct Posting to Social Media" and "Social Media Scheduler" are not ticked for it.
Store materials free of charge for longer than a week it will not: 7 days on the free plan against 90 on PRO+.
Give out 1080p on the free plan it will not: there it is 720p.
Process a clip longer than 5 minutes in the "Add Captions" web editor it will not undertake.
Name the supported languages one by one it is not ready to: "over 99 languages" is declared, a list is not.
Mark the result as made by AI it does not promise: about metadata and C2PA the sources are silent, and only the brand watermark is confirmed — and that is about the brand, not about origin.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
Cutting long videos and streams into short clips for YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Reels: AI selection of moments (AI Curation, a Virality Score), animated subtitles, auto-framing and face tracking, AI selection of B-roll, transitions, effects and emoji, search by topic, trimming, a podcast editor, a social network scheduler and clip analytics
The composition is taken from the navigation and the «Compare all plans» table on the pricing page, not from marketing promises
source, checked 2026-08-07
The FAQ on the pricing page says: «We support over 99 languages, so you can reach a global audience. You can transcribe any video into its original language» (verbatim). The service publishes no list of languages by name, so support for Russian, Arabic, Hindi and Chinese cannot be separately confirmed from the official pages
source, checked 2026-08-07
Platforms
The FAQ: «You can connect your social media accounts and schedule your content directly from Spikes Studio. Whether you post on LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, or YouTube, you can manage and analyze them all from one dashboard» (verbatim). It differs by plan: in the comparison table the rows «Direct Posting to Social Media», «Social Media Scheduler» and «Clip Analytics» are unticked for the free plan
The list of platforms is verbatim from the FAQ and the mapping to plans from the «Compare all plans» table on the same page
source, checked 2026-08-07
Pricing
PRO+ — 14.09 USD/month paid yearly (3600 minutes a year) or 32.99 USD/month paid monthly (300 minutes a month): no watermark, 1080p export, animated automatic subtitles, AI selection of B-roll, a social network scheduler, music and sound effects. Enterprise — 56.34 USD/month paid yearly (14400 minutes a year) or 115.99 USD/month paid monthly (1200 minutes a month): custom templates, 1080p, an advanced editor, a dedicated manager, unlimited storage. Yearly billing, the page claims, saves up to 57%
Both billing periods with their amounts and minute allowances are printed in the plan cards; the monthly and yearly blocks are given separately on the page
source, checked 2026-08-07
14.09 USD a month paid yearly (the PRO+ plan); paid monthly the cheapest paid tier is 32.99 USD a month
Both figures are taken from the PRO+ plan cards on the official pricing page
source, checked 2026-08-07
Sources diverge: «Basic plan / Your Free Plan for Growth — $0.00 /month» (verbatim): access to demo clips, no bank card needed, «Has watermark» — there is a watermark, 720p export, automatic subtitles, a basic editor, 7 days of retention. The FAQ on the same page: «we offer a free trial with a monthly free plan that includes up to 30 minutes of video content». There is no direct publishing or scheduling to social networks on the free plan
Lower down the same page, in the «Compare all plans» table, the free plan column is labelled «Basic plan $12.99 /monthly» — an amount that contradicts the card showing $0.00. Which of the two figures refers to the free plan the page does not explain
source, checked 2026-08-07
Limits and restrictions
The quota is measured in minutes of video: the free plan — up to 30 minutes a month (per the FAQ), PRO+ — 3600 minutes a year on yearly billing or 300 minutes a month on monthly, Enterprise — 14400 minutes a year or 1200 a month. Clip resolution: 720p on the free plan, 1080p on paid ones. Retention: 7 days on the free plan, 90 days on PRO+, unlimited on Enterprise. Processing speed: standard on the free plan, accelerated on paid ones. The web editor on the «Add Captions» tab accepts video up to 5 minutes long. Extra minutes, per the FAQ, can be earned through referrals and by completing onboarding
All values come from the plan cards, the «Compare all plans» table and the FAQ of one and the same pricing page
source, checked 2026-08-07
Legal
The visible watermark differs by plan outright, and the service says so without evasion. The FAQ: «Do the videos have watermarks? Yes, our free plan includes a watermark. To remove it, you'll need to subscribe to any of our paid plans» (verbatim). The free plan card repeats «Has watermark», while PRO+ and Enterprise show «No watermark». Nothing about metadata or C2PA
A rare case where a service answers about the watermark with a dedicated FAQ question rather than by hinting through a paid plan row
source, checked 2026-08-07
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