Eklipse vs
Vizard.

Two different starting points

Eklipse starts with your channel. You connect Twitch, Kick or YouTube once, and it picks up each new VOD on its own and goes through the whole stream. There is nothing to upload and nothing to run on your PC while you play.

Vizard starts with a file. You upload a recording or paste a link, one project at a time. Its own livestream pages describe exactly that: paste a YouTube Live, Twitch or Zoom recording, or upload it, and the AI finds the highlights. That suits someone who records one podcast a week. It is extra work for someone who streams five nights a week.

The source lists differ too. Vizard's API docs accept a direct file link plus 12 named sources, from YouTube and Twitch to Dropbox and Instagram. Kick is not one of them. Eklipse connects a Kick channel directly and also takes file uploads.

Game events vs Spark 1.0

Eklipse reads the game. Since June 1, 2026 its Premium engine, Gameplay Intelligence, scores moments from kill feed entries, eliminations, round wins and score changes, plus your voice measured against game audio and how much is happening on screen. It sends each VOD through tuning for its genre, such as FPS, battle royale or MOBA, and cuts each clip to the length the moment needs: about 5 to 8 seconds for a single shot, up to 40 for a round-deciding play. A July 2026 update added Just Chatting, IRL and podcast segments.

Vizard reads the video. Its Spark 1.0 model looks at visuals, audio and sentiment, and its help center says that lets it clip game streams, sports and video with little or no dialogue, not only podcasts. You can type a prompt describing the moments you want, up to 10 per project.

In practice: for a shooter where the best play happens in silence, Eklipse's approach is built to catch it. For a variety stream or a talk show where you know what you are looking for, a prompt in Vizard gives you more control. For more on how both kinds of detection work, see how AI clipping works.

What a month of streaming costs

The two meter different things, and for a streamer that decides the price.

• Eklipse is a flat subscription: $24.99 a month on the web, or $179.99 a year, with unlimited AI clipping on Premium. Monthly is $27.99 if you subscribe inside the mobile app, so the web is cheaper.
• Vizard sells credits, and one credit is one minute of video you upload. Creator is $29 a month, or $174 a year, and starts at 600 credits a month: 10 hours of video. Business is $39 a month, or $234 a year, with 20 social accounts and storage for as long as you subscribe. Its pricing page offers bigger credit tiers on both plans.

So a streamer doing 4 hour streams five nights a week, about 80 hours a month, would need roughly 4,800 credits on Vizard, eight times the starting tier, against one flat Eklipse price. A podcaster with four 1 hour episodes a month uses 240 credits and fits Vizard Creator easily.

To try before paying, Vizard's free plan gives 60 credits a month with uploads up to 60 minutes, while Eklipse only previews clips from one recent stream.

Who should pick which

• Pick Eklipse if you stream games with a kill feed or scoreboard, stream on Kick, want clips waiting after every stream without uploading anything, or want a voice command and a phone app for reviewing clips.
• Pick Vizard if you clip recordings: podcasts, interviews, webinars, YouTube videos. Or if you want a free plan to test with, 4K exports, more places to import from, or publishing to up to 20 social accounts on Business.
• Use both if you stream games and also run a podcast. They barely overlap.

For Vizard against ReelShift in detail, read ReelShift vs Vizard. For Vizard against the other big upload clipper, read Opus Clip vs Vizard.

What neither does

Neither one clips a stream while it is still live. Eklipse's help center says that with live processing on, clips are ready to review shortly after the broadcast ends. Vizard's API docs say YouTube live videos are not supported, and its livestream pages all talk about recordings. A moment from the first hour becomes a clip only after you go offline.

ReelShift fills that gap. It reads the live stream on Twitch, Kick, YouTube and TikTok LIVE, picks moments from what you say and, on game streams, from the kills and wins on screen, cuts them seconds after they happen, and has them in your library, vertical and captioned, a few minutes later. Say "clip that" on stream to grab the last 60 seconds. All four platforms, Kick included, are on every plan from $24.99 a month, with a 7-day free trial.

Be clear on its limits: it has no free plan, it takes uploads and video URLs only on Creator Plus, it does not repurpose long podcasts the way Vizard does, and it has a clip editor rather than a full video editor. Read how live clipping works or see the wider field in best AI clipping tools.