Onset Engine Pricing

No. Onset Studio is a one-time purchase of $79 - you pay once and own your license permanently. All updates within the v1.x series are included at no additional cost. There are no monthly fees, no render credits, and no feature gates that require a recurring payment. If we release a major v2.0 rewrite in the future, existing customers will be offered preferential upgrade pricing.

Everything Onset Engine does. Every feature is in the Demo: New video, photos mixed with your clips (iPhone HEIC included), all 9 style presets, transitions, timeline editing (swap, re-roll, lock and nudge clips, place and move them, fill a region, fix repeats), editing the cuts on the beat, every effect (Cutout Pop, Beauty Mode, Smooth Motion and depth effects included), effects and sound set clip by clip, must-use clips, collections, rounds, Length, Song span, Shape it, Learn my taste, Vertical videos and Teasers, Highlights, Triptych, vertical, square and 4:5 copies, DJ Mode with DJ sessions on the timeline, and fast importing that makes no copies of your clips. The Demo limits only the output: renders and drafts are the first minute of the edit, at 720p / 30 FPS with an Onset Engine watermark, DJ sessions run for 1 minute, and there is no export to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. You can watch your whole edit in the app, with the song. The comparison table lists every difference.

Yes. Keep the timeline you built in the Demo: activate Studio and render it again, and you get the whole video, with no watermark, in 1080p or 4K at up to 60 FPS.

Yes. Add photos alongside your video clips, or on their own: JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP and iPhone HEIC, with sideways photos turned upright. Each photo moves for as long as it is on screen, aimed at the faces in it, and the Photos setting decides how many of the shots are photos. Chronological Order plays photos and clips in the order they were taken. Photos are in the Demo too. Photo slideshows →

Yes - 14-day refund policy through Lemon Squeezy, no questions asked. If Onset Engine doesn't work for your workflow, request a refund within 14 days of purchase and you'll receive a full refund. We recommend trying the free demo first to confirm the software runs on your hardware and that the AI pipeline produces the results you're looking for before purchasing Studio.

Onset Engine runs on any Windows 10/11 PC with 8GB RAM - no GPU required. NVIDIA (GTX 16-series / RTX 20-series or newer, including RTX 50-series) is fastest: AI analysis of your footage runs on the GPU, and NVENC speeds up exports. AMD Radeon is fully supported: exports are hardware-accelerated (AMF), while AI analysis runs on the CPU, so importing new footage takes somewhat longer with Standard analysis and several times longer with High Quality, while editing and rendering are unaffected. Intel-only systems work the same way, with CPU encoding. The engine runs on hardware as old as 5 years. Onset Engine is currently Windows-only; a macOS version is not yet available. Full hardware compatibility table →

Not yet. Onset Engine runs on Windows 10 and 11 only, so please don't buy it for a Mac. A version for Apple Silicon Macs is planned. Leave your email and we'll send you one email when it's ready.

Only to set up and to keep your license valid. Onset Engine goes online to activate your license, to download its AI model once the first time you add footage, and for a lightweight license check at most once a day while you're online. Checking for updates happens only when you click it. Everything else runs offline - all AI processing, rendering, and library management happen on your local machine. We never track your usage, never upload your media, and never send telemetry data. Once set up, the software is fully functional in air-gapped environments, making it suitable for restricted networks and privacy-conscious workflows.

About 4x faster than cutting a copy of every clip, and it saves disk space too, on every batch of footage you add, in the Demo and in Studio. When Onset Engine indexes your library it records where each clip it finds lives inside your original footage, instead of cutting a separate video file for it. On a measured 60-second 4K source that is 30 seconds instead of 1 minute 51 - roughly 4x - and 0 bytes written instead of 144 MB. Scaled to an hour of 4K footage, that is about half an hour of indexing instead of nearly two, and around 8 GB of your drive left alone. It also makes for better edits: when the music calls for a longer shot, the editor can always read further into the source.

Your license keeps working, with every feature, rendering at up to 1080p / 60 FPS. Questions about your license? Email support@onsetengine.com.

A Studio license activates on 1 PC. Need a second activation for your laptop? Just email us and we'll bump your limit - takes 30 seconds, no additional charge. If you upgrade your hardware or reinstall Windows, deactivate first from the in-app License dialog (Deactivate for Transfer button), then re-activate on the new machine. The deactivation process is instant and doesn't require internet beyond the license server call. Lost access to your old machine? Contact support and we'll reset your activation remotely.