Both promise a faceless channel on autopilot. AutoShorts automates static-image slideshows; Revid's Auto-Mode automates real AI-video content you can actually edit.
We link to AutoShorts's own pages and public review scores so you can verify everything yourself.
AutoShorts nails the pitch that made faceless automation a category: pick a topic once, and videos write, render, and post themselves to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram on a schedule. If hands-off is the only requirement, it delivers exactly that.
Revid's Auto-Mode workers make the same promise with a different quality floor: scenes generated by AI video models (not static image slideshows), voices in 70+ languages, a full timeline editor when you want to intervene, and no one-series-per-account cap. The comparison below is mostly about how much quality and control you get per unit of automation.
| Revid | AutoShorts | |
|---|---|---|
| Main focus | Full short-form pipeline with Auto-Mode automation as one feature | Set-and-forget faceless series automation, and only that |
| Visuals | AI-generated video scenes (Veo 3, Sora 2, Kling, Seedance) | Mostly static AI images; motion effects cost extra "motion credits" |
| Series limits | Multiple Auto-Mode workers, different formats and channels | 1 active series per plan at every tier |
| Editing | Full timeline editor; every video stays editable | Preview and tweak script, title, images, and music before posting |
| Voices | Voices in 70+ languages plus cloning | AI voices plus cloning; reviewers call the delivery robotic; no custom audio upload |
| Publishing | Direct posting and scheduling to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram | Scheduled auto-posting to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram |
| API and AI agents | Public REST API, MCP server with 14 tools, npm CLI, on every paid plan | No public API or MCP server |
| Free tier | Free credits on signup, no credit card required | 1 sample video; reviewers note you effectively pay to evaluate it |
| Trustpilot | 4.0/5 (301 reviews) | 3.4/5 |
Feature and pricing details checked August 2026 on both products' public pages. Spotted something outdated? Email us and we'll fix it.
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$39/monthto start
Free credits on signup, no credit card required.
$29/month billed yearly. Every plan includes the editor, direct publishing, Auto-Mode, and full API/MCP/CLI access. Exact credit costs are public.
$19/monthto start
Free plan is a single sample video (1 series, HD, no card).
Starter posts 3x/week; Daily at $39/month posts daily; Hardcore at $69/month posts twice daily. Every tier is capped at 1 active series. Checked August 2026 on autoshorts.ai.
The most common complaint about fully automated faceless tools is not the automation, it is the output: static image slideshows with robotic narration that viewers scroll past, and AutoShorts reviewers report exactly that pattern (repetitive visuals, weak scripts, near-zero views). Note its Trustpilot score (3.4) rests on just 14 reviews, so treat it as a small sample in both directions.
Revid's Auto-Mode starts from a higher floor because the underlying generator is the same one used for manual videos: AI-video scenes with motion, synced captions, licensed music, and sound effects. Automation that produces content people actually watch is the difference between an experiment and a channel.
AutoShorts is deliberately minimal: one series, preview-and-tweak before posting, no way to upload your own audio. That simplicity is the product. Revid assumes you will eventually want more: swap a scene in the timeline editor, clone your voice, add a custom script, run a second format, or drive the whole thing from a script via the API and MCP server. If a channel starts working, that headroom is what lets you scale it.
Revid is not a 5-second video toy. Its viral video intelligence writes the script, directs the scenes, generates the voices and edits the final cut. Every film below was created in one go.
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