Shotstack vs Vmaker vs Submagic vs Hal

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Shotstack
vs
Competitor 1
Vmaker
Competitor 2
Submagic
Competitor 3
Hal
Compare
4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Shotstack
shotstack.io
Shotstack is a cloud video editing API that turns data and templates into rendered videos.
Remove
Competitor Vmaker
vmaker.com
Screen recording with AI editing
Make main Remove
Competitor Submagic
submagic.co
Submagic is an AI video editor for short-form content.
Make main Remove
Competitor Hal
hal9.com
Hal9 is a powerful platform for quickly building and deploying fully customizable AI chatbots, powered by your data with complete privacy. In just under 5 minutes, you can create a tailored chatbot t
Make main Remove
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
—
458.6Kvisits/mo
—
3.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
—
▲ 9.7%
—
▼ 10.9%
6-month growth
—
-2.2%
—
+60.6%
Global rank web
—
#102,214
—
#6,156,551
Avg. last 3 months
—
433K
—
3.9K
Bounce rate lower is better
—
38%
—
39%
Pages / visit
—
3.5
—
1.1
Visit duration
—
1m 15s
—
—
Traffic sources
—
● Direct 91% · ● Referral 7%
—
—
ShotstackVmakerSubmagicHal
0152.1K304.3K456.4K608.6KVmaker · 510.4KVmaker · 562.1KVmaker · 608.6KVmaker · 473.6KVmaker · 469KVmaker · 452.7KVmaker · 486.1KVmaker · 422.2KVmaker · 418.1KVmaker · 458.6KHal · 934Hal · 2.1KHal · 1.3KHal · 2.1KHal · 6.4KHal · 6.9KHal · 4.5KHal · 3.8KHal · 3.4K1001K10K100K1MVmaker · 510.4KVmaker · 562.1KVmaker · 608.6KVmaker · 473.6KVmaker · 469KVmaker · 452.7KVmaker · 486.1KVmaker · 422.2KVmaker · 418.1KVmaker · 458.6KHal · 934Hal · 2.1KHal · 1.3KHal · 2.1KHal · 6.4KHal · 6.9KHal · 4.5KHal · 3.8KHal · 3.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
$39per month
$18per month · free tier available
$12per month
$2,000per month
Free tier
–
–
–
Free trial
–
–
–
API access
–
–
Plans
Pay as you go $10Starter $39/moPro $99/moScale $199/mo+1 more
Free FreeStarter $18/moTeams $25/moEnterprise Custom
Starter $12/moPro $23/moBusiness $41/moCustom Custom
Startups $2,000/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeImagesVideo
AudioDocumentsTextVideo
Web pagesVideo
CodeText
Output
Video
Video
Video
Apps
Skill level
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Categories
Development & CodeVideo EditingAI APIAI Developer Tools+1 more
Video CreationVideo EditingWriting & ContentAI Subtitle Generator+4 more
Video EditingWriting & ContentAI Subtitle GeneratorAI Video Editor+1 more
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
5
13
14
4
Video editing
–
Video generation
–
APIs
–
–
Multilingual subtitle creation
–
–
Video shortening
–
–
Short videos
–
–
Video avatars
–
–
Chatbot building
–
–
–
Chatbots
–
–
–
Presentations to videos
–
–
–
Screen recordings
–
–
–
Video subtitles
–
–
–
Caption videos
–
–
–
Developer tools
–
–
–
Document chat
–
–
–
Lip sync
–
–
–
Personalized videos
–
–
–
Subtitle translation
–
–
–
Video background removal
–
–
–
Video repurposing
–
–
–
Multilingual video creation
–
–
–
Social media management
–
–
–
TikTok captions
–
–
–
TikTok videos
–
–
–
Video effects
–
–
–
YouTube shorts
–
–
–
YouTube videos
–
–
–
Community on aitoolstime
Rating
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
Upvotes
▲ 0
▲ 0
▲ 0
▲ 0
Saves
0
0
0
0
Reviews
0
0
0
0
Prompts
0
0
0
0
Verified listing
–
–
–
–

Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.