baocut

Free: The desktop app (macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon; Windows x64 in CPU, CUDA and Vulkan builds) is free to download and use under the BaoCut Community License, including for businesses' internal use and for making and selling content (ads, monetized videos, client editing work) with no fees, attribution or watermark on output.

Self-hosted: Runs entirely on your machine; there is no BaoCut server or account. You need a signed-in agent engine (Claude Code and Codex CLI are validated end to end; GitHub Copilot CLI, Pi, OpenCode and other Agent Client Protocol agents are built in but untested) and ffmpeg/ffprobe on PATH, neither bundled. Local models (Whisper, Qwen3-ASR, MOSS, HTDemucs, Qwen-Image, local TTS) download from Hugging Face or ModelScope; MLX/Core ML on Apple Silicon, whisper.cpp and candle on Windows. Some model weights (OmniVoice, Fish Audio S2 Pro, Qwen-Image) are non-commercial. Building from source needs Node.js 24.22.1+, Rust and CMake (full Xcode with Metal on Mac).

Paid: No paid BaoCut tier. Costs come from your agent engine (Claude Code or Codex subscription or API usage) and any online providers you point capabilities at (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, ElevenLabs, DeepSeek, OpenRouter and others); a built-in usage ledger tracks cost per job. Selling or rebranding the software, running it as a hosted service or API, or embedding its code in a commercial product requires a separate written commercial license from the author (no public price).