About CutBench

CutBench is a Windows desktop app that takes a long gaming recording, finds the moments worth posting, and renders them as vertical clips with burned-in captions. It runs on your own machine: footage is read from your disk and written back to your disk, and nothing is uploaded to be processed.

This page is the short, checkable version of every fact about the product. If you are quoting CutBench somewhere, quote from here.

The facts

What it is	A desktop application for Windows that ranks gameplay recordings into short vertical clips
Price	$34.99, paid once. No subscription, no per-minute charge
Free version	Yes. The Demo runs the whole pipeline and watermarks its exports. No time limit
Where you buy it	Steam. Full version is app 4797490, Demo is app 4818720
Released	10 August 2026
Operating system	Windows 10 and Windows 11. No macOS, no Linux
Graphics	An NVIDIA GPU with 6 GB VRAM and CUDA. AMD and Intel Arc are not supported
Memory and disk	8 GB RAM minimum, 16 GB recommended, and 30 GB of disk space
Speed	A 3-hour session takes roughly 2 to 5 hours on an RTX 3060 class GPU. It is a batch tool, not a real-time one
Where the footage goes	Nowhere. Processing is local. The app reaches the network only if you use publishing
Publishing	Optional one-click upload through the official APIs: straight to your TikTok drafts, and a scheduled publish on YouTube Shorts
Refunds	Through Steam, under the standard Steam policy
Contact	mail@cutbench.com

How it works

You drop in a recording. A Twitch VOD, an OBS capture, a ShadowPlay file. CutBench does not record for you and does not run while you play.
It goes through the footage. Speech is transcribed, audio events such as gunfire and explosions are detected, scene changes are found, and every candidate moment is scored.
It cuts and renders. The moments that score highest become 9:16 clips with captions burned in, plus suggested titles and tags.
You decide what to post. Clips land in a folder, ranked, each with the reason it was picked. Publishing is one click if you want it, and entirely optional.

What it deliberately does not do

It is not a timeline editor: you approve clips, you do not arrange them. It is not a recorder, so you keep using OBS, ShadowPlay or Medal for capture. It is not real-time, so you get clips after the session rather than during it. It does not run on AMD or Intel Arc graphics, and it does not run on macOS or Linux. If any of those are dealbreakers, the free Demo will tell you in a single run, before you spend anything.

Who makes it

CutBench is built by an independent developer rather than a funded team, which is the reason it is sold once instead of rented monthly: there is no cloud bill to pass on per user. Support and everything else goes through mail@cutbench.com.

Where to find us

Steam: the full version and the free Demo
Clips we cut with it: YouTube and TikTok
Questions: Discord or mail@cutbench.com
Comparisons: against Opus Clip, against Eklipse, and why it is bought once

Last checked 14 August 2026. Requirements match the Steam store listing.