Eklipse alternatives,
including one that never uploads.

Same job, different machine.

Eklipse's pipeline begins once your footage is on its infrastructure, and the advantages of that are real and worth naming first. There is nothing to install and no hardware bar to clear. It works from a browser, which means it works on macOS, on an AMD card, on a laptop with integrated graphics, on the machine your employer gave you. And the work happens somewhere that is not your PC, so your own GPU stays free while it runs. If you do not keep local recordings at all, if you stream and the only copy of the session lives on the platform, then a local tool has nothing to open and a hosted one is simply the right answer.

CutBench never sends the file anywhere, because the pass runs on your own computer. You point it at the raw recording in your captures folder and it works through the whole thing. What decides the ranking is whether a moment turns into something, not how loud it got: the explosion that goes nowhere sits below the fight that lands. Each moment is trimmed to its payoff, cropped to 9:16, captioned and labelled with a hook, and the results come back as a list sorted best first.

One claim we will not make, because plenty of tools in this category imply it: there is no list of supported games here, and no special knowledge of any one title. What it looks for is what makes a moment worth posting in any of them. Something builds, something happens, it lands. That is a narrower claim than saying the software understands your game, and it is the version that holds up when someone checks. It is also why there is nothing behind it to keep current, and so no monthly bill to pass on.

The privacy difference is not abstract either. A raw session is the least edited thing you own. It has the party voice chat on it, the things said when nobody expected them to matter, whatever notification slid across the screen. A hosted clipper needs all of that on its servers to do its job. A local one needs it to stay exactly where it is.

The last difference is the bill, and here Eklipse is unusually hard to plan around: checked on 14 August 2026 it publishes no pricing page, the rate appears at checkout, and its own blog says the free clipping tier ended in June 2026. CutBench is one line item on Steam that you can read before you decide.

The other Eklipse alternatives, side by side.

Here is the rest of the field as we checked it, with the one thing that sets each apart from Eklipse.

Figures checked on 14 August 2026, Allstar on 20 August 2026, from each vendor page; Eklipse and Allstar publish no price, so those cells say so. Powder has shut down; where its users can go is on our Powder page.

Everything above except the last row runs on someone else's servers, on a plan. If your footage is a recording on your own drive and you would rather it stayed there, the last row is yours. Get it on Steam: $34.99 once, and the footage never leaves your PC. The store page has the system requirements.

The axes that matter for a gamer.

Checked on 14 August 2026: Eklipse does not publish a pricing page, the rate is shown at checkout, and its own blog says the free clipping tier ended in June 2026 and puts the plan at roughly $12.50 a month billed annually. We would rather show no number than a wrong one, so check their checkout before you buy. Blank cells and dashes mean the feature is not offered, not that it is offered badly. "Not verified" means exactly that, and we left it rather than guess.

One three-hour session, both ways.

Start with the file, because everything else follows from its size. Three hours of 1080p60 gameplay written by OBS or ShadowPlay at around 30 Mbit/s comes to roughly 40 GB. Capture at 15 Mbit/s and it is nearer 20 GB. Capture at 4K and it is several times either figure. Whatever your settings, that session is the largest thing you made this week.

A hosted clipper has to move it. On a 20 Mbit/s upstream connection, 40 GB takes about four and a half hours, with the uplink saturated the whole time, so you are not playing anything competitive while it goes. On the 10 Mbit/s upstream that plenty of home plans still ship, it is closer to nine hours. Which is why almost nobody uploads a full session. They cut it down by hand first, so only the parts they already believe in make the trip. That step appears on no pricing page, and it is the expensive one.

Attention is the number that decides this. Scrubbing three hours at four times speed to mark the moments is forty-five minutes of watching you cannot do anything else during, and you spend it before the tool has done a single thing for you. Multiply by however many unwatched sessions are on the drive right now.

The local route moves nothing. CutBench opens the file where it already sits and works through all of it. A 3-hour session takes roughly two to five hours on an RTX 3060 class card, unattended. Start it before dinner or before bed and come back to a ranked list, with the weak candidates already sorted to the bottom. Bytes uploaded: zero. Bandwidth spent: zero. Time you personally sat there: the click at the start and a few minutes reviewing the top of the list at the end.

To be fair about the other side of that trade: once your footage is on a hosted service, it comes back faster than a local GPU will manage, and it does not tie up your machine. The waiting with CutBench is real. It is just waiting you can sleep through, and it happens once per session instead of once per clip.

A price you can read before you pay.

Checked on 14 August 2026: Eklipse does not publish a pricing page. The rate is shown at checkout. Its own blog puts the plan at roughly $12.50 a month billed annually, and says the free clipping tier ended in June 2026. We would rather quote their blog and label where it came from than repeat a number off a comparison site, so treat that figure as their claim rather than ours.

If $12.50 a month holds, a year is about $150 and two years about $300. If it does not hold, you find out at checkout, and that is the part worth planning around more than the number itself. A price you cannot see until you have started buying is a price you cannot compare against anything, which is awkward when comparing is the entire reason you opened this page.

CutBench is $34.99 once, on Steam. No tiers, no credits to ration, no renewal, and no window after which your exports stop working. Against a $12.50 monthly figure the one-time price pays for itself somewhere in the third month, and after that the gap widens every month you keep clipping.

There is no free tier at the moment, so this is a decision you make on the numbers rather than by running both tools first. Ours is printed on the store page before you click buy, which is the least we can do if we are asking you to decide that way.

Our price is the Steam listing on the date given. The Eklipse figure comes from their own blog, not from a price displayed to us. Regional pricing, tax treatment and promotions move them around, so treat them as a checkpoint rather than a quote.

When Eklipse is the better pick.

What moving over actually involves.

Nothing here asks you to cancel anything on day one. The verdict comes after the purchase instead of before it, so the steps below are ordered to reach it in one evening, not a weekend.

• Install CutBench on the PC that holds the recordings. The pass opens the file where it already sits, so the machine with your captures folder is the machine to put it on.
• Point it at recordings you already have. It opens mp4, mkv, mov, avi, webm, ts, flv, m4v and wmv, so whatever OBS, ShadowPlay or Medal wrote will do. Nothing to re-record, nothing to re-export, nothing to convert first.
• If your footage is all on a platform, fix that first. A local tool needs a local file. Download a VOD, or turn on local recording for a week, before you judge anything.
• Clear 30 GB. Nothing downloads on first run: the models ship inside the build. The pass works with no connection at all.
• Run one real session, not a ninety-second test file. Ranking is a comparison problem, and a short clip gives it nothing to compare against. You would learn nothing about the thing you are evaluating.
• Compare the top of the list against your own picks. Watch the session yourself afterwards if you want the honest answer. Whether the clips you would have chosen sit near the top is the only benchmark worth running.
• Keep paying the other tool while you test. Cancelling first is how people end up with neither. Cancel on a renewal boundary, once a local run has handed you clips you would genuinely post.
• Connect TikTok or YouTube only if you want to. Publishing from the same window is built in, with a calendar if you would rather space the clips out. Taking the files off disk and ignoring all of that is a supported way to use it.

When not to switch.

Going local buys privacy and a one-time price, and it charges you in hardware and patience. If any of the following describes you, stay where you are.

• Your GPU is not NVIDIA. AMD and Intel Arc are outside the supported spec: the analysis falls back to the processor and runs tens of times slower. The bar is an NVIDIA card with 6 GB of VRAM and CUDA 11.8 or newer, meaning an RTX 2060, RTX 3050 8GB or RTX 4050 and up. That is the supported spec.
• You are on macOS or Linux. There is no build and no browser version to fall back on.
• You need clips in seconds, not hours. A 3-hour session runs roughly two to five hours on an RTX 3060 class card. If your loop is clip-and-post between matches, a hosted tool wins that comparison outright.
• You edit on a phone. CutBench is a Windows desktop application. If your footage and your editing both live on mobile, this is the wrong shape of tool and no setting changes that.
• You do not keep local recordings. If the session only exists as a platform VOD, there is no file for CutBench to open.
• You already know where the moments are. If you hit the clip key while you play, the finding is done and what you have left is a formatting job. That is a smaller problem, and cheaper tools solve it well.
• Your PC has to stay free. The pass uses your GPU while it runs, so it belongs overnight or while you are out, not mid-raid.
• You are short on RAM or disk. 8 GB of RAM and 30 GB of free disk is the floor. 16 GB of RAM and a card with 10 GB or more of VRAM is the comfortable configuration.

What you get by going local.

• The whole session, not one clip. The part nobody wants to do, watching three hours back to find the six seconds worth posting, is exactly the part that gets handed off.
• Local & private. Your raw session, party voice and every rage moment included, stays on your drive. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is transcoded on a stranger's machine.
• A price you can read. $34.99 on a Steam page, visible before you click buy, with no checkout required to find out what it is.
• One-time license. Buy once on Steam and clip for as long as the PC runs. No monthly bill, no per-clip credits, no export deadline.
• No caps. Process as much footage as you want, as often as you want. It is your own computer doing the work, and nothing about it is metered.
• No game list. The moments worth posting have the same shape from one game to the next, so nothing in the ranking is keyed to a title. Nothing to select, no title to add first, and no game waiting its turn.
• 100% offline. The pass runs on a plane.

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