Comparison
Orange vs AutoShorts
Orange and AutoShorts compared, checked 2026-07-30. AutoShorts posts to TikTok, YouTube and Instagram on a schedule. Orange makes the video.
What is AutoShorts?
AutoShorts.ai automates a faceless channel end to end. You configure a Series, meaning one topic on one schedule, and it generates videos and publishes them to your connected TikTok, YouTube and Instagram accounts on a cadence, with a preview window before each post. Several things commonly said about it are wrong, so here is what we verified on 2026-07-30. It posts to Instagram as well as TikTok and YouTube, and handles more than one account per platform. It does 9:16, 16:9 and 1:1. It has a per-scene media editor with undo and redo that swaps an individual visual and re-renders. It puts custom watermark text on every video and accepts an uploaded outro video as an end card. And it bills yearly as well as monthly, at exactly ten times the monthly rate. Two limits shape the decision more than any feature does. A plan carries one Series on every tier including the $69 top plan, so a second topic means a second subscription. And motion is metered separately at $0.10 a credit, with AutoShorts's own tooltip saying a typical video may consume 15 to 20 credits when motion is applied to every scene, which makes the subscription a floor rather than the bill.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Orange | AutoShorts |
|---|---|---|
| Auto-posting | None. Orange renders the file and stops there | TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, with multiple accounts per platform |
| Cadence, in their words | You post when you post | Posts 3 times a week, once a day, or twice a day, by plan |
| Topics per subscription | As many as your credits cover | One Series per plan, on every tier. A second topic is a second subscription |
| Monthly price, 2026-07-30 | Starter $12/mo billed yearly | $19, $39 or $69 |
| Yearly price | Available on every plan, about 35% off monthly | $190, $390 or $690, exactly ten times the monthly rate |
| Voice engine | Standard voices on Starter, premium voices on Pro and Studio | 6 OpenAI TTS voices free, 38 ElevenLabs voices on paid |
| Voice cloning | No | Yes, from their entry paid plan |
| Metering beyond the plan | None. The credit quote covers the render | Image credits at $0.01 each and motion credits at $0.10 each |
| Scene-level editing | Rewrite or reshoot any scene by asking | A per-scene media editor with undo and redo, then a re-render |
| What the prompt controls | Script, visuals, pacing, voice and music | "Only the script text and image preferences. It does not control timing, music selection, or other elements" |
| Continuity across videos | Brand memory carries your preferences forward | "Videos in the series do not know about each other" |
| Asset retention | No expiry policy on your library | Assets deleted after 120 days, and deleting a Series deletes its videos |
Orange strengths
AutoShorts strengths
Use Orange when...
- ✓ You want more than one topic running on one bill.
- ✓ You want the visuals generated against the script rather than motion added by the credit.
- ✓ The script has to be right, and you want to rewrite scenes until it is.
- ✓ You are publishing in a language other than English from a script you wrote yourself.
- ✓ You want the videos to accumulate a house style instead of resetting every time.
- ✓ You need to drive generation from your own code or from Claude, on Studio.
Use AutoShorts when...
- ✓ You run one faceless channel and you want it hands off. AutoShorts does the posting half of that loop and Orange does not do it at all, so pick AutoShorts.
- ✓ The whole point is that something goes out twice a day whether you open the app or not.
- ✓ Voice cloning is a requirement.
- ✓ You want one predictable monthly number for a fixed cadence.
- ✓ You want a preview-and-approve step before each post rather than a folder of downloads.