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Pireel

Open-source CapCut/ChatCut alternative for humans and AI agents: edit in Studio, by Chat, or through Codex/Claude Code; reusable editing Skills.

Agent-native video editors Chat & transcript AI video editors

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Free tier: Yes
Open source: AGPL-3.0
Agent features since: 2026-07
Verified: 2026-11-04

Pireel official preview image — Source: GitHub social preview of official repo · repo preview image; AGPL-3.0

Attributes & evidence

✓ = quoted on the vendor's own page; dashed = not verified. Groups marked “official-page scan” are not yet checked value by value.

Control surface
Autonomy
Exports
Pricing / free
Edit ops
●✓ verified on official page

How you drive it

✓ checked per value

Control surface

GUI appChat / prompt✓MCP serverAgent skill

Autonomy

Agent-driven

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MCP server — “…The open-source alternative to Capcut、ChatCut. Drivable by any AI agent over MCP.…”

What it outputs

✓ checked per value

Export formats

Not verified

What it edits

official-page scan

Edit ops

Timeline editCaptionsLong → shorts

Inputs

video

Cost & hosting

✓ checked per value

API pricing

Not verified

Pricing model

Free (OSS)

Hosting

Fully localOpen-source, self-host

Evidence snippets are quoted from the vendor's homepage, pricing page, docs or official README. Values not found on an official page are left blank. controlSurface:mcp evidence is the official GitHub repo description; agent plugin licensed Apache-2.0.