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Clipping earnings calculator

How much do clippers make? Set your clips per week, average views, and campaign rate to see weekly and monthly earnings plus your real hourly rate. Everything runs in your browser.

Clips posted per week

10 clips

Daily posting is 7+; grinders on multiple campaigns push 50+.

Average views per clip

10k

Log scale. Most clips land 1k-20k; a runner hits six figures.

Campaign rate

$1.00 / 1k views

Whop campaigns average ~$1/1k (live range $0.20-$6). Kick gambling campaigns pay $10+.

Per-clip payout cap

Vyro-style campaigns cap what one clip can earn.

Time per clip (manual)

20 min

Finding the moment, cutting, captioning, and posting by hand.

Estimated earnings

Per clip

$10.00

Weekly

$100

Monthly

$433

Yearly

$5,200

Your effective hourly rate

Editing manually (20 min/clip)

$30.00/hr

With AI clipping (3 min/clip)

$200/hr

Same clips, same payout. The difference is how long each clip takes: OpenClip finds the moments, crops them vertical, and captions them for you.

Before you quit your job

  • Campaign budgets are fixed and run dry; a viral clip on an empty budget pays nothing.
  • Views go through verification before they count, and botted or re-uploaded views get clawed back.
  • Accounts that break campaign rules get banned and forfeit pending payouts.
  • These are estimates from the rates you enter, not a guarantee of income.

Questions & answers

Most campaigns on Whop pay around $1 per 1,000 views, with live campaigns ranging from roughly $0.20 to $6 per 1,000. Vyro pays a flat $3 per 1,000 with a $1,000 cap per clip, and Kick gambling campaigns often pay $10 or more per 1,000 views.

Beginners typically land in the $100-500 per month range while they learn what gets views. Consistent clippers posting daily across multiple campaigns commonly reach $1,000-3,000 per month. The huge payout screenshots you see on social media are real but rare.

Campaigns have fixed budgets, and once the pool runs dry payouts stop no matter how well your clip performs. Views also pass through verification before they count, and accounts that inflate views with bots get banned, so treat every campaign rate as a ceiling, not a guarantee.

Rate alone is misleading. Kick gambling campaigns pay the highest rates ($10+ per 1,000 views) but budgets are volatile and content rules are strict. Whop has the most campaigns at around $1 per 1,000, and Vyro's flat $3 per 1,000 with a $1,000 per-clip cap sits in between. Volume and consistency usually beat chasing the top rate.

No. It is plain math on the numbers you type in. Everything runs in your browser, and your data never leaves your device.

Cutting, captioning, and posting a clip by hand takes around 20 minutes, so a few dozen clips per week is a realistic solo ceiling. With AI clipping tools that find the moments and caption them for you, a clip takes closer to 3 minutes, which is how high earners keep hundreds of clips per week going.

Post more clips in the same hours.

OpenClip turns long streams into captioned, vertical clips automatically, so the hours you spend editing become hours spent posting on more campaigns.

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