Self-hosted AI video editor. Your data stays local.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
OpenCut AI — the privacy-first, open-source AI video editor.
The problem
Every major AI video editor (Descript, CapCut, Runway) makes you upload your raw footage to the cloud. For journalists, enterprises, and anyone who cares about privacy, that's a dealbreaker.
Our take
AI editing shouldn't require handing your footage to someone else's server. OpenCut AI runs entirely on your own machine or a $20/mo server. Your footage, your models, your rules. Nothing leaves your infrastructure — ever.
What's inside
✍️ Edit by text — transcribe, then cut video like editing a Google Doc. Delete a sentence, the timeline cuts itself.
✂️ Smart Cut — one-click filler word + silence removal, running locally via FFmpeg
🎙️ Voice cloning & TTS — clone any voice from a 6-second sample; 22 Indian languages via Sarvam AI
🎬 AI Video Generation Hub — 9 models across 5 providers (Runway, Pika, Kling, MiniMax, Luma…)
🤖 AI Co-Pilot Agent — type "make this a 60-sec reel with captions and music" → it plans the steps, you approve, it executes
📊 Virality Score + A/B testing — score thumbnails & hooks across 7 engagement signals before you publish
🎥 YouTube → Reels — paste a URL, get reframed 9:16 clips with captions, automatically
Plus the pro stuff: 20 transitions, multicam editing, LUFS loudness normalization, beat detection, chroma key, motion tracking — all open source.
Why we're different
OpenCut AI | Descript | CapCut | |
|---|---|---|---|
Self-hosted | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
Open source | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
Data stays local | ✅ | Cloud | Cloud |
Per-seat pricing | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
Cost | $20/mo server | $24–65/mo | Free + watermark |
Who it's for
Privacy-conscious creators, journalists, enterprises with data-sovereignty requirements, educators, and anyone tired of per-seat subscriptions.
It's 100% free, MIT-licensed, and self-hostable in one Docker command. ⭐ Star us on GitHub: https://github.com/Ekaanth/OpenCut-AI
I'm here all day — ask me anything about self-hosting, the AI models, or the roadmap. 🙏
Replies
Compliance is my day job — I usually show up to launches to point at the trackers firing before consent. Showed up here ready to nitpick and… you built the privacy in at the architecture level. Rude. What am I supposed to do now 😄
Real talk: most "privacy-first" launches mean "we wrote a privacy policy." You mean it structurally — "data never leaves your infrastructure" is the one privacy claim a regulator can't argue with. Respect. ⭐
One spicy thing even self-hosting can't get you out of though: voice cloning from a 6-sec sample is exactly the kind of synthetic media the EU AI Act wants labelled (Aug 2), and the consent question just moves from "your users" to "whoever's voice you cloned." Fun problem to have 🎙️nitpick, leaving to star the repo. ⭐ Congrats.
I like how OpenCut AI protects private footage while editing locally. How will you help beginners set up self hosting.
I think self hosting can change video workflows for privacy focused users. Could you share your roadmap for collaboration features so teams can edit together without losing local data control.