TubeAI plans the video. Autotube makes it.

Every tool in this category stops somewhere, and the gap between where it stops and a published video is work you will do yourself, every week, for as long as you run the channel. Counting the tools you would still need after buying one is the most useful arithmetic a buyer can do, and almost nobody does it before subscribing.

TubeAI

TubeAI ends at a script and a thumbnail. Everything before that is strong — outlier search, competitor tracking, a channel audit — and everything after it is yours: narration, visuals, timing, subtitles, rendering, uploading. On their $59.99 Pro plan the script may run to 30 minutes of video.

Autotube

Autotube ends at a publish-ready file. Research, script, voiceover, timed visuals, subtitles and a single render up to three hours, with nothing to assemble afterwards — and an editor that opens the finished run if you want to add motion graphics or change a cut.

Ours on completeness — and this is the whole of the difference. Theirs is not a shorter pipeline, it is a different one that ends on purpose.

Production quality is a floor, not a ceiling. A beautifully made video on a topic nobody searches for earns nothing, and the single highest-leverage decision on a faceless channel is which title to make. Whether that decision is informed by a market-wide database or by your own channel's history is a genuine fork rather than a ranking.

TubeAI

TubeAI searches 212 million or more videos across six million channels for outliers, tracks what competitors are testing in their titles and thumbnails, and audits your channel against YouTube Analytics. That is a scale of market data Autotube does not approach, and it works before you have a channel worth analysing.

Autotube

Autotube's ideation proposes the next ten titles from your own channel's winners and losers and from your named competitors' outliers — a narrower read, made inside the tool that will then write and produce the video you pick.

Theirs on breadth and on being useful from a standing start; ours on being one click from the thing that makes the video. For a channel with a real catalogue, both readings are worth having.

A script cap is a runtime cap in different units, since narration runs at roughly a hundred and fifty words a minute regardless of what the tool calls it. The number that matters is not the maximum but whether the maximum accommodates the format you already publish — and whether you have to change plans to fit your own channel.

TubeAI

15 minutes on Basic at $19.99, 30 minutes on Pro at $59.99, with deep-research scripts on the $199.99 Enterprise tier. So the script length you can write is a function of which plan you are on, and 30 minutes is where the mainstream tiers stop.

Autotube

Up to 45,000 words on every plan, written to the channel's brief and the target runtime with a research pass in front of it, and no tier that unlocks length.

Ours on ceiling and on where the ceiling sits in the price list. For a fifteen-minute format their entry plan is entirely adequate and much cheaper.

Comparing a research tool's price with a production pipeline's price is comparing two different purchases. The comparable figure is the total monthly cost of getting from an idea to an uploaded video, including every tool in the chain, and that total is usually the thing that decides a stack rather than any individual price.

TubeAI

TubeAI starts at $19.99 a month, with a free plan giving 500 credits a month for research, which makes it very cheap to add to a stack. What it does not replace is the voiceover subscription, the visuals subscription and the editor, because it produces no audio and no video.

Autotube

Autotube's plans carry the whole chain — research, script, voiceover, visuals, render — on every tier, and the Own Keys plan runs it against your own provider accounts with no per-generation markup at all.

Ours on the total, theirs on the line item. Which matters depends entirely on whether you already own the rest of the chain.

Credit expiry decides whether a plan sized for a busy month is an asset or a recurring write-off, and it is the clause most often skimmed. The interesting cases are the ones where a company treats plan credits and purchased credits differently, because that difference is easy to miss and material.

TubeAI

TubeAI's help centre is precise, and to their credit they draw the distinction plainly: plan credits reset each billing period and do not roll over, while top-up credits you purchased never expire while the account is active. That is a fairer arrangement than a blanket reset.

Autotube

Autotube credits, whether granted by a plan or bought as a top-up, roll over while you are subscribed and expire 30 days after the subscription ends. Plan credits roll over where TubeAI's reset; top-ups are the one place theirs is the more generous rule.

Split. Ours on plan credits, which roll over rather than reset. Theirs on purchased top-ups, which never expire while the account is active.

The cost of being wrong about a subscription is part of its price, and a free tier that produces something you can judge is worth more than most feature rows. It converts a guess into an observation before any card is charged.

TubeAI

TubeAI has a free plan giving 500 credits a month for research, which is enough to see whether its outlier data tells you anything you did not already know. Refunds are for unused credits, at their discretion, within 14 days of purchase.

Autotube

Autotube has no free plan, which is a straightforward disadvantage here. What it offers instead is that every step’s cost is shown before it runs and credits that roll over while you are subscribed.

Theirs. A free research tier is the cheapest way to answer the question their product exists to answer.