AI video generators & editors: the tech stack of 33 real products
Generating, editing, clipping or captioning video.
The typical stack
The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.
| Decision | Most common pick | Share | At default usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontend Framework | 20 of 25 · 80% | — | |
| LLM API | 16 of 18 · 89% | $10/mo · GPT-6 Luna | |
| Database | 4 of 15 · 27% | $25/mo · Pro | |
| Hosting | 5 of 14 · 36% | $17/mo · Pay as you go (Lambda + EC2 t4g.small) | |
| Transactional Email | 12 of 14 · 86% | $20/mo · Pro 50k | |
| Payments | 7 of 11 · 64% | fees on revenue · $410 on $10,000/mo |
Monthly bills add up to about $72 at the calculators' default usage, list prices; fees on revenue (Stripe) come on top. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the AI video generators & editors that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Authentication (Clerk 2, Better Auth 2) · Backend Framework (FastAPI 4, Express 1) · Product Analytics (PostHog 4, Mixpanel 1) · AI SDK & Agent Framework (Pydantic AI 2, Claude Agent SDK 2) · Database Access & ORMs (SQLAlchemy 3, Prisma 2) · Lifecycle Email (Loops 3, Customer.io 1) · Web Analytics (Plausible Analytics 1, Cloudflare Web Analytics 1) · Background Jobs & Cron (Trigger.dev 1, Temporal 1)
AI video generators & editors we track
26 makers' products and 7 open-source projects. Makers' products first.