The 10 Best AI Tools for Video Summarization in 2027

Monica AI adds a one-click summary to any public YouTube video. Basic summarization is free, though free users may face limits on video length and summaries per day. Pro is US$99 a year, listed as US$8.3 a month with annual billing. The product page also shows One-click Mind Map and Chat and Ask Video.

NoteGPT can batch summarize up to 20 videos simultaneously and extract key points from videos up to 150 minutes even if they have no subtitles. Pro is $9.99 a month billed monthly, or $9 a month billed annually ($108 a year), and summarizes 5 YouTube videos at once, with unlimited videos that have subtitles.

Glasp shows a transcript and summary beside the YouTube video you are watching. The free plan includes 3 basic YouTube summaries a day. Paid plans start from $15 a month or $150 a year; Pro is $12.50 a month billed yearly with 1,000 advanced YouTube summaries a month. It has 2,000,000+ users.

Eightify creates timestamped summaries so you can jump to specific topics in a video, with summaries and translations in 40+ languages and 500,000+ users. A price is not published on the pages we could read; the Chrome Web Store listing offers a 7-day free trial.

Notta’s free YouTube summarizer covers one video per user, and an account adds a 3-day trial. Pro is $8.17 a month billed annually ($97.99 a year); a monthly-billing price is not stated. AI summaries are limited to 10 a month on Free and 100 on Pro, and Pro allows recordings up to 5 hours.

Vimeo AI generates a title, description and tags for an uploaded video, and Vimeo says it produces a summary, transcript and chapter markers. It is available on all Vimeo plans, with Starter at $12, Standard at $25 and Advanced at $75 per seat a month on the pricing page.

Gemini in Google AI Studio takes any public YouTube link and returns summaries and chapter breakdowns from prompts you write. It is free of charge in preview, with up to 8 hours of YouTube video a day on the free tier, up to 10 videos at once and up to 3 hours per video. Private and unlisted videos must be uploaded as files.

TwelveLabs’ Pegasus model generates summaries, chapters and highlights from videos up to 2 hours long without pre-indexing, through its Analyze API. Plans are Free at $0, Plus at $29 a month and Pro at $99 a month, with 3 GB, 50 GB and 200 GB of cumulative storage.

Fireflies.ai accepts MP4 and WEBM video up to 150 minutes (100 MB on Free, 2 GB on paid plans) and returns a transcript, AI summary and action items. Free has limited AI summaries; Pro is $18 a month billed monthly, or $10 a month billed annually, per seat, with unlimited AI summaries.

Otter.ai imports audio and video files up to 5 GB and generates a transcript, AI-powered summaries, action items and outlines. Basic is free with 3 lifetime imports; Pro is $16.99 a month billed monthly, or $8.33 a month billed annually, per user, with 10 imports a month.