Clutch vs Eklipse

Clutch and Eklipse both make vertical shorts out of long gameplay, but they're built for different workflows. If you only play Valorant and your VODs live on your Twitch channel after the stream ends, Clutch is tighter. If you stream multiple games and want clips auto-captured from the live stream, Eklipse covers more ground.

Side-by-side

Where Eklipse is better

• Multi-game. If you stream Fortnite, CoD, Apex, League, or anything other than Valorant, Clutch literally cannot clip you. Eklipse supports 1,000+ games.
• Live stream capture. Eklipse hooks into the live Twitch / YouTube / Kick stream and starts clipping while you're still playing. Clutch waits for the VOD to exist first.
• Non-Valorant content types. Just Chatting, reaction, creative — Eklipse lists them explicitly. Clutch is Valorant-only on purpose.
• Broader feature surface. Eklipse has mobile apps, voice-command clipping, publishing scheduler, team seats. We don't.

When Clutch fits

• Valorant-first streamer / creator. You post Valorant clips 80 %+ of the time and you'd trade feature breadth for sharper detection of your own aces.
• VOD-based workflow. You review the stream after it ends, pick the moments that matter, and want up to 8 ranked clips without scrubbing a 4-hour timeline.
• You care about kill attribution. Spectated clips, teammate aces, co-stream footage — Clutch confirms the kills were yours from the Combat Report row.
• You want to upload your own file. Clutch takes a file upload up to 15 GB, 4 hours — useful if you don't keep Twitch VODs or you stream somewhere Clutch doesn't support directly yet.

What this page doesn't compare

We're only comparing shipping, publicly documented behavior. A few things are out of scope on purpose:

• Clip quality on your specific aim style. Both tools pick different moments. There's no way to say "Eklipse's AI misses more aces" or vice versa without running both on the same stream for a month. The honest answer is: trial both for a week and look at which clips your audience actually watches.
• Non-highlight tooling. Clip editor, caption library, publishing scheduler, team seats — Eklipse has more of each. Clutch is deliberately narrow: find your aces, render shorts, done. If you need a full social-media toolkit, Eklipse is further along.
• Future features. If a specific feature you care about is listed on one site and not the other, treat our comparison as a snapshot and double-check the vendor's current page.

A quick experiment to decide

Pick a Twitch VOD you know has a 4K or an ace in it. Submit the same VOD to both tools (one via Eklipse's stream connection, one via Clutch's file upload or VOD link). Look at:

1. Did either tool miss the ace? If yes, that's the one you don't pick.
2. Did either tool include obviously bad clips (lobby, death cam, wrong round)? Count them.
3. Did either tool's title / caption / crop save you a round of editing before you posted?

That one experiment answers more than any comparison table. Both tools let you run it for free.

Not sure which?

Run one Valorant VOD through each for free: Eklipse's free tier gives 3 clips per connected stream; Clutch's 14-day trial gives you 3 full VODs (up to 8 clips each) with no card. Compare which clips your audience actually watches, then decide.

Sources

Eklipse facts (features, free tier, supported game count, livestream capture) sourced from eklipse.gg/pricing as of October 2026. Clutch facts sourced from the shipping product (/pricing). See their site for current paid-tier pricing.