Valorant clipping tools (2026)

There are two kinds of "clip tool" for Valorant and they do different jobs. Picking the wrong kind is the usual reason people bounce off the category.

Two workflows, pick first

• Recording-type (runs on your PC during the game). Captures the clip the moment it happens, saves it locally, and lets you upload it later. Examples: Medal (desktop recorder) and game-native systems like Shadowplay. Good if you don't stream and just want a short clip after a good round.
• VOD-type (runs after the broadcast / match). Takes a Twitch VOD link or a video file and extracts shorts. Good if you stream, miss highlights live, and want clips in bulk the morning after. Examples: Clutch, Eklipse, Sizzle, OpusClip.

If you're a solo ranked player who doesn't stream, you probably want a recorder. If you stream 2–4 hours a day, you want VOD-type — scrubbing a 4-hour VOD by hand is roughly an hour of work per session.

VOD-type tools

Recording-type tools

Not covered here (why)

FragCut, Framedrop — we couldn't verify current details from a public page.

How to pick

• Don't stream, just want clips of your own ranked games → Medal (recording-type). Press a hotkey when something cool happens.
• Stream multiple games → Eklipse or Sizzle. Both handle Valorant plus everything else.
• Stream Valorant 80 %+ and want sharp attribution of your own 3K / 4K / aces → Clutch. Valorant-only is the trade-off we picked on purpose.
• Clip podcasts, long YouTube videos, non-gaming content too → OpusClip is the general tool and does Twitch too.

Why Valorant is a specific target

Valorant has two things worth tuning for:

• Rounds are short and chained. A multi-kill is only impressive at the round level, not across rounds. Knowing where one round ends and the next starts is the first step. In Valorant you can see it from the round-end banner, the buy phase, or the Combat Report rows.
• Attribution matters. If you spectate your teammate's ace from the grave, the 5 kills on screen aren't yours. A Valorant-aware pipeline checks the Combat Report's highlighted (Me) row so the clip belongs to the player watching the VOD, not whoever happened to be on camera.

Multi-game tools and Valorant-only tools can both exist and both be the right answer, just for different streamers. We're a specific solution; the generalists have a scope we don't.

How to actually compare

Vendor pages don't tell you which tool clips your rounds correctly. The cheapest honest test is to run one Valorant VOD you know contains an ace through each candidate and look at four things:

1. Did it find the ace? Nothing else matters if the obvious clip is missing. Skip the tool that misses it.
2. How many false-positive clips? Count the clips that are lobby, death cam, spectated teammate kills, or a round where you did < 3 kills. The fewer the better.
3. How much editing to post? Does the output already have captions, vertical crop, and a usable title, or do you need to open DaVinci Resolve? Minutes-per-clip adds up.
4. Does the attribution match the player? If the ace was yours but the clip is titled with your teammate's name (or vice versa), that's a dealbreaker for a personal-brand channel.

Most tools offer either a free tier, a trial, or both — the four-way test above is a one-hour task and gives you a real answer rather than a feature-chart answer.

Sources

Eklipse: eklipse.gg/pricing. Sizzle: sizzle.gg. OpusClip: opus.pro. Medal: medal.tv. All above fetched October 2026 — exact feature sets and prices can change. See their site for current rates. Clutch facts sourced from the shipping product (/pricing).