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OpenShorts offers an MIT-licensed AI UGC studio that self-hosts via Docker

September 15, 2026 at 04:28 EDT

Media Generation
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OpenShorts is an MIT-licensed AI video platform that can turn a product URL into a short-form marketing clip—script, AI actor, voice, lip-sync, b-roll and subtitles—or recut long videos into vertical 9:16 shorts, without a clipping subscription. The same codebase runs on a user’s machine with Docker or as a hosted cloud service.

September 2026 · OpenShorts

A free AI UGC studio that runs on your machine

MIT-licensed Docker app: paste a product URL and it writes the script, builds an AI talking head, adds b-roll and burns in captions. Long videos become 9:16 shorts on the same stack.

Self-host (MIT, no watermark)

$12

Cloud plans from, per month

$0.65

Low Cost UGC, per video

50s

GPU time for an 8-min video

Same 8-minute clip job: time to finish

Hosted NVIDIA GPU vs a typical CPU. Column height is proportional to seconds (50s vs 5 min / 300s).

50s

GPU
OpenShorts Cloud

5–8 min

CPU
self-hosted typical

About 6× faster at the 5-minute CPU mark (up to ~10× if the CPU job runs a full 8 minutes).

AI Shorts path

Paste URL
Scrape product page

→

Script
Hook, problem, CTA

→

Actor + voice
Flux, Hailuo or Kling

→

Composite
Lip-sync, b-roll, subs

What holds up

Self-host stays $0 with no watermark or cap. Source video can remain on your machine. Clip scoring can use a local LLM instead of Gemini.

What still bills

AI actors and voices call fal.ai and ElevenLabs. Docker plus keys are required. Job failures and caption issues have shown up in the issue tracker.

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