Features
- Defines clips, transitions and text overlays in a JSON object for rendering
- Scales and crops media to aspect ratios such as 16:9 and 9:16
- Renders SVG and HTML content into video frames
- Overlays timed captions when paired with transcription APIs
- Includes transitions such as crossfade, wipe and zoom
- Ducks background music automatically when a voiceover plays
- Renders many localized versions in a single command line run
- Installs via NPM and runs from the CLI as open source
Pricing Details
💵 Pricing & Plans (February 2026 Status): Plan Price Key Features Open Source $0 Completely free to host on your own servers/local machine; full access to CLI. Managed Cloud Usage-based Third-party services (like JSON2Video) offer Editly-like capabilities in the cloud with per-minute pricing. Enterprise Custom Support for specialized GPU rendering clusters and custom plugin development. 🎁 How to Get Started: If you are a developer, the best way is via NPM (Node Package Manager). Run npm install editly in your terminal. You can then create a simple editly.json file defining your scenes and run the command to watch your video render in real-time. For non-developers, using a front-end wrapper like JSON2Video (which uses similar principles) is recommended.