Comparison
Mosaic vs Takehound: video agent, B-roll and price
Pick Mosaic if you run a creative team or an agency that makes many videos a month. Pick Takehound if you sell what you know on camera and want B-roll only from your own footage, with a reason for each change.
I'm Kyle. I built Takehound, so I have a stake. I did not test Mosaic for this page. Each fact about it is from Mosaic's own pages, read 2026-11-08, linked under Sources.
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| Topic | Mosaic | Takehound mine |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Creative teams, agencies and newsrooms. Its seed post names News Corp and TubeScience as partners and says it has raised $4.3M in total. Its pricing page has a plan for one creator too. | People who talk to camera in long videos and are not editors: coaches, consultants and experts who sell on camera, and their talks and lessons. |
| The talking head | Motion, its general video agent (introduced 2026-10-20), cuts a multicamera podcast, finds the strongest moments and reframes them around the speaker, and makes a talking-head video in the style of a reference you give it. Its tiles also do rough cuts, color, eye contact and background removal. | One press cuts long pauses, filler words and repeated takes while you watch. It also takes a room's hum off your voice and grades the picture. |
| B-roll comes from | Footage you already have, or new material it generates, its Motion post says, and a stock library of 100,000+ assets on every plan. Leaving a line uncovered when nothing fits: not found on its pages. | Only your own clips, photos, slides and screen recordings. No stock, nothing generated. Where none of it fits, the line stays on you. |
| Reasons | It plans the shots and checks the cut before you see it. A written reason for each cut or shot: not found on its pages. | A reason in plain words for each change, in a feed. Not proof, so watch each one, and undo what you don't want. |
| Words on screen | Motion design: typography, transitions and animation studied from a reference video, plus intros, outros, watermarks and brand kits. | Your key lines as titles, lists and tables, and captions over the whole video in one press. Only words you said. |
| You get back | A video in its own timeline, posted to your social accounts if you want, or the project taken into Premiere Pro, After Effects or DaVinci Resolve. Its pricing page lists export to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve. | An MP4 from the browser, or a timeline (FCPXML) that opens in DaVinci Resolve. Final Cut has not opened one. Not Premiere. |
| Where it runs | In the cloud, from a browser: several videos at once, on a schedule or when a new YouTube video lands, and from Claude or Codex through its API and MCP server. | Chrome on a laptop or desktop. Nothing to install. Not made for a phone. |
| Price | Creator $40 a month billed yearly ($480), or $50 monthly. Pro $125 a month billed yearly ($1,500), or $150 monthly, with 3 seats. Enterprise custom. See Prices. | 4,350 free credits once, no card, enough for a first video of up to 30 minutes. Then plans from $50 a month for 6,250 credits. A first pass uses 90 credits a minute of recording; exports are free. |
Not found on its pages“Not found on its pages” means it was not found on 2026-11-08, not that Mosaic can't do it.
Prices, read 2026-11-08
Mosaic's plans as its pricing page showed them on 2026-11-08, in dollars, and Takehound's as its own pricing page has them today.
Mosaic
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| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Creator | $40 a month billed yearly ($480), or $50 monthly | 2,500 credits a month, 1 seat, up to 120 minutes a video, the stock library, the API, and export to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve |
| Pro | $125 a month billed yearly ($1,500), or $150 monthly | 10,000 credits a month, 3 seats and workspaces with admin controls, up to 300 minutes a video |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited seats, custom credits and brand kits, admin and audit controls |
Credits are used by the minute of video: a rough cut uses 12 a minute, and more credits on Creator cost $2 per 100. Prices were read once; plans and limits change.
Takehound mine
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| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 4,350 free credits once, no card | Every feature, and credits for a first pass and your notes on it |
| Monthly plans | $50, $100 and $250 a month | 6,250 to 37,500 credits a month, 125 to 150 credits for each dollar. Unused credits roll over and stay after you cancel |
| What it uses | A first pass uses 90 credits a minute of recording, so a 15-minute talk with two rounds of notes uses about 1,550 credits. Exports, timelines and editing by hand are free | A job that fails on our side uses nothing |
Where Mosaic wins
- Volume: it runs in the cloud, several videos at once, on a schedule or when a new video lands, and can post to your social accounts.
- More kinds of video: clips reframed around the speaker, multicamera podcasts, montages, launch films and motion design from a reference.
- A project for Premiere Pro, After Effects and Final Cut Pro as well as DaVinci Resolve. Takehound's timeline opens in DaVinci Resolve only.
- An API and an MCP server, so your own tools, Claude or Codex can run it.
- Teams: 3 seats and workspaces on Pro, and admin, audit and brand controls on Enterprise.
- A shot you don't have: a stock library of 100,000+ assets, or material it generates.
- People to make it with you: its agency, Motion Studio, makes launch videos and other films with Motion.
Which one to pick
Pick Mosaic if
- You run a creative team, an agency or a newsroom that makes many videos a month.
- Stock or generated material is fine for what you make.
- You finish in Premiere, After Effects or Final Cut, or post straight to social.
- You want videos made on a schedule, or from your own code through an API.
Pick Takehound if
- You sell what you know on camera, and you are not an editor.
- You want B-roll only from your own footage, and a gap where none of it fits.
- You want a reason for each change, and an editor that learns how you cut.
- You finish in the browser or DaVinci Resolve, or hand the timeline to your editor.
Weighing more tools? See six AI video editors for talking-head videos, compared. Other tools place your own clips too: B-roll from your own footage compares nine of them. For an editor's tool that also adds stock and generated clips, see Eddie AI against Takehound.
Sources
Mosaic's Motion announcement (2026-10-20), its seed round post (2026-04-07) and its pricing page, read 2026-11-08.
The tool I built
Where Takehound fits
Takehound is an AI video editor in Chrome on a laptop or desktop, for long talk-to-camera videos.
What Hound does
Its agent is Hound, and on a talk he watches and listens to the cut he makes. One press makes a first pass on your recording: he cuts long pauses, filler words and repeated takes, places your own clips where he matches them to what you say, working from written descriptions of stills from each clip, and puts key lines on screen, with a reason for each change. B-roll is only your own footage, and a line none of it fits stays on you. Steer him in plain words, and he writes down how you cut for your next video. Then export an MP4, or a timeline (FCPXML) that opens in DaVinci Resolve.
4,350 free credits once, no card. See privacy.
See how Takehound worksQuestions
Is Takehound a Mosaic alternative?
Yes, if you want B-roll only from your own footage. Mosaic's Motion works with footage you already have or generates new material, and its plans include a stock library of 100,000+ assets. Takehound cuts the talk, places only clips, photos and screen recordings you filmed, and gives a reason for each change. Mosaic also makes many videos at once, cuts clips and multicamera podcasts, and exports to Premiere, which Takehound does not. (Mosaic's Motion announcement and pricing page, read 2026-11-08.)
Does Mosaic use my own footage for B-roll?
It works with footage you already have, and it can also generate new material for the film. Its plans include 100,000+ stock assets. Leaving a line uncovered when nothing fits was not found on its pages. Takehound's B-roll is only footage you filmed, and where none of it fits, the line stays on you. (Mosaic's Motion announcement and pricing page, read 2026-11-08.)
Which is cheaper, Mosaic or Takehound?
Mosaic: Creator is $40 a month billed yearly ($480), or $50 monthly, and Pro $125 a month billed yearly ($1,500), or $150 monthly. Takehound: 4,350 free credits once, no card, enough for a first video of up to 30 minutes, then plans from $50 a month for 6,250 credits. A first pass uses 90 credits a minute of recording, so a 15-minute talk with two rounds of notes uses about 1,550 credits. (Mosaic's pricing page, read 2026-11-08.)
Does Mosaic export to DaVinci Resolve?
Yes. Its pricing page lists export to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve, and its Motion post names Premiere Pro, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve. Takehound exports an FCPXML timeline that opens in DaVinci Resolve, from the browser. Final Cut has not opened one, and there is no Premiere export. (Mosaic's pricing page and Motion announcement, read 2026-11-08.)
More guides
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- How to edit a talking head video with B-roll
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