461 AI Models in One Place: Why We Built AIClips

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Last updated: 19 May 2026  ·  ANKY, Founder — AIClips
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This is an honest AIClips review of ourselves — why we built this platform, what problem we were actually trying to solve, and what we got wrong along the way. Most “about us” pages are marketing. This one is not going to be that.

The short version of the aiclips story and the reason for this aiclips review: we were Indian creators who needed 8 different AI tool subscriptions to make professional content, paying ₹12,000–15,000 a month in USD tools that had never heard of Hindi, did not know what a saree looked like, and charged a foreign card fee on top. We decided to build the thing we needed. That became AIClips.


AIClips — What It Is Today
Founded[ANKY TO FILL — year and context]
HeadquartersThane, Maharashtra, India
Team size8 people
Models available600+ (video, image, audio, 3D, writing)
Stock items23,696+ ready-to-use assets
Starting price₹349/month — INR payment, UPI accepted
Backed byANKY.AI ecosystem — bootstrapped
MissionMake world-class AI tools accessible to Indian creators at Indian prices

The Problem Behind the AIClips AI Platform — What We Were Actually Facing

In [ANKY TO FILL — year], I was building content for [ANKY TO FILL — context]. Every time I needed to produce something professionally, I was opening six different browser tabs. ChatGPT for the script. ElevenLabs for voiceover. Runway for video. Midjourney for images. A separate music tool. A separate captions tool. Each one billing in USD, each one adding 18% GST on top, each one requiring a forex credit card that most Indian creators do not have.

The monthly bill for a serious Indian creator doing this properly was ₹12,000–15,000 per month — for tools that were designed for American creators, trained on American data, and had no idea what to do with a Hindi script or a traditional Indian setting.

Run “woman in a silk saree by a Mumbai street” through any Western AI tool in [ANKY TO FILL — year] and you got something that looked like a costume photo from a Western studio. Run a Hindi script through ElevenLabs and you got robotic pronunciation with the schwa in the wrong place. Every tool was technically functional and culturally wrong.

That specific frustration — paying international prices for tools that did not understand India — is what became the founding question of AIClips: what if every Indian creator had one place that gave them everything, understood India, and cost what Indian creators could actually pay?

The Bet Behind the AIClips AI Platform — One Platform, Every Model

The aiclips ai platform bet was not technically clever. It was straightforward: build the aggregation layer that Indian creators were managing manually with eight browser tabs, put it on one dashboard, price it in rupees, and build it to understand India.

The hard part was not the technology — API integrations are well-understood engineering. The hard part was the curation. Adding 600+ models is easy. Knowing which 600 models to add, testing each one for Indian cultural content accuracy, understanding which models fail on Hindi prompts and why, building credit pricing that reflects real API costs rather than arbitrary markup — that took considerably longer than the integrations did.

Our sole developer, Prasad, built most of what you see on AIClips today. [ANKY TO FILL — add a sentence about Prasad/team that feels personal and real]. The first version was launched in [ANKY TO FILL — launch date and context]. It had [ANKY TO FILL — number] models and looked nothing like what AIClips looks like now.

The Why We Built AIClips Journey — 2 Years to 600+ Models

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The first version. [ANKY TO FILL — what the first AIClips looked like, what it had, what the first paying users said about it]

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First 100 models. [ANKY TO FILL — what changed when AIClips crossed 100 models, what the team learned, what surprised you]

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The Indian language breakthrough. [ANKY TO FILL — when and how Hindi voiceover and regional language support became genuinely good on the platform]

May 2026 — Now

600+ models, 23,696+ stock items, ₹349/month. The number grew. The price did not. We have added Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, GPT Image 2, Nano Banana 2, Lyria 2, and everything in between since launch. The 50% OFF annual promotion running right now is our way of saying: if you’ve been thinking about starting, now is the time.

Why 600+ Models Is Not Just a Number — the AIClips Review of Our Own Curation

Every number on the platform page — 600+ models, 23,696+ stock items — started as a real decision. Every model had to pass our internal testing before it went live. We tested specifically for Indian cultural content: does it understand what a Varanasi ghat looks like? Does it handle Hindi voiceover correctly? Does it produce skin tones that look like actual Indian people rather than approximations?

Roughly 40 models have been removed since launch. We do not talk about this often but it matters: the 600+ models on AIClips are the ones that passed. The ones that did not — models with consistently wrong Indian cultural output, models with training data provenance problems, models that benchmarked well globally but failed on Indian prompts — were removed. That curation is part of the product.

The full analysis of what we learned testing all of them is in the 461 Models Tested article. That piece covers the patterns we noticed across video, image, and audio models that no individual model review would surface.

Meet the 8 — the Team Behind the AIClips AI Platform

AIClips is built by an 8-person team based in Thane, Maharashtra. This is all of us.

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Anky - Founder AIClips

Anky

Founder & CEO

Prasad - Developer AIClips

Prasad

Lead Developer

Vijay - Content AIClips

Vijay

Content Strategy

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What We Got Wrong — the AIClips Story Without the Polish

This section exists because every “about us” page that skips it is lying by omission.

[ANKY TO FILL — 2–3 honest things that went wrong during building AIClips. Could be: a model partnership that did not work out, a pricing decision you had to reverse, a feature that users hated, a launch that underperformed. Real specifics. This is the section that builds the most trust — and it requires Anky’s input to be authentic.]

The version of this story without the mistakes would be shorter and less useful to read. The whole point of writing it honestly is so that other Indian founders building AI products in 2026 can learn from the parts that did not work, not just the parts that did.

What’s Coming Next

The about aiclips story in 2026 is not finished. This aiclips review of our own progress includes what is coming next. Here is what we are building toward:

  • Gekko AI — our WordPress auto-blog plugin, currently in development. It will use the AIClips model stack to generate fully optimised blog posts with AI images automatically, targeting Indian content businesses who produce high volumes of written content.
  • Deeper regional language support. Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali content creation workflows need the same depth of support that Hindi has now. We are getting there.
  • More standalone apps. Captions Studio, when live, will be the eighth standalone app on the platform. The goal is to eliminate the CapCut step for Indian creators — everything from script to posted Reel without leaving AIClips.
  • Better model curation for Indian content. The cultural accuracy gap between Western-trained models and Indian-trained models is the single most impactful quality improvement we can deliver. Every new model we add gets specifically tested on Indian cultural prompts before going live.

If you want to follow the building of this in real time, the 461 Models analysis and the Indian AI Industry article cover what we are watching in the broader Indian AI ecosystem.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who built AIClips?
AIClips is built by an 8-person team at ANKY.AI, based in Thane, Maharashtra. Founded by Anky, the platform was developed with Prasad as the lead developer and a small team covering content, design, and operations. It is bootstrapped — no external VC funding. Every product decision reflects what the team itself needs as Indian creators, not what an investor wants the metric to show.
Is AIClips an Indian company?
Yes. AIClips is built by ANKY.AI, based in Thane, Maharashtra. INR pricing, UPI payment, Hindi and regional language support, and Indian cultural content accuracy are built into the platform from the ground up — not added as afterthought localisation features. AIClips is part of a broader Indian AI tool ecosystem that includes Sarvam, Krutrim, and Bhashini at the infrastructure layer and creator-focused tools at the application layer.
How many AI models does AIClips have?
600+ models across video generation, image generation, audio (TTS, music, sound effects, voice cloning), 3D generation, and writing tools. The count was 461 at the time of the “We Tested 461 Models” article — the number has grown since. Every model is tested for Indian cultural content accuracy before going live. Approximately 40 models have been removed since launch for quality or terms of service reasons.
Why does AIClips cost ₹349/month when competitors charge $34–$84?
INR pricing means no USD conversion markup and no 18% OIDAR GST on top of a foreign price. The credit system allocates API usage across a large user base, producing better economics per user than direct API access. And the price reflects what Indian creators can actually afford — not a discounted version of a USD price. The full pricing breakdown is in the Pricing Transparency article.

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