Clipdrop Relight vs. Beeble — AI Relighting Compared (2026)

AI relighting promises the same thing everywhere: fix the lighting after the shot, no studio gear required. Two of the best-known browser tools approach it very differently. Clipdrop Relight (part of the Clipdrop suite, owned by Jasper since February 2024) repaints the lighting on a still image with draggable light sources. Beeble's 3D Relight turns your image or video into a relightable subject inside a real-time 3D scene, built on the SwitchLight 3.0 model.

They overlap on exactly one job — relighting a still image in the browser — and diverge on everything else, so the comparison below is mostly about which job you actually have.

Feature parity as of August 2026; both products are actively developed, so treat time-stamped claims accordingly.

Still images vs. video footage

This is the hard boundary. Clipdrop Relight processes still images — portraits, product shots, artwork — and there is no video support. Beeble 3D Relight was built for footage first: your clip becomes a relightable subject in the 3D scene, you scrub the timeline, keyframe lights, and export the result as an MP4 or a PNG sequence for compositing. Stills work the same way, as one-frame shots.

If you're here looking for a Clipdrop Relight alternative that handles video, this section is the whole answer.

A 2D effect vs. physically based light

Clipdrop Relight's AI repaints the lighting onto the flat image. It's fast and often convincing, but there is no 3D scene behind it — light doesn't wrap around the subject with true direction, falloff, or reflections, and you can't move a light behind something.

Beeble's in-house SwitchLight 3.0 model extracts PBR materials from your shot, so the subject sits in a 3D scene where new lights behave the way light does on set. The difference shows up where 2D relighting struggles: skin, hair, glossy surfaces, hard shadow edges. On video, the gap compounds frame by frame.

The lighting toolkit

Clipdrop Relight's vocabulary is a set of draggable colored light sources with position and color controls. That's enough for its job, and part of why it's so quick to use.

Beeble 3D Relight gives you a light kit: HDRI environments plus point, spot, area, sun, and video lights — video lights mirror DMX and LED-wall behavior, so a playing clip can illuminate your subject. Lights animate on the timeline with keyframes, and you can build out the scene with GLTF models, Gaussian splats, and image backdrops.

Speed and simplicity

Clipdrop Relight wins this one. Upload, drag, download — nothing to learn, no wait beyond the render, and any browser will do.

Beeble asks more of you. A shot is first processed into VFX passes (a few minutes), and the editor is desktop-only: Chrome or Edge with GPU acceleration, nothing to install. In exchange, the processed shot stays a live scene — you can relight it, reframe it, and export it again without paying for the processing twice.

If what you actually want is Clipdrop's one-shot simplicity on video, Beeble has that too: SwitchX relights footage generatively, driven by a reference image or a prompt, as part of a full scene transform. This comparison sticks with 3D Relight because it's the direct counterpart to Clipdrop's draggable lights — you place lights, and they cast.

Free tiers and pricing

Clipdrop's free tier covers about 20 images per day at the time of writing, with high-resolution output behind the Pro subscription.

Beeble's free Starter plan includes 90 credits per month. Credits are only spent generating a shot's VFX passes — 3 credits per second of video, 3 per image — and once a shot is processed, relighting and exporting inside the editor cost nothing. The built-in demo shots are free to light, so you can try the editor before spending anything. Starter caps uploaded clips at 5 seconds and covers non-commercial use; paid plans raise the cap and add a full commercial license.

Choose Clipdrop Relight if

• You're relighting single still images for social posts or quick mockups.
• You want zero learning curve and an instant result.
• You're working on a phone or tablet, where Beeble's editor doesn't run.

Choose Beeble 3D Relight if

• You're relighting video, not just stills.
• The light has to be physically plausible — real falloff and reflections, not a painted-on effect.
• You want a real light kit: HDRI, point, spot, area, sun, and video lights, keyframed on a timeline.
• Your output feeds an edit or a compositing pipeline — MP4 and PNG sequence export, plus the shot's PBR passes in the same toolset.