Eden alternatives for short-form video research
Short version: Silma is the Eden alternative built for short-form video. If the question you keep asking is “why did that one work, and will mine?”, Silma reads the frames of the video to answer the first half and scores your draft before you post to answer the second. Eden is a broad creator workspace, text-first, for saving, reading, writing and scheduling, with an outlier feed alongside.
What Silma does that Eden does not claim
It watches the video, not just the transcript. Eden transcribes what you save and can break a link into hook, beats and payoff from the words. Silma extracts frames and reads them alongside the transcript, which is how it can tell you the text overlay at 0:04 is unreadable at that cut speed, or that the visual opens on a logo while the voice opens on the result. For someone editing Reels, that is the entire job.
It scores the draft, not only what you already posted. Eden’s Weekly Strategist tells you which of your published posts beat your baseline. Silma’s Pre-Check takes the draft file and returns a 0 to 100 score, a predicted retention curve with the drop points named, and a ranked list of fixes, before anything is public. As of August 2026 nothing on Eden’s site, help center or MCP tool list claimed a pre-post score.
It judges ideas against your customer. Discover gives every post a 0 to 10 fit score against the brand you describe, so a feed of outliers becomes a shortlist for your audience.
Research starts at $9. Silma Lite includes 200 AI credits and Discover. Eden’s $9 Personal plan has no AI credits and no creator research; those start on Starter.
What you get in both
Both rank posts by how far they beat their own account’s baseline rather than by raw views, both let you track a set of creators, and both have a Discover-style feed of outliers.
Side by side
| Silma | Eden | |
|---|---|---|
| Frame-level video breakdown | Yes: hook, structure, pacing, overlays | Not claimed; transcript-based |
| Score a draft before posting | Yes, Pre-Check | Not claimed |
| Fit score against your customer | Yes, 0 to 10 per post | Not claimed |
| Built for | Short-form video: Reels, TikTok, Shorts | Creators broadly, text-first (X, LinkedIn, Substack, YouTube) |
| $9 plan | Lite: 200 credits, Discover, Pre-Check, 1 tracked account | Personal: no AI credits, no creator research |
| Research tier, monthly | Starter $29/mo, 5 tracked accounts, 600 credits | Starter $29/mo, 5 tracked creators, 200 credits |
| Top individual tier, monthly | Pro $79/mo, 15 tracked accounts, 1,500 credits | Pro $79/mo, 25 tracked creators, 750 credits |
| Outlier feed vs account baseline | Yes | Yes |
| Save articles, write and schedule posts | No | Yes |
| MCP / Claude integration | No | Yes |
| Free plan | No | Yes, 50 one-time credits |
Eden features and limits from eden.so/pricing and its help center, read 15 August 2026; monthly prices re-checked 23 September 2026. On annual billing Eden’s Starter is $299 a year and Pro $790, with a lower first-year welcome offer. Silma prices from silma.app/pricing. “Not claimed” means we did not find it on their site, not that we tested for it.
When to choose Silma
- Your output is video. You want to know why a specific Reel worked at the level of frames and cuts, not just that it beat a baseline.
- You want a verdict on your draft before you post it, and a fix list ordered by impact.
- You post for a business and want ideas judged against the person who buys.
- You want the research half without paying for a scheduler and an editor you will not open.
When Eden may fit better
- You publish mostly on text platforms and want reading, drafting and scheduling in one place.
- You want an MCP endpoint so Claude or ChatGPT can query your saved library.
- You want a free plan, or to pay annually.
Other tools people compare
Reelyze reads video frame by frame with the same baseline maths and writes scripts, compared here. Sandcastles is an outlier database with a script writer, compared here. Virlo is a social listening tool for teams, compared here. Shortimize is a metrics dashboard for teams, compared here.
Know before you post. Upload one draft and get the score, the curve and the fixes. Lite is $9 a month, cancel any time. Check your first video →
Questions
Is Silma a good Eden alternative?+
Yes, if your work is short-form video. Silma reads the frames of a Reel, TikTok or Short to tell you why it worked, and scores your own draft before you post, which Eden does not claim. It does not save articles, draft newsletters or schedule posts; if you need that whole workspace, Eden covers it.
Does Eden analyse video frame by frame?+
Not that its site, features pages, help center or MCP tool list claim as of August 2026. Eden transcribes saved videos and can break a link into hook, beats and payoff from the transcript. Silma reads the frames and the transcript together, which is how it catches pacing, text-overlay readability, and a visual that contradicts the spoken hook.
Does Eden score a draft before you post?+
No such feature was listed as of August 2026. Eden’s Weekly Strategist scores posts you have already published against your baseline. Silma’s Pre-Check scores a draft video 0 to 100 before it goes live, with a predicted retention curve and ranked fixes.
Which one is cheaper?+
At $9 a month, Silma. Silma Lite includes 200 AI credits and Discover; Eden’s $9 Personal plan has no AI credits and no creator research, which start on Starter. On monthly billing the research tiers cost the same, $29 and $79. Eden is cheaper if you pay a year up front, and it has a free plan with 50 one-time credits.
Can I use both?+
Yes: Eden for reading, writing and scheduling, Silma for judging the video. There is no integration between them; you would paste a link from one into the other.
Sources
- Eden pricing and plan limits: eden.so/pricing, read 15 August 2026, prices re-checked 23 September 2026.
- Eden outlier multiplier method: eden.so/help/discover/outlier-multiplier, page dated 9 May 2026.
- Eden creator tracking caps: eden.so/help/creators/tracking-a-creator, page dated 10 July 2026.
- Eden features (Discover, Creators, Scheduling, MCP, Weekly Strategist): eden.so and its /features pages, read 15 August 2026.
- Silma plan limits: silma.app/pricing; method: competitor tracking, Pre-Check, Discover.
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