AI Video Cost Calculator: What a Second of Video Really Costs

How the calculator works

Every vendor here prices video in credits. The calculator divides the plan price by the plan’s monthly credits, then multiplies by the credits one second of video uses at the chosen resolution. A plan qualifies only when its monthly credits cover the seconds you entered and, where the vendor states one, its top resolution reaches the resolution you chose.

“Annual where published” uses the vendor’s annual price per month, or the annual total divided by 12 when only a total is shown. Hailuo’s monthly prices are shown as discounts from a higher list price; the page does not say whether the discount is permanent, and the lower price is used. Kling’s first-month price is not used; the price after the first month is.

What is not counted

• Failed or rejected generations. Credits spent on clips you throw away are part of the real cost. If you keep one clip in three, the real price per kept second is three times the figure shown.
• Daily login credits and free trial credits. They expire, so they are not used to lower the monthly price.
• Off-peak and “relaxed” modes. PixVerse and Vidu offer cheaper or free generation off-peak on some plans. Waiting times are not published, so the tables use normal-speed credit costs.
• Top-up credit packs, taxes and regional prices. PixVerse sells app packs from 500 credits for $5 to 10,000 credits for $100. Taxes and local-currency pricing can change the invoice.
• OiiOii’s quarterly plans. Besides monthly and annual billing, OiiOii sells each plan three months at a time, from $48 for BASE to $564 for APEX. That lands between its monthly and annual prices, but the calculator only has those two columns. If you have never paid OiiOii before, BASE can be tried for three days for $7. OiiOii plans
• Team plans. PixVerse Team Ultra is priced per seat with a shared credit pool, and the minimum number of seats is not published. The calculator compares single-user plans; Team Ultra is listed in the plan table.
• Unused credits. Most plans here reset credits each month; Runway’s Max plan rolls credits over for one month. A plan you do not use fully costs more per second than the “full use” figure.

Why some services are not in the calculator

• Vidu (app plans). Vidu publishes its plan prices and credits (Standard $10.00 a month for 800 credits) but not how many credits a second of video uses in the app; the generation screen needs an account. Without that number there is no honest per-second price, so the app plans are left out of the calculator. Vidu’s API does publish per-second prices, shown in the API table. Plans will be upgraded on October 6.' Re-read after 2026-10-06. Vidu pricing
• Pixazo (app plans). Pixazo is one subscription that sits on top of other companies’ models: Veo, Seedance, Kling and Sora are all in the same playground. Pro costs $15 a month, or $120 a year paid up front, and comes with 300 credits a month. How many of those credits a clip takes depends on the model, and Pixazo shows the figure on the Generate button once you are signed in, so there is no single rate to feed the calculator. Two details from its pricing page change the arithmetic: Pro members are charged half the credits on premium models, and credit bundles, from $18 for 300 credits, do not expire. The API runs on a separate pay-as-you-go account; per-second rates for four of the models it carries are in the API table. Pixazo pricing
• Pika. Plan prices and monthly credits are published, but the credits each video model uses per second are not. Pika pricing
• Kling below 4K. Kling publishes a per-second credit cost only for native 4K, which is in the calculator. Its 720p figure is given per video with no clip length, so no per-second price can be worked out at lower resolutions. Kling credit guide
• Google Flow (Veo). From where we checked, the plan page showed prices in Japanese yen only, with no US dollar price to read. Credit costs are published, but we do not convert currencies, so there is no plan price to divide. Official plans page
• Dreamina (Seedance). From where we checked, the plan page showed prices in Japanese yen only, with no US dollar price to read. Credit costs are published, but we do not convert currencies, so there is no plan price to divide. Official plans page

Sources

Download the source dataset in JSON with every plan, credit rate, source URL and check date. Each figure below was read on the vendor’s own pages.

• Vidu — www.vidu.com/pricing, platform.vidu.com/docs/pricing (checked 2026-09-26)
• PixVerse — app.pixverse.ai/subscribe, app.pixverse.ai/, docs.platform.pixverse.ai/model-pricing-796039m0 (checked 2026-09-26)
• Runway — runway.com/pricing (checked 2026-09-26)
• Luma (Dream Machine) — lumalabs.ai/pricing (checked 2026-09-26)
• Hailuo AI (MiniMax) — hailuoai.video/subscribe, hailuoai.video/ (checked 2026-09-26)
• Pixazo — www.pixazo.ai/pricing-plan, www.pixazo.ai/ai-video-generator, www.pixazo.ai/api/pricing-plan (checked 2026-10-08)
• OiiOii — www.oiioii.ai/price (checked 2026-10-09)
• Google Flow (Veo / Gemini Omni) — one.google.com/about/google-ai-plans/, support.google.com/flow/answer/16526234?hl=en (checked 2026-09-26)
• Kling AI — kling.ai/app/membership/membership-plan, kling.ai/blog/kling-video-3-0-credit-cost-guide (checked 2026-09-26)
• Pika — pika.art/pricing (checked 2026-09-26)
• Dreamina (Seedance) — dreamina.capcut.com/pricing/dreamina-price (checked 2026-09-26)

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