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Find the cheapest AI video model for your monthly usage

Enter how many videos you make a month and see what each model costs at the least: which subscription plan to buy, or whether to pay as you go through an API. Every figure is dated.

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200 seconds of generation a month: 20 videos × 5 seconds each × 2 attempts on average.

1

Veo 3.1 Lite

Google

fal · Pay as you go $0.03 per second

API720pNo audioPer secondalso on 1 other channel

$6/mo

2

PixVerse V6

PixVerse

fal · Pay as you go $0.045 per second

API720pNo audioPer secondalso on 1 other channel

$9/mo

3

Wan 3.0

Alibaba

Replicate · Pay as you go $0.05 per second

API720pNot specifiedPer secondalso on 5 other channels

$10/mo

4

Vidu Q3 Turbo

Vidu

Vidu API · Pay as you go $0.055 per second

API720pNot specifiedPer secondalso on 2 other channels

$11/mo

5

Ray3.2

Luma

Luma API · Pay as you go $0.30 per 5-second clip · stated as approximate

API720pNot specifiedPer 5s clipalso on 2 other channels

approx.$12/mo

  • Rates not split by resolution, so listed only when the minimum resolution is Any: Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Turbo, Aleph 2.0.

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Subscriptions counted: Kling AI, Pika, Luma, Hailuo CN, Vidu CN, Jimeng; pay-as-you-go APIs: Gemini API, Runway API, Luma API, Vidu API, fal, Replicate, Kling API, MiniMax API, Volcengine Ark, Alibaba Cloud Bailian, Kling API CN, MiniMax API CN, Vidu API CN. Not counted, because they publish no exact model rates or have no confirmed plan prices: PixVerse, Hailuo AI, Vidu, HeyGen, Runway, InVideo AI, Kling CN.
Model rates confirmed 2026-09-17 – 2026-09-19; plan prices confirmed 2026-09-19; API prices confirmed 2026-09-18 – 2026-09-19.
Monthly prices are in US dollars, before tax. Pick a region and a conversion at the day's exchange rate appears beside them, for reference only.

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