What does a video clip cost to generate?

Q: What does a video clip cost to generate?

read the pricing unit before the price generate a five second clip of with minimax h3-max-turbo at 480P on monid, passing the parameters in the request BODY: every video endpoint here takes a body, and sent as query params none of them run at all. tell me the billed seconds so i can check the price against the rate what came back: a playable 480P clip, five billed seconds, in fifteen seconds of wall clock the spread: the identical five-second prompt is $0.125 here and over $1.40 on the top audio tier the health flag: the cheapest endpoint is marked degraded in the catalog and still answered first try plain inspect crashes on four of these models: it dies mid-pricing with a type error and prints no input schema at all, so an agent told to inspect before running stalls on a model that works; ask for JSON output instead and it answers a dead job can still say COMPLETED: two runs came back with a run status of COMPLETED over a provider response of 500 and a body reading failed. They correctly billed nothing, but anything branching on the run status reports a success that has no file behind it the rule: pick the tier by what the shot needs, because the model choice is an eleven-fold decision

Video Generation APIs

The cheapest clip that works

Say this to your agent

>generate a five second clip of <shot> with minimax h3-max-turbo at 480P on monid, passing the parameters in the request BODY: every video endpoint here takes a body, and sent as query params none of them run at all. tell me the billed seconds so i can check the price against the rate

What the agent runsdone

minimax /v1/video/minimax-h3-max-turbo$0.025 / s

minimax /v1/video/minimax-h3 · not run$0.038 / s

kling /v1/video/kling-2.5-turbo-t2v$0.042 / s

gemini /v1/video/omni-flash-t2v$0.04 / s

alibaba /v1/video/wan3.0 · not run$0.05 / s

What came backfive real clips · 2026-09-24

The same five-second clipUS dollars

cheapest$0.125

with audio$0.20

mid tier$0.21

4K tier$2.10

what came backa playable 480P clip, five billed seconds, in fifteen seconds of wall clock

the spreadthe identical five-second prompt is $0.125 here and over $1.40 on the top audio tier

the health flagthe cheapest endpoint is marked degraded in the catalog and still answered first try

plain inspect crashes on four of these modelsit dies mid-pricing with a type error and prints no input schema at all, so an agent told to inspect before running stalls on a model that works; ask for JSON output instead and it answers

a dead job can still say COMPLETEDtwo runs came back with a run status of COMPLETED over a provider response of 500 and a body reading failed. They correctly billed nothing, but anything branching on the run status reports a success that has no file behind it

the rulepick the tier by what the shot needs, because the model choice is an eleven-fold decision

$0.125five seconds at $0.025

What a second actually costs

Say this to your agent

>run the same prompt again at ten seconds on the same model and show me both bills side by side, so i can see whether the price is per second or per call

What the agent runsdone

minimax /v1/video/minimax-h3-max-turbo$0.025 / s

minimax /v1/video/minimax-hailuo-2.3 · not run$0.28 / bundle

gemini /v1/video/omni-flash-t2v$0.04 / s

What came backfive real clips · 2026-09-24

Double the durationUS dollars

5 seconds$0.125

10 seconds$0.25

the proofsame model, same prompt, twice the duration, exactly twice the bill

why it mattersa per-second rate means a thirty-second cut is six times a five-second one, not a little more

the exceptionone model is sold as fixed bundles, so six seconds is the floor and five is not offered

the auto trapsetting duration to auto pre-holds a full thirty seconds of charge, and it does it on three of the models here rather than one, so never leave the duration unset

$0.25ten seconds at $0.025

Turn a still into a shot

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>animate <image url> into a five second clip with kling 2.6 image to video at 720p on monid, audio off, passing the parameters in the request BODY rather than as query params. use an image host that serves requests with no user agent: wikimedia returns 403 to the provider's fetcher and the failure takes a minute to surface as an unhelpful message about getting the contents of the file

What the agent runsdone

kling /v1/video/kling-2.6-i2v$0.042 / s

minimax /v1/video/minimax-h3-max-turbo$0.025 / s

gemini /v1/video/omni-flash-i2v · not run$0.04 / s

alibaba /v1/video/wan2.7-i2v · not run$0.10 / s

kling /v1/video/kling-3.0-i2v · not run$0.084 / s

What came backfive real clips · 2026-09-24

what came backa clip from a single still, in 54 to 64 seconds of wall clock across two runs

the image host is the hard parttwo runs failed before one worked: the most obvious public image host returns 403 to any client sending no user agent, which is what the provider's server-side fetcher is, and the error it produces names the file rather than the refusal

and 720p is not what arrivesa request for 720p came back 1172 by 784, so the resolution parameter sets the price tier rather than the geometry: measure the file, do not trust the request

the roundingthe output ran 5.041 seconds and the bill was for five, because it bills whole requested seconds

the cheap alternativethe cheapest model also does image to video with first and last frame, at 480P for $0.025 a second

the 4K jumpthe same job on the top tier at 4K is $0.42 a second, so five seconds is $2.10

$0.21five seconds at $0.042

A clip that comes with sound

Say this to your agent

>generate <shot> with gemini omni-flash on monid and include the audio cue in the prompt. tell me whether the rate changes with duration

What the agent runsdone

gemini /v1/video/omni-flash-t2v$0.04 / s

kling /v1/video/kling-2.6-t2v · not run$0.14 / s with audio

kling /v1/video/kling-3.0-turbo-t2v · not run$0.112 / s

elevenlabs /v1/text-to-speech · not runto $0.22 / call

What came backfive real clips · 2026-09-24

what came backa 360p clip with speech, music and ambience generated together, in 34 seconds

flat is the norm, not the exceptionan earlier version of this page called this the only model with one rate across every duration. It is the other way round: nearly every endpoint here is flat per second, and the bundle-priced one is the lone exception

and it is not the cheapest way to get soundanother model does audio at 720P for $0.10 a second, and a turbo tier does it at $0.112, so the $0.14 1080p tier this page used to name as the cheapest alternative is neither the cheapest nor the only one

the link trapthe signed download link expires in one hour while the file lives seven days: fetch it, do not save the url

$0.20five seconds at $0.04

When the premium tier is worth it

Say this to your agent

>price a five second clip on the premium token-billed tier before running anything, and tell me what it would cost against the cheapest model. confirm with me before you run it

What the agent runsdone

bytedance seedance-2.5 · not run$10.70 / 1M tokens

kling /v1/video/kling-3.0-i2v · not run$0.42 / s at 4K

alibaba /v1/video/wan2.7-videoedit · not run$0.10 / s, both ways

What it returnsshape of the answer

the pricea five second clip is $1.16 at 720p, which is its default and also its ceiling, or $0.50 at 480p: about one and a half times the four real clips on this page put together

the number this page used to printan earlier version said $3.50 a clip. That figure is not a clip price at all: it is the per-million-token RATE of the CHEAPEST tier, which the catalog prints as $3.5 / 1M. Read the unit next to a token price before you turn it into a clip price

the unitit bills by tokens, but duration moves the bill far more than resolution does: across this tier resolution spans 2.3x and duration spans 7.5x

the hidden route, with a caveatone aggregator lists a flat $0.44 per call while its model field can route the job elsewhere; on our second look its documented models were the previous generation rather than this tier, so read the model list before you trust the flat price

the editing trapone edit endpoint bills the input seconds as well as the output, so a five second edit costs like ten

$1.16five seconds at 720p · catalog rate

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