How Much Does an AI Video Cost? Price per Clip, October 2026

What one clip costs on zzo.ai

Updated 2026-10-30

Model	Resolution	5 s clip	10 s clip	15 s clip	Per second
Seedance 2.5	480p	$1.40140 credits	$2.80280 credits	$4.15415 credits	$0.28
Seedance 2.5	720p	$3.00300 credits	$5.95595 credits	$8.90890 credits	$0.60
Seedance 2.5	1080p	$7.40740 credits	$14.801,480 credits	$22.202,220 credits	$1.48
Kling 4.0	720p	$1.60160 credits	$3.15315 credits	$4.75475 credits	$0.32
Kling 4.0	1080p	$2.35235 credits	$4.70470 credits	$7.05705 credits	$0.47
Wan 3.0	480p	$0.5050 credits	$1.00100 credits	$1.50150 credits	$0.10
Wan 3.0	720p	$1.00100 credits	$2.00200 credits	$3.00300 credits	$0.20
Wan 3.0	1080p	$2.00200 credits	$4.00400 credits	$6.00600 credits	$0.40
H3 Max Turbo	480p	$0.2525 credits	$0.5050 credits	$0.7575 credits	$0.05
H3 Max Turbo	768p	$0.4040 credits	$0.8080 credits	$1.20120 credits	$0.08
H3 Max Turbo	1080p	$0.8080 credits	$1.60160 credits	$2.40240 credits	$0.16
MiniMax H3	768p	$0.6060 credits	$1.20120 credits	$1.80180 credits	$0.12
MiniMax H3	2K	$1.30130 credits	$2.60260 credits	$3.90390 credits	$0.26

The same models elsewhere

What one 5-second clip with sound costs on the model makers’ own apps and on the best-known multi-model platforms: without a subscription where they sell credits that way, and on their cheapest monthly plan with every credit used.

Seedance 2.5

Platform	How you pay	Resolution	5 s clip	Credits expire	No watermark and commercial use without a plan
zzo.ai	Pay per clip	720p	$3.00	Never	Yes
Dreamina	No subscriptionCredits are sold only inside a plan	720p	Not sold	—	No
Dreamina	Cheapest monthly planBasic, $15/month, 1,575 credits	720p	$1.76	Not stated publicly	No
Pika	No subscriptionTop-up, 60 credits per $1	720p	$2.03	365 days	NoNo watermark, but no commercial licence
Pika	Cheapest monthly planStarter, $10/month, 900 credits	720p	$1.36	Each month	No
Krea	Cheapest monthly planPro, $35/month (Seedance needs a paid plan)	720p	≈ $1.52	Each month; packs 90 days	Not stated
invideo	Cheapest monthly planPlus, $60/month, 2,000 credits (nothing sold without a plan)	720p	≈ $1.68	Each month; extra credits end with the plan	Not stated
zzo.ai	Pay per clip	1080p	$7.40	Never	Yes
invideo	Cheapest monthly planPlus, $60/month, 2,000 credits	1080p	≈ $2.88	Each month; extra credits end with the plan	Not stated

Kling 4.0

Platform	How you pay	Resolution	5 s clip	Credits expire	No watermark and commercial use without a plan
zzo.ai	Pay per clip	720p	$1.60	Never	Yes
Kling AI	No subscriptionCredits at $1 = 66	720p	Not public	2 years	No1080p also needs a subscription
Kling AI	Cheapest monthly planStandard, $8.80/month, 660 credits	720p	Not public	31 days	No
zzo.ai	Pay per clip	1080p	$2.35	Never	Yes
Runway	Cheapest monthly planStandard, $15/month, 625 credits	1080p	$2.83	Plan credits each month; bought credits never	Not stated$2.14 during Runway’s offer to November 30 (89 credits)

Wan 3.0

Platform	How you pay	Resolution	5 s clip	Credits expire	No watermark and commercial use without a plan
zzo.ai	Pay per clip	720p	$1.00	Never	Yes
wan.video	No subscriptionCredit packs, from $1.50 for 30 credits	720p	Not public	2 years	Not stated
wan.video	Cheapest monthly planPro, $10/month, 300 credits	720p	Not public	1 month	No
Pika	No subscriptionTop-up, 60 credits per $1	720p	$0.55	365 days	NoNo watermark, but no commercial licence
Pika	Cheapest monthly planStarter, $10/month, 900 credits	720p	$0.37	Each month	No
Higgsfield	Cheapest monthly planPlus, $59/month, 1,200 credits (nothing sold without a plan)	720p	$0.43	Each month; packs 90 days	Not stated
zzo.ai	Pay per clip	1080p	$2.00	Never	Yes
Higgsfield	Cheapest monthly planPlus, $59/month, 1,200 credits	1080p	$0.86	Each month; packs 90 days	Not stated

MiniMax H3

Platform	How you pay	Resolution	5 s clip	Credits expire	No watermark and commercial use without a plan
zzo.ai	Pay per clipH3 Max Turbo	768p	$0.40	Never	Yes
zzo.ai	Pay per clipMiniMax H3	768p	$0.60	Never	Yes
Hailuo	No subscriptionCredits at $1 = 70	768p	$0.50	Unclear: Hailuo’s pages disagree	NoWatermarked; commercial use only on a paid plan
Hailuo	Cheapest monthly planStandard, $10.50/month (list $14.99), 1,000 credits	768p	$0.37	1 month, no rollover	No$0.52 at the $14.99 list price; Hailuo doesn’t say if the 30% off is temporary
zzo.ai	Pay per clipMiniMax H3	2K	$1.30	Never	Yes
Hailuo	No subscriptionCredits at $1 = 70	2K	$0.86	Unclear: Hailuo’s pages disagree	NoWatermarked; commercial use only on a paid plan
Hailuo	Cheapest monthly planStandard, $10.50/month (list $14.99), 1,000 credits	2K	$0.63	1 month, no rollover	No

Each price comes from the platform’s own pricing page, or is worked out from the numbers printed there (hover a price to see the arithmetic). Plan prices are list prices, not first-month offers, and assume every credit in the month is used. “Not public” means the platform shows the cost only after you sign in. Checked October 30, 2026; prices change often, so follow the links before you buy.

What common jobs cost

Priced with the same settings you would pick in the generator.

Ten vertical clips for social media

Ten 5-second 9:16 clips for Reels, TikTok or Shorts with Wan 3.0 at 720p, which follows prompts literally at a low price per second.

Wan 3.0
720p
5 s
sound
9:16

$10.00

10 clips × $1.00

Animate twenty product photos

Twenty 5-second image-to-video clips on H3 Max Turbo, the fastest and cheapest option here, to test which products move well before spending more.

H3 Max Turbo
768p
5 s
sound
16:9

$8.00

20 clips × $0.40

A 15-second ad at 1080p

One finished 1080p spot on Kling 4.0, which holds long takes and fast action well.

Kling 4.0
1080p
15 s
sound
16:9

$7.05

705 credits

A one-minute video in four shots

Four 15-second Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p, joined in an editor: the most film-like look of the four models.

Seedance 2.5
720p
15 s
sound
16:9

$35.60

4 clips × $8.90

One 30-second take

A single 30-second shot at 1080p on Wan 3.0, with no cuts to stitch.

Wan 3.0
1080p
30 s
sound
16:9

$12.00

1,200 credits

Cost estimator

Clips

3,000 credits

300 credits ($3.00) per clip at the standard rate

Trial

$49.90

Popular

$29.99

Best value

$27.27

How AI video is priced

Every model here charges by the second of video. Three things set the price of a clip: the model, the resolution and the length. Resolution matters most: 1080p costs clearly more than 720p on every model, and MiniMax H3 costs more at 2K than at 768p. Length is close to linear: a 10-second clip costs about twice a 5-second one. Sound costs nothing extra here.

Paying per clip or subscribing

Subscriptions win on price per clip if you use every credit every month: the model makers sell their own models for less inside monthly plans than resellers can. They lose if your use is uneven, because plan credits expire each month, and on most of those apps downloads without a watermark and commercial use come only with an active plan.

Paying per clip costs more per clip and nothing in a quiet month. Here the credits never expire, every clip comes without a watermark and is yours to use commercially, and one balance covers all four models.

How to spend less

Draft cheap, finish once. Test your wording on MiniMax H3 Max Turbo or at 720p, then run the final at the resolution you need. A higher-resolution rerun is a new take, not an upscale, so check it too.
Use the shortest length that fits. A 5-second clip holds one action. Pay for 10 or 15 seconds only when the shot needs them.
Pick the model for the job. A model that gets the shot first time is cheaper than a cheaper model you run three times. The text to video and image to video pages show which model is good at what.
Start from an image. When the look must match something, image to video gets closer in fewer tries than describing it from scratch.

How we compared prices

For other platforms we used only numbers printed on their own pricing pages, or simple arithmetic from those numbers: plan price ÷ credits in the plan × credits per clip. Plan prices are list prices, not first-month offers, and assume every credit is used. Where a platform shows the cost of a clip only after you sign in, we wrote “not public” instead of estimating. We checked each page on the date shown and link to it, so you can check it yourself.

Made with these models

Each one shows the prompt, model and what it costs here.

Floating desert museum — “Cinematic quality, high-end feel, a golden desert at dawn, a minimalist white art-museum building floating above the dunes, the building's surface carrying fine stone texture and soft reflections. Sunlight passes through the airborne sand to form volumetric light, with distinct layers of distant dunes. The camera starts on an ultra-wide desert panorama, slowly pushing forward, passing through the flying sand grains, into the interior of the floating building. Inside there are suspended sculptures, semi-transparent silk installations, and a character in a white robe, the fabric swaying naturally in the wind. The camera makes a smooth orbiting move around the character, and finally the building walls slowly open to reveal the vast sky and desert. High-end art-advertising style, realistic lighting, refined materials, cinematic composition, elegant motion, surreal yet believable.”Seedance 2.5, 15 s, sound, 890 credits, made on Dreamina

Pastry cook, one 30-second take — “One unbroken handheld take, direct-flash 35mm snapshot look, fine grain, white tile and bright window light. 0-5s: from behind, a young pastry cook in a white jacket and a long black apron pipes the last pale-yellow buttercream flowers onto a small white cake on a scrubbed wooden bench in a narrow tiled pantry, steel bowls stacked on the shelves. 5-10s: she puts the piping bag down, turns the cake once on its plate to check it from every side, and straightens one flower with a fingertip. 10-15s: she lifts the cake on its plate, turns and carries it through the cramped kitchen past hanging ladles and a steaming stockpot, the camera following at shoulder height. 15-20s: she shoulders open a back door into a quiet, sunlit courtyard and walks across the flagstones. 20-25s: she sets the cake down on a weathered table laid for one and steps back to look at it. 25-30s: she wipes her hands on the apron and walks back inside, leaving the cake alone on the table in the sun. Sound: piping bag squeeze, a pot lid rattling, the door creak, birds outside.”Kling 4.0, 30 s, sound, 1,410 credits, made on Kling AI

Film backlot, one 30-second take — “One unbroken thirty-second Steadicam move through a working film studio backlot at two in the morning. No cuts anywhere in the take. 0 to 6s: the camera walks out of a scene dock past stacked flats and a rail of period costume, catching a grip taping down a cable run, then pushes through hanging plastic sheeting into open air. 6 to 14s: it crosses a New York street standing set with the rain machines at full pressure, water sheeting off fire escapes and pooling in the gutters, a stunt performer in a soaked overcoat waiting on her mark while a focus puller measures to her face. 14 to 22s: it turns left down a service alley between two sound stages, past a catering truck with its shutter half down and an electrician asleep in a folding chair, the rain noise falling away behind the wall. 22 to 30s: it comes out onto the lot road, cranes up over a parked camera truck and holds on the whole backlot under sodium light, rain still falling on one street and nowhere else. Anamorphic, sodium and mercury practicals, deep blacks, fine film grain. Sound: rain machines roaring then dropping off, a radio crackle, boots on wet asphalt, a generator running under everything, no music.”Wan 3.0, 30 s, sound, 1,200 credits, made on Wan

Noodle vendor: a line, then flames — “Medium close-up, 50mm. A night-market noodle vendor in a white apron stands behind a steaming wok under bare hanging bulbs. He looks into the camera and says: "Thirty years. Same pan, same recipe." Then he tosses the noodles high and flames jump up from the wok. Camera: gentle living handheld that barely breathes, slight push-in. Audio: his voice, sizzling oil, crowd chatter, distant scooters. Photorealistic, warm practical light.”MiniMax H3, 10 s, sound, 80 credits

Mechanical flower ad — “The theme is "mechanical flower bloom". The image needs to highlight the generative video model's strengths in lighting and shadow, art detail, realism, camera movement, and cinematic character feel. The overall style is a high-end tech-brand ad with strong visual impact. The video uses a single-take macro push-in shot, starting from a metal flower bud in darkness, gradually entering the precision mechanical structure inside the petals, and finally climaxing on the image of the mechanical flower fully blooming with light radiating outward. It requires realistic physical lighting, refined metal and glass materials, delicate mechanical motion, stable composition, cinematic color grading, no subtitles.”Seedance 2.5, 15 s, sound, 890 credits, made on Dreamina

Rower at dawn, 15-second take — “One unbroken handheld take on 16mm film, misty grey dawn, a muted palette of wet timber, slate water and fog with one faded-red accent. 0-4s: inside an old timber boathouse on a still lake, a young woman in a faded red rowing vest and grey leggings lifts a pair of long wooden oars down from a wall rack. 4-8s: she carries the oars on her shoulder down the wet wooden slipway, the camera following behind her at shoulder height. 8-12s: she steps carefully into a narrow white single scull tied at the jetty, sits, and slots the oars into their riggers. 12-15s: she pushes off from the jetty with one hand and takes her first stroke, the scull gliding out into the fog, ripples spreading toward the camera. Sound: creaking boards, her footsteps, water lapping, one distant bird call.”Kling 4.0, 15 s, sound, 705 credits, made on Kling AI

Chef, one line to camera — “A chef in her forties looks straight into the camera in a bright open kitchen and says, "The secret is you never crowd the pan." She smiles and turns back to the stove. Clean daylight from a window, white tile, flour on her apron, a strand of hair loose. Medium close-up, 50mm, slight handheld. Sound: her voice close and clear, a gentle sizzle, a knife on a board off screen.”MiniMax H3, 5 s, sound, 40 credits

Questions

How much does an AI video cost?

On zzo.ai, one clip costs between the two prices at the top of this page, depending on the model, the resolution and the length. Short clips at 480p, 720p or 768p cost least; 1080p, 2K and longer clips cost more. The tables above list every combination.

How is AI video priced?

By the second. Each model has a rate per second of video, which goes up with resolution, so a 10-second clip costs about twice a 5-second one, and 1080p costs more than 720p. Sound costs nothing extra on any model here.

What is the cheapest AI video model?

Here, MiniMax H3 Max Turbo at every resolution, then Wan 3.0. The cheapest model isn’t always the cheapest result: if a pricier model gets the shot in one try where a cheaper one needs three, it costs less in the end.

Is a subscription cheaper than paying per clip?

Often, if you use every credit every month. Dreamina and Hailuo, the apps of the Seedance and MiniMax makers, sell clips for less on their monthly plans, as the comparison above shows. But plan credits expire each month, and on most of those apps downloads without a watermark and commercial use need an active subscription. Paying per clip costs more per clip and nothing in the months you don’t make videos.

How much does a one-minute AI video cost?

Models make up to 15 or 30 seconds in one take, so a minute is usually two to four clips joined in an editor. The “what common jobs cost” section prices a one-minute video in four shots; the estimator works out any other mix.

Do the credits expire?

No. zzo.ai credits come in one-time packs and never expire, and there is no subscription to cancel.

Am I charged if a video fails?

No. If the model fails, times out or refuses the prompt, or our policy check blocks the result, the credits go back to your balance automatically.

Does sound cost extra?

No. On every model here a clip with sound costs the same as one without, and every price on this page has sound on. On Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0 you can switch sound off if you don’t need it.

Why does the same model cost different amounts on different sites?

Sites pay different rates for the same model, add different margins and package it differently: monthly plans, credit packs that expire, or credits that don’t. The model makers’ own apps can sell below what resellers pay. Compare the price per clip, what you get without a subscription and whether unused credits expire.

Is the price the same through the API?

Yes. The website, the API and the MCP server use the same prices and the same credit balance.

How often is this page updated?

We check every competitor price once a month and whenever a model is added or repriced. Our own prices on this page are always current; the date at the top shows when the other platforms were last checked.

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