What AI Video Actually Costs per Second: Every Major Model, Checked
The provider list price per second for every major AI video model, at 720p, 1080p and each model's top resolution, read from each model's fal.ai pricing page on 26 September 2026. Built from the same table our billing runs on, so it is updated when prices move.
Most AI video pricing is quoted per clip, per credit or per plan, which makes models almost impossible to compare. Underneath all of that sits one number: what the provider charges for each second of video the model generates. This page lists it for every video generation model we run, at the resolutions people actually deliver.
| Model | Maker | 720p class | 1080p | Highest tier | 1 minute at 1080p | Longest take |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pika 2.2 Pikaframes | $0.04 | $0.06 | $0.06 (1080p) | $3.60 | 25s | |
| Pika 2.2 | $0.04 | $0.09 | $0.09 (1080p) | $5.40 | 10s | |
| Vidu Q4 | $0.095 | $0.12 | $0.39 (4K) | $7.20 | 16s | |
| Gemini Omni Flash | $0.0819 | $0.1229 | $0.2457 (4K) | $7.37 | 15s | |
| LTX 2.5 Fast | Lightricks | $0.09 | $0.13 | $0.30 (4K) | $7.80 | 20s |
| Wan 2.6 | Alibaba | $0.10 | $0.15 | $0.15 (1080p) | $9.00 | 15s |
| Wan 2.7 | Alibaba | $0.10 | $0.15 | $0.15 (1080p) | $9.00 | 15s |
| MiniMax H3 Max | MiniMax | $0.08 (768p) | $0.16 | $0.16 (1080p) | $9.60 | 15s |
| LTX 2.5 Pro | Lightricks | $0.12 | $0.17 | $0.17 (1080p) | $10.20 | 10s |
| HappyHorse 1.1 | Alibaba | $0.14 | $0.18 | $0.18 (1080p) | $10.80 | 15s |
| Wan 3.0 | Alibaba | $0.10 | $0.20 | $0.20 (1080p) | $12.00 | 30s |
| Kling 4 | $0.157 | $0.235 | $0.235 (1080p) | $14.10 | 30s | |
| Wan 3.0 Prime | Alibaba | $0.14 | $0.28 | $0.28 (1080p) | $16.80 | 30s |
| Flux 3 | Black Forest Labs | $0.17 | $0.29 | $0.29 (1080p) | $17.40 | 20s |
| Flux 3 Max | Black Forest Labs | $0.17 | $0.29 | $0.29 (1080p) | $17.40 | 20s |
| Seedance 2.0 | ByteDance | $0.3034 | $0.682 | $1.5552* (4K) | $40.92 | 15s |
| Seedance 2.5 | ByteDance | $0.473 | $1.164* | $1.164* (1080p) | $69.84* | 30s |
| MiniMax H3 | MiniMax | $0.06 (768p) | n/a | $0.16 (4K) | n/a | 15s |
| Kling 4 Flash | $0.094 | n/a | $0.094 (720p) | n/a | 20s |
How these prices were checked
Every figure is the public list price on fal.ai, a hosting platform that publishes a per-second rate for every one of these models, so anyone can check them. I opened each model's own pricing page on 26 September 2026 and compared it with our own price records. All but two matched, and both were corrected before this page went live: Seedance 2.0 had crept up a fraction of a cent, and Seedance 2.5 bills 1080p at a higher token rate than 720p, which our table had not reflected.
The table on this page is not typed by hand. It is generated from those same price records, so when a price changes and we correct it, this page changes with it.
List price is only half the story. You do not ship your first render, and every attempt you discard is billed in full, so what a finished shot really costs is the rate above multiplied by how many goes it takes. The Render Ledger is a free tool that does that arithmetic across every model and tier, with no sign-up.
Three things are deliberately left out. Launch discounts are ignored; MiniMax H3 Max has run time-limited promotions since it launched, and the table shows its standard rate. Transform tools that work on a clip you upload, like reframing or lip-sync, are excluded, because they price your footage rather than new footage. And where a price is an estimate rather than a firm per-second quote, it carries a star.
What a per-second price leaves out
The number is honest, but it is not the whole bill.
You rarely keep the first take. A finished second of footage usually costs several generated seconds once you count the attempts that missed. The cheapest model per second is not the cheapest per usable shot if it needs three times the retakes. Misses cost money too. I covered how to cut that waste in why AI video credits keep getting burned.
Audio used to change the rate. On Veo 3.1, turning native audio off lowered the price per second, and the table showed its audio-on rate. Veo 3.1 left this table when the Studio retired it on 15 October 2026, a week before Google shuts down the Veo 3.1 preview models on 22 October. Its Google successor in the Studio, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1, always generates sound, so it has no audio-off rate to quote. Seedance 2.5 bills the same either way.
Resolution is a real cost step. Going from 720p to 1080p roughly doubles the rate on several models, and on Seedance it does more than that. Draft at the lower tier. Spend on the take you will actually deliver.
Take length caps the job. The longest-take column matters as much as price. A model that stops at 8 seconds means more cuts, and every cut is another generation.
Reading it for a real job
The price ladder is not a quality ladder. It never was. The expensive rows are not simply better; they are better at particular things, like long single takes or tight prompt adherence. The cheap rows are where you test framing and motion before committing.
So I read the table in two passes, one for each job. The 720p column is the cost of finding the shot. The 1080p column, multiplied by your retakes, is the cost of delivering it. For a full comparison of what each model is good at, see the best AI video generator comparison, and for what a finished production costs end to end, the AI video cost guide.
Where our Studio sits
The rates above are what developers pay through an API account, billed in dollars per second. The Studio is built for everyone else: every model in this table from a single credit balance, with no code, no subscription and credits that never expire, which matters more than a fraction of a cent per second once you work across several models. Current credit prices are on the pricing page, and every model here runs in the Studio.
Using this table
You are welcome to reference or quote it. Please credit it as "AIVideos.eu, AI video cost per second" with a link to this page, and include the checked date shown under the table, since these prices move. We re-check them whenever a model's price changes and on a regular review.
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