Pay for what you make
Scenes AI is pay as you go. You buy credits, one credit is one US dollar, and you spend them only when something is actually generated — no subscription, no minimum, and nothing expires. A video costs the clips, one still per scene, the narration and one music track.
$10 gets you roughly
- 5×30-second TikTok or Reel
- 2×60-second explainer
- 20×60-second slideshow
At Standard quality. Credits never expire, so a balance carries across projects.
What things cost
Common jobs, priced end to end — clips, scene images, narration and music included.
A 30-second TikTok or Reel
Vertical, roughly four scenes, AI voiceover, background music and animated captions burned in.
~$1.85
Standard quality
~$1.07 on Draft · ~$8.07 on Premium
A 60-second explainer
Widescreen or vertical, roughly eight scenes, voiceover, music and captions.
~$3.62
Standard quality
~$2.06 on Draft · ~$16.07 on Premium
A 3-minute story episode
Around twenty scenes with the same cast and locations throughout, voiceover and an original score.
~$10.26
Standard quality
~$5.77 on Draft · ~$48.06 on Premium
A 60-second slideshow
No video clips at all — slow camera moves across generated stills, with voiceover and music. The cheapest way to make something watchable.
~$0.50
Standard quality · no video clips
Every figure is an estimate produced by the same code that bills the account. Draft and Premium are the platform's two quality tiers; Standard is a middle setting we suggest, not a separate plan.
Price your own video
Change anything and the estimate updates. The arithmetic runs on the server, using the same calculator that bills the account.
Slow camera moves over generated images. No video clips are bought, so it is much cheaper.
Fastest and cheapest · ideal for iterating
Estimated cost
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An estimate, not a quote. The real scene count and narration length are only known once your script exists — and you approve a preview before any clips are generated.
Every rate
What each engine charges, before it is combined into a video.
| Engine | Billed | Rates |
|---|---|---|
| Veo 3.1 Liteby Google | per clip | 720p $0.20 · 1080p $0.23 · 4k $0.97 |
| Veo 3.1 Fastby Google | per clip | 720p $0.39 · 1080p $0.42 · 4k $1.17 |
| Kling 3.0by Kuaishou | per second | 720p $0.091 · 1080p $0.12 · 4k $0.44 |
| Seedance 2.0 Fastby ByteDance | per second | 480p $0.10 · 720p $0.21 |
| Seedance 2.0by ByteDance | per second | 480p $0.12 · 720p $0.27 · 1080p $0.66 · 4k $1.35 |
| MiniMax H3by MiniMax | per second | 768P $0.15 · 2K $0.24 |
| Seedance 2.5by ByteDance | per second | 480p $0.18 · 720p $0.41 |
| Nano Banana Proby Google | per image | 1K $0.12 · 2K $0.12 · 4K $0.16 |
| Nano Banana 2by Google | per image | 1K $0.052 · 2K $0.078 · 4K $0.12 |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSby Google | per 1,000 chars | $0.004 |
| Suno V5.5by Suno | per track | $0.078 |
Per-clip engines charge the same whatever the clip length, so longer scenes are better value on them. See the model pages for what each engine is good at, or Seedance 2.0 compared with Veo 3.1 Fast.
Pricing FAQ
Pricing questions
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