Credit costs by generation type

Every generation type is priced in credits, and they all draw from one shared pool. Images and music cost the least, and video costs the most, scaling with size and length. Standard video starts at 30 credits for a 360p clip; the Premium video engine is priced per second. The figures below are today's rates, and the live table further down this page reads the same numbers the studios charge. The studio also shows the price on the button before you generate, and that is what the run costs.

What do images cost?

An image costs what the engine that renders it costs:

• 12 credits — a 1K image on the standard image engine.
• 20 credits — a 2K image on the standard image engine, the default size.
• 24 credits — an image our higher-fidelity image engine renders: pictures that use your likeness or cast references, prompts that need current facts from the web, and any render the standard engine hands over to it.
• 40 credits — any 4K image.

You are charged for the engine that actually renders the picture.

What do image edits cost?

Every Magic Edit mode — change something, inpaint, outpaint, retouch, remove an object — costs 24 credits. An edit whose result is 4K, such as an upscale to 4K, costs 40 credits. Canvas inpaint and virtual try-on cost 24 credits.

What does Standard video cost?

Standard video is priced by size and length. Clips run 4, 6, 8 or 10 seconds. The base price covers the first five seconds, and every second after that is billed at the size's per-second rate:

• 360p — 30 credits for up to five seconds, then 6 a second: 30 for a 4-second clip, 36 for 6, 48 for 8, 60 for 10.
• 720p — 80 credits for up to five seconds, then 16 a second: 80 for a 4-second clip, 96 for 6, 128 for 8, 160 for 10.
• 1080p — 125 credits for up to five seconds, then 25 a second: 125 for a 4-second clip, 150 for 6, 200 for 8, 250 for 10.
• 4K — 250 credits for up to five seconds, then 50 a second: 250 for a 4-second clip, 300 for 6, 400 for 8, 500 for 10.

Growing a Standard clip bills only the seconds you add, at the same per-second rate. The Standard engine has no 480p size; see video resolutions.

What does Premium video cost?

The Premium engine bills every second it renders:

• 480p — 18 credits per second.
• 720p — 40 credits per second.
• 1080p — 50 credits per second.
• 4K — 70 credits per second.

A 10-second take is 400 credits at 720p, 500 at 1080p and 700 at 4K; a 30-second take at 4K is 2,100.

Changing or growing a clip on the Premium engine bills the clip it works on together with the result, at 11, 24, 30 or 42 credits per billed second (480p, 720p, 1080p, 4K). Changing a 10-second 720p clip is 20 billed seconds, so 480 credits. Reference clips are billed the same way: a render that uses reference clips adds their seconds to the billed seconds, and the reference clips in one render can total at most 30 seconds. Reference tracks (audio) add nothing to the price.

A Premium draft — the one try every free account gets — is 5 seconds at 480p, so 90 credits. Mastering that draft at 1080p is 500 credits (100 a second: a master re-renders the draft's own shot, which is priced on its own). See Video Studio for who can use Premium and how the draft works.

How do music and other edits compare?

Music in the Music Studio is priced per operation — generating a track, extending it, transforming it, or splitting stems each have their own price. The live table on this page lists every music operation.

Where is the exact, current table?

Further down this page and on /pricing. Both read the same source the studios charge from, and the price shown on the generate button is always what that run costs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does video cost more than images?

Video is far more compute-intensive to render, and the price grows with every second. A 10-second clip costs more than a 4-second one at the same size.

What is the cheapest video I can make?

A 4-second Standard clip at 360p, at 30 credits. The base price covers the first five seconds, so a 4-second clip and the base price are the same.

Why does changing a Premium clip cost more than rendering it?

The Premium engine bills the clip it works on as well as the result. Changing a 10-second clip is 20 billed seconds, and the quote on the button already includes both.

Does editing an image cost the same as generating one?

Every Magic Edit mode costs 24 credits, or 40 when the result is 4K. Generating a new image costs 12 to 40 credits depending on the size and the engine that renders it.