AI video
The 7 best free AI video tiers, ranked by what you keep
HeyGen and Synthesia lead because their free plans renew monthly; Pika, Kling and Higgsfield withhold commercial rights, and Luma lists no free tier.
pricing
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AI video API
The 8 cheapest AI video APIs, ranked by price per second
Vidu Q4 Preview leads at $0.014 a second on launch pricing, while Google's Veo 3.1 Lite, Alibaba's Wan 3.0 and MiniMax's H3-Max tie at five cents.
Vidu
Vidu Q4 Preview sells AI video from $0.014 a second at launch
Shengshu's launch rate is promotional: Vidu's own list starts at $0.045 a second, and the model debuts third on an independent image-to-video board.
TwelveLabs
TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.6 reads first-person video at $1.75 an hour
TwelveLabs' Pegasus 1.6 adds first-person footage support for robot training data, at the same per-hour and token rates as the version it replaces.
Microsoft
Microsoft ships a live transcription model at $0.54 an hour
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming returns partial text in about 100 milliseconds, and two new voice models join it for real-time agents.
HeyGen
HeyGen's first video model sells from 1 cent a second
HeyGen Video is a fine-tune of MiniMax's H3 model and generates 5 to 15 second clips with their own audio, at half its regular price through October.
grok
xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ships from $0.02 a second
The xAI video model carries per-resolution rates of $0.02 at 480p, $0.03 at 720p and $0.14 at 1080p, the same tiers its flagship model and fal.ai list.
luma
Luma's Ad Variants turns one static ad into five sizes
Luma's new Ad Variants tool resizes and translates one approved static ad into five placements and any language, while keeping the logo, headline and CTA intact.
OpenAI
OpenAI's DevDay ships always-on agents and a cheaper GPT-6.1
dots run on GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer and reach more than 4,000 apps, while GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra results at a fifth of the price.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield offers 100% API cashback from a $20M pool
Higgsfield is paying API spending back as API credits on every model in its catalog, capped at $100,000 a business, and unused cashback expires on September 30.
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs ships FLUX Video Edit at 3 cents a second
The model changes only the part of the clip you name and leaves the rest of the shot untouched.
HelloGen
HelloGen sells unlimited AI video on one model for $19.90
The service removed per-clip charging on MiniMax H3 and published a floor instead, with Pro subscribers guaranteed two priority renders a day and Max five.
pricing
AI video is now a price war measured in cents per second
A launch discount briefly makes Alibaba's Wan 3.0 cheaper per second than its own predecessor Wan 2.7, and that discount, like Pruna AI's, ends September 24.
Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 reviews: 30-second shots are useful but costly
SLOP TV has not tested Seedance 2.5; this digest sets six published write-ups from MindStudio, Curious Refuge and CineD against ByteDance's own specs and API prices.