blog/guides·Sep 4, 2026·6 min·by the eroq team

How much does AI video cost — credit math for one finished minute

What AI video actually costs per clip and per finished minute, with three real budgets for a 60-second piece and every credit calculation shown.

Per-clip prices are easy to find and nearly useless, because nobody ships a single clip. What you want to know is what a finished minute costs, takes included, after the two that didn't work. This guide does that arithmetic in the open. Every number comes from the eroq roster on /models and the grid on /pricing, and every multiplication is shown so you can redo it with your own take count.

The unit — credits, and what one is worth

eroq bills credits. One credit is about a cent at the entry pack ($10 for 1,000), and gets cheaper as you buy larger. Two rules make budgeting honest: failed generations refund themselves automatically, so you only pay for renders that arrive, and credits never expire.

Here is what a credit actually costs, packs and plans side by side.

Pack or plan	Price	Credits	Cost per credit
Starter pack	$10	1,000	$0.0100
Plus pack	$25	2,750	$0.0091
Builder pack	$50	5,750	$0.0087
Scale pack	$100	12,000	$0.0083
Hobby plan	$15 / mo	1,800	$0.0083
Creator plan	$49 / mo	6,000	$0.0082
Studio plan	$149 / mo	20,000	$0.0075
Studio 40k	$279 / mo	40,000	$0.0070
Studio 60k	$399 / mo	60,000	$0.0066
Team plan, per seat	$59 / mo	7,000	$0.0084
Agency plan, per seat	$119 / mo	16,000	$0.0074

Team (2 to 9 seats) and Agency (5 to 25) are priced for the seats and the collaboration, not for a cheaper credit: a solo budget gets its best rate on Studio's larger steps. Annual billing takes 20% off, so Creator paid yearly is $39 a month for the same 6,000 credits — about $0.0065 each. If you subscribe within three hours of signing up, the welcome offer takes 50% off the first month.

Per clip, by engine

At 5 seconds: Seedance 2.0 Mini 75 credits, Motion One 145, Hailuo 3 Max 170, Seedance 2.0 Fast 195, Kling 3.0 270, Seedance 2.0 320, Seedance 2.5 490, and Veo 3.1 Fast is 344 for 8 seconds. At 10 seconds: Seedance 2.0 Fast 390, Motion One 290, Hailuo 3 Max 340, Kling 3.0 540, Seedance 2.0 640, Seedance 2.5 980.

In dollars at the Starter pack rate, that is $0.75 to $3.44 for a standard-length clip. At the Creator rate, $0.61 to $2.81. Those two numbers bracket the whole market conversation, and neither is the number you should budget with.

Budget one — drafts on Seedance 2.0 Fast

Sixty seconds of 5-second shots is twelve clips. One take each, on Seedance 2.0 Fast at 195 credits:

12 × 195 = 2,340 credits. At the Hobby rate that is $19.50 for the minute.

Nobody keeps the first take. At two takes per shot it is 24 renders, 4,680 credits, $39.00. At three takes, 7,020 credits, $58.50. Using 10-second shots instead changes the shape but not much of the total: six clips at 390 credits is 2,340 for one take each, 4,680 for two.

This is the drafting budget. Seedance 2.0 Fast shares the register of Seedance 2.0 at a lower price (195 against 320 credits for 5 seconds), which is the whole reason to block out a sequence there first.

Budget two — keepers on Kling 3.0

Same twelve shots, rendered on Kling 3.0 at 270 credits for 5 seconds with sound:

12 × 270 = 3,240 credits, one take each — $26.46 at the Creator rate. Two takes: 6,480 credits, $52.92.

The smarter version is the hybrid, and it is what most people converge on. Block out all twelve shots on Seedance 2.0 Fast at two takes (4,680 credits), then re-render only the twelve keepers on Kling (3,240 credits):

4,680 + 3,240 = 7,920 credits, $64.68 — close to the cost of brute-forcing Kling at two takes, except you spent the cheap half deciding and the expensive half executing. Every reference photo, camera move and seed carries over, because the library keeps the full recipe.

Budget three — Veo 3.1 Fast, with sound

Veo 3.1 Fast renders a soundtrack with the picture, and its clips run up to 8 seconds. Sixty seconds needs eight of them (64 seconds, trimmed):

8 × 344 = 2,752 credits, one take each — $22.47 at the Creator rate. Two takes: 5,504 credits, $44.95.

That is the most expensive render of the three budgets, and often the cheapest one overall, because the alternative is sourcing ambience, cutting effects and syncing them by hand. Price the edit, not just the render.

The parts nobody budgets for

They are small, and leaving them out is how estimates drift:

Previz stills, 10 credits each on Krea2, Eroq Uncensored, Anima or Flash Image. Twelve framing tests is 120 credits — $1.20, and it saves far more than that in re-renders.
Voice-over. Voice One is 3 credits per 100 characters. A 60-second read is roughly 900 characters, so 27 credits, about 22 cents. Voice Turbo does it for 18.
Prompt enhancement is free with any plan. So is saving every render to your library, and publishing to the community.
Hosting, if you serve the files from the eroq Store, is free within your plan's storage, then 2 credits per 10 MB.

A realistic all-in minute, hybrid workflow: 120 (stills) + 4,680 (Seedance 2.0 Fast drafts, two takes) + 3,240 (Kling keepers) + 27 (voice) = 8,067 credits ≈ $65.88 on Creator. Use that as your finished-minute figure, and you will rarely be wrong by much.

Packs or a plan

Packs are for irregular work — nothing recurring, no engine gates, top up when a job lands. Plans are for steady work, and they buy three things beyond the discount: the engine roster (Hobby unlocks Veo 3.1 Fast, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 Fast, Hailuo 3 Max and Wan 3.0, Creator unlocks all of them), longer clips (15 seconds on Hobby, 20 on Creator, 30 on Studio and up), and higher rate limits with a priority video queue from Creator.

Since credits roll over forever, the plan risk is timing, not waste. The break-even test is simple: if you render more than about one finished minute a month, the per-clip saving from unlocking Seedance 2.0 Fast pays for Hobby on its own.

Check your own math

Before you commit a budget, price one shot end to end. Render the same paragraph at 5 seconds on two engines and compare what you actually kept:

A courier weaves a bicycle between stopped cars on a wet avenue at dusk, headlights smearing across the frame as she stands on the pedals and pulls ahead of a bus. Tracking shot from the road, 35mm film, anamorphic lens, neon noir palette, contre-jour headlamps, dynamic tempo, rain on the lens.

Twelve of those, two takes each, is your minute. Multiply.

FAQ

How much does one AI video clip cost on eroq?

Between 60 credits for a 4-second Seedance 2.0 Mini draft and 2,940 for a 30-second Seedance 2.5 shot; a standard 5 to 8 second clip is 75 to 344, roughly $0.61 to $3.44, cheaper per credit on larger packs and plans. Failed renders refund automatically, so you only pay for clips that arrive.

What does a finished minute of AI video cost?

Budget 2,340 to 6,480 credits depending on engine and take count, about $19.11 to $52.92 at the Creator rate. A realistic hybrid (cheap drafts, expensive keepers, stills and voice-over included) lands near 8,067 credits, roughly $65.88.