What AI video costs per second
A second of AI video on Kuro costs from $0.040 (P-Video at 720p) to $2.43 (Seedance 2.0 at 4K · from a video), a 61-fold range across 18 video models.
These are Kuro's own prices for the models it offers, not the vendors' list prices.
Findings
- The range
- A second of AI video on Kuro costs from $0.040 (P-Video at 720p) to $2.43 (Seedance 2.0 at 4K · from a video), a 61-fold range across 18 video models.
- 720p to 1080p
- Moving a clip from 720p to 1080p multiplies its price by a median of 1.99×, across the 11 video models on Kuro priced at both.
- 1080p to 4K
- Moving a clip from 1080p to 4K multiplies its price by a median of 1.91×, across the 4 video models on Kuro priced at both.
- 15 seconds of video
- Fifteen seconds of 1080p video costs a median of $6.54 on Kuro, from $1.19 to $13.13 depending on the model, across 11 models.
- Sound
- Generating a clip with audio multiplies its price by a median of 1.49× against the same clip silent, across the 4 video models on Kuro that price the two apart.
- Video against images
- One second of 1080p video costs about as much as 7 images at the median price of each on Kuro, where an image runs from $0.012 to $0.99 and the quality setting alone moves GPT Image 2.5 Flare by 42.5×.
Cost per second by model
| Model | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|
| P-Video | $0.040 | $0.079 |
| P-Video 2 | $0.058 | $0.12 |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini | $0.079 | $0.21 |
| Veo 3.1 Lite | $0.098 | $0.16 |
| Gemini Omni 1.1 | $0.098 | $0.88 |
| Wan 3.0 | $0.098 | $0.39 |
| MiniMax H3 Max | $0.098 | $0.16 |
| Wan 3.0 Prime | $0.13 | $0.55 |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast | $0.14 | $0.33 |
| Seedance 2.0 | $0.16 | $2.43 |
| Veo 3.1 Fast | $0.20 | $0.29 |
| Seedance 2.5 | $0.20 | $1.88 |
| Runway Gen-4.5 | $0.23 | $0.23 |
| HappyHorse 1.0 | $0.27 | $0.55 |
| Kling v3 Omni | $0.33 | $0.82 |
| Kling v3 | $0.33 | $0.82 |
| FLUX 3 | $0.33 | $0.56 |
| Veo 3.1 | $0.39 | $0.78 |
Method
- Sample: 18 video models (59 prices) and 20 image models (53 prices), every one Kuro offers. Models that refuse a request without a source image, video or audio, such as lip-sync, are left out because they price a different job.
- Dollars are credits at the Growth plan's rate of $0.0233 a credit, the lowest of the paid plans; the highest is 2.5% above it.
- A price per second is Kuro's five-second price divided by five. A 15-second figure multiplies that by 15, in one clip or several since some models cap a clip's length, before Kuro rounds a request's total up to the nearest half credit.
- A model's price at a resolution is its cheapest option there. A median takes one value per model.
- Refresh: every figure and sentence on this page is recomputed from the catalog Kuro charges against on each release, and the date above says when. This URL will not change.
Cite this
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Kuro, "What AI video costs per second", November 5, 2026. https://meetkuro.com/ai-pricing/cost-per-second/
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