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What a second of AI video costs, channel by channel

What eight sellers charge for one Wan model family

Eight channels in this register publish a figure against a model in the Wan family, and they run from a cent a second to twenty-five. The maker's own three-tier list sits in the middle of that, which says the spread is resale rather than pixels. As of 2026-09-22.

Three meters on one model familySix of the eight channels pricing this family print a figure against a second. One prices a clip at named durations, where the cost per second rises with the length. One prices in credits and never says what a credit costs, so its row cannot be placed on the same scale at all.What is this channel's Wan figure attached toOne secondDirectly comparableA cent on an ultra-fastvariant up to twenty-fivecents on a 720p resale.One clipRises with lengthTwenty-five cents for fiveseconds at 480P, up to adollar fifty for ten at1080P.CreditsNot placeable480 credits for twoseconds at 1080p, with nocredit price anywhere onthat page.Same family, three kinds of number
Fig. 1 A buyer choosing between these rows on price alone is choosing between three different arithmetic problems, two of which need a figure the seller did not publish.
Every channel here that publishes a figure against a Wan model, and the version it names. Recorded 2026-09-22.
ChannelPublished figureVersion named
WaveSpeed AIOne cent a second on an ultra-fast variant, ten cents on anotherWan 2.2 Ultra Fast, Wan 2.7
WanFive, ten and twenty cents a second by resolutionWan 3.0, at the Singapore list price
falFive cents a secondWan 2.5
RunwareFive cents a second, and six point eight on the Prime variantWan3.0 and Wan3.0 Prime
SceneMixer10, 19 and 38 credits a second, printed also as about 6, 12 and 24 centsWan 3.0 at three resolutions
ReplicateNine cents a second at 480p, twenty-five at 720pA 2.1 image-to-video variant
Novita AITwenty-five cents for five seconds at 480P, up to a dollar fifty for ten at 1080PPriced per clip, version unnamed
Magnific480 credits for two seconds at 1080p, with no credit priceWan 3.0

Inclusion rule. Channels in this register that publish a figure against a model in this family on a page anyone can open. A channel that offers the family without printing a figure for it is not listed. Order. Ascending by the cheapest published second, with per-clip and credit rows last.

1Where this family sits against the others

Cheapest published second by model familyThe lowest second published for each family across every channel here, Wan marked. A conditional figure is excluded, so the floor shown is one a buyer reaches without negotiating or committing. Recorded 2026-09-22.Cheapest published second by model familySeedance$0.097 a second$0.097 a secondLTX-2.5$0.09 a second$0.09 a secondKling$0.07 a second$0.07 a secondVeo$0.05 a second$0.05 a secondMiniMax H3$0.046 a second$0.046 a secondWan$0.01 a second$0.01 a second
Fig. 2 The lowest second published for each family across every channel here, Wan marked. A conditional figure is excluded, so the floor shown is one a buyer reaches without negotiating or committing. Recorded 2026-09-22.
The cheapest unconditional second published for each model family here, with Wan marked. Recorded 2026-09-22.
Model familyCheapest published second
Kling$0.07 a second
LTX-2.5$0.09 a second
MiniMax H3$0.046 a second
Seedance$0.097 a second
Veo$0.05 a second
Wan$0.01 a second

Inclusion rule. Model families with a figure from more than one channel in this register, taking the lowest figure any of those channels publishes without a discount or a commitment attached. Order. Alphabetical by model family.

2The maker sits in the middle of its own resale market

Five cents a second at 480P from the model's own documentation is matched by two resellers and undercut by one at a cent. Two others charge nine and twenty-five cents for comparable output. So buying direct is neither the cheap option nor the dear one, which is not what a buyer expects from a wholesale relationship.

Part of the explanation is version: this family has several releases in circulation and the shops do not all carry the same one. The rest is margin and packaging, and the page each figure was read from is the only place either is visible.

3Comparing this family means comparing versions first

The rows here name 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.7 and 3.0 variants. A cent a second on an ultra-fast 2.2 variant and twenty-five cents on a 2.1 image-to-video variant are not two prices for one thing; they are two products with a shared lineage and a shared name.

That is the trap in every same-model comparison. The version travels in the row here for exactly this reason, and where a channel does not name one, the row says so rather than assuming the newest.

4Three different meters on one family

Most rows here price a second. One prices a clip at named durations, where the cost per second rises as the clip lengthens. One prices in credits with no credit price, so it cannot be placed on the same scale at all. Same model, three kinds of number.

The maker's thirty-second generation ceiling applies underneath all of them and is reprinted by almost none of them. A buyer choosing between these eight rows on price alone is choosing between three different arithmetic problems.

5Sources

Every figure is read from the page linked on that channel's own entry, checked 2026-09-22. What counts as a published rate is on the method page; the channels in full are on the ledger. Other families: Kling, MiniMax H3. All of them: one model, several sellers.