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What a second of AI video costs, channel by channel

How many generations a channel will run at once

Four channels in this register publish something about running generations in parallel. One sells it: five sessions free, then about USD 2,080 a month for each additional one. One fixes it at twenty per package, one publishes a figure for every membership tier, and one gives a multiple with no base. As of 2026-10-13.

What a per-second rate prices, and what decides how long a season takesTwo things a buyer needs and only one of them is on the price page. The rate prices a single generation, per second of returned video. How many generations run at once decides elapsed time across a season, and thirteen of sixteen channels publish nothing about it. Neither number can be derived from the other.Priced per secondDecided by concurrencyWhat it answersWhat one generation costsHow long the whole season takesWhere it is publishedOn every priced page hereOn three pages out of sixteenDerivable from the otherNoNoOne channel publishes a price for the second column; the rest do not publish a figure at all
Fig. 1 Two channels at the same rate per second are not the same purchase if one runs twenty generations in parallel and the other runs one. The rate cannot show that.
What each channel publishes about running generations in parallel. Rows recorded 2026-09-12, except the one added 2026-09-22 and the one updated 2026-10-13, which carry those dates.
ChannelWhat is publishedIn the vendor's wordsPage read
HeyGenA multiple, no figureBusiness is described as having 2x more concurrency than Propricing page
Kling AI20, fixedEach standard developer package lists 20 concurrencydeveloper prices
Kling AIUnlimited, by subscriptionA dedicated generation queue and unlimited concurrent generation tasks, as subscriber benefitsmembership plans
SceneMixer3 free, then 5 to 20 by tierA free account runs three at once. The paid tiers run five, eight, ten, fifteen and twenty, in order.paid plan guide
Vidu5 free, then pricedFive concurrent sessions per account are free; each additional one costs 416,000 credits a month, about USD 2,080API prices

Inclusion rule. Channels whose own published page addresses parallel generation. A channel that mentions queues only in an API status field is not given a row, because a status name is not a limit. Order. Alphabetical by channel, then by the page the figure was read from.

1A per-second price says nothing about a week

A rate per second prices one generation. A season is hundreds of them, and how long that takes is decided by how many can be in flight at once. Two channels at the same rate per second are not the same purchase if one runs twenty in parallel and the other runs one.

This is the same gap the clip-limit column opens from the other side. A rate tells a buyer what a second costs; it does not tell them how long the whole thing takes, and neither number can be derived from the other.

2One channel prices it, which makes the cost visible

Concurrency is usually a quiet property of a tier. On one channel here it is an item with a price on it, and that price is large relative to the generation rates on the same page: an additional parallel session costs more per month than a great deal of footage. Publishing it that way is more informative than burying it, and it also shows what the quiet version is worth on the channels that do not name a figure.

3A multiple is not a quantity

One row here describes a tier as carrying twice the concurrency of the tier below it, and gives no figure for either. That prices the difference without disclosing the amount: two jobs becoming four is a different purchase from twenty becoming forty, and a production planning a delivery week needs the quantity rather than the ratio.

It is recorded as published all the same, in the shape it was published in. A ratio is more than the silence on most of this register, and writing a number into the cell to make the column tidy would be inventing the part the vendor withheld.

  • Concurrency
    Five concurrent sessions per account are free; each additional concurrent session costs 416,000 credits a month, stated as about USD 2,080 a monthsold as a line itemVidu, API prices / recorded 2026-09-16
  • Concurrency
    Each standard developer package lists 20 concurrencyfixed per packageKling AI, developer prices / recorded 2026-09-16
  • Concurrency
    Subscriber benefits list a dedicated generation queue and unlimited concurrent generation tasksas a subscription benefitKling AI, membership plans / recorded 2026-09-16
  • Concurrency
    A free account runs three generations at once; the paid tiers run five, eight, ten, fifteen and twenty, and the top three add a priority queuea figure for every tierSceneMixer, paid plan guide / recorded 2026-10-13
  • Parallel generation
    Business is described as having 2x more concurrency than Pro, with no figure given for eitherpublished as a multipleHeyGen, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22

4Sources

Every row above carries its own source and reading date. Rates for these channels are on the ledger; the other thing a rate leaves out is on clip limits.