The price ledger as a file you can compute with
The ledger is published as one file so that the arithmetic on this site can be repeated somewhere else. Each row is one figure with its source and its reading date. As of 2026-09-12.
Cost comparisons age badly, and a table in a blog post ages worst of all. A file lets someone rebuild the comparison next quarter against the same sources rather than trusting a screenshot from this one.
Only published figures are exported. Where a channel prices in credits, the conversion used is the vendor's own and the credit price sits beside the derived rate, so a reader who disagrees with the conversion can redo it.
The rows most worth having are the ones that say nothing is published. A budget built only from channels with clean rate cards is a budget that quietly excludes the products hardest to price.
Reuse is governed by the licence named below. Keeping the source column intact is the whole point: a per-second figure without the page it came from is a number nobody can defend in a planning meeting.
1What each column holds
| Column | What it holds |
|---|---|
| fact_id | The line's permanent reference, kept across price changes. |
| value | The published figure, in the currency and unit the vendor prints. |
| applies_to | The model, resolution or tier the figure belongs to. |
| source_url | The price page it was taken from. |
| source_name | The vendor's title for that page. |
| value_since | When the figure is first known to have applied. |
| verified | The date the price page was last read. |
Inclusion rule. Every recorded figure is exported, including the rows that record an absence of published pricing. Order. File order follows the order figures were recorded, grouping them by channel.
The file is at /datasets/durations.csv, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Cite the ledger and the reading date rather than this page.
Elsewhere on the ledger: Channels, Ratings, Unpriced, Price shapes, What each channel publishes, One model, several sellers, Single ratings, Questions, Terms, Learn. How a figure earns a line is set out on the method page.
2What the seconds buy
Price aside, what goes into the seconds behind “Data” is described in SceneMixer's guides:
On a segment’s storyboard card, next to Edit, press AI edit.
SceneMixer, AI Edit: Rewrite a Storyboard Segment by Saying What to Change (read 2026-10-13)
It is the reference every later segment points at, which is what keeps a character's face and a location consistent across an episode.
SceneMixer, Glossary — “What is a setup image for?” (read 2026-10-13)