A second of generated video, by channel

Sixteen channels publish a per-second rate. The lowest published second is $0.01, on a speed configuration of Wan at WaveSpeed AI; the highest is $0.70 on sora-2-pro at 1080p. Ten more channels in this market publish no per-second figure at all. As of 2026-09-22.

Inclusion rule. Channels that publish a per-second rate, or a credit rate together with a credit price so the conversion is arithmetic. A channel selling only monthly allowances is not converted and does not appear. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.

1Why the spread is wider than it looks

The headline figures run from one cent to seventy, and very little of that gap is the same thing getting cheaper. The bottom of the range is a speed-tuned variant sold without a resolution beside it; the top is a premium model at 1080p. Resolution accounts for much of what lies between: every channel that publishes rates per resolution charges one and a half to five times as much at its top setting as at its bottom one. Comparing the cheapest second on one channel with the dearest on another compares 540p against 4K.

Two further differences sit underneath the rate and are not in it. Some channels publish a maximum clip length and some do not, which decides how many generations a given beat takes. And no channel in this table publishes what fraction of generations is usable, so the cost of a finished shot is the rate multiplied by an unpublished number. That multiplier is usually larger than the difference between two adjacent channels here.

2Price is one column of seven

A rate answers what a second costs, not what the work around the second costs. The ratings page puts the same tools against seven criteria drawn from what each vendor publishes, cost transparency among them, and the rule behind each criterion is on how scoring works.

A channel can publish the cheapest second here and document nothing about keeping a cast recognisable, joining segments, or handling a script. Those gaps cost money too; they just do not appear on a pricing page.

3Credits and seconds are not the same unit

Three channels bill in credits. Runway and PixVerse publish the credit price next to the credit rate, so the conversion is arithmetic and carries no assumption. SceneMixer publishes a dollar figure alongside its credit rate and states the assumption behind it: the figure uses the lowest credit price, reached with the largest pack or an annual membership, and smaller packs run higher.

Channels that sell only a monthly allowance are left out rather than converted. Dividing a monthly price by a monthly credit grant produces a number that depends on how much of the grant gets used, which is a property of the buyer rather than of the product.

4Per channel

• Dreamina
• fal
• Kling AI
• LTX Studio
• MiniMax
• Novita AI
• PixVerse
• Replicate
• Runware
• Runway
• SceneMixer
• Sora
• Veo
• Vidu
• Wan
• WaveSpeed AI

• Veo 3.1 Lite
  $0.05 per secondthe lowest published Veo rateGoogle, Gemini API prices / recorded 2026-09-12
• Wan 2.2 Ultra Fast
  $0.01 per secondthe cheapest published second recorded hereWaveSpeed AI, prices / recorded 2026-09-22

5Sources

Each channel page links the vendor page its rates were read from. The conversion rule and what counts as a published rate are on the method page.