Krea AI's pricing, read against the seconds this ledger can price
Krea's page sells units rather than seconds: 100 a day on the free tier and 20,000 a month on Pro billed yearly, with one-time compute packs valid for 90 days. No figure on it converts a unit into a second, so a budget has to price the second from channels that print one. As of 2026-10-13.
1What this ledger already records
The two ends of this ledger's published per-second range, the ladder inside two model lines, and two pages that publish something other than a rate.
- Wan 2.2 Ultra Fast$0.01 per secondthe cheapest published second recorded here
- Wan 3.0 480P10 credits per second, about $0.06the default tier
- Wan 3.0 720P19 credits per second, about $0.12
- Wan 3.0 1080P38 credits per second, about $0.24
- Published per-second price$0.084 to $0.168 per second at 720p to 1080p, and $0.42 per second at 4K
- sora-2-pro at 1080p$0.70 per secondthe dearest published second in this ledger
- Veo 3.1 Standard at 4K$0.60 per second
- What Luma publishes instead of a rateCredits per second, with no credit price
- What Pika publishes instead of a rateCredits by feature, with no credit price
2What the page counts, and what it leaves out
Krea's pricing page meters in units. Free accounts get 100 units a day, the Pro plan is $21 a month billed yearly with 20,000 units a month, and one-time compute packs stay valid for 90 days. The product is broader than video — image, video, 3D and lip-sync models with real-time generation, node workflows and an agent — and the units spend across all of it.
What the page does not carry is the second half of the arithmetic. A unit has a price inside a pack and a quantity of output, but nothing converts one into the other: no units-per-second figure, and no stated equivalence between a credit and a finished second. Commercial use is listed on the plans, so the licence question is answered where the price question is not.
3Why nothing on it becomes a per-second figure
This is not a criticism of the tool; it is a shape this register records wherever it finds it. Luma publishes credits per second with no credit price, Pika publishes credits attached to features, and both are recorded here as the half-arithmetic they are. Krea sits in the same column: a unit whose dollar value depends on which pack was bought, multiplied by an output quantity the page does not state.
The practical consequence is that a comparison against a per-second channel cannot be made from the page alone. Two figures would settle it — the price of a unit in the pack bought, and the units a second of finished video costs — and until a vendor prints both, any conversion is the reader's assumption rather than the vendor's statement. This register keeps those two apart deliberately, because a made-up rate is worse than a recorded absence.
4Is a second of video actually expensive?
The threads ask this often enough that it is one of the most repeated questions in the material collected for this column, and the ledger can answer part of it. The published range runs from a cent a second on a speed-tuned variant to seventy cents on the dearest tier recorded, and the ladder inside a single model line can be fivefold or twelvefold on its own: Kling runs $0.084 to $0.42 across its resolutions, Veo reaches $0.60 at 4K.
So the honest answer is that the second is a bad unit to argue about and a good one to multiply. What decides a bill is the resolution the delivery path can use, the number of attempts a shot takes, and the ceiling that decides how many pieces a finished minute is cut into — and a subscription page quoting one monthly figure can express none of the three.
5What to write down before choosing a plan-priced tool
Four things, none of which needs a vendor to disclose anything. The delivered duration in seconds. The resolution the delivery path can actually use. The attempt ratio measured on one real episode. The longest single generation the tool allows, because that decides the joins.
Multiply those against a published rate and the estimate is defensible. Against a subscription metered in units, the same four numbers still work as a test of the allowance: how many seconds a month the plan would have to cover, and whether the pack it is bought in expires before the work does. That is a question a buyer can answer without a converted rate, and it is the one to ask before paying for a year.
6What each maker prints on its own pages
| Maker | What its own page states | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Krea | Free: 100 units a day; Pro $21/month on the yearly plan with 20,000 units a month | 2026-10-13 |
| SceneMixer | “Every length on the site — the parse cap, the parse fee, the storyboard fee, the AI Create target — is counted in Chinese-equivalent characters.” | 2026-10-13 |
Inclusion rule. Rows are the makers named on this page plus one pipeline this register meters seconds on. A maker's cell carries its own price line, summarised in that page's wording; the pipeline's cell is one sentence quoted from its published guides. A page that carries no figure for the point is recorded that way rather than estimated. Order. Alphabetical by maker.
7What the threads counted
Two numbers about cost below: a question the collection found repeated across hundreds of threads, and the post count beside one tool in the same material.
| Maker | Posts | Comment mentions | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance | 16663 | 4285 | 1114 | 450 |
Inclusion rule. Makers named on this page that the collection counted. Positive and negative tally the posts read, and a post arguing with itself can land in both. Order. Descending by posts.
| Question | Threads with the same question | Theme |
|---|---|---|
| Is generating AI videos actually this expensive? | 638 | pricing-credits |
Inclusion rule. Questions the collection counted, quoted the way people wrote them. Order. Descending by the thread count.
This is terrifying!! Seedance 2.0 just generated a 1-minute film with ZERO editing — the entire film industry
r/generativeAI, collected 2026-10-14
Seedance 4K is insanely expensive, this was $6,000 worth of credits but so worth it! Nexus Ep 2
r/aivideo, collected 2026-10-14
8When the other tool is the better buy
- One subscription has to cover images and video together — Krea's units spend across image, video, 3D and lip-sync models with real-time generation and node workflows, which suits a workload that is not all moving picture.
- A look has to be trained on your own material — LoRA training on characters, styles and objects is listed from 50 images on the lower plan to 2,000 on Max, which is a different answer to consistency than a reference sheet.
- A free daily allowance matters more than a rate card — 100 units a day on the free tier is a standing allowance rather than a trial, and it is the figure that makes the tool usable for tests without buying credits.
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