RenderDrama

What a second of AI video costs, channel by channel

What Magnific meters on its price page

Magnific meters in credits and attaches each figure to a named duration at a named resolution on a named model. It is the most specific credit page in this register and the price of a credit is absent from it. As of 2026-09-22.

What this page lets you decide, and what it does notCredit figures are attached to named durations at named resolutions on named models, which makes the models on this page rankable against each other to the credit. No price for a credit appears, so nothing on the page ranks against any other channel in the register.What comparison are you trying to makeModel against modelFully answered140 credits for 5 secondsat 720p against 2,750 for5 seconds at 1080p onanother model.Resolution againstresolutionAnswered per modelEach figure carries theresolution it belongs to,so the step is visible.This channel againstanotherNot answerableNo price for a credit, sonone of the precisionconverts into money.Precise in three directions, silent in the fourth
Fig. 1 Twenty-eight credits a second against five hundred and fifty is a factor of nearly twenty inside one shop, which is most of the register's whole range on a single page.
As the page prints it on the ledger, by what is meteredEach bar is one row of the table below, drawn to its entry under “as the page prints it”. Nothing is plotted that the row itself does not state.As the page prints it on the ledger, by what is meteredA third model at 1080p2,750 credits for 5…2,750 credits for 5 secondsOne model at 1080p480 credits for 2 seconds480 credits for 2 secondsAnother model at 720p140 credits for 5 seconds140 credits for 5 secondsThe unitCredits per seconds of video generatedPrice of one creditAbsent from the page
Fig. 2 Each bar is one row of the table below, drawn to its entry under “as the page prints it”. Nothing is plotted that the row itself does not state.
How Magnific attaches its credit figures, model by model, and what the page omits. Read from pricing page on 2026-09-22.
What is meteredAs the page prints it
The unitCredits per seconds of video generated
One model at 1080p480 credits for 2 seconds
Another model at 720p140 credits for 5 seconds
A third model at 1080p2,750 credits for 5 seconds
Price of one creditAbsent from the page

Inclusion rule. Credit figures on the pricing page, each with the duration, resolution and model the page attaches to it. A figure without those attachments would not be comparable and is not listed. Order. The unit first, then the named figures from cheapest to steepest.

1Where Magnific sits in this column

The unit each page counts inThe unit each of these channels puts its own figures against, Magnific marked. None of them is a plain price for one second of picture, which is why each gets an entry. Recorded 2026-09-22.The unit each page counts inWhat the page metersWhat the pagemetersfalfal — What the page meters: Seconds on most models, a whole clip on oneHeyGenHeyGen — What the page meters: Credits, as one currency for everythingMagnificMagnific — What the page meters: Credits against named durationsNovita AINovita AI — What the page meters: Seconds on one family, whole clips on twoReplicateReplicate — What the page meters: Run time, with two models by the secondSegmindSegmind — What the page meters: GPU time, plus a price per runSynthesiaSynthesia — What the page meters: Credits, converted into minutes
Fig. 3 The unit each of these channels puts its own figures against, Magnific marked. None of them is a plain price for one second of picture, which is why each gets an entry. Recorded 2026-09-22.
What the page meters, as each channel answering it has it, with Magnific marked. Recorded 2026-09-22.
ChannelWhat the page meters
falSeconds on most models, a whole clip on one
HeyGenCredits, as one currency for everything
MagnificCredits against named durations
Novita AISeconds on one family, whole clips on two
ReplicateRun time, with two models by the second
SegmindGPU time, plus a price per run
SynthesiaCredits, converted into minutes

Inclusion rule. Channels whose price page meters in something other than one second of delivered video. A channel printing money against a second is already comparable and belongs on the ledger instead. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.

2Precision per model is rarer than a credit price

Two hundred and forty credits a second on one model, twenty-eight on another, five hundred and fifty on a third. Those ratios are usable straight away: a buyer can rank the catalogue and choose a model on cost without knowing what a credit is worth.

That is the part most credit pages fail at. They print an allowance and leave the consumption rate to be discovered by spending. This page does the opposite, which makes the single missing figure conspicuous.

3The spread between models is wider than the spread between channels

Twenty-eight credits a second against five hundred and fifty is a factor of nearly twenty inside one shop. Across the whole ledger the gap between the cheapest and dearest published second is about seventy times, so a single page here reproduces a good part of the register's entire range.

Which is the argument for reading the model row rather than the channel. Picking this channel says almost nothing about what a second will cost; picking the model on it says nearly everything.

4Where the missing price would land

Combine the year-long validity from the credits column with a published credit price and this becomes one of the more predictable channels in the register: a fixed unit cost, a long window to spend it in, and an exact consumption rate per model.

Without it, none of the precision converts. The page supports a decision between its own models and supports no decision at all between this channel and any other, which is a lot of detail to leave stranded behind one number.

  • What Magnific publishes instead of a rate
    Credits against named durations of video, with no price for a creditMagnific, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22
  • How video generation is metered
    Prices are given in credits per seconds of video generated: 480 credits for 2 seconds of Wan 3.0 at 1080p, 140 credits for 5 seconds of Kling 2.5 at 720pMagnific, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22
  • The steepest credit figure per second on the page
    2,750 credits for 5 seconds of Flux 3 Video at 1080pMagnific, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22

5What the seconds buy

Price aside, what goes into the seconds behind “What Magnific meters” is described in SceneMixer's guides:

The cast is generated once, at the start, as full-body reference sheets. Every segment that features a character is generated against that character's sheet, with face and body crops attached as references — so the face in episode 1 is the face in episode 40.

SceneMixer, AI Short Drama Generator — “How does it keep the same actor across episodes?” (read 2026-10-13)

That is SceneMixer's core design: characters live in a persistent asset library with locked reference art, and every segment that features a character is generated against those references — same face in episode 1 and episode 50.

SceneMixer, The AI Micro Drama Production Pipeline — “Can AI keep the same actors across 50 episodes?” (read 2026-10-13)

6Sources

Read from the pricing page published at magnific.com on 2026-09-22. The rate this column sits beside is on Magnific; what the register accepts as published is on the method page. The same column on other channels: fal, Replicate. Every column: what each channel publishes.