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What a second of AI video costs, channel by channel

What Segmind meters on its price page

Segmind's page prices the machine rather than the output: an hourly figure for a dedicated endpoint, the same figure restated per second, and a per-run price banded by inference steps. A second of video has no price here at all. As of 2026-09-22.

How far this page gets towards a price for videoThe page prices a dedicated endpoint by the hour and restates it per second, bands one model's per-run price by inference steps, and points at a search box for per-model prices. The one per-second figure on it measures machine occupancy rather than delivered footage.Machine by thehourNine dollars anhour for adedicatedendpoint.A rate foroccupancySame figure persecondPrinted as$0.00310 asecond, stillmeasuring themachine.A temptingnumberPer run, byeffortThree, six ornine dollarsbanded byinference stepson one namedmodel.A price fortryingPer second ofvideoAbsent. Modelprices arereached bysearching thecatalogueinstead.
Fig. 1 Three-tenths of a cent a second looks like the cheapest rate in the register and prices GPU time; the throughput figure that would convert it is published nowhere.
What Segmind's pricing page puts a figure against, and where the model prices are instead. Read from pricing page on 2026-09-22.
What is meteredAs the page prints it
A dedicated endpointNine dollars an hour, also printed as $0.00310 a second
One named model per runThree dollars under 150 steps, six from 150 to 500, nine above 500
Per-model pricesReached by searching for a model rather than printed on the page
A second of finished videoAbsent from the page

Inclusion rule. Figures on the pricing page and what each is attached to. A price reachable only by searching the catalogue is recorded as not printed here. Order. The largest unit first, down to the unit that is missing.

1Where Segmind sits in this column

The unit each page counts inThe unit each of these channels puts its own figures against, Segmind 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. 2 The unit each of these channels puts its own figures against, Segmind 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 Segmind 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.

2A per-second figure that prices the wrong second

There is exactly one per-second number on this page and it measures GPU occupancy, not delivered footage. Three-tenths of a cent a second looks like the cheapest rate in the register and is not a rate in the same sense as any other figure here.

The distance between the two meanings is a throughput figure nobody publishes. If a model returns six seconds of video for thirty seconds of machine time, the real cost is about one and a half cents a second of output; if it needs three minutes, it is nine. Neither number is on the page.

3Banding by inference steps prices effort rather than result

Three dollars under a hundred and fifty steps, six up to five hundred, nine beyond it. Step count is a quality dial, so this is a rare case of a published price that moves with how hard the buyer asks the model to try.

It is legible and it is not comparable. Two buyers running the same model at different step counts pay different amounts for the same output length, and no other page in this register bands a price this way.

4A catalogue behind a search box is a price that is not published

The page states that per-model prices are found by searching for a model. That may be convenient for a platform with thousands of entries and it means the figure a buyer needs is not on the page that claims to carry the prices.

This register records what a public page states, so the channel sits outside the ledger despite having prices behind that box. Moving it in would take one published table of video models and their rates, which is a smaller change than it sounds.

  • What Segmind publishes instead of a rate
    GPU time by the hour and by the second, plus a per-run price for one model, and no figure per second of videoSegmind, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22
  • The only per-second figure on the page
    $9.00 an hour, printed also as $0.00310 a second, for a dedicated H100 endpointand it prices GPU timeSegmind, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22
  • A per-run price banded by inference steps
    $3 under 150 steps, $6 from 150 to 500 steps and $9 above 500 steps, stated for Flux-ProSegmind, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Where the video model prices sit
    Per-model prices are reached by searching for a model rather than printed on the pageSegmind, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22

5What the seconds buy

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

The longest an episode may run: 240 seconds for Short Drama, 300 for TV Series, none for Film.

SceneMixer, Short Drama, TV Series or Film — “What is the episode cap?” (read 2026-10-13)

Under the player of every finished segment sits Edit this clip, with three tabs.

SceneMixer, Edit This Clip: Trim, AI Visuals or Redub, and When to Regenerate Instead (read 2026-10-13)

6Sources

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