RenderDrama

What a second of AI video costs, channel by channel

What Synthesia meters on its price page

Synthesia meters in credits and then does something almost no other page here does: it states what those credits are worth in minutes of video. What it never states is what a credit costs, so the conversion runs only halfway. As of 2026-09-22.

A conversion chain that stops one link shortThe plans state a monthly credit figure, translate it into minutes of video, and print the money for each plan. Two of the four prices are annual. What is never stated is the price of a credit, so the final link is a division a reader performs rather than a rate the page gives.The chain as the page prints itCredits a monthPublished1,200 on oneplan, 3,600 onanother, onevery tier.Minutes theybuyPublishedStated as 10mins and 30mins,consistent atboth scales.Plan pricesPublished$29 and $89monthly, or $18and $64 billedyearly.Price of acreditAbsentNever stated,so a per-secondfigure is adivision ratherthan a reading.A subscription divided by a quota is a floor, not a price
Fig. 1 Twelve hundred credits stated as ten minutes fixes the hard half of the conversion, which is more than almost any other credit page in this register supplies.
What Synthesia's plans put a figure against, and the conversion the page supplies. Read from pricing page on 2026-09-22.
What is meteredAs the page prints it
The currencyMonthly credits, on every plan
The published equivalence1,200 credits a month stated as 10 mins of video, 3,600 as 30 mins
Plan prices$29 a month on one plan and $89 on another, or $18 and $64 billed yearly
Price of one creditAbsent from the page

Inclusion rule. What the pricing page meters in and the conversions it supplies. Figures derived on this page divide two published numbers and add nothing else. Order. The currency first, then what converts it, then the money.

1Where Synthesia sits in this column

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

2The equivalence closes the harder half of the conversion

On most credit pages the unknown is how much video a credit buys. Here that is stated: twelve hundred credits are ten minutes, thirty-six hundred are thirty. Two figures, and the second confirms the first at a different scale, so the rate is a hundred and twenty credits a minute either way.

That is more than the ledger usually gets. It means the only thing standing between this page and a per-second figure is the price of a credit, and the plan prices make that divisible even though the page never states it directly.

3Dividing the plan price is arithmetic, not a published rate

Twenty-nine dollars for ten minutes works out near five cents a second of video; eighty-nine for thirty minutes is nearer five cents as well, which is a consistent enough answer to be interesting. It is still a figure this register will not put in the ledger, because it divides a subscription by a quota rather than reading a rate.

The difference is not pedantry. A subscription divided by its quota is only the price paid if the whole quota is consumed, and this page says nothing about credits left at the end of a month. The derived figure is a floor with no published ceiling.

4Minutes are the unit because the product is not a clip

Metering in minutes rather than seconds says something about what the tool is for. Ten minutes a month is one long piece or a handful of medium ones, not the couple of hundred short segments a serial drama consumes, and the unit reflects that.

Read that way the page is coherent. It prices a monthly volume of finished talking video, and comparing it against a per-second generation rate compares two different purchases that happen to both produce files.

  • What Synthesia publishes instead of a rate
    Credits with a stated equivalence in minutes of video, and no price for a creditSynthesia, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22
  • The credit-to-minutes equivalence published per plan
    1,200 credits a month stated as 10 mins of video, and 3,600 credits a month stated as 30 minsSynthesia, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Plan prices
    $29 a month on Starter and $89 a month on Creator, or $18 and $64 a month billed yearlySynthesia, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22

5What the seconds buy

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

Measured across every job that finished successfully on scenemixer.com in the thirty days to 20 September 2026: analysis of a whole book runs about 2 minutes 49 seconds at the median, one episode's storyboard 1 minute 54 seconds, one video segment 3 minutes 20 seconds, and compositing an episode 3 minutes 52 seconds.

SceneMixer, Turn a Novel into a Video Series with AI — “How long does it take to produce one episode?” (read 2026-10-13)

The shots add up to more than the selected video tier allows for one segment.

SceneMixer, Shot Seconds: Changing Timing, and the Limits — “What does 'over cap' mean on the segment card?” (read 2026-10-13)

6Sources

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