What the resolution step costs on Replicate

Replicate prices two variants of one model family at nine cents a second for 480p and twenty-five for 720p. Nearly three times for one resolution increment is the steepest step any channel here publishes. As of 2026-09-22.

Inclusion rule. Models on the price page with a figure against a second of output video. Models billed by run time have no per-second output rate and are listed as such. Order. Ascending by published figure.

1Where Replicate sits in this column

Inclusion rule. Channels publishing a rate at more than one resolution on the same page. A channel with a single figure has no step to price. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.

2The steepest step here, on the same model family

Nine to twenty-five cents is a rise of nearly one hundred and eighty per cent for one resolution increment. The source of that model family publishes the same step at exactly double, so this is a reseller's own curve rather than an inherited one.

That is the useful comparison. Buying the smaller output through this shop is close to the source price; buying the larger one is not, and the difference between those two answers is a resale decision rather than a cost of pixels.

3The cheap row is cheap and the deliverable row is not

Nine cents a second at 480p sits in the middle of the register. Twenty-five at 720p is dearer than the standard tier of several channels with better-known models, which inverts the ranking a comparison built on the lower figure would produce.

Vertical drama delivered at 480p can live on the cheap row, and anything that needs 720p should be priced against the whole register rather than against this page. The two rows belong in different shortlists.

4Outside these two rows the meter changes entirely

Most of the catalogue is billed by how long a model takes to run, so the resolution question does not even have the same shape: a larger output costs more because it takes longer, at a rate that depends on the hardware and the queue.

So this page has two priced models and a platform behind them. A production that needs a rate it can check should treat those two rows as the offer and everything else as something to measure.

• wavespeedai/wan-2.1-i2v-480p
  $0.09 per second of output videoReplicate, prices / recorded 2026-09-22
• wavespeedai/wan-2.1-i2v-720p
  $0.25 per second of output videoReplicate, prices / recorded 2026-09-22
• The meter used where no per-second video rate is printed
  Most models are billed by the time they take to runReplicate, prices / recorded 2026-09-22
• Longest single generation
  Not stated on the vendor's price page (as of 2026-09-22)absent from the page carrying the rateReplicate, prices / recorded 2026-09-22

5The production behind the price

Price aside, what goes into the seconds behind “Replicate resolution step” is described in SceneMixer's guides:

Sixty to a hundred and twenty seconds is the working range for short drama, and that is what the outline paces for. A 90-second episode is typically seven segments of about fourteen seconds stacked together.

SceneMixer, Vertical AI Video Generator — “How long should a vertical episode be?” (read 2026-10-13)

The shot seconds in the storyboard add up to the segment length, so editing them changes it.

SceneMixer, Fixing One Shot Without Redoing Everything — “Can I change the duration of a segment?” (read 2026-10-13)

6Sources

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