Where unused credits go on Hedra
Hedra prints three plan prices beside three monthly allowances, which is enough to divide one into the other, and then lists the question of rollover in its pricing FAQ without answering it in the page text. As of 2026-09-22.
| Point | What the pricing page carries |
|---|---|
| Plans and allowances | $15 a month for 1,500 credits, $30 for 5,400 and $75 for 14,400 |
| Credits per dollar | 100 a dollar on the cheapest plan, 192 on the dearest |
| Persistence into the next month | Listed as a question in the FAQ, with the answer missing |
| What a credit buys in seconds | Absent from the page |
Inclusion rule. Figures and statements on the pricing page bearing on credits and their lifetime. Arithmetic shown here divides two published figures and introduces nothing else. Order. Published figures first, then the unanswered question.
1Where Hedra sits in this column
| Channel | Unused credits |
|---|---|
| Hedra | No answer, though the FAQ asks |
| HeyGen | Answered by billing cycle |
| invideo AI | A single sentence, and it is a refusal |
| Kling AI | A 180-day window, stated twice |
| Magnific | A year, with no monthly reset |
| Morph Studio | No answer on the page that asks |
| Pika | A feature bullet, not a rule |
| Runway | Three answers, one per plan |
| SceneMixer | Into one balance, with no lapse date |
| Synthesia | Not stated where the plans are priced |
Inclusion rule. Channels whose own priced pages say something about credits left unspent, including the ones that raise the question and leave it unanswered. A channel that never meters in credits has nothing to answer and is not listed. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.
2The money half is published, so the gap is narrow and sharp
Fifteen dollars for fifteen hundred credits is a cent a credit; seventy-five for fourteen thousand four hundred is about half that. Both figures are on the page, so the cost of a credit is not in doubt and the volume discount is visible without asking anyone.
What is missing is smaller than it looks and worse than it sounds. Without knowing how long a credit lasts, the cent is an upper bound on value rather than a price: a credit that lapses at the end of the month is worth a cent only if it is spent.
3An unanswered FAQ entry has a cost that can be estimated
Take the cheapest plan and assume the worst case, that the allowance expires monthly. A buyer using half of it is paying two cents a credit rather than one. That doubling is larger than the gap between the cheapest and dearest plan on the same page, so the unanswered question outweighs the published discount.
Which is the argument for writing it down. A seller that has already decided its rollover policy is giving away nothing by printing it, and a buyer forced to assume the worst case is comparing this plan against a competitor at twice its headline cost.
4Where this leaves the entry in the register
Hedra publishes a plan price and an allowance and nothing that converts either into seconds of finished video, so it is recorded as a channel without a computable rate. This column is the one place where its pricing is nearly complete.
Two published sentences would move it. One naming the credits a second of video consumes, one naming the lifetime of a credit. Neither is a product change, and together they would turn three plan prices into a rate anyone could check.
- Plan prices and monthly allowances$15 a month for 1,500 credits, $30 a month for 5,400 and $75 a month for 14,400
- Unused creditsThe pricing FAQ lists the question of credits rolling over to the following month and no answer appears in the page textquestion without a published answer
- What Hedra publishes instead of a ratePlan prices with a monthly credit allowance, and nothing stating what a credit costs
5Sources
Read from the pricing page published at hedra.com on 2026-09-22. The rate this column sits beside is on Hedra; 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.