Where unused credits go on Pika
Pika's answer arrives as a bullet in the feature list of every paid plan, reading that you may purchase more roll over video credits. It settles the behaviour of credits bought on top and says nothing about the allowance itself. As of 2026-09-22.
| Point | What the pricing page carries |
|---|---|
| What every paid plan lists | Purchase more roll over video credits |
| What that settles | Credits bought on top of a plan carry forward |
| What it leaves open | Whether the monthly allowance itself carries forward |
| Where it sits | In the feature list, not in a billing section |
Inclusion rule. Lines on the pricing page bearing on credits that go unspent. A feature bullet counts: it is where this page puts the answer. Order. The published line first, then what follows from it.
1Where Pika 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.
2A billing rule in a feature list reads as a benefit
Placement changes how a sentence is read. In a billing section, a line about rollover is a rule with edges; in a feature list it is a selling point, and selling points are written to be attractive rather than complete. This one is doing both jobs and only one of them well.
The reading that survives is narrow: extra credits you buy will still be there next month. The reading a buyer wants, which is whether the plan's own allowance survives, is not in the sentence and is not anywhere else on the page.
3Two different pots, one of them documented
Where a channel sells both an allowance and top-up credits, the two almost always behave differently, and the order they are spent in decides how much is wasted. Pika publishes the behaviour of the pot a buyer adds voluntarily and leaves the compulsory one blank.
Absent a spending order, the safe assumption is that the allowance goes first and expires. That assumption costs nothing if it is wrong and saves a month of wasted allowance if it is right.
4Why this column matters more here than the rate would
Pika meters by feature rather than by the second and prints no price for a credit, so no rate can be computed from its pages at all. What can be read is how the currency behaves over time, and that is this column.
For a buyer comparing monthly products rather than rates, credit persistence is the whole comparison. It decides whether an unused month is a loss or a deposit, and it is the one part of this pricing page that answers anything about money over time.
- Unused creditsEvery paid plan carries the feature line purchase more roll over video creditsas a plan feature line
- What Pika publishes instead of a rateCredits by feature, with no credit price
5Sources
Read from the pricing page published at pika.art on 2026-09-22. The rate this column sits beside is on Pika; what the register accepts as published is on the method page. The same column on other channels: SceneMixer, Morph Studio. Every column: what each channel publishes.