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What a second of AI video costs, channel by channel

Does buying a model through a reseller cost more

Across the five model families more than one channel here prices, the resale figures sit both above and below the maker's own list. One reseller undercuts a maker by more than three times; another marks the same maker's tier up by half. As of 2026-09-22.

What resale buys when the price is not lowerAcross five families the resale figures sit both above and below the maker's list: one reseller undercuts a maker by more than three times, another marks the same maker's tier up by half. What resale reliably does not carry is the terms.From the makerFrom a resellerThe rateA full grid or a band, by tierOne figure per model, sometimes pervariantThe versionNamed, and currentNamed on some rows, absent on othersClip ceilingPublished for four of the five familiesAbsent on all fiveConcurrencyPublished by three makersPublished by noneFailure billingStated by one makerReprinted by neither of its resellersPrice is a per-row decision; terms are a category difference
Fig. 1 One account, one key and one invoice across dozens of families is the product. For a production using four models from three makers, that is real work removed.
For each model family, the maker's published figure and the extremes of its resale. Recorded 2026-09-22.
Model familyFrom the makerCheapest resaleDearest resale
KlingEight and a half to forty-two cents a secondSeven cents a secondTwelve and a half cents with audio
LTX-2.5Nine to thirty-nine cents a second, as a bandNine cents a secondTwelve cents a second
MiniMax H3Five to thirteen cents a secondTwo and a half cents on a discounted cellSixteen cents a second in credits
VeoFive to sixty cents a second across five tiersFifteen cents on a fast tierForty cents on a standard tier
WanFive to twenty cents a second by resolutionOne cent on an ultra-fast variantTwenty-five cents at 720p

Inclusion rule. Model families with a published figure from the maker and from at least one other channel here. A family sold only by its maker has no resale to compare. Order. Alphabetical by model family.

1There is no single resale premium here

Two resellers price the same maker's model family and one adds fifty per cent to the fast tier while the other matches the standard tier exactly. On another family a reseller sits below the maker's cheapest published figure. Each shop makes a per-row decision and prints it.

Reading one row therefore produces the wrong general conclusion. The question is not whether resale is dearer but which row a particular production will actually buy, and the answer changes within a single shop's own table.

2Version is the first thing that explains a gap

Families here have several releases and several fast variants in circulation, and the shops do not all carry the same one. A cent a second on an ultra-fast 2.2 variant and twenty-five cents on a 2.1 image-to-video variant are two products with a shared lineage.

So a comparison has to fix the version before fixing the price. Where a channel does not name one, this register records that rather than assuming the newest, because the assumption is where a same-model comparison usually goes wrong.

3What resale buys when the price is not lower

One account, one key and one invoice across dozens of families is the product a reseller sells. For a production using four models from three makers, that is real work removed, and fifty per cent of ten cents a second is five cents.

What resale does not carry is the terms. Clip ceilings, concurrency figures, credit validity and the one page here stating that failures are not charged all live on the maker's own documentation, and none of it is reprinted in a shop's rate row.

4Sources

Each figure is read from the vendor page linked in the ledger, checked 2026-09-22. How a figure qualifies is on method; what a rate leaves out is on limits and unspent credits and parallel generations. Nearby: Asked, not answered, Parallel generation, Length in minutes.