A rate that depends on when you ask
A conditional rate is a figure a buyer can reach only by accepting something: waiting for a batch queue, generating outside peak hours, committing to a year, or catching a promotion. The condition is printed on the same page as the number. As of 2026-09-12.
| Channel | The condition as published | Read from |
|---|---|---|
| Dreamina | The cheapest Seedance figure applies on one plan billed annually | The Seedance price page |
| Runware | One cell reads five cents struck through, then two and a half, with no end date | The model price page |
| Sora | A batch tier at half the standard figure, on every model and resolution | The API price page |
| Vidu | Off-peak generation at half the normal price, window unnamed | The API price page |
| WaveSpeed AI | Prices may vary based on resolution and generation parameters | The price page |
Inclusion rule. Channels printing a condition on the same page as a rate. A discount reachable only by contacting the seller is not published and is out of scope here. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.
1Two kinds of condition, with opposite consequences
A queue or a clock is a condition a buyer can capture: most of a serial pipeline does not need low latency, so half price for waiting is close to free money. A clause saying the figure may vary is a condition that only removes certainty, and there is nothing to capture.
Both are better than an unconditional figure that silently moves. The distinction worth keeping is between conditions a production can plan around and conditions that make a figure an example.
2A conditional figure does not belong in a rate column
Quoting a batch or off-peak figure as a channel's rate would rank it against unconditional numbers elsewhere. This register keeps the unconditional figure in the ledger and records the condition separately, which is why the cheapest published second here is not always the cheapest second available.
3A promotion with no date is the hardest to record
A struck-through price says a rate used to be higher and does not say when the reduced one ends. A budget built on it carries a risk no page discloses, so the honest record is both halves of the cell and the date it was read.
4An annual commitment is a condition too
Where a page's cheapest figure applies only on a yearly plan, a monthly buyer does not reach it. Ranked by what a buyer can actually rely on without committing, a table of conditional figures often reverses.
5Record the condition in the row, not in a footnote
A halving, an annual commitment and a variability clause each move a figure by a factor a comparison cares about. Written beside the number they stay legible; written underneath a table they are lost the first time the data is reused.
The same applies when a condition is withdrawn. A row that recorded only the reduced figure has no way to show that the price went back up, because it never held the figure it went back to.
6Pages these figures were read from
A definition entry: what the term means, and the figures vendors put in public about it, each figure read on 2026-09-12. Related: Concurrency, Credit allowance.
7Inside a generated second
Price aside, what goes into the seconds behind “Conditional rate” is described in SceneMixer's guides:
A SceneMixer segment comes out with its sound already in it: each line spoken in that character’s voice, the speaker’s lips moving with the words, and the ambience of the place — rain, traffic, a clock.
SceneMixer, Dialogue and Sound in One Generation (read 2026-10-13)
That is SceneMixer's core design: characters live in a persistent asset library with locked reference art, and every segment that features a character is generated against those references — same face in episode 1 and episode 50.
SceneMixer, The AI Micro Drama Production Pipeline — “Can AI keep the same actors across 50 episodes?” (read 2026-10-13)