The cheapest AI video generator, by what one video actually costs.
"Cheapest" only means something per video. This page lists the models on ReelMint from the cheapest 10-second clip up, read from the live rate table, with the dollar cost on the Starter plan next to each, the cheapest image models the same way, and what one comparable clip costs on the tools people compare us with, from their published pricing pages.
Cheapest video models, per clip
| Model | Unit | Credits | On Starter | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runway Gen — cheap 720p · up to 10 s | per finished clip · 720p | ◉ 15 | $0.17 | $0.14 |
| Seedance 1.0 Pro Fast (ByteDance) · up to 10 s | per finished clip · 720p | ◉ 20 | $0.22 | $0.19 |
| Google Veo 3.1 Lite — cheapest Veo · up to 8 s | per finished clip · 720p | ◉ 38 | $0.42 | $0.35 |
| Hailuo 2.3 (MiniMax) · up to 10 s | per finished clip · 768P | ◉ 38 | $0.42 | $0.35 |
| Seedance 1.5 Pro — cheapest per second · up to 12 s | per 10-second clip · 720p | ◉ 44 | $0.49 | $0.41 |
| Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro · up to 10 s | per finished clip | ◉ 53 | $0.59 | $0.49 |
| Grok Imagine (xAI) — cheapest overall · up to 10 s | per 10-second clip · 720p | ◉ 57 | $0.64 | $0.53 |
| Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 (Google) — up to 4K · up to 10 s | per finished clip · 720p | ◉ 79 | $0.88 | $0.73 |
| PixVerse V6 · up to 15 s | per 10-second clip · 720p | ◉ 90 | $1.00 | $0.84 |
| Wan 2.2 Turbo — fixed 5s, silent · up to 5 s | per 5-second clip · 720p | ◉ 100 | $1.12 | $0.93 |
Read from the live rate table at each model's default resolution. Dollars are what the credits cost on the Starter plan: $0.011 a credit monthly, $0.009 billed yearly; larger plans cost less per credit. Other resolutions and lengths are on each model's page.
Cheapest image models, per image
| Model | Credits | On Starter | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Z-Image (Alibaba) — cheapest image | ◉ 1 | $0.011 | $0.009 |
| Qwen Image (Alibaba) | ◉ 2 | $0.022 | $0.019 |
| Nano Banana (Google) | ◉ 5 | $0.056 | $0.046 |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite (Google) | ◉ 5 | $0.056 | $0.046 |
| Ideogram V3 — best text rendering | ◉ 5 | $0.056 | $0.046 |
| Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (xAI) — sharper text | ◉ 5 | $0.056 | $0.046 |
How it works
- Credits, one price list. Every plan buys credits. Starter is $29 a month for 2,600 credits ($290 a year billed yearly, which is $0.0093 a credit); larger plans cost less per credit, and one-time packs top up an active plan.
- Every model shows its price before you click. The Generate button prints the exact credits for the length and resolution you chose. Nothing is reserved until you confirm, and a failed generation is released, not charged.
- Pick the cheap model when cheap is enough. A 720p draft on a fast model costs a fraction of a 1080p take on a flagship. Try the idea cheap, then re-render the keeper.
Why it is cheap
ReelMint runs the newest models (Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Wan 3.0, Veo 3.1, Grok Imagine, MiniMax H3, PixVerse, Hailuo, plus Nano Banana 2 and Seedream 5 for images) at per-second and per-image rates, not per seat. There is no idle fee: an account that renders nothing this month spends nothing beyond its plan. Publishing to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and X costs no credits, so the clip's price is the whole price.
Cheap images too
The same credits buy images: a Nano Banana 2 or Seedream 5 picture, an edit of an existing photo, a character portrait. Image models are listed below with their price; a Bot Studio song video made of images and a sung track is the cheapest daily post the product makes.
What one clip costs elsewhere
| Tool | Cheapest plan | One ~10 s clip | Posts to social |
|---|---|---|---|
| ReelMint | $29/mo | $0.67 | Yes: TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X, with scheduling and bots |
| Akool | $12/mo | $0.60 | No |
| Hailuo AI | $14.99/mo | $0.75 | No |
| Pika | $10/mo | $1.14 | No |
| Synthesia | $29/mo | $1.16 | No |
| Kling AI | $10/mo | $1.21 | No |
| Luma Dream Machine | $30/mo | $2.40 | No |
| Runway | $15/mo | $2.88 | No |
| FlashLoop | $19/mo | $2.95 | No |
| InVideo AI | $20/mo | $3 | Partly |
| Google Veo (Flow) | $7.99/mo | $4 | No |
| HeyGen | $29/mo | $7.25 | No |
| D-ID | $5.9/mo | not shown | No |
| Buffer | $5/mo | not shown | Yes |
| Canva | $12/mo | not shown | Partly |
ReelMint's clip is the studio's workhorse rate (60 credits at default settings) on Starter. Competitor figures come from their published pricing pages on the date printed on each comparison page; “not shown” means the page publishes no per-clip figure and we do not guess.
Go deeper
What ReelMint credits cost and what 1,000 credits buys
One credit is $0.004. A 10-second clip runs from about 45 credits on the cheapest video models to several hundred on premium ones. Here is the arithmetic for plans, packs and bots.
How-to · 3 min readHow to make your first AI video in ReelMint
From a text prompt to a finished short video in about five minutes: pick a model, see the price, generate, then publish to every channel at once.
Questions
What is the cheapest way to make an AI video?
Pick the cheapest model in the table at 720p and the shortest length that tells the story. The Generate button shows the exact credits before you click; a 10-second draft on the cheapest model is a few dozen credits.
How much is one credit?
It depends on the plan: $0.0112 on Starter monthly ($29 for 2,600), $0.0093 billed yearly, and less on larger plans. The table prints the Starter figures.
Is there a free option?
A new account can claim ready-made example creations at no cost with no card. Your own prompts run on the Lite plan, $9.99 a month for 800 credits with free usage of every AI model and no restrictions on which one you pick, charged on subscribe. See the free page.
Are the competitor numbers fair?
They are read from each tool's published pricing page on the date shown on its comparison page, costed the same way: one roughly 10-second clip on the cheapest paid plan. Where a page does not publish a figure, the table says so instead of guessing.
Do cheap renders carry a watermark?
Plans with the no-watermark feature render clean at up to 4K; Lite renders carry a small badge. The plans page lists which is which.
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