Model comparisons, per-second prices pulled from the endpoints we run in production, and the workflows that survive contact with a real Instagram Reel. No affiliate scoring, no invented benchmarks.
Listing video is the highest-risk niche for generated content, because a property is a thing a buyer will stand in. The formats that are safe, the hard line on the property itself, and the disclosure question.
2 min readPer-second API prices for the video models worth using in 2026, what the same clip costs on each, and why credit-based consumer plans are usually the more expensive way to buy the identical model.
3 min readWhat platforms currently require when you post AI-generated video, how detection works, and the practical habits creators have settled on. General information, not legal advice.
2 min readThe honest arithmetic: raw model cost for 30 seconds, why nobody generates 30 seconds in one shot, and the retry multiplier that dominates the real number.
3 min readToddlers hitting complex choreography with unsettling precision is two models in sequence, not one. The pipeline, why the uncanny precision is the joke, and where it goes wrong.
2 min readCopying a dance from a Reel onto your own face is a narrow technical job that most 'AI video' tools cannot do at all. The three that can, what they cost per second, and where each one breaks.
3 min readFour families of AI video model solve four different problems and are all marketed as 'AI video generation'. A decision tree, the inputs each one takes, and what each costs per second.
2 min readOpenAI retired the Sora app in April 2026 and the API goes dark on 24 September. Here is where the 'me in an AI video' workflow moves, with per-second prices and the real-face policy of each option.
2 min readIdentity drift has four distinct causes, and only one of them is the model. A diagnostic order that fixes most cases without spending more per second.
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