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.
The two AI baby formats, dance and podcast, cost less to make this month: Nano Banana 2.1 for the character still, OmniHuman 2.0 for the voice, Scail 2 and Wan Motion as cheaper dance engines. Updated per-clip costs and what has not changed.
5 min readTwo ways to get your face into a dance clip: re-perform the choreography on your own character (Kling Motion Control, Scail 2), or replace the dancer in the original video and keep its cuts (Recast, video edit). Cost, length, failure modes and which to pick.
5 min readThe month's changes in one page: Recast and Kling O3 for replacing a person, OmniHuman 2.0 and H3 Max Lip Sync for talking photos, Nano Banana 2.1 and GPT Image 2.5 for stills, plus Veo and Sora leaving fal. Prices read on 18 October 2026, with a status for each model in our own pipeline.
5 min readSome viral Reels are a voice over footage with no usable face: a podcast clip, a commentary, a voice memo. How to give that audio a speaker with OmniHuman 2.0, Kling Avatar or H3 Max Lip Sync, what each costs per minute, and why the audio is the part you must have rights to.
5 min readHow to localise a talking-head Reel: translate, keep your voice, and move the lips. HeyGen Translate in one call at $0.05 per second, the cheaper two-step route with ElevenLabs and a lip-sync model, the 10-second clip limits, and where translations slip.
5 min readElevenLabs Dubbing lists at $0.60 per minute and changes only the voice; HeyGen Translate lists at $0.05 per second and moves the lips too. Languages, limits, a pairing that gets both for less, and when each is the right call.
4 min readSoulX-FlashTalk is advertised as the cheapest talking-head model on fal at $0.02 per second, but its output is fixed at 768 by 448 pixels, a horizontal frame. Why that rules it out for Reels, and where it is still a fair buy.
5 min readFLUX.3 Edit Video rewrites the look of an existing clip from a prompt while keeping its motion, for $0.03 per second. The limits, the missing reference-photo field, what it is good for, and how it differs from replacing a person.
5 min readFLUX.3 image generation and editing bills by the megapixel, $0.048 for the main model and $0.009 for the small Klein variant. What that means per image, what the edit endpoint accepts, and how it compares with Nano Banana 2.1 and Seedream.
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