Human creators average around $198 a deliverable and AI clips cost a few dollars. The full arithmetic across four production routes, and the places where the cheap route quietly stops working.
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Higgsfield's tiers, how its credit system converts to real generations, why the same models cost $1-2 per clip on the raw API, and when the subscription is nonetheless the right call.
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Runway's plans look simple until you convert credits into seconds. The per-second credit burn of Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Turbo, Aleph and Act-Two, and how many clips each tier actually holds.
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Captions became Mirage and moved from an editing app toward its own video models. The current plan structure, the per-minute API rate, and which of its three products you are actually buying.
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HeyGen's translation is genuinely good and sold two very different ways — $29-149/month in credits, or $3.00 a minute on the API. Which one you should be on, and what the alternatives actually cost.
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Kling's consumer plans run $6.99 to $127.99 a month with credits that expire monthly. What a clip actually costs in credits, where the renewal price differs from the advertised one, and when the API is cheaper.
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Krea sells compute units across six plans from free to $200. What a unit buys, why the daily free refill is unusually generous, and the tier where video actually unlocks.
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OpusClip charges by source length, not output. Why that inverts the usual credit maths, the expiry rules on each plan, and what it means if your source videos are long.
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Viggle's free plan is the most generous in motion transfer — and its licence terms mean you cannot monetise what it makes. The paid tiers, the credit rate, and where the ceiling still sits.
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