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.
2 min readHeyGen'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.
2 min readKling'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.
3 min readKrea 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.
3 min readOpusClip 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.
2 min readViggle'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.
3 min readShort animated shorts with a ridiculous premise are one of the few AI formats with real staying power. Why the animated look removes the uncanny problem, and how to build a series cheaply.
2 min readA working tutorial for copying a dance from a Reel onto yourself: which clip to pick, the one parameter that decides whether identity survives, the reference photos to supply, and what a finished clip costs.
2 min readTalking-baby podcast clips are three separate AI steps stitched together, not one generator. The pipeline, what each step costs, why most versions look cheap, and the one part that will get you reported.
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