Minutes, usually — but the variance is large and mostly not about your clip. What actually drives generation time, why compute-second billing makes slow queues expensive, and how to wait less.
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The models accept up to nine. Most people supply one, which is the single most common reason generated faces do not look like the person. What to shoot and why the count matters.
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Two of the most-used image-to-video models, now almost 3x apart on price after Wan 3.0 Prime. Where Kling's extra spend is visible, where Wan's flat pricing wins, and the one job only Wan does.
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Both land near $0.10-0.14 a second, but Luma bills in five-second blocks. What that does to a three-second clip, and where each model is the better pick.
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$0.26 a second against $0.08 — a 3.25x gap between two models doing nominally the same job. What the premium actually buys, and the large class of work where it buys nothing.
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You have product photos and no budget for a shoot. The three formats that convert, the cheapest models that produce them, and the honesty line you cannot cross in commerce.
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Animating a still into a speaking clip is one API call, but the four models that do it are driven differently and priced 3x apart. Which to pick for a script, an audio file, or a budget.
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US law settled in 2026: purely AI-generated output has no human author and no copyright. What that means for creators in practice, and the one thing that changes it. Not legal advice.
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Soft output usually is not the model's resolution. Input quality, platform compression, motion blur and the wrong finishing step each look identical on a phone. How to tell them apart.
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