Source-backed cost planning

AI image and video generation pricing calculator

Estimate image API spend and monthly or annually prepaid subscriptions in their published units.

Each price has its own source-verification date. Only rates within the 26-hour evidence watchdog are selectable; overdue records are not current quotes.

Image API budget

Estimate tracked per-image API spend

Images per month

Imagen 4 is absent from the current official Google API rate card and is excluded from active estimates; no successor or migration entitlement is inferred. The selectable rows are independent tracked options, not a claimed Google migration target. Input-image fees, where applicable, are separate.

Video subscription budget

Estimate subscriptions, not universal output

Plan Billing period Separate subscriptions / workspaces (not users)

Recorded active per-image API options

Output-image price only, by exact resolution and quality. Input images, retries and editing are separate; token-metered image models are not assigned an invented fixed price.

Exact option	Output image	Evidence
Grok Imagine Image 1K	$0.02Input image: $0.002 each where used	Pricing: Last source verification (overdue): 2026-10-22 00:05:26 UTC. Official source
Grok Imagine Image 2K	$0.02Input image: $0.002 each where used	Pricing: Last source verification (overdue): 2026-10-22 00:05:26 UTC. Official source
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 1K low	$0.04Input image: $0.01 each where used	Pricing: Last source verification (overdue): 2026-10-22 00:05:26 UTC. Official source
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 1K medium	$0.06Input image: $0.01 each where used	Pricing: Last source verification (overdue): 2026-10-22 00:05:26 UTC. Official source
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 2K low	$0.06Input image: $0.01 each where used	Pricing: Last source verification (overdue): 2026-10-22 00:05:26 UTC. Official source
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 2K medium	$0.08Input image: $0.01 each where used	Pricing: Last source verification (overdue): 2026-10-22 00:05:26 UTC. Official source

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Published video-plan pricing and meters

Plan list prices are useful for a budget, but output volume is not interchangeable. Read each published meter before comparing a plan to an API image rate.

Plan	Published price	Meter	What to validate
Pictory Starter View Pictory plans →	$25/month equivalent, billed annually ($300/year); $29/month on monthly billing Pricing: Source verified: 2026-10-22 15:39:35 UTC. Official source	24,000 shared AI credits/year (up to 360 minutes); 2,000 credits/month (up to 30 minutes) on monthly billing	1 user; annual credits upfront; monthly credits reset monthly. Indicative minutes are not a separate export quota. All Pictory AI models; no API access. Paid subscriptions are non-refundable. All Pictory AI models and features. Listed examples: Veo 3.1, Veo 3.1 Fast, Pixverse, Omni Flash, Flux Schnell, Google Nano Banana Pro, ByteDance Seedream, Amazon Nova Canvas, ElevenLabs.
Pictory Professional View Pictory plans →	$35/month equivalent, billed annually ($420/year); $59/month on monthly billing Pricing: Source verified: 2026-10-22 15:39:35 UTC. Official source	72,000 shared AI credits/year (up to 1,080 minutes); 6,000 credits/month (up to 90 minutes) on monthly billing	Included users not explicit in current headline card; confirm checkout; annual credits upfront; monthly credits reset monthly. Indicative minutes are not a separate export quota. All Pictory AI models; no API access. Paid subscriptions are non-refundable. All Pictory AI models and features. Listed examples: Veo 3.1, Veo 3.1 Fast, Pixverse, Omni Flash, Flux Schnell, Google Nano Banana Pro, ByteDance Seedream, Amazon Nova Canvas, ElevenLabs.
Pictory Teams View Pictory plans →	$119/month equivalent, billed annually ($1428/year); $199/month on monthly billing Pricing: Source verified: 2026-10-22 15:39:35 UTC. Official source	216,000 shared AI credits/year (up to 3,600 minutes); 18,000 credits/month (up to 300 minutes) on monthly billing	3+ users; annual credits upfront; monthly credits reset monthly. Indicative minutes are not a separate export quota. All Pictory AI models; no API access. Paid subscriptions are non-refundable. All Pictory AI models and features. Listed examples: Veo 3.1, Veo 3.1 Fast, Pixverse, Omni Flash, Flux Schnell, Google Nano Banana Pro, ByteDance Seedream, Amazon Nova Canvas, ElevenLabs.
Runway Standard Official pricing →	$15/month on monthly billing; $12/month equivalent billed annually ($144 upfront/year) Pricing: Source verified: 2026-10-22 15:19:32 UTC. Official source	625 generation credits per month	Individual subscription: up to 3 projects, 5 parallel generations and 20GB storage. Monthly included credits reset without rollover; model, duration and resolution determine usage. Access to all AI video & image models. Listed examples: Gen-4.5, Kling 3.0, Nano Banana Pro.
Runway Pro Official pricing →	$35/month on monthly billing; $28/month equivalent billed annually ($336 upfront/year) Pricing: Source verified: 2026-10-22 15:19:32 UTC. Official source	2,250 generation credits per month	Individual subscription: up to 5 projects, 15 parallel generations and 100GB storage. Monthly included credits reset without rollover; additional purchased credits do not expire. Access to all AI video & image models. Listed examples: Gen-4.5, Kling 3.0, Nano Banana Pro, Seedance 2.5.
Runway Max Official pricing →	$95/month on monthly billing; $76/month equivalent billed annually ($912 upfront/year) Pricing: Source verified: 2026-10-22 15:19:32 UTC. Official source	9,500 generation credits per month	Individual subscription: up to 10 projects, 20 parallel generations and 500GB storage. Up to one month of unused included credits rolls over; additional purchased credits do not expire. Early access to new models. Listed examples: Gen-4.5, Kling 3.0, Nano Banana Pro, Seedance 2.5.

Pricing data: How we verify →

How to compare a creative workflow

Separate API image generation from subscription-based creative work.
Use the same resolution, duration and model settings in a small trial.
Track accepted assets, not only generated assets.
Check commercial-use, team, export and rollover terms before annual billing.

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Frequently asked questions

Can this calculator compare every AI video generator by cost per minute?

No. Runway spends credits based on model, duration and resolution, while Pictory uses a shared AI-credit pool with indicative video-minute allowances. A single cost-per-minute number would hide those differences, so this page keeps the published units separate.

Which image API price is shown here?

The calculator reads active per-image rows from the maintained API catalog. Token-metered models are excluded from fixed per-image estimates; recorded source dates are shown with each option.

How should I budget a video generator subscription?

Choose monthly or annual billing, then the number of separate subscriptions or workspaces—not users. Annual billing requires the full yearly amount upfront; included team users share the plan allowance. Provider-specific credits and indicative minutes are not interchangeable.

API output images, input-image charges, subscription/workspace counts, Runway generation credits and Pictory shared AI credits and indicative minutes remain separate. Monthly billing uses the monthly fee; annual billing uses its published monthly equivalent and charges the entire yearly total upfront. Included team users share plan allowances; multiplying workspaces does not infer a per-seat entitlement.