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Why agentvideo has no free tier
Every video runs a coding agent and a render container for minutes, and we pay for both. Signing up is free. Making a video needs a plan.
There is no free tier because every video runs a coding agent and a render container for minutes, and we pay for both whether or not you like the result. Creating an account and browsing are free. Making a video needs a plan, and plans start at $19 a month.
Every video has a real cost
For each job an agent reads the style, writes a scene as code, renders stills, looks at them, fixes the code and renders the video. Each of those steps uses real model calls, and the container that draws the frames is paid for while it runs. Some jobs need more of both than others. None needs zero.
The video at the top of this post is 8 seconds of Rubber Hose on Standard. It cost 350 credits and took 3 min 58 s to make.
What a credit is
A credit is the unit videos are priced in. The price of a job depends on its length and its quality tier, and you see it before you submit.
| Length | Standard | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| 5 to 10 s | 350 | 1,050 |
| 11 to 20 s | 500 | 1,500 |
| 21 to 30 s | 700 | 2,100 |
| 31 to 40 s | 900 | 2,700 |
Credits come with a plan: 2,000 a month on Starter ($19), 6,000 on Creator ($49) and 18,000 on Studio ($129).
Plan credits reset at each renewal and do not roll over. Subscribers can buy packs (2,000 credits for $22, 10,000 for $95). Pack credits stay while the subscription is active, and plan credits are spent first.
The cap rule in plain words
Each job gets a hard model budget derived from its credit price, set so that a job cannot cost us more than it earns.
The budget is enforced outside the agent's reach. Every model call passes through a proxy that reserves the worst-case cost of the call before sending it, and refuses once what is left cannot cover the next one. Agent turns (80 on Standard, 120 on Pro) and wall-clock time (40 and 45 minutes) are capped too.
For you this means two things. The price you see is the price, whatever the agent does. And when a job hits its ceiling it fails on our side, so the credits come back. Live jobs so far have finished well under their budgets.
Why free generation gets farmed
A free video would cost us the same model and container time as a paid one. A service that hands a coding agent to anyone with a Google account is an obvious target: script the sign-ups, take the free videos from each throwaway account, repeat.
Per-account limits do not help when accounts are free to make. A paid plan is what gives an account a cost, and that is what makes the other limits mean something: jobs per hour, videos at a time, and brakes on accounts whose jobs keep failing. We need those brakes even among subscribers, because failed jobs are refunded and a refund must not become free compute.
What happens when a job fails
- Submitting reserves the price in credits.
- A finished video is charged.
- If the job fails on our side, or the prompt is refused before the agent starts, the reservation is released in full.
- If you cancel before the agent starts, the credits are released. If you cancel after, the job is charged, because the cost is already spent.
When a finished file fails its checks, the agent gets one repair turn that says what was wrong, followed by one rescue render, before the job is declared failed.
Where this leaves you
A video you simply do not like is a finished video, and it is charged. That is the hard part of having no free tier: your first video is a paid experiment.
What we can offer before you pay is evidence. The gallery shows real outputs with their exact prompts, their cost in credits and the time each took, and each of the 30 styles has an example video. The cheapest way to test your own brief is Starter, at $19 a month: its 2,000 credits cover four 15-second videos or five 8-second ones. Plans are compared in the pricing section.
Questions
Is there a free trial?
No. Creating an account and browsing are free, but every video needs an active plan. The lowest is Starter at $19 a month for 2,000 credits.
What is a credit?
The unit videos are priced in. A 15-second Standard video costs 500 credits, and plans include 2,000, 6,000 or 18,000 credits a month.
Do I get credits back when a video fails?
Yes, in full, when the job fails on our side or the prompt is refused before the agent starts. A job you cancel after the agent has started is charged.
Can a job end up costing more credits than the price shown?
No. The price is fixed by length and tier and shown before you submit. If the job hits its internal cost ceiling it fails and the credits are released.
