# agentvideo

> agentvideo (https://agentvideo.app) makes short videos from a text prompt. You pick a style and describe the video; a coding agent writes the scene as code in a sandbox, renders it with headless Chromium and ffmpeg, and returns an mp4. It is not a diffusion video model: every frame is drawn by code, so on-screen text and numbers are exact.

## What you get
- Length: 5 to 40 seconds per video. Resolution: 1080p, 30 fps, H.264 mp4. Aspect ratios: 9:16 (1080x1920), 16:9 (1920x1080), 1:1 (1080x1080).
- 30 styles in 6 families (3D, Illustration, Print, Graphic, Retro, Cinematic). A style fixes palette, type and motion; the prompt decides the subject and the story.
- Options: captions (with a language), sound, a custom palette, and a quality tier: Standard (1x credits) or Pro (3x credits).
- A video takes minutes to make. Two real examples: an 8 s video took 6 min 25 s, a 15 s video took 11 min 20 s.

## Plans (US dollars per month; there is no free tier)
- Starter: $19. 2,000 credits a month, videos up to 20 s, tiers: standard, 1 at a time, API access: no, videos kept 30 days.
- Creator: $49. 6,000 credits a month, videos up to 40 s, tiers: standard and pro, 2 at a time, API access: yes, videos kept 90 days.
- Studio: $129. 18,000 credits a month, videos up to 40 s, tiers: standard and pro, 4 at a time, API access: yes, videos kept 180 days.
- Credit packs for subscribers: 2,000 credits for $22, 10,000 credits for $95.
- Signing up is free. Making a video needs an active plan.

## Price of one video, in credits
- 5-10 s: 350 Standard, 1,050 Pro
- 11-20 s: 500 Standard, 1,500 Pro
- 21-30 s: 700 Standard, 2,100 Pro
- 31-40 s: 900 Standard, 2,700 Pro
- The price is shown before submitting. Credits are reserved at submit, charged on success, and released in full if the job fails on agentvideo's side or the prompt is refused before the agent starts.

## API (Creator and Studio plans)
- Base URL: https://agentvideo.app/v1. Auth: `Authorization: Bearer av_live_...`.
- `POST /v1/jobs` with `{ style, prompt, duration_s, aspect, tier, options: { captions, language, sound, palette? } }` returns 202 and a job.
- `GET /v1/jobs/:id` returns the job: status is queued, running, succeeded, failed or canceled. A succeeded job has `video_url` and `poster_url` (signed, valid for one hour).
- Also: `GET /v1/jobs`, `GET /v1/jobs/:id/events`, `POST /v1/jobs/:id/cancel`, `DELETE /v1/jobs/:id`, `GET /v1/styles`, `GET /v1/me`.
- Rate limits: Creator 60 requests a minute, Studio 180 requests a minute.

## Pages
- [Home](https://agentvideo.app/): what it is, how it works, pricing and FAQ
- [Styles](https://agentvideo.app/styles/): all 30 styles, one page each at https://agentvideo.app/styles/<id>/
- [Gallery](https://agentvideo.app/gallery/): real outputs with their exact prompts, cost and time
- [API reference](https://agentvideo.app/docs/api/)
- [For companies](https://agentvideo.app/for/companies/), [for research labs](https://agentvideo.app/for/labs/), [for creators](https://agentvideo.app/for/creators/)
- [Terms](https://agentvideo.app/terms/), [Privacy](https://agentvideo.app/privacy/)

## Styles
- [Low Poly](https://agentvideo.app/styles/low-poly/) (3D): Faceted 3D toys: flat triangles, hard sun, a coloured rim of light
- [Comic Book](https://agentvideo.app/styles/comic-book/) (Illustration): Inked panels snap in, Ben-Day dots, one giant sound word
- [Linocut](https://agentvideo.app/styles/linocut/) (Print): Black block, carved white lines, one spot colour, gouge marks showing
- [Art Deco](https://agentvideo.app/styles/art-deco/) (Graphic): Black lacquer, engraved gold line, bulbs switching on one by one
- [Retro Console](https://agentvideo.app/styles/retro-console/) (Retro): Early-2000s cutscene: blocky models, muddy textures, fog, italic HUD
- [Hologram HUD](https://agentvideo.app/styles/hologram-hud/) (Cinematic): Cyan light projection: wireframe globe, scan band, ticking readouts
- [Brick Toy](https://agentvideo.app/styles/brick-toy/) (3D): Glossy studded plastic bricks that build themselves, toy-box light
- [Ink Wash](https://agentvideo.app/styles/ink-wash/) (Illustration): Sumi ink on rice paper: mist, soft washes, ink blooming, a bird
- [Risograph](https://agentvideo.app/styles/risograph/) (Print): Two fluoro inks, visible dots, grain and a print that never lines up
- [Swiss Motion](https://agentvideo.app/styles/swiss-motion/) (Graphic): Strict grid, heavy grotesk, red and black snapping into place
- [Rubber Hose](https://agentvideo.app/styles/rubber-hose/) (Retro): 1930s black-and-white ink: noodle limbs, pie eyes, a world on the beat
- [Miniature](https://agentvideo.app/styles/miniature/) (Cinematic): A tiny cardboard model on a desk, tilt-shift focus and one warm lamp
- [Claymation](https://agentvideo.app/styles/claymation/) (3D): Hand-pressed plasticine, thumbprints and a stop-motion twitch
- [Iso Infographic](https://agentvideo.app/styles/iso-infographic/) (Illustration): Isometric diorama explainers: flat three-tone solids, numbered pins
- [Pop Silkscreen](https://agentvideo.app/styles/pop-silkscreen/) (Print): Loud flat inks pulled one at a time, one object in clashing colourways
- [Blueprint](https://agentvideo.app/styles/blueprint/) (Graphic): Cyan drafting sheet: parts plot line by line, dimensions, exploded
- [Mid-century Toon](https://agentvideo.app/styles/midcentury-toon/) (Retro): 1950s flat colour off its broken ink line, held poses, cool jazz
- [Silent Film](https://agentvideo.app/styles/silent-film/) (Cinematic): 1920s cinema: intertitle cards, iris shots, flicker, scratches, 16 fps
- [Papercraft](https://agentvideo.app/styles/papercraft/) (Illustration): Layered cut card with soft contact shadows, stepped like stop-motion
- [Ukiyo-e](https://agentvideo.app/styles/ukiyo-e/) (Print): Woodblock print: flat colour, wiped gradients, paper grain, a red seal
- [Data Story](https://agentvideo.app/styles/data-story/) (Graphic): Night-blue chart panel: bars grow, a line draws on, one highlight
- [Pixel Art](https://agentvideo.app/styles/pixel-art/) (Retro): 16-bit scenes on a 144 px canvas: hard squares, dither, parallax rain
- [Anime Cel](https://agentvideo.app/styles/anime-cel/) (Illustration): Hand-painted cels, one shadow tone, speed lines, one impact frame
- [Pictogram](https://agentvideo.app/styles/pictogram/) (Graphic): White outlined pictogram people on a black mirror floor
- [Crayon Picture Book](https://agentvideo.app/styles/crayon-book/) (Illustration): Wax crayon on toothy paper, drawn while you watch, lines that boil
- [Watercolor](https://agentvideo.app/styles/watercolor/) (Illustration): Loose transparent washes, wet edges, granulation, paper left white
- [Whiteboard](https://agentvideo.app/styles/whiteboard/) (Illustration): A marker draws the idea live: arrows, one red pen, an eraser sweep
- [One Line](https://agentvideo.app/styles/one-line/) (Illustration): One unbroken ink line draws a face, a hand, a bird, and flies off
- [Shadow Puppet](https://agentvideo.app/styles/shadow-puppet/) (Illustration): Cut-leather silhouettes on a lamplit cloth screen, jointed, on rods
- [Stained Glass](https://agentvideo.app/styles/stained-glass/) (Illustration): Coloured panes in dark lead, backlit, light pulsing through glass

## Blog
- [A month of reels in one afternoon, in one look](https://agentvideo.app/blog/a-month-of-reels-in-one-afternoon/): Pick one style, write the month's prompts from one template and queue them. On the Creator plan, 6,000 credits buy twelve 15-second reels.
- [A release video for every changelog, by API](https://agentvideo.app/blog/changelog-videos-with-the-api/): POST the release notes to /v1/jobs from your release script, poll until the job succeeds, download the mp4. A 15-second clip is 500 credits.
- [Code-rendered video vs. video models](https://agentvideo.app/blog/code-rendered-video-vs-video-models/): Use a video model for photoreal footage, people and organic motion. Use code-rendered video when the words, numbers and look must be exact and repeatable.
- [How agentvideo makes a video from a prompt](https://agentvideo.app/blog/how-agentvideo-works/): A coding agent writes one JavaScript file that draws every frame, checks stills of its own work, then Chromium and ffmpeg render a 1080p mp4.
- [30 video styles and how to pick one](https://agentvideo.app/blog/how-to-pick-a-video-style/): Pick by what carries the message. Words and numbers go to a Graphic style, a process to a diagram style, a character to clay, paper or ink.
- [How to write a prompt for a 15-second video](https://agentvideo.app/blog/how-to-write-a-video-prompt/): Name the subject, say what happens in three or four beats, and put the exact on-screen words in quotes. The style you picked supplies the look.
- [Turn a paper into a 30-second explainer](https://agentvideo.app/blog/paper-explainer-videos-for-research-labs/): Give the agent the claim, one number, one figure idea and a final line. The video is drawn by code, so the numbers on screen are the ones you typed.
- [Sandboxing an agent that runs untrusted prompts](https://agentvideo.app/blog/sandboxing-a-coding-agent/): The prompt is treated as data, the container holds no secrets and has no internet, and only a validated mp4 and poster leave. Some items are open.
- [Why agentvideo has no free tier](https://agentvideo.app/blog/why-there-is-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.
- Feed: https://agentvideo.app/blog/rss.xml