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What a finished second costs

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Checked against the makers' documentation on 25 September 2026.

Veo 3.1 vs. Veo 3.1 Lite Price and Quality Compared · Creative AI Show
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These are the sticker prices on 25 September 2026, per second, each from the maker's own page. Veo 3.1 through Google's API, sound included, costs $0.05 on Lite at 720p and $0.08 at 1080p; $0.10, $0.12 and $0.30 on Fast at 720p, 1080p and 4K; and $0.40 on Standard at 720p or 1080p, $0.60 at 4K. Google estimates Gemini Omni Flash at about $0.10 at 720p, and our 10-second 360p clip came to about $0.35 in all. Runway charges $0.12 for Gen-4.5. Kling 3.0 lists $0.084 at 720p without sound and $0.126 with it, and Luma's Ray 3.2 costs $0.30 for 5 seconds at 720p and $1.20 at 1080p. Sora has no price now.

price asecond×clip length×tries÷secondskept= the cost of one second you keepten shots, three seconds eachdraft · lite 720p · $8final · fast 1080p · $19.20final · standard 1080p · $64tries multiply everything: draft cheap, finish once
The cost of a kept second is price per second times clip length times tries, divided by the seconds kept; a ten-shot film costs eight dollars to draft on Lite, about nineteen to finish on Fast at 1080p and sixty-four on Standard at 1080p.
A screenshot of Google's pricing table for Veo 3.1: Standard at $0.40 a second for 720p and 1080p and $0.60 for 4K, Fast from $0.10, Lite from $0.05, with Not available in the free tier column.
Google's own Veo 3.1 price table: per second, sound included, and not available on the free tier. Screenshot of Google's Gemini API pricing page, captured 25 September 2026.Google/Screenshot, shown for teaching
An ink drawing of a tailor's measuring tape lying along a strip of film on a table, with many cut-off film frames scattered on the floor below.
You pay for every frame and keep only a few of them.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The per-second rate on the maker's pricing page, before a single retry.”

    • Runway Dev
    • Image to video
    • Sticker price
    • Clean plate
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The share of tries you keep. One kept take in four is 25 per cent.”

    • Presigned link
    • Hit rate
    • Dialogue
    • Gemini API
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A second that reaches the cut. Its real price includes every try that did not.”

    • Kept second
    • Kling 3.0
    • Asset
    • Forced length
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