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Pricing tracker, wave 4 extension: video, image, voice

  • Added 26 records (81 total, 23 tools): Runway consumer plans (Free, Standard, Pro, Max) and Runway API credit rates; Google Veo 3.1 via the Gemini API (Standard, Fast, Lite, per second); Seedance 2.5, 2.0, 2.0 Fast, 2.0 Mini and 1.5 Pro via the BytePlus ModelArk API (per token, with the vendor's per-clip examples); Seedream 5.0 Pro per-image price; Midjourney Basic, Standard, Pro, Mega; Murf Studio Free, Creator, Business and API; WellSaid Trial, Starter, Pro, Business.
  • New derived units: cost per second and per minute of generated video, per image, per Midjourney Fast prompt, and per audio minute. Per FINISHED minute is not stored: it needs a retake rate that no vendor states (see METHOD).
  • Not compiled, blocked or unreadable: Kling, Leonardo, Ideogram, Speechify, Google consumer plans. See GAPS.

Dated list

  1. Article

    AI Credits Explained: What a Credit Costs and Buys

    A credit costs $0.004 to $0.05 depending on the tool. Price per credit, what one output costs in credits, and which credits expire, from vendor pages.

  2. Article

    AI Transcription Cost per Hour: Seat Plans vs API Rates

    Transcription costs $0.15 to $0.36 an hour on API price lists; Otter, Fireflies and Descript seats cost more. Break-even hours a month for each.

  3. Article

    AI Video Cost per Second and per Finished Clip

    A calculator on vendor prices for Runway, Veo, Seedance and Midjourney video. Set your own retake rate; the price per finished minute follows.

  4. Article

    ElevenLabs vs Murf vs WellSaid: Cost per Audio Hour

    What an hour of generated voiceover costs on ElevenLabs, Murf and WellSaid plans, on monthly and annual billing, with commercial-rights terms by tier.

  5. Article

    Sora Alternatives After the Shutdown, Priced per Clip

    Sora's app closed on 26 April 2026 and its API on 24 September. What the nearest tools cost per five-second clip, and which fits which job.

  6. CorrectionsPricing tracker

    Pricing tracker, corrections after independent audit

    • eleven-creator: priceMonthly 11 -> 22; $11 first-month price moved to new promo field; cost per audio minute 0.091 -> 0.182; annual per-month and annual-billing per-minute costs added for ElevenLabs paid plans (from page FAQ).
    • rytr-unlimited / rytr-premium: 7.50 and 24.16 moved to priceAnnualPerMonth (yearly toggle); priceMonthly null.
    • Surfer (5 plans) and invideo (3 plans): priceMonthly filled from the pages; Surfer currency caveat noted.
    • Synthesia Starter/Creator: unsupported commercial-use claim removed; card-vs-FAQ price conflict noted.
    • Pictory source URL changed to www.pictory.ai/pricing; schema gains optional promo; METHOD states no per-1,000-words or per-image costs.
  7. Re-readPricing tracker

    Pricing tracker, content wave 1 re-read

    • Writesonic Starter/Basic/Growth: the pricing page's $79/$199/$399 are the annual-billing per-month prices ("Save $240/$600/$1,200 a year"), not monthly prices. Stored annual = displayed; monthly implied as displayed + saving/12 = $99/$249/$499 (monthly toggle not read directly). Previous records had the annual price wrong ($59/$149/$299).
    • invideo Starter monthly: 24 was wrong and is reverted to 20 (audit 29 Sep 2026: the pricing page states "No difference compared to monthly" for Starter).
    • Writesonic Starter: extra-user overage removed (page offers extra users only on Basic and Growth).
  8. Re-readPricing tracker

    Pricing tracker, content wave 2 re-read

    • Re-read Surfer, Synthesia, HeyGen, ElevenLabs, Otter, invideo, Clearscope, Pictory, Descript and Rytr pricing pages; checked set to 2026-09-29 for those records.
    • Surfer: page code defaults to USD and rewrites the label to EUR for some visitors; numbers unchanged (note updated).
    • invideo Plus and Max monthly ($60, $150) now confirmed as the struck-through "Was" prices on the pricing page; monthly toggle not clicked.
    • HeyGen Pro annual per month $41 (1,000-credit tier) and Business annual $119 added from the page's credit-tier data.
    • ElevenLabs Creator: page confirms "$22, first month 50% off, $11"; list price unchanged.
  9. AuditPricing tracker

    Pricing tracker, content wave 3 audit

    • Fireflies added (4 records: Free, Pro, Business, Enterprise; 55 records across 16 tools). Prices read from fireflies.ai/pricing with the billing toggle set both ways: Pro $10 annual / $18 monthly, Business $19 / $29, Enterprise $39 annual only. Monthly figures are confirmed by the toggle, not inferred.
    • Sources and check date recorded per record; tools list in METHOD.md updated.
  10. UpdatePricing tracker

    Pricing tracker update

    • Initial compilation, 2026-09-28: 51 plan records across 15 tools.

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