Pricing
Credits per second
One unit everywhere: credits. Footage is billed per second of finished video, at a day rate and a night rate. Failures are refunded and references are free. Money only appears where you buy credits.
MiniMax H3 footage · credits per second
Day
10credits / s
08:00–24:00 Beijing time (UTC+8)
Night
6credits / s
00:00–08:00 Beijing time (UTC+8)
Standard
90credits / s
not charged during the promotion
Promotion from 2026-09-20 to 2026-12-20. Afterwards: 20 by day, 10 by night.
Applies to every clip made in Video Studio, the Canvas and the Director Agent. Text, animate and cast modes cost the same; so do 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1. 4–15 seconds per clip. The rate is locked the moment you submit.
New accounts get 15 free seconds
Granted once your email is verified. Free seconds are used before credits, and they are 15 seconds by day or by night. Web only, standard queue.
Open Video StudioPrice a clip
100 credits
Buy credits
US$1 = 1,000 credits. Top-ups carry no bonus and stay valid for 12 months.
| You pay | Credits | ≈ by day | ≈ by night |
|---|---|---|---|
| US$10 | 10,000 | 16 min | 27 min |
| US$30 | 30,000 | 50 min | 83 min |
| US$100 | 100,000 | 166 min | 277 min |
Monthly membership
The same money buys more credits and an earlier place in the queue. Unused credits roll over for one month. Cancel any time; the period you paid for keeps its benefits.
Creator
$10/ mo
11,000 credits
- · bonus 10%
- · ≈ by day 18 min
- · priority queue
Pro
Most popular$50/ mo
57,500 credits
- · bonus 15%
- · ≈ by day 95 min
- · higher priority
Max
Biggest bonus$200/ mo
238,000 credits
- · bonus 19%
- · ≈ by day 396 min
- · highest priority
Director Agent
The plan fee buys the director’s judgement: what to shoot, why, and in how many scenes. Footage is billed separately at the per-second rate above; failed scenes are free, and so are the director’s questions.
| Finished length | Plan fee |
|---|---|
| Up to 60 s | 1,000 credits |
| Up to 5 min | 2,500 credits |
| Each additional 5 min | +2,500 credits |
Example: a 60-second short rendered by day = plan 1,000 + footage 600 = 1,600 credits.
Video API
The API is a flat 40 credits per second at any hour. It does not take part in the web promotion and does not use free seconds. Queued jobs are free; failures are refunded.
Billing rules
Reserved on submit, settled on delivery
Seconds × the rate at the moment you submit is reserved; on success that reservation becomes the charge.
Failures and cancellations are refunded
Both credits and any free seconds used come back. If the final cut of a directed film fails, the footage is refunded in full; the plan fee stays, because the plan was delivered.
References are free
However many images or recordings you attach, you pay only for finished seconds.
Day and night follow Beijing time
Night is 00:00–08:00 UTC+8; everything else is day.
FAQ
Why is night cheaper?
Compute is idle after midnight and costs us less, so we pass the difference on. The footage is identical.
Will it jump to 90 after the promotion?
No. After the promotion it is 20 by day and 10 by night. 90 is the standard rate, shown for reference only.
What happened to credits I already had?
On 2026-09-20 every balance was multiplied by 10, so its value is unchanged.
Do credits expire?
Membership credits roll over for one month; top-up credits are valid for 12 months. The soonest-to-expire credits are spent first.
How long does a clip take?
Minutes, not seconds: about 2 minutes for a 4-second clip, about 8 for a 15-second one. Every job returns a delivery time that already counts the queue ahead of you.
Multi-Cam Talking Head is priced separately
The talking-head line is its own product, paid once: US$59 for your four camera angles plus your first film, US$49 for three more films of the same character, US$19 for a new setting. You see all four angles free, watermarked, before you pay anything.
For partnerships and data licensing, see Partnerships.