Cost data
What a short AI video costs to make, step by step
From $0.0058 for a 35-second ad on your own footage to $0.0188 for a 94-second narrated video on stock footage, measured on six LoopBatch runs of 24 September 2026, including LoopBatch's 20%.
By LoopBatch · Measured 24 September 2026 · How we measured · Download the CSV
Main points
- An ad of 35 seconds on your own footage cost $0.0058 to $0.0086 to make, over four runs.
- A narrated video of about 91 seconds on stock footage cost $0.0185 to $0.0188, over two runs.
- Rendering and checking the video is most of the price: 77% to 92% of every run.
- The script, the caption and the voice together cost at most $0.0043 on any run.
- The footage cost nothing: stock clips from Pexels, or clips from your own library.
The price of each step, run by run
| Video and run | Script and caption | Voice | Footage | Render | Checks | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ad on your own footage, 35 srun 49acc462 | $0.0004 | $0.0003 | $0.0000 | $0.0057 | $0.0005 | $0.0069 |
| Ad on your own footage, 35 srun 16fd2e3e | $0.0004 | $0.0003 | $0.0000 | $0.0071 | $0.0008 | $0.0086 |
| Ad on your own footage, 35 srun c45c3dab | $0.0004 | $0.0003 | $0.0000 | $0.0053 | $0.0006 | $0.0066 |
| Ad on your own footage, 35 srun 000e7393 | $0.0004 | $0.0003 | $0.0000 | $0.0046 | $0.0005 | $0.0058 |
| Narrated video on stock footage, 88 srun 1c858daf | $0.0034 | $0.0009 | $0.0000 | $0.0126 | $0.0017 | $0.0185 |
| Narrated video on stock footage, 94 srun 177999ca | $0.0033 | $0.0009 | $0.0000 | $0.0127 | $0.0018 | $0.0188 |
Source: LoopBatch's run ledger, read 24 September 2026. The same table as CSV.
How we measured
The runs
- Run
49acc462, 24 September 2026: ad on your own footage, 35 seconds, a Test run of thehvac-v2-storyboardworkflow. - Run
16fd2e3e, 24 September 2026: ad on your own footage, 35 seconds, a Test run of thehvac-v2-storyboardworkflow. - Run
c45c3dab, 24 September 2026: ad on your own footage, 35 seconds, a Test run of thehvac-v2-storyboardworkflow. - Run
000e7393, 24 September 2026: ad on your own footage, 35 seconds, a Test run of thehvac-v2-storyboardworkflow. - Run
1c858daf, 24 September 2026: narrated video on stock footage, 88 seconds, a Test run of theguess-the-countryworkflow. - Run
177999ca, 24 September 2026: narrated video on stock footage, 94 seconds, a Test run of theguess-the-countryworkflow.
A Test run makes the video for real, with the cheapest model of each kind, and waits for an approval like any other run. The length of each video is the length LoopBatch's own check measured.
The prices
Each step's price is the ledger's record of what the provider charged for that call, at these prices:
- Kokoro 82M on DeepInfra: $0.62 per million characters
- DeepSeek V4 Flash on Workers AI: $0.44 per million tokens in and $1.32 out
- DeepSeek V4 Pro on Workers AI: $1.32 per million tokens in and $3.96 out
- The render machine, Cloudflare Containers standard-4 with 4 vCPU: $0.0001114 a second of container time, about $0.40 an hour
The markup
A customer pays the provider's price plus 20%, and every figure on this page includes it. On your own provider key, that step's price is yours to pay the provider directly and LoopBatch adds nothing.
Rounding
Each figure is rounded to a hundredth of a cent. A total is rounded from the unrounded steps, so a row can differ from the sum of its rounded steps by a hundredth of a cent.
What is not included
The plan's monthly fee, posting (which costs nothing), ads, and storage.
Limits of these numbers
- These are six runs of two workflows, on one day. They are real, not typical of every video.
- A Test run uses the cheapest model of each kind. A Live run uses the models its workflow names, and a better narrator or AI pictures cost more than the voice and footage here.
- The render is priced by the second on a four-core machine, so a longer or busier video takes more of it.
- Providers change their prices. Every run shows its own price before it starts.
Changes
- 24 September 2026: first published, from six runs on the four-core render machine.
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