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Four factors, roughly in order of impact. Generation mode matters most — retrieving licensed stock footage is inexpensive, generating one still per scene is moderate, and generating continuous video frame by frame is the expensive one. Length scales close to linearly, because more seconds means more scenes means more generation. Resolution affects both generation and encoding. Voice, music, and captions add a little, but they are small next to the visual work and are rarely worth optimising.
The practical consequence is that the same script can differ several-fold in cost depending on which generator you send it to. If the shot could plausibly have been filmed, the stock footage generator will usually look better and cost less than generated footage. If your content is narration over imagery, the AI image to video generator is cheaper and tends to show fewer artefacts.
It depends on three things: how long the video is, which generation mode it uses, and what resolution you export. Length is close to a linear multiplier. Generation mode is the largest factor — retrieving stock footage is far cheaper than generating footage frame by frame, often by several times for the same duration. Resolution affects both generation and encoding cost. The calculator on this page applies Vidnebu's current credit rates to a specific configuration so you get a real number rather than an estimate.
Because videos differ in cost by more than an order of magnitude. A 30-second stock-footage video is a search, a download, and an encode. A five-minute video with fully generated footage is thousands of generated frames, each costing GPU time. A single flat price would mean stock users subsidising AI-video users. Credits keep the cheap thing cheap.
Faceless video is the least expensive, because nothing is generated visually — it plays your narration over a background loop from the built-in library. Stock footage is next, then AI-generated stills, and fully generated AI video is the most expensive. If your content works as narration over imagery, the cheaper modes usually produce a cleaner result as well as a cheaper one.
Draft at a lower resolution and only render the final version at full quality. Use the cheapest generation mode the content genuinely allows. Test a 30-second version before committing to five minutes — most problems are visible early. And cut the script: length multiplies directly into cost, and most scripts are longer than they need to be.
No. Credits are charged on successful completion rather than when a job is submitted, and a job that fails is refunded automatically.