Let’s talk real numbers, because “AI is cheap” and “AI is expensive” are both true depending on who’s quoting you — and most quotes are in made-up currencies called credits. Here’s the math in dollars.
Say you’re making a $25,000 horror feature and you want AI for the effects moments: the gore gag you can’t rig, the car hit you can’t stage, a burning building. Call it 40 finished shots at 1080p, averaging 10 seconds each.
On our meter, a 10-second 1080p shot runs $5.00. Forty keepers is $200. Real filmmaking means retakes — plan on 1.5–2 pulls per keeper (and shoot smart: motion-match your action shots and your keeper rate jumps). Failed generations never charge on our platform, so your realistic generation spend lands around $300–500.
Add the clearance package — for a micro-budget production that’s $500, covering script review and approval, your production account, up to five cast likenesses cleared onto the whitelist with signed releases, and human review on everything you deliver.
Total: under $1,000 for effects coverage that would cost many times that practically — delivered with the E&O paper trail your distributor will ask about. For scale: a single day of a practical-effects crew often runs more than this entire pipeline.
Budget tiers, cast-count pricing, and the full meter are public on our pricing page — the quote is literally printed on the Generate button. When you’re ready, send the script.