The Same 10 Seconds of AI Video Can Cost $0.75 or $4. Track Which Model Is Burning Your Budget.
I generated the same three-second cloak movement eleven times before I noticed what it had actually cost me.
It was a rooftop chase scene for Lost Garden, my AI-animated series. The shot was simple on paper: a figure turns, a cloak whips in the wind, camera holds. On screen it kept coming back wrong, the fabric clipping through a shoulder, floating half a beat too long, snapping in a direction the wind in the rest of the scene did not support. I kept regenerating. I did not once write down which model, which prompt version, or what each attempt cost. By the time the twelfth take finally held, I had spent more credits on three seconds of cloak than on the rest of the scene combined, and I only found that out weeks later, doing the math backward from a monthly invoice.
A 10-second AI video clip can legitimately...
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