Checked 16 October 2026
What will a month of AI generation cost?
Compare published list prices for image generations, video seconds, and text-to-speech characters. The sample month is 40 images, 60 seconds of video, and 20,000 speech characters. Change the numbers and the table picks the cheapest verified way to cover them.
As of 16 October 2026, this calculator compares ElevenLabs, Runway, Kling, Higgsfield, Midjourney, Luma, Pika, and Leonardo. It uses vendor list prices with a source URL and a last-checked date on every plan. It does not invent a missing number. Subscription totals exclude tax, rollover, and first-month promos unless the row says otherwise.
| Tool | What is priced | Estimate | Plan or meter | Basis |
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| Luma | Covers images, video, speech Approximate | $30.00 | Plus · monthly 3,420.00 credits |
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| Runway | Covers images, video, speech | $35.00 | Pro · monthly 1,440.00 credits |
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| ElevenLabs | Speech only Partial Approximate | $3.60 | Free · monthly 20,000.00 credits |
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| Higgsfield | Video only Partial Floor | from $5.04 | Pay as you go, list price from |
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| Kling | Images, video only Partial | $6.16 | Pay as you go |
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| Midjourney | Images only Partial | $30.00 | Standard · monthly 0.00 fast GPU minutes |
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| Pika | Images, video only Partial Approximate | $35.00 | Creator · monthly 1,784.00 credits |
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| Leonardo | Images, video only Partial | $60.00 | Ultimate · monthly 0.00 fast tokens |
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Tools on this rate card
- ElevenLabs pricing calculator — Text to speech, voice cloning, and audio tools billed in credits or API dollars.
- Runway pricing calculator — Gen-4.5 video, images, and a small text-to-speech credit rate on one credit pool.
- Kling pricing calculator — Membership credits for the Kling app, plus a per-second developer API.
- Higgsfield pricing calculator — Creator subscriptions plus a public API rate card with list prices by model.
- Midjourney pricing calculator — Image plans billed in fast GPU minutes, with unlimited Relax images on Standard and up.
- Luma pricing calculator — Ray video, Uni image, and bundled audio models on Plus, Pro, and Ultra credits.
- Pika pricing calculator — A credit subscription for several video and image models, with a published 5-second video example.
- Leonardo pricing calculator — Fast-token subscriptions with unlimited Relax on selected first-party models.
Questions this page answers
How does this AI tool cost calculator work?
Enter a month of images, video seconds, and speech characters. For each tool, the site multiplies that usage by a published rate, then picks the cheapest verified plan that covers it. If the vendor bills per second or per character with no subscription, the estimate is that usage price instead.
Are these the official prices?
Each plan and rate links to the page it came from and shows the day it was checked. Verified means that page stated the number. Unverified means it could not be read from an official static page and is not used as the recommended total. Taxes are excluded.
Why do two tools show different models for the same preset?
Fast, standard, and high are buckets, not a shared quality score. The result names the model, for example Runway Gen-4.5 or Kling API 3.0 at 720p without audio. A tool with no verified rate for that bucket says so instead of borrowing a different model silently.
What is the AI video cost per second?
Where a vendor publishes a per-second price, that price is shown directly. Where a plan gives a monthly credit pool, the per-second figure is the plan price divided by how many seconds those credits buy at the stated model rate. Bundles that are only published for 5 or 10 seconds are labeled as derived.
How often should these prices be updated?
Vendors change credit charts without notice. The catalog in this project records a last-checked date on every row. Update the row when you re-read the source, and do not keep a number you can no longer find.