Cheapest video generation APIs
Live video generation API prices in each provider’s own billing unit, cheapest first.
The cheapest video generation API per second of video is PixVerse C1 Text To Video at $0.005 (fal.ai), of 40 models priced per second of video. Prices are the providers’ own billing units; endpoints billed differently are listed separately, never converted with assumptions.
Cheapest per second of video
Billed per video
| Model | Price per video | Provider | Source and observation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wan (v2.2-5b / text-to-video / fast-wan)Qwen (Alibaba) | $0.025 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| LTX Video-0.9.7 13B DistilledUnattributed (via fal) | $0.04 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Kandinsky5 (distill)Unattributed (via fal) | $0.05 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| PixVerse V5.5 Text To VideoPixVerse | $0.05 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Infinity StarUnattributed (via fal) | $0.07 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Kandinsky5Unattributed (via fal) | $0.08 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Wan (v2.2-5b / text-to-video / distill)Qwen (Alibaba) | $0.08 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Vidu (q2 / text-to-video)Vidu | $0.10 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Wan (v2.2-a14b / text-to-video / turbo)Qwen (Alibaba) | $0.10 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Wan v2.2 5B (text-to-video)Qwen (Alibaba) | $0.15 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Kandinsky5 Pro (text-to-video)Unattributed (via fal) | $0.20 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Pika Text to Video (v2.2)Pika | $0.20 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Hunyuan VideoUnattributed (via fal) | $0.40 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Pika Text to Video (v2.1)Pika | $0.40 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Wan-2.1 Text-to-VideoQwen (Alibaba) | $0.40 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| MiniMax (Hailuo AI) Video 01 DirectorMiniMax | $0.50 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
| Wan-2.1 Text-to-Video with LoRAsUnattributed (via fal) | $0.75 | fal | fal2026-10-17 |
Method and caveats
One row per model: its cheapest priced offer in that billing unit. Endpoints that differ only by language or voice at the same price are shown once. Resolution, duration, steps and quality settings change the real cost per output; check the source before use. Most of these prices are resale prices from the source shown (for example fal), not the model developer’s own list price. Missing prices are unknown, not free.