Video AI Cost Calculator
Compare API vs self-hosted cost for AI video generation — per second, per day, per month
Cost Calculator
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Each GPU runs an independent generation job — throughput scales nearly linearly. Best for batch workloads.
How billing works
Self-hosted
You rent/buy the GPU and pay for the hours the GPU is busy generating. Cost = GPU price × generation time. Fast for batches, slow per-video.
API
You pay per second of generated video content, regardless of how fast it renders. Simple, no hardware, but adds up for heavy use.
Video Generation Models
Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-14B
Wan2.1-T2V-14B →
480p · 24fps · 24GB 720p · 24fps · 48GB
13.8B 680K
Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanVideo
HunyuanVideo →
480p · 24fps · 30GB 720p · 24fps · 60GB
13B 420K
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b
CogVideoX-5b →
480p · 24fps · 20GB 720p · 24fps · 32GB
5B 360K
stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid-xt
SVD-XT →
480p · 14fps · 16GB
1.5B 340K
Wan-AI/Wan2.2-T2V-5B
Wan2.2-T2V-5B →
720p · 24fps · 24GB
5B 210K
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 →
720 · 24fps · 24GB
33.1B 59.4K