How credits work

VidNext is credit-based: you top up credits, and production work deducts them. Credits never expire.

What a video costs

The headline rate is about 50 credits per finished minute — calibrated to the real production cost of a video. Typical estimates:

The create page always shows a live estimate Show me in the app ↗ — "Est. cost: ~N credits" — before you generate, and your billing page shows your actual average cost per minute based on completed projects.

Costs include script generation, video analysis, narration, image generation, and rendering.

Things that change the estimate

• Your own TTS API key Show me in the app ↗ — connect your ElevenLabs key for 50% off the narration portion
• Custom script Show me in the app ↗ — supplying your own script skips script generation, lowering the estimate
• Non-English output — slightly higher than English
• Enhanced Fact-Check Show me in the app ↗ — adds a small surcharge for the extra web-search verification steps

The live estimate on the create page always reflects your exact settings.

Where to see your spending

Your balance is always visible in the top bar Show me in the app ↗. The Billing page shows your balance Show me in the app ↗ and lifetime totals, and every charge is itemized in Transaction History with its exact cost and your running balance:

Every project also gets its own per-step cost breakdown Show me in the app ↗, so you can see exactly where the credits went:

How charging works

Credits are reserved when generation starts and reconciled when it finishes. If the video costs less than estimated, the difference is released back; you only ever pay for the work actually performed — you can see the reservation and the reconcile as separate entries in your credit history Show me in the app ↗:

The same applies to per-step redos — each redo bills only the new step's actual cost — and to aborted renders, which charge only the compute already used.

Smaller charges appear for optional extras, always shown before you commit: thumbnail variants (1–8 credits each depending on the image model in use — the exact figure is shown next to the generate button), YouTube metadata (~5–15 credits), video-reference analysis (~1–12 credits depending on length), and Gemini TTS voice tests beyond the free allowance (1 credit each). Failed generations aren't charged.

Concurrent generations

During beta, new accounts generate one video at a time; the limit grows automatically as your account's total credits grow. If you hit the cap, the app tells you — just wait for a running generation to finish.