Commercial AI video tools

Talking scenes with a recurring cast, thanks to synced sound and saved character references

Pricing: Free Basic plan. Standard: $6.99 the first month, then $8.80/mo for 660 credits

Trying Seedance multi-shot scenes in ByteDance's own app before you pay for the API

Pricing: Free daily credits. Paid plans are priced by region, with 90% off the first month of eligible monthly plans

Veo 3.1 scenes with built-in sound, plus Characters, Ingredients to Video and Scenebuilder to string clips together

Pricing: Free with 50 credits a day. Google AI Plus $4.99/mo, AI Pro $19.99/mo, AI Ultra from $99.99/mo (prices vary by region)

Cheap drafts on MiniMax's H3 models, with Veo 3.1 also on paid plans

Pricing: Free trial credits, once. Standard is $14.99/mo list price, or $8.40/mo billed yearly

Long takes (Pro allows 10 to 30 second videos) from a model family you can also download and run yourself

Pricing: Free plan with daily check-in credits. Pro is $10/mo, or $5/mo billed yearly. API from $0.05/sec on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

Anime-style shots with several characters, using reference images to keep each one looking the same

Pricing: Trial credits for new users. API costs $0.035/sec (Q3-turbo, 540p) to $0.12/sec (Q3-pro, 1080p), half price off-peak

Getting Runway's Gen-4.5 plus Kling, Seedance and upscaling in one subscription

Pricing: Free: 125 credits, once. Standard is $15/mo, or $12/mo billed yearly

HDR and EXR video (high-end formats for color grading) from Luma's Ray models, plus other companies' models on the same credits

Pricing: Plans from $30/mo (Plus, 10,000 credits). Yearly billing saves up to 20%

Quick, stylized social clips, with lots of other companies' image and video models in the same plan

Pricing: Standard is $10/mo, or $8/mo billed yearly ($96)

Running Seedance, Kling, Veo, Hailuo and Wan from one API account, paying per clip from your own code

Pricing: Pay as you go. Each model page lists its price per second or per token

Running open video models by API, without renting or setting up your own GPUs

Pricing: Pay for what you use. For example, Wan 2.1 image-to-video costs $0.09 per second of 480p output

Using Kling, Seedance and other big models in Higgsfield's Cinema Studio, all from one pool of credits

Pricing: Free plan with limited use. Paid plans from $15/mo (Starter)

Turning an uploaded script into scenes, a storyboard and finished shots in one project

Pricing: Free: 800 credits, once (personal use). Lite is $15/mo, or $12/mo billed yearly

Mixing many image, video and lip-sync models, plus training a LoRA (a small add-on model) on your lead's face

Pricing: Free: 100 compute units a day. Basic is $9/mo, or $5.25/mo billed yearly

Shot-by-shot storyboards and animatics (rough moving storyboards) to send a co-writer or client for sign-off

Pricing: Free trial. Plans from $39/mo, or $26/mo billed yearly

Storyboarding with an AI script helper, then testing shots on Veo, Kling and other video models

Pricing: 7-day free trial. Essential is $19/mo (200 image and 700 video credits)

Writing in standard screenplay format when you plan to pitch a series to a studio or app

Pricing: Free 5-day trial. $16.99/mo or $99.99/yr, or buy a license you keep forever

Free screenplay formatting and outlining if you're not ready to pay for Final Draft

Pricing: Free plan. Paid plans from $69/yr

Brainstorming and drafting long serial stories, with tools that keep story details straight across a series

Pricing: Free trial, no credit card. Plans from $10/mo (up to 50% off with yearly billing)

Expressive voiceovers and cloned character voices to dub your episodes

Pricing: Free: 10k credits a month. Starter is $6/mo and Creator is $22/mo

Voice lines and music for your whole cast, paid by how much you use

Pricing: Audio plans from $5/mo (Starter, 100,000 audio points). Pay-as-you-go API too

Fixing lip sync for new dialogue or a translated dub on clips you've already made

Pricing: Try it free. Hobbyist is $5/mo plus $0.05 per second of video

Talking-avatar shots, with avatar, video and audio models in one place

Pricing: Free plan, no credit card. Basic is $20/mo (2,000 credits)

Translating finished episodes into other languages, with lips matched to the new audio

Pricing: Free: 3 videos a month, up to 1 min. Creator is $29/mo (600 credits)

Cutting episodes, adding auto captions and exporting 9:16 for TikTok and Reels

Pricing: Free editor. CapCut Pro is a paid upgrade priced by region, so check the official page

Cutting dialogue and fixing pacing by editing the transcript like a text document

Pricing: Free plan. Hobbyist is $24/mo, or $16/mo billed yearly

Matching colors between shots from different models so an episode looks like one show

Pricing: Free version. DaVinci Resolve Studio is a one-time $295 purchase

Upscaling (enlarging) 720p AI clips to 1080p or 4K before you publish

Pricing: Topaz Video is $299/yr. The Topaz Studio bundle is $399/yr (personal use)

Quick vertical edits and styled captions straight from your phone

Pricing: Free version. Max is $24.99/mo (iOS price)

Auto captions with ready-made styles and B-roll (extra cutaway footage) for short vertical clips

Pricing: Free trial. Plans from $12/mo per member, billed yearly

Custom music cues and theme songs, as long as you pay for a plan with commercial use

Pricing: Free: 50 credits a day, but no commercial rights. Pro is $10/mo and includes commercial use

Working out your show's look and making character reference images before you animate

Pricing: Plans from $10/mo (Basic), or $8/mo billed yearly

Free character sheets and keyframes (the still you animate) for image-to-video models

Pricing: Free: 150 fast tokens a day. Paid plans from $12/mo

Turning live footage into anime-style clips

Pricing: Free trial; paid plans from $9.9/mo