$19 buys 1,000 credits on the 8frame Starter plan, and a credit is $0.01 at top-up pack rate. So the question is really "how many credits does one clip cost," and the answer swings by a factor of twenty depending on which model you point at. 41 clips on the cheapest good tier. 2 on the most expensive. Here is the full arithmetic, including the part most pricing pages leave out.
TL;DR
- 1,000 credits on the $19 Starter plan, rolling over while you stay subscribed
- Cheapest: Wan 3.0 at 480p, 24 credits per 5 seconds, so 41 clips
- Best value with audio: Veo 3.1 Lite, 54 credits per 8 seconds, so 18 clips
- Most expensive: Veo 3.1 Standard, 448 credits per 8 seconds with audio, so 2 clips
- The number that actually matters is clips you keep, not clips you generate. At a 1-in-3 keep rate every figure below divides by three
The full table
Canon 8frame prices, a credit is $0.01 at pack rate:
| Model | Clip | Credits | Clips for $19 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wan 3.0 (480p) | 5s silent | 24 | 41 |
| Veo 3.1 Lite | 4s with audio | 27 | 37 |
| Veo 3.1 Lite | 8s silent | 33 | 30 |
| Wan 3.0 Prime | 5s, any resolution | 34 | 29 |
| Runway Gen-4 Turbo | 5s (8 cr/s) | 40 | 25 |
| Wan 3.0 (720p) | 5s silent | 48 | 20 |
| Wan 2.2 (720p) | 5s silent | 50 | 20 |
| Veo 3.1 Lite | 8s with audio | 54 | 18 |
| Kling v3 Standard | 5s silent | 57 | 17 |
| Kling v3 Standard | 5s with audio | 86 | 11 |
| Hailuo H3 (2K) | 5s | 88 | 11 |
| Wan 3.0 (1080p) | 5s silent | 95 | 10 |
| Higgsfield Standard | 5s 720p | 95 | 10 |
| Wan 2.5 (1080p) | 5s | 102 | 9 |
| Seedance 2.0 (720p) | 5s | 108 | 9 |
| Kling v3 Pro | 5s with audio | 114 | 8 |
| Gemini Omni Flash | 8s with audio | 135 | 7 |
| Seedance 2.5 (720p) | 5s | 157 | 6 |
| Veo 3.1 Fast | 8s with audio | 168 | 5 |
| Veo 3.1 Standard | 8s with audio | 448 | 2 |
The part pricing pages leave out
You do not keep every clip. A realistic keep rate on a shot you have not composed yet is one in three, sometimes one in five for anything with a difficult physical event in it. So the honest reading of the table above is: 41 Wan clips is really about 13 usable ones, and 2 Veo Standard clips is really zero, because you cannot land a shot in two attempts without having already worked out the composition somewhere cheaper.
That is the whole argument for a mixed workflow rather than a favourite model.
Audio is a price dimension, not a setting. Kling v3 Standard is 57 credits silent and 86 with audio. Veo 3.1 Lite is 33 silent and 54 with audio at 8 seconds. If you are scoring to music anyway, the silent tier is the correct one and it is a third cheaper.
Resolution defaults can cost you 4x. Wan 3.0 defaults to 1080p, which is 95 credits for 5 seconds rather than 24 at 480p. The model you chose because it was cheap will quietly bill four times what you expected unless you set the resolution deliberately.
What a real month looks like
Here is 1,000 credits spent the way it actually gets spent, producing one finished 30-second piece with six shots:
| Step | Route | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Block 12 compositions | Wan 3.0 480p at 24 | 288 |
| Iterate the 6 survivors | Veo 3.1 Lite silent at 33 | 198 |
| Finish 5 shots with audio | Kling v3 Standard at 86 | 430 |
| Finish the hero shot | Veo 3.1 Fast at 168 | 168 |
| Total | 1,084 |
Slightly over, which is the honest answer: one properly iterated 30-second piece is roughly a Starter month. Drop the Veo Fast hero and use Kling for all six and it comes to 1,002, exactly on plan.
If you are producing more than one finished piece a month, the $49 Creator plan's 3,000 credits is the tier that matches, and at that point you are paying about $0.016 per credit rather than $0.019.
The comparison nobody makes honestly
$19 for a month of this is cheap against a shoot and expensive against nothing. What it genuinely replaces: stock footage subscriptions, a few hours of a freelancer's motion work, and the cost of not testing an idea because testing was expensive.
What it does not replace: a camera pointed at a real person. That remains the highest-converting video most businesses can make, and it is free.
FAQ
Do unused credits expire? Subscription credits roll over while your plan is active, and one-time top-up packs never expire.
Is there a free tier? The canvas is free and unlimited, including multiplayer and comments. Generation is paid from $19/month, and signup grants no credits.
What is the cheapest way to test whether this works for me? Open the canvas without signing up, build the board, and see whether the workflow fits before paying for any generation.
Mix the tiers, set the resolution, keep the clip. The 8frame canvas is free and unlimited, and generation is paid from $19/month.