AI Video Pricing Is a Mess. Here's How to Actually Calculate It.

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

Nobody tells you what 30 AI videos per month actually costs.** You open Runway's pricing page. It says "125 credits included". You open Kling's page. It says "monthly tokens". Luma says "generations per day". None of them define what a "credit" translates to in dollars for your specific workflow. So you guess. You launch a project. Three weeks later you get a bill that's 3x what you planned. I hit this problem enough times that I built a calculator to stop guessing: AI Video Studio Cost Planner. Here's the math behind it.