Write, generate and preview as much as you like. You pay only to export a finished video, billed to the second. Narration is the one exception: it runs on your own voice provider's key and is billed to you by them — see below.
Generated from the same rate card the server charges with.
| Quality | 30s | 1 min |
|---|---|---|
| 720p Watermarked · 2 free a month | Free | Free |
| 1080p (Full HD) | $0.50 | $1.00 |
| 2K (QHD) | $0.75 | $1.50 |
| 4K (Ultra HD) | $1.25 | $2.50 |
Billed to the second — a 12-second clip costs 12 seconds. Paid exports carry no watermark.
Estimates at 1080p. Balance never expires.
First HD export free. Re-exports cost nothing, upgrades charge only the difference, and voice is billed separately by your own provider.
What is included, what is billed elsewhere, and what happens when something goes wrong.
Yes — and it is a separate bill from a different company, so it is worth knowing before you plan a long video. Narration is not generated on our machines. A narrated explainer speaks through your own ElevenLabs, Cartesia or Sarvam AI account, using an API key you connect yourself, and an uploaded recording is transcribed on that same key. Every second of speech is charged to you directly by that provider, at whatever their plan costs you. None of it passes through your Idea to Motion balance, and we take no cut of it and add no markup — but nothing on this page covers it either.
The export price above is the render and nothing else. If you would rather not hold a voice provider account at all, silent motion graphics need no voice key: the on-screen text is the content, there is no speech to synthesise, and such a video costs exactly what the rate card says and not a cent anywhere else.
Because the expensive part of an AI video is the model doing the thinking, and on the path most people use, that model is not ours. When you drive Idea to Motion from an MCP client, your own assistant writes the script, the scene directions and the animation code for every scene — we spend no model time on your behalf. Voice runs on your key, as above. The preview you scrub through in the editor is rendered by your browser, not by our servers.
That leaves one cost that genuinely scales with how much you use the product: the server render that turns a finished composition into a downloadable file. It scales with length multiplied by resolution, which is exactly what the table above prices. Everything else is free because it is nearly free for us, not as a trial that runs out.
You are never charged twice for the same video. Each video remembers the most it has ever been paid for, and an export only ever charges the difference against that mark — so re-exporting after a failed render, a scene you rewrote, a re-cut, a framing fix or an audio change costs nothing at all. Fixing a video is not a new purchase.
Moving an already-paid video to a higher resolution charges only the gap between the two prices, and pulling it at a lower one never charges anything. If the money is taken but the render never starts, it is returned to your balance automatically.
To the second, with no minimum and no rounding up. A 12-second clip is billed as 12 seconds. The duration used is the finished composition's real runtime measured at export time — not an estimate from the script's word count — and part-seconds are always dropped in your favour, so a video that runs a fraction over never costs the next whole second.
At $1.00 a minute for 1080p, that puts a 30-second short at $0.50 and a full minute at $1.00. Higher tiers multiply that figure; the table above shows each one.
No. There is no expiry date, no monthly reset and no subscription to keep alive — money you add stays there until you spend it on an export. A top-up is worth exactly what you paid for it: $5.00 buys $5.00 of balance. There are no bonus tiers and no conversion into points or credits, which is the whole reason the balance is held in dollars in the first place.
The smallest top-up is $5.00, about 5 minutes of finished 1080p video. Balance belongs to your account and cannot be transferred to another one.
A free export carries a small Idea to Motion lock-up — the logo and the name, in a translucent pill in one corner of the frame. It is on the downloaded file and, deliberately, on the preview you watch in the editor too: a clean preview beside a marked download would just mean the free tier is a screen recording away.
The mark belongs to the video, not to the tier. Pay for any export of a video and it disappears from that video everywhere, including from the preview and from any free pull you take of it afterwards. Every new account also gets its first HD export free, so the first clean file you make costs nothing.
480p and 720p exports cost nothing, up to 2 a month, and they are watermarked. A free export is still a full server render, which is why it is counted rather than unlimited; the browser preview, which is not, stays unlimited.
One thing worth knowing: a free export does not count as paying for the video, so it does not unlock the free re-exports described above. Pulling the same free video a second time spends another of the month's allowance. Paying for a video once removes it from that arithmetic permanently.
Dodo Payments is our merchant of record. When you add balance they take the payment, handle whatever sales tax or VAT applies where you are, and issue the invoice — which is why their name, rather than ours, is the one on your receipt. Your card details go to them and are never seen or stored by us.
Top-ups are one-time purchases. Nothing recurring is created, so there is no plan to remember to cancel.
Unused balance can be refunded within 14 days of the purchase that created it — email us from your account address and we will send it back. Money already spent on exports is not refundable, but a bad render should never be a loss: because re-exporting a video you have paid for is free, the answer to a render that failed or came out unusable is to fix it and run it again at no charge.
If that does not resolve it, write to us at adesharajeet@gmail.com anyway and we will make it right.