Working tools rather than lead magnets. No signup, no email, nothing to buy — they run in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

What an AI video actually costs

Every AI video tool quotes a per-second price. None of them tell you what a finished video costs, because the number that matters is how many seconds you generate to keep the ones you use. Set your runtime, how much of it talks, and how many takes you need — and get a real budget, from rates we measured making an episode rather than from a pricing page.

Most calculators assume every take is a keeper. This one has a slider for that, because it is the line item that decides the bill.

Which AI video model should you use

Two questions — what you are making, and how much of it talks — and you get the engine to use for each type of shot. The routing comes from the same production, including the failure modes that cost us takes: hands, identity drift at mid-distance, and a platform that refused to generate our host’s face at all.

Why these are free

Because the interesting part is the measurements behind them, and measurements are worth more published than locked away. If a tool here saves you money, the guides explain the reasoning, and some of those carry affiliate links — which is how the site pays for itself. Nothing on this page does.