Costs and Settings

Read per-run, scene, story, and account estimates in Movie Studio while treating provider invoices as final.

Cost estimates in Movie Studio

Movie Studio shows an estimate before a World, still, or motion run when a verified provider rate is available. Unverified rates are labeled Not tracked instead of inventing a number. Its cost panel also summarizes tracked usage for the account, current story, story images, story motion, and the selected scene.

What changes an estimate

• Still and World: image model, quality, frame shape, and number of generated images.
• Motion: motion model, output quality, and duration.
• Provider differences: Google, OpenAI, Replicate, and fal have different rates and billing rules.
• Uncertain attempts: when a provider handoff may have succeeded, Movie Studio shows the possible billed exposure separately.

The local estimator uses published output rates where a verified rate is available. Prompt tokens, reference inputs, search grounding, retries, taxes, provider-side adjustments, and future pricing changes may not be included.

Every amount in Movie Studio is an estimate unless an actual cost is recorded. Check the provider dashboard for the final charge.

Cost-safe workflow

1. Approve composition and continuity with stills before generating motion.
2. Check This run beside Generate still, Generate motion, or Generate reference.
3. Start with the shortest useful motion duration.
4. Do not immediately repeat an attempt marked as possibly billed. Let recovery finish or verify the provider result first.

Settings to review

• Product access and refund-window status.
• Saved and tested Gemini, OpenAI, Replicate, and fal keys.
• Provider rate table and tracked 24-hour or all-time usage.
• Model availability before beginning a scene.