The AI Video Cost Estimator — Free Edition

Every AI video freelancer has asked the same question: what does this actually cost me to make? The AI Video Cost Estimator (Free Edition) is the compact, honest answer: how AI video pricing really works (per-second vs. credit billing, subscriptions vs. top-ups), an indicative cost reference table across Veo, Runway, Kling, Sora, and Luma, the retry-multiplier rule that keeps jobs profitable, a fully worked 15-second spot budget, and a one-page budget planner worksheet. Free forever. When you're ready to turn estimates into proposals, contracts, and paid invoices, the AI Commercial Pricing & Proposal Kit picks up exactly where this leaves off. By Raghavendra Iyer, Founder & Creative Director of Double Shot Film Studio (Chennai), 22 years in advertising film, and founder of AINewZ. For the creators, by a creator.