19 Video Models on Gendia: How to Pick the Right One (and Not Burn Your Credits)

I'll save you the mistake I made: I picked the most impressive-sounding video model, set it to 30 seconds at 1080p, wrote a prompt I hadn't tested, and pressed generate.

It cost about as much as a hundred images. And the motion idea didn't work, which I could have found out for 40 credits.

Video is where credits actually go on Gendia, and almost all of the waste is avoidable. Here's what the 19 models are for, and the order to use them in. If you've searched "Seedance vs Kling vs Veo" or "best AI video generator," start here.

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The cheat sheet

If you want…	Use	Credits
To test whether an idea moves	LTX Video	20–60
A long ad, finished, in one go	Seedance 2.5	236–9,900
Maximum resolution	Kling 3.0	150–1,500
One beautiful cinematic beat	Veo 3.1	230–1,750
A solid mid-price all-rounder	Seedance 2.0	75–700
Volume social clips	Seedance 2.0 Fast	50–500

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First: why the ranges are so wide

Before the models, the thing that actually sets your bill. Three settings move it, and one dominates:

• Duration. The big one. Cost scales with seconds, 30 seconds is not "a bit more" than five.
• Resolution. 480p, 720p and 1080p are priced separately.
• Audio and references, where supported.

So "236–9,900" isn't vagueness. It's the same model at its cheapest and its most expensive settings. The number shown before you press generate is the real one, with your settings already applied, glance at it every single time.

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The families

Seedance (ByteDance): 50 to 9,900

Six variants: 1.0, 1.5 Pro, 2.0, 2.0 Fast, 2.0 Mini, 2.5.

The most complete family here. Seedance 2.5 is the headline act, up to 30 seconds in one generation, with sound, and up to 50 reference inputs (30 images, 10 videos, 10 audio) to hold a face or a product steady across the whole thing. For a finished ad in a single pass, nothing else on the platform is close.

2.0 Fast (50–500) is the value pick, same lineage, roughly half the top end. I use it for anything going to social.

I wrote up the full Seedance 2.5 walkthrough with real 30-second clips, and the Seedance 2 guide still holds for the 2.0 line.

Kling (Kuaishou): 150 to 1,500

Six variants: 2.1, 2.5, 2.6, 2.6 MC, 3.0, 3.0 MC.

Kling wins on resolution, 3.0 does native 4K, which nothing else here matches. It also does multi-shot direction, up to six shots in a generation. The MC versions are motion-control: you dictate the camera move rather than describing it and hoping.

Reach for Kling when the thing has to survive a big screen.

Veo 3.1 (Google): 230 to 1,750

Cinematic, with native audio, but short, around 8 seconds. It's a shot tool, not an ad tool. Brilliant when you need one gorgeous moment rather than a sequence.

Hailuo (Minimax): 150 to 1,000

2.0 and 2.3. Characterful movement, often better at bodies and expression than the price suggests.

Grok / Grok Imagine 1.5 (xAI): 45 to 1,200

Loose and stylistic. Imagine 1.5 starts low enough to draft on.

Wan 2.6 (Alibaba): 100 to 500

A dependable mid-price generalist. Good for straightforward product motion.

LTX Video (Lightricks): 20 to 60

By far the cheapest video on Gendia. It won't match the frontier models on polish, but that's not what it's for. At 20–60 credits it tells you whether your idea moves well before you spend 1,500 finding out it doesn't.

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The order that saves the most

Step 1: Block it out on something cheap

LTX Video, or a short Seedance 2.0 Fast run. You're asking one question: does this motion idea work at all?

Step 2: Keep tests short and small

4–5 seconds, 480p. Duration is the biggest multiplier there is. A five-second 480p draft costs a sliver of a 30-second 1080p render and tells you nearly everything, pacing, whether the camera move reads, whether the subject holds together.

Step 3: Fix the prompt, not the model

If it's wrong, it's usually the description, not the engine. Rewrite and re-draft cheaply. Jumping to a pricier model rarely rescues a vague prompt.

Step 4: Now run the winner properly

Once, at full length and resolution, on the model you actually wanted.

Five cheap drafts plus one real render costs a fraction of six real renders. Doing it the other way round is how a month's credits vanish in an afternoon, ask me how I know.

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Choosing by what you're delivering

• A 15–30 second ad with sound → Seedance 2.5
• A 4K hero shot → Kling 3.0
• One cinematic beat → Veo 3.1
• Social clips at volume → Seedance 2.0 Fast
• Simple product motion → Wan 2.6
• "Does this even work?" → LTX Video

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Go and try it

All 19 share one balance, so switching costs nothing. Open the video generator, block something out on LTX for 40 credits, then run the same idea on Seedance 2.5 and watch the difference: that comparison is worth more than any table.

For the field beyond Gendia, see the best AI video generators of 2026. For the money side, the whole price list is here.