I Worked Out Exactly What Everything on Gendia Costs: Here's the Whole Price List

The first time I ran a 30-second video I watched my credit balance drop by four figures and thought I'd broken something.

I hadn't. That's just what long video costs, and once I understood why, I cut my spending on the same work by about 80% without changing the output at all.

So here's the whole price list, with real numbers, plus the habit that makes the biggest difference. If you've ever searched "how many credits does AI video cost" or "why is my balance dropping so fast," this is the answer.

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The one rule that explains everything

Video costs roughly ten to a hundred times more than an image.

A still from Z Image is 5 credits. A 30-second Seedance 2.5 render can be 9,900. That's not a pricing quirk: a video is hundreds of frames, each one about as much work as a still, and the model has to keep them all coherent on top.

So when you plan a budget, count your videos. Images are almost free by comparison.

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What images cost

Model	Credits
Flux Schnell	2.5
Z Image	5
Flux Dev	10
Qwen Image	15
Nano Banana · Flux Kontext · Seedream 4.0/4.5/5.0 Lite	20
GPT Image 1.5	20–110
Ideogram V3	20–50
Seedream 5.0 Pro	30–60
Grok	40
Nano Banana 2	50–90
Nano Banana Pro	75–125
GPT Image 2	10–200

Look at the spread there. Twenty Flux Schnell images cost less than one Nano Banana Pro render. That fact is the whole basis of the workflow further down.

See the number next to the diamond in that prompt bar? That's the real cost of the generation you're about to run, with your current settings already applied. It updates as you change the model or resolution.

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What video costs

Model	Credits
LTX Video	20–60
Grok Imagine 1.5	45–1,200
Seedance 1.0	50–700
Seedance 2.0 Fast	50–500
Seedance 1.5 Pro · 2.0	75–700
Seedance 2.0 Mini	80–650
Grok	100–300
Wan 2.6	100–500
Hailuo 2.0 / 2.3	150–1,000
Kling 2.1 – 3.0 (all variants)	150–1,500
Veo 3.1	230–1,750
Seedance 2.5	236–9,900

Why a range that wide?

Because three settings move it, and one of them dominates:

• Duration. This is the big one. Cost scales with seconds: a 30-second clip is not "a bit more" than a 5-second one.
• Resolution. 480p, 720p and 1080p are priced separately. On Seedance 2.5, 1080p carries about a 9.4% per-token premium over the flat 480p/720p rate.
• Audio and references, on the models that support them.

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Audio, music and 3D

What	Credits
Supertone TTS	0.2–1
Music Generation	40–60
Gentria (3D)	400

Text-to-speech is effectively free, under a credit per line. If you're making a voiceover for a video, the audio is a rounding error next to the footage it sits on. I stopped thinking about its cost entirely.

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What the photo tools cost

These are flat prices, no ranges:

Tool	Credits
Background remover	10
Photo restoration	20
AI photo retouch	20
Object remover	20
AI image resize	20
AI background change	20
Photo enhancer 2×	46
Photo enhancer 4×	185

Watch the enhancer. 4× costs four times what 2× does, because it's billed on output megapixels and 4× makes four times as many. If 2× gets you to the size you need, take it, I've wasted plenty of credits ignoring that.

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The plans

Plan	Credits	Monthly	Concurrent
Free (Starter)	250	₩0 / $0	1
Basic	2,750	₩13,900 / $9	3
Creator	25,000	₩91,900 / $59	10
Elite	70,000	₩247,900 / $159	15

Annual is cheaper per month on every paid tier, Basic ₩142,800 / $96 a year, Creator ₩934,800 / $600, Elite ₩2,530,800 / $1,620.

That last column matters more than I expected. Concurrent generations is how many things can run at once. On Free you wait for each attempt; on Creator you can fire ten variations of a video prompt simultaneously. When you're hunting for the right result, that's the difference between an afternoon and ten minutes.

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The workflow that cut my bill by 80%

This is the actual point of the article.

Step 1: Draft on the cheapest thing that moves

For images, that's Flux Schnell (2.5) or Z Image (5). For video, LTX Video (20–60). You are not trying to make the final asset here. You're finding out whether the composition works, whether the motion idea is any good, whether the framing is right.

Step 2: Keep test video short and small

Duration is the biggest multiplier there is, so test at 4–5 seconds and 480p. Prove the idea cheaply. A five-second 480p draft costs a tiny fraction of a 30-second 1080p render, and it tells you almost everything you need to know.

Step 3: Only then spend the real credits

Once you know exactly what you want, run it once on the model you actually wanted, Seedream 5.0 Pro, Nano Banana Pro, Seedance 2.5, at full length and full resolution.

Step 4: Edit instead of re-rolling

If one element is wrong, don't regenerate the whole thing and hope. Use an editing model or a photo tool to change that one thing. It's cheaper and it doesn't disturb everything else that was already right.

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A few smaller habits worth having

• Use references instead of longer prompts. One reference image gets you there in a single generation, where describing the same thing takes five attempts.
• Upscale once, at the end. Not in the middle of your process.
• Glance at the number before you press go. It's right there, and it already accounts for your settings. Two seconds of attention saves a lot of credits.

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Try it on the free tier

The Free plan gives you 250 credits a month, no card needed. That's a hundred Flux Schnell images, or twenty-five background removals, or a handful of short LTX videos, plenty to work out whether the platform suits you.

Start on the cheap models, spend nothing finding out what you want, and only then reach for the expensive ones. Open Gendia and see how far a couple of hundred credits actually goes.