Nine official list prices plus two third-party figures, all billed per second. You assemble the script, storyboard and voiceover yourself. This is the transparent end of the market — and the most expensive per second once you cross into 2K and 4K tiers.
Online models · 20Model APIs and platform workbenches, cheapest first; the 20 online quotes contain no estimates. The 12 open-source models have no per-second price, so their one-time GPU cost (an estimate that may rise) is shown on a separate page.
Range ¥0.09 – ¥5.05Spread 56×
Model layer · 11Official API keys billed per second. You assemble the workflow yourself.
Range ¥0.09 – ¥5.05Quotes 11
Platform layer · 6Credits converted to cost per second. Switching model inside one platform can change the price 4×.
Range ¥0.476 – ¥2.28Quotes 7
Open source · 12Free weights are not free hardware: you buy the GPU up front. One-time estimates, subject to price rises. Six of the twelve are Apache 2.0; the floor is a single 5090, the ceiling 8× H100.
Apache 2.0 6 / 12Hardware from ≈ ¥24,000
Overseas · 7Official per-second API prices from Google / Runway / Luma / xAI / Pika, converted at the 2026-11-10 PBoC mid rate (1 USD = ¥6.7167) so they sort in the same unit as the domestic rows; the USD list price stays in each subtitle. Subscription-only tools (Midjourney, Firefly) and the retired Sora 2 API are not included.
Range ¥0.134 – ¥0.806Spread 6×
Model layer Direct
Buy an API key or subscription straight from the vendor. The most transparent option, billed per second — but you assemble the script, storyboard and voiceover yourself. Currently as low as ¥0.09/sec.
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Sorted by cost per second, cheapest first · click a column header to reversePrices updated 2026-11-10 · 0 days ago
Price comparison table
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Platform / model
Layer
Price▲
vs Seedance 1080P
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APIBest valueVidu Q4 Preview↗Shengshu Technology · launch pricing, released 2026-10-08
APIWan3.0-Video 720P↗Alibaba Cloud Model Studio · official list ¥0.60/sec, 30% off through Nov
Model
¥0.60
▼ ×0.95
20
APIKling 4.0↗Kuaishou · 2026-10-21 API launch, third-party benchmark ¥0.90/sec
Model
¥0.90
▲ ×1.43
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Methodology: how these numbers are computed
CNY/sec = official list price ÷ billed seconds; credit platforms = plan price ÷ seconds that tier can produce. Overseas layer = USD list price × PBoC (CFETS) mid rate (currently 2026-11-10, 1 USD = ¥6.7167). Open source has no per-second price — the cost is one-time hardware (GPU estimates, may rise) plus power and time, hence a separate page. Subscription-only tools (Midjourney, Firefly) and retired APIs are not collected; anything computable is computed. The only estimates are the open-source GPU prices, labelled as such and subject to change — check live listings before buying.
Compare the spec before the price. A per-second figure only compares when it is the same model at the same resolution. Pixmax, Special Cat, updream and Seko are normalised to Seedance 2.0 / 720P; Skylark, TapNow and the Seedance 2.5 retail row are Seedance 2.5 full 720P — the two groups are not interchangeable. Most credit-based platforms never publish per-clip consumption, so those rows use subscription fee ÷ seconds that tier can produce.
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