API pricing

The API and the MCP server spend the same credits as the studio, from the same balance, under the same spend caps. There is no separate API plan and no charge for calls themselves.

What costs creditsCopy Anchor Link

Only paid work costs credits: a new video's runs, new versions, variants, changes that remake paid work, and stage primitives. Each starts only through a spend confirmation, whose preview says what it costs before anything is spent. Reading, saving records, sharing and messaging the crew spend nothing.

Videos, variants and changesCopy Anchor Link

A video, a new version, variants and a change that remakes paid work are each charged a fixed price, shown before they start as the preview's quote:

• Its price (priceCredits) is fixed by what you choose: the length, the resolution, the variants, what the brief attaches, and the stages a change makes again. It is charged line by line as each stage is accepted (the script, the stills, the voice, the clips, and the finish when the video is rendered), so a video that stops partway is charged only the stages it kept.
• Correction rounds are charged at fixed prices too. When the critics send a stage back, the round costs that stage's price in corrections.rounds, at most corrections.maxCredits in all.
• The most it can cost (mostCredits) is its price plus every correction round its limits allow. A video is never charged more, so show this number first and its price beside it.
• What Probably pays: retries after a provider failure, refusals, the models and routes it picks, and a remake caused only by a failed technical check never change the price.

Until Probably switches fixed prices on, quote is null and work is metered: each paid call charges what it cost at Probably's rates.

Sandbox keys are free: their work replays recordings and charges nothing, and their previews show what it would have cost, marked sandbox.

Credits come with each plan, and more can be bought when you need them. Plans and their monthly credits are on the pricing page.

Stage primitivesCopy Anchor Link

A stage primitive runs one step of a video on its own. Each is metered like the studio's own work, at what its model calls and research cost at Probably's rates, and never charges more than its cap: research at most 100 credits, brainstorm at most 90 credits, write_script at most 90 credits, review of an artifact or an image at most 40 credits, and review of a video up to 60 s at most 55 credits. Its preview shows the cap as capCredits, and get_stage shows what it charged as chargedCredits. Past the cap, Probably pays; a stage that needs more corrections than usual costs you no more.

Audience research is metered the same way, up to its ceiling: its preview shows the ceiling as ceilingCredits, confirming holds all of it, and get_audience_research shows what it charged as chargedCredits. What it doesn't spend is released when it ends, a run you stop pays only for the calls it made, and past the ceiling Probably pays.

`generate_clip` charges each second of its clip at its route's rate: on the standard route the studio's own, 22.5 credits at 480p, 48 credits at 720p, and 118.5 credits at 1080p; on the test route (`route: "test"`, Seedance 2.0 Mini, a cheaper, lower-quality model for testing an integration) 2.85 credits at 480p and 6.15 credits at 720p. It holds the clip's seconds for the clip and 1 remake, which the critics may ask for, plus up to 55 credits for their review, which is metered like a model stage. Its preview's clip shows the seconds, one take's price, the takes held, the critics' cap, and withoutRemakeCredits, what it usually comes to (one take and the critics); they add up to capCredits. At the catalog's prices a 5-second clip at 480p holds 280 credits and usually charges one take (112.5 credits) and the critics' passes; on the test route it holds 83.5 and usually charges 14.25 and the passes. Each take is charged the price its preview showed, even if prices change before it runs. A take that fails, or that a route refuses, charges nothing; a clip with references that a route refuses goes to the next route that can make it, at the same price. A remake's second review round is Probably's, within the cap. A video whose clips staff pinned to another model takes no generate_clip: run it on another video or a new draft.

`voice` charges 13.05 credits per 1,000 characters of its lines at the catalog's prices (the studio's dearest speech and its transcription, so it moves with the studio's prices), and at least 5 credits a call. It takes up to 20 lines of up to 1000 characters, 5000 in all, and holds a take of them for the lines and 1 re-reading of the lines the critics send back, plus up to 40 credits for their review, which is metered like a model stage. Its preview's voice shows the characters, the rate per 1,000, one take's price (the characters' or the minimum), the takes held, the critics' cap, and withoutRemakeCredits; they add up to capCredits. Three short lines of 89 characters come to the 5-credit minimum, so they hold 50 credits and usually charge 5 and the critics' passes. The minimum is charged once a call, whatever is read again; a re-reading the critics ask for charges only the lines they sent back. A line that fails charges nothing, and the rate is the one its preview showed, even if prices change before it runs.

`storyboard` meters its producer and image critics like a model stage, at most 90 credits, and charges 4.5 credits for each still it draws; it holds the stills of its `scenes.max` scenes for the still and 1 redraw, which the critics may ask for. Its preview's storyboard shows the most scenes, one still's price, the stills held, the producer's and critics' cap, and withoutRedrawCredits, what it usually comes to at most (the cap and one still a scene); the cap and the held stills add up to capCredits. At the catalog's prices a storyboard of up to 5 scenes holds 135 credits and usually charges 5 stills (22.5 credits) and the passes. Each still is charged the price its preview showed, and a designed product still counts among its stills. A still that fails, or that a route refuses, charges nothing. A storyboard has no raw form yet: it is reviewed on every connection.

The other media stages (swaps and the finish) are coming, with their prices published here before any of them charges.

Raw generationCopy Anchor Link

A key or AI app connected with raw generation (see Authentication) makes its generate_clip and voice stages raw: no critics, no remake, and for a clip no realism check. A raw stage holds and charges its units alone: a clip's seconds at its route's rate, or a voice stage's characters (at least 5 credits). Its preview says raw: true, its clip or voice shows one take and no critics' cap, and get_stage shows no review. A call can pass raw: false for the reviewed path at its usual hold. Model stages (research, brainstorm, write_script, review) are never raw: the critics are what they sell.

How a stage is chargedCopy Anchor Link

• When it's confirmed, the cap is held from the balance (and counts against spend caps), so the balance dips by the cap while it runs.
• As it runs, each pass is charged what it cost, never more than the cap less what the stage has already charged.
• When it settles, the rest is released: reconciliation returns what it didn't use, usually within minutes of the run ending.
• A stage that ends without delivering (it paused on a blocker, or its review needs a decision) is charged the passes it ran, within the cap, as the studio's runs are. A call that failed or was refused charges nothing.