AI Video
Generators, editors and comparison pieces for AI video: text-to-video and image-to-video models, video upscalers and restylers, and side-by-side breakdowns of which platform produces what for how much (15 entries). Video pricing is the messiest on the site — plans are usually metered in credits, seconds, or export resolution rather than plain dollars — so the entries here spend most of their length on the pricing table: what the free tier gives you per day or per month, what a credit buys, where the watermark sits, and which plan removes it. All of those figures come from the platform's own pricing pages and carry the date they were checked, because these plans change often. The comparison entries list the same columns for several platforms side by side and state the conditions each figure was taken under. We do not claim a winner where we have not run the same input through both tools, and where a hands-on test exists it is labelled as one with a public log. Newest entries first, with a price snapshot table above the grid carrying every entry's price wording, evidence level and check date.
Price snapshot
Every entry in this category as one row, in the same newest-first order as the cards below. The price column is the opening line of what we captured from the vendor’s own page — hover or focus a cell for the complete wording, which is never rewritten — and the last column is the day that price was checked.
| # | Tool | Evidence | Price as published | Price checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | huashu-motion: Launch Films by Asking Your Coding Agent | Official prices checked | Free (MIT open source) | 2026-10-24 |
| 2 | Kling vs Runway vs Luma 2026: AI Video Platforms Compared | Official prices checked | $6.99–$300/mo | 2026-10-15 |
| 3 | Spira Maxima 1.0 Pricing 2026: $0.09 per Second | Official prices checked | Free: 50 credits | 2026-10-15 |
| 4 | ngram Pricing 2026: Credits, Free Tier and AI Video Plans | Official prices checked | Free: 600 one-time credits (60s) | 2026-10-14 |
| 5 | HyperFrames: Write HTML, Render MP4, Built for Agents | Official prices checked | Free (Apache-2.0, no license fee, no per-render charge) | 2026-10-11 |
| 6 | ReelMimic: Make a New Video in the Style of One You Love | Official prices checked | Free (MIT, no pricing page) | 2026-10-20 |
| 7 | MoneyPrinterTurbo: 126K-Star Open-Source Short Video Factory | Official prices checked | Free (MIT, self-hosted) | 2026-09-28 |
| 8 | MoneyPrinterTurbo vs Hypit 2026: Two Video Jobs | Official prices checked | Both free to run | 2026-09-28 |
| 9 | Snapgen AI: Multi-Model Video, $20/mo Veo Offer | Official prices checked | Free tier | 2026-09-28 |
| 10 | Hypit: Turn One Viral Video Into 100 Editable Variants | Official prices checked | Free source-available (modified Apache-2.0 with conditional… | 2026-09-29 |
| 11 | Hypit vs OpenStory 2026: Video Cloning vs Script-to-Shot | Official prices checked | Both free/open source | 2026-09-23 |
| 12 | OpenStory: Open-Source BYOK AI Video Platform | Official prices checked | Free (MIT) | 2026-09-21 |
| 13 | Remotion: Make Videos Programmatically in React | Official prices checked | Free for individuals and small teams | 2026-09-21 |
| 14 | Narrative: A Chat-Based AI Video Editor From $20/Month | Official prices checked | 3-day trial, then $20/mo (2,000 credits | 2026-09-18 |
| 15 | HeyGen Pricing 2026: What 600 Credits Actually Buy | Official prices checked | Free | 2026-10-19 |
huashu-motion: Launch Films by Asking Your Coding Agent
huashu-motion is an MIT-licensed Agent Skill that turns Claude Code, Codex, or any skill-capable coding agent into a motion-graphics director: give it a product URL and a length, it proposes three directions, writes a shot list, composes an original score (ABC notation rendered from local samples), and opens a browser editor where you click a frame and ask for a change. 1,546 stars within six days. GitHub API, raw README, and two third-party write-ups checked 2026-10-24.
Kling vs Runway vs Luma 2026: AI Video Platforms Compared
Kling vs Runway vs Luma, 2026: entry tiers from $6.99 to $300/mo, three different free-credit rules and the per-second math. Official pricing checked 2026-10-15.
Spira Maxima 1.0 Pricing 2026: $0.09 per Second
Spira Maxima 1.0 read from spira.ai on 2026-10-15: free-tier limits, the $15 and $59 plans, and the two per-second prices the vendor page prints.
ngram Pricing 2026: Credits, Free Tier and AI Video Plans
Official ngram pricing read 2026-10-14: Free one-time 60s allowance, Basic $29/mo, Premium $59, Ultimate $299, and what 10 credits per second of AI video really buys.
HyperFrames: Write HTML, Render MP4, Built for Agents
heygen-com/hyperframes — 60,412-star Apache-2.0 framework that turns an HTML page into a deterministic MP4, driven by a coding agent through skills and a CLI. No license fee, no per-render charge, no team-size threshold; the only cost is compute. GitHub API, README, release feed, docs and npm checked 2026-10-11.
ReelMimic: Make a New Video in the Style of One You Love
ReelMimic is an MIT-licensed local project — 1,785 GitHub stars in its first ten days — that breaks down a reference video's rhythm and look, then has up to six AI agents build an original 2D animation of it on your own machine, billed to your Claude Code or Codex plan rather than to ReelMimic.
MoneyPrinterTurbo: 126K-Star Open-Source Short Video Factory
harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo — the 126,516-star MIT pipeline that turns a topic or your own script into a finished HD short video: LLM writes the narration, stock APIs fetch footage, Edge TTS narrates free, MoviePy/FFmpeg render, and it publishes straight to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts. GitHub API, raw README, release feed and third-party reviews checked 2026-09-28.
MoneyPrinterTurbo vs Hypit 2026: Two Video Jobs
The two biggest open-source AI video workflows solve opposite ends of the same line: MoneyPrinterTurbo (126,516★, MIT, Python) assembles a finished short from a topic using stock footage and free Edge TTS; Hypit (17,091★, Apache-2.0 with conditions, TypeScript) clones an existing video into an editable SVML composition and renders 100 variants. Prices, licenses and pipelines verified 2026-09-28.
Snapgen AI: Multi-Model Video, $20/mo Veo Offer
Snapgen AI aggregates Veo, Grok, Seedance, Kling and image models behind one interface, with a limited $20/month Veo subscription and pay-as-you-go credits. What it does, what it costs, and the caps behind the "unlimited" banner.
Hypit: Turn One Viral Video Into 100 Editable Variants
Hypit is an open-source CLI that gives Claude Code and Codex a video language: point it at a reference video and the agent clones the workflow.
Hypit vs OpenStory 2026: Video Cloning vs Script-to-Shot
Two open-source AI video stacks, opposite starting points: Hypit (14,397-star agent CLI) turns an existing video into an editable project; OpenStory (640-star BYOK web platform) turns a script into a shot list. Both bill you in AI credits. Apache-2.0 with conditions vs MIT; verified 2026-09-23.
OpenStory: Open-Source BYOK AI Video Platform
openstory-so/openstory turns a script or one-liner into a shot-by-shot AI video with character consistency, built on TanStack Start + Bun with BYOK via fal.ai and OpenRouter. MIT license, stars, and facts checked 2026-09-21.
Remotion: Make Videos Programmatically in React
Remotion generates videos from React code and renders them server-side, including Lambda-scale batch rendering. License tiers differ between individuals and companies over 3 people.
Narrative: A Chat-Based AI Video Editor From $20/Month
Narrative (usenarrative.ai) is an AI-first video editor where you upload footage, describe the edit in chat, refine it turn by turn, and keep every version on a timeline you can still edit manually. Facts checked against the official site and Product Hunt on 2026-09-18: plans are $20, $40, and $100/month billed monthly with a 3-day trial, 4K no-watermark renders, and credit allowances from 2,000 to 10,000 per month; code PRODUCTHUNT adds 500 launch credits.
HeyGen Pricing 2026: What 600 Credits Actually Buy
HeyGen's 2026 plan ladder — Free (3 videos/mo), Creator $29 ($24 annual, 600 credits), Pro from $49 (1,000 credits, 4K), Business $149 + $20/seat — plus the credit-system math and the $5 pay-as-you-go option, checked against heygen.com on September 22, 2026.