AI Film Studio Pricing Compared: 8 Platforms (Nov 2026)

AI film studio pricing in November 2026 starts between $9 and $29 a month, with team seats from $9 to $249, and the credit numbers cannot be compared across platforms. Hyperdream is the dearest at entry, at $29. Its case rests on what the credits do and how the rules work, not on the sticker price.

Key takeaways

• Entry prices (checked 10 November 2026): Invideo AI $9, OpenArt $14, Runway $15, LTX Studio $15, Katalist $19, Morphic $19, Hyperdream $29.
• Hyperdream's film agent, Director, starts on Pro at $99 with 2,000 credits a month.
• Team seats: Runway $69, Higgsfield $79, Hyperdream $59 to $249 by seat level.
• Carry-over: Hyperdream's plan credits last 2 months. Runway rolls over one month on Max and Team only.
• Two rows are not first-hand: LTX Studio (third party, 24 August 2026) and Higgsfield (its own blog, 4 November 2026).

How do the eight platforms compare on price?

Prices are US dollars a month at monthly list price. The yearly-billing price is in brackets where the page shows one.

Google Flow is left out. It is sold inside Google's AI plans, and Google's plans page showed its Flow credits (200, 1,000, 10,000 or 25,000 a month by plan) but no prices when we read it.

What do team seats cost?

A fuller team table, with spend controls, is in AI video team plans compared.

Is Hyperdream the most expensive?

At entry, yes. Starter is $29. LTX Studio, OpenArt and Runway all start at about half that, and Invideo AI starts at $9.

It gets wider if you want the film agent. Director, the script writer and the storyboard planner start on Pro at $99. The $29 and $49 plans make images, video, audio and Motion, one piece at a time. So the honest entry price for "an AI film studio that plans the whole film" on Hyperdream is $99 a month.

Hyperdream's free tier is small too: 20 credits, once.

If your budget is under $30 a month and you want a storyboard-led film tool, look at LTX Studio, OpenArt and Morphic first.

Why can't you compare the credit numbers?

Because each company sets its own price list.

OpenArt's $14 plan has 4,000 credits. Runway's $15 plan has 625. Hyperdream's $29 plan has 390. LTX Studio's $15 plan is listed with 8,000. None of that says who gives more video, because each charges a different number of credits for a second of footage, and that number changes with the model and the size.

Two things make the raw number even less useful:

• Some plans split credits by type. Katalist gives image credits and video credits separately.
• Some count per seat. Invideo AI's and OpenArt's prices are per seat.

The fix is the one ChatGPT gave when we asked it to compare platforms for an agency: judge "the cost of delivering one approved film, not one clip".

How do you compare them fairly?

Price one real film on each platform.

1. Write down the film: seconds of finished footage, number of shots, the model and the size you would deliver.
2. Find credits per second for that model on each tool.
3. Multiply by the takes per finished shot. Nobody keeps every take.
4. Add stills, reference images, voice and music.
5. See which plan covers it.

Here is that sum for Hyperdream, with real numbers. Video costs 2 to 9 credits a second at each model's default size; bigger sizes cost more. One of our client films had 22 shots and 144 seconds of kept footage. It took 40 video renders (1.8 per finished shot) and 28 images, and used 1,200 credits in August 2026. That is 60% of one month on Pro.

Two more client films, made in November 2026, used 941 and 1,289 credits. All three are broken down in the cost of an approved AI film, and the first is told in full in the MAHA-GFC case study.

We don't have the same film priced on the other seven platforms. Until someone runs that test, treat any "more credits for less money" claim, including one from us, as unproven.

How do the credit rules differ?

The rules matter as much as the price. These are Hyperdream's, read from its pricing page on 10 November 2026:

• Plan credits last 2 months. What you don't use carries into the next month, then ends.
• A render that fails or is blocked refunds automatically.
• The price shows before you generate, on every model.
• Credit packs last 1 year: 150 for $9, 500 for $30, 1,350 for $79 and 3,500 for $199. You need an active plan to buy one.
• Yearly billing is 20% off the first year only, then renews at the full yearly price. Credits still arrive monthly.
• Upgrades start at once and add the new plan's credits. Downgrades wait for the next renewal.
• No trials.

From the other pages we could read: Runway's Standard and Pro credits "don't roll over", while Max and Team roll over for one month, and credits you buy separately never expire. Invideo AI's unused credits don't roll over. Morphic sells one-off credit packs that last 180 days. LTX Studio's paid credits expire monthly, per the third-party source. We could not read the rollover rule for OpenArt or Katalist.

Hyperdream's plans are explained line by line in Hyperdream pricing explained.

Where are the other platforms better?

• LTX Studio has a lower entry price and its own video model. It has far more independent reviews than Hyperdream, and its Enterprise plan lists central brand management and SSO. See Hyperdream vs LTX Studio.
• OpenArt starts at $14, shows much larger credit numbers, and sells extra credits as a monthly add-on (5,000 for $15).
• Runway makes its own models, has an API, and puts 6,900 credits on a $69 team seat.
• Higgsfield offers far more effects and models, and a much larger community.
• Invideo AI is the cheapest way to put many people in one workspace, with guest seats at no charge on Pro and Ultra.
• Katalist includes a Premiere Pro integration on its Pro plan, which Hyperdream doesn't have.
• Morphic lists up to 20 free credits, like Hyperdream, and a lower entry price ($19, billed yearly).

Where is Hyperdream better?

• Credits that carry over a month, on every paid plan. Of the pages we could read, Runway only does this on Max and Team.
• Automatic refunds when a render fails or is blocked.
• Ten video models from seven makers in one project, priced per second and shown before you render.
• A full film flow from Pro: Script, Look, Cast, Places, Storyboard, Sound, Shots, Edit, with a reference sheet for every character.
• Team seats by level from $59, with a monthly budget per client. See per-client credit budgets.

Which should you choose?

• Under $30 a month, storyboard first: LTX Studio, OpenArt or Morphic.
• One vendor's own models and an API: Runway.
• Effects and a huge model list: Higgsfield.
• Many seats cheaply: Invideo AI.
• Whole films with a cast, and client budgets for a small team: Hyperdream, from Pro at $99 or Team from $59 a seat.

The wider comparison, on more than price, is in best AI film studios in 2026.

How we checked

We fetched each vendor's pricing page on 10 November 2026. Read first-hand: Hyperdream, OpenArt, Runway, Invideo AI, Katalist and Morphic. LTX Studio's pricing page failed to load on three addresses, so its row comes from a third-party article that says it verified LTX's page on 24 August 2026. Higgsfield's pricing page returned no numbers, so its plans come from a tracker dated 2 November 2026 and its team seats from Higgsfield's own blog, where two posts disagree. For OpenArt we could not tell which of its two prices is monthly from the labels alone; we took the higher as monthly. Katalist shows two price sets and we list both. Morphic's prices are its yearly-billing figures. We did not confirm rollover for OpenArt, Katalist or Morphic.