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InVideo AI pricing: InVideo pricing plans, InVideo alternatives and InVideo cost per 30 second video
InVideo AI is a text-to-video generator. You type a prompt or paste a script, it assembles or generates the footage, adds a voiceover and returns an edited video. It sits in the same buying consideration as Pictory, VEED, Synthesia and HeyGen, and it is one of the harder tools in that group to budget for, not because it hides its prices but because it publishes two different kinds of number and only one of them determines what you pay.
The plan prices are on invideo.io/pricing and they are clear enough. The credit rates are not on that page. They are in the help center, in an article about generation quality, and they are the whole story: Basic, Pro and Ultra cost 2, 80 and 160 credits a minute respectively. Every roundup we read while writing this quotes the plan price and skips the rate, which is how you end up with articles confidently telling you InVideo costs 50 cents a video without saying which of the three modes they meant.
So that is what this page is. Every figure below came off InVideo's own pages on 31 August 2026, and we carried the arithmetic through to the cost of one thirty second video, in each generation mode, because a monthly price on its own is not a budget in a market where each vendor mints its own currency at its own rate.
One result is worth having before you read further. InVideo has the flattest credit ladder we have measured in this category. Moving from the $17 plan to the $900 plan, a 53 times increase in what you pay, buys about 6.6 percent off the price of a credit. Whatever the expensive tiers are for, they are not volume economics.
Where we sit in this is narrow and we will keep saying so. UGCMarketplace generates briefs and scripts. InVideo renders video. Those are different purchases and one is the input to the other.
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InVideo publishes four consumer prices, checked on invideo.io/pricing on 31 August 2026 with the annual toggle on: Plus $17 a month billed $200 yearly, Max $85 billed $1,000, Generative $170 billed $2,000 and Elite $900 billed $10,800. It meters in credits, and the credit rate is the number that decides your bill. InVideo's own help center puts Basic generation at 2 credits a minute, Pro at 80 and Ultra at 160, so on the $17 Plus plan the same 30 second video costs about 2 cents on Basic, 91 cents on Pro and $1.81 on Ultra. That is an 80 times spread inside one plan, and the pricing page illustrates the 750 credit allowance in image generations rather than video, so the headline number tells a buyer almost nothing. UGCMarketplace is not an InVideo alternative. We write the brief and the scene-by-scene script that InVideo takes as an input.
InVideo AI is a prompt-to-video generator aimed at creators, marketers and small teams: you describe the video or paste a script, and it assembles stock footage or generates new footage with third-party models, writes and reads a voiceover, and returns a finished edit you can refine by typing changes. It publishes Plus, Max, Generative and Elite plans and meters everything in credits. UGCMarketplace does not render video and is not a substitute for it. We produce the written UGC brief and the scene-by-scene script, including the opening three seconds and the technical spec, which is the input InVideo needs before it can generate anything worth publishing.
Side by side
InVideo vs UGCMarketplace, honestly
A fair look at what each does well, including the things they do that we do not. We write the brief; some of these actually supply the creator.
| What matters | UGCMarketplace | InVideo |
|---|---|---|
| What you are buying | A written UGC brief and a scene-by-scene video script for your product. Words, not footage | Rendered video: stock footage assembled or new footage generated from a prompt, with an AI voiceover, exported as an MP4 |
| Published pricing | Yes. First brief free with no account, Pro $29 a month, Studio $79 a month | Yes for the individual tiers. Plus $17 a month billed $200 yearly, Max $85 billed $1,000, Generative $170 billed $2,000, Elite $900 billed $10,800. Team and Enterprise are quoted separately |
| What the plan meters | Briefs and scripts generated | Credits. 750 a month on Plus, 3,900 on Max, 8,000 on Generative, 42,500 on Elite |
| Is the credit rate published? | Not applicable. Flat rate, not metered by length | Yes, but in the help center rather than on the pricing page. Basic 2 credits a minute, Pro 80, Ultra 160, plus 20 a minute for a library actor |
| Cost of a 30 second video | Included in the plan. A brief and script are flat rate, not metered by length | On Plus: about 2 cents on Basic, 91 cents on Pro, $1.81 on Ultra, $2.04 on Ultra with a library actor |
| Do credits roll over? | Not applicable | No. Plan credits reset monthly and do not carry forward. Separately purchased top-up credits last 12 months |
| Is the credit rate fixed? | Not applicable | No. The pricing page states InVideo reserves the right to update credit costs at any time without prior notice, and that model and agent prices are subject to change |
| Free tier | First brief free, no account needed. Free account gives 3 briefs a month, watermarked | A free tier exists for trying the product. All four paid plans include unlimited exports without a watermark |
| Who appears on camera | Nobody. We supply no footage. The brief describes the real creator to recruit | Stock footage, generated footage, or an AI avatar and voice clone. No creator is filmed for the ad |
| Best suited to | Anyone who needs the brief and script before commissioning anything | High-volume social and marketing video where speed matters more than a real person on camera |
Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each product for the latest.
In depth
What to know before you switch
How much does InVideo AI cost?
InVideo publishes four individual plans and quotes Team and Enterprise separately. Everything here came off invideo.io/pricing on 31 August 2026. Note that the page loads with the Annual toggle already switched on, so the monthly figure you see first is the annual-billing rate, and each card carries a discount badge of 15 percent, or 10 percent on Elite.
| Plan | Shown per month | Billed yearly | Credits a month | AI avatars and voice clones | Storage | iStock credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plus | $17 | $200 | 750 | 4 | 20 GB | 100 |
| Max | $85 | $1,000 | 3,900 | 16 | 100 GB | 200 |
| Generative | $170 | $2,000 | 8,000 | 40 | 2 TB | 1,000 |
| Elite | $900 | $10,800 | 42,500 | 200 | 10 TB | 5,000 |
All four paid plans include unlimited exports without a watermark, access to the full model catalog including Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro, and access to stock providers including iStock and Storyblocks. Concurrency is one of the real differences between tiers: Plus is described as limited, Max gets twice the concurrency of Plus, Generative ten times and Elite twenty times. If you are generating in batches rather than one at a time, that is worth more than the credit count.
Two lines on the page deserve more attention than they usually get. The first is that model and agent prices are subject to change. The second, in the FAQ, is that InVideo reserves the right to update credit costs at any time without prior notice, because generative models are billed at their original API pricing. Your plan price is fixed for the term. The amount of video that plan buys is not.
How many credits does an InVideo video use?
This is the number that decides your bill, and it is not on the pricing page. InVideo publishes it in a help center article on generation quality, and the three rates are far apart.
| Generation mode | What it does | Credits per minute | Credits for 30 seconds | Cost of that video on Plus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Assembles existing stock media | 2 | 1 | About 2 cents |
| Pro | Generates footage with standard generative models | 80 | 40 | About 91 cents |
| Ultra | Generates footage with the flagship models | 160 | 80 | About $1.81 |
| Add a Human or Pro actor from the library | Puts a presenter in the shot | 20 on top | 10 on top | Adds about 23 cents |
The arithmetic behind that last column is simple. The Plus plan is $17 a month for 750 credits, which is about 2.27 cents a credit, so a 30 second Ultra render at 80 credits costs about $1.81 and the same clip with a library actor at 90 credits costs about $2.04.
There is a second billing model layered on top, and it is the one most likely to surprise you. Individual video models are priced per second rather than per minute, and the total is the model's credits per second multiplied by the duration. InVideo's own example range is wide: a quick Kling 2.6 Standard clip might cost half a credit, while a Veo 3.1 clip at 4K with audio can cost more than 10. Those are per-second figures, so a ten second Veo 3.1 shot at the top of that range is 100 or more credits, which is more than an entire minute of Ultra generation.
One piece of good news that runs against the trend in this category: downloading and exporting your finished video does not consume credits. Several competitors gate export behind a paid tier or bill it separately. InVideo does not, and every paid plan exports without a watermark.
What does 750 credits actually get you?
It depends entirely on which mode you generate in, and the range is so wide that the allowance figure on its own is not usable for planning. Here is the same 750 credit Plus allowance expressed as finished 30 second videos.
| What you generate | Credits for a 30 second video | 30 second videos a month on Plus | Effective cost each |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic, stock media assembled | 1 | 750 | About 2 cents |
| Pro, standard generative models | 40 | 18 | About 91 cents |
| Ultra, flagship models | 80 | 9 | About $1.81 |
| Ultra plus a library actor | 90 | 8 | About $2.04 |
Eighty times, from 750 videos to 9, inside one plan. That is the single most useful thing to know about InVideo pricing, and it is why a plan price quoted without a generation mode is meaningless.
The pricing page makes this harder rather than easier. Each plan card explains the allowance in image generations rather than video: the Plus card reads that 750 credits is enough for 300 Nano Banana Pro or 600 Nano Banana 2 generations. Those are stills. A buyer comparing video tools reads a card about a video tool and is shown a number denominated in images, which are the cheapest thing the credits can buy. We are not suggesting that is deliberate, but the effect is the same either way: the headline overstates the video capacity by a wide margin unless you plan to work exclusively in Basic mode.
If you are budgeting, do it backwards. Decide the mode your finished ads actually need, multiply by the length you publish at, and only then pick a plan. For most brands running generative creative, Plus is nine to eighteen videos a month, not seven hundred.
Does a more expensive InVideo plan make video cheaper?
Barely. InVideo has the flattest credit ladder of any tool we have measured in this category, and the difference between the cheapest and dearest plan is close to a rounding error on a per-credit basis.
| Plan | Price a month | Credits a month | Cost per credit | Discount against Plus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plus | $17 | 750 | 2.27 cents | Baseline |
| Max | $85 | 3,900 | 2.18 cents | About 4 percent |
| Generative | $170 | 8,000 | 2.13 cents | About 6 percent |
| Elite | $900 | 42,500 | 2.12 cents | About 7 percent |
Paying 53 times more a month buys about 6.6 percent off the price of a credit. So the tiers are not a volume discount and should not be bought as one. What they actually sell is capacity of a different kind: concurrency, which rises from limited on Plus to twenty times that on Elite, storage from 20 GB to 10 TB, avatars and voice clones from 4 to 200, and iStock credits from 100 to 5,000.
That is a genuinely useful thing to know, because it makes the buying decision cleaner than it looks. If you need more video and nothing else, the honest move is to stay on a low tier and buy top-up credits, which InVideo sells on demand and which last 12 months from purchase rather than expiring at the end of the month. If you need to generate twenty jobs at once, or you have a team, or you want 200 voice clones, then the tier is worth it on its own terms.
It is worth being fair here: a flat ladder is not a criticism. It is more honest than a steeply discounted top tier that quietly locks you into a volume you never reach. It just means the upgrade decision has to be made on features, not on the price of video.
Is InVideo AI good for UGC ads?
For some UGC-adjacent jobs yes, for the one that matters most no, and the reason is not render quality.
What InVideo does well is volume and speed on video that does not need a specific real person in it. Product montages, feature explainers, promo cuts, listicle-style social video, faceless channels and localized variants of the same script are all comfortably inside what a prompt-to-video tool does at a price no human editor can match. If you need forty variants of a product video to test hooks against each other, this is a reasonable purchase and Basic mode makes it almost free.
Where it stops is the thing that makes UGC work as an ad format. UGC reads as UGC because a real person is holding the phone: handheld framing, imperfect light, a real kitchen or bathroom, hands entering the shot, the product being physically used and reacted to. Generated footage and library actors approximate the look and increasingly do it well, but they cannot produce the specific detail that makes a viewer believe the person actually owns the thing.
There is also a claims problem that is independent of quality. A synthetic presenter or a library actor delivering a first-person endorsement, saying they bought the product and it changed their routine, is a testimonial from someone who did not have that experience. That is the shape the FTC rule on fake reviews and testimonials addresses, and a better render does not make it safer. Third-person narration, demonstration and explanation are on firm ground. The moment the script says I tried this, you need a real person who did.
| Job | InVideo a good buy? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Hook and format testing at volume | Yes | Basic mode is about 2 cents per 30 seconds, so forty variants cost under a dollar |
| Product explainers and feature walkthroughs | Yes | Third-person narration carries no testimonial risk and stock assembly is cheap |
| Localized variants of an existing script | Yes | Re-rendering costs credits rather than a reshoot |
| First-person testimonial ads | No | A fabricated endorsement from a person who never used the product is the exact FTC concern |
| Creative that has to look genuinely handheld | Not reliably | The specific mess of a real room is what sells the format and it is the hardest thing to generate |
| Anything needing a named real creator's audience | No | There is no creator and no audience attached to a generated clip |
What is the best InVideo alternative?
It depends which part of InVideo you are replacing, so here is the routing rather than one answer. All the prices below were verified first-party in the last two days.
| If you are leaving InVideo because | Look at | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You mostly assemble stock footage over a script and want it cheaper | Pictory | Meters in video minutes rather than credits. Starter is $25 a month on annual billing for 200 minutes, which is about 6 cents per 30 second video |
| You want a browser editor your whole team works in | VEED | Priced per user with a full editor around the AI, so a team of three pays three times. We compare it in our VEED and Pictory pricing breakdown |
| You want a presenter reading your script, not generated b-roll | HeyGen | Same job at 8 to 24 credits per 30 seconds, which is 39 cents to $1.16 on its $29 plan |
| Your videos are training modules rather than ads | Synthesia | The only unmetered tier in the category, plus SCORM export and the strongest published compliance set |
| You want a drafted ad from a product URL rather than a prompt | Creatify or Arcads | Both are built specifically for the UGC ad format. We broke the credit math down in our Creatify pricing breakdown |
| The script says I tried this, so it needs a real person | A creator marketplace | No generated presenter can honestly deliver a first-person endorsement. We compare the options in our roundup of UGC platforms |
| You already have long video and only need it cut into shorts | Opus Clip, Vizard or Klap | A different category. They clip footage you have rather than generating any, and they meter in minutes of upload rather than credits, so the cost is far easier to predict. We priced them in our AI clipping tool pricing comparison |
| You have the budget and the tool but not the script | UGCMarketplace | Every tool above needs a brief and a scene-by-scene script before it can render anything. That is the part we do |
And the case for staying, which most alternative pages will not make. InVideo's model catalog is the broadest in this comparison, it runs Seedance, Veo, Kling and Nano Banana behind one subscription rather than making you hold four, exports carry no watermark on any paid plan and cost no credits, and its Basic mode is the cheapest way we know to produce a large volume of stock-assembled social video. If your work sits in that shape, switching to save money is unlikely to work.
We are not on either side of that decision. UGCMarketplace does not render video, does not supply creators, and is not a substitute for InVideo or anything else on this page. We write the brief and the scene-by-scene script, with the opening three seconds spelled out and the technical spec attached, which is the document every one of these tools assumes you already have. You can generate one now and paste it straight into whichever renderer you end up buying.
Why brands pick UGCMarketplace
What a brief generator is good for
The brief written properly
Objective, audience, tone, key messages, must-have and avoid, plus a scene-by-scene short-form script with a hook for the first three seconds. Written by AI in about a minute, and we say so.
We do not supply creators
There is no roster here and no booking. The brief describes the creator to recruit, where to look and how to approach them, and the hiring is yours to do. Saying that plainly beats implying otherwise.
Briefs you own, cheaply
Your first brief is free with no account. Pro is $29 a month and Studio $79, both unlimited with watermark-free downloads, and the briefs are yours to use commercially.
Good questions
InVideo vs UGCMarketplace, answered
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