PixVerse API v2

December 6, 2024 (August 20, 2026)

This is an experimental API for PixVerse.ai. PixVerse.ai generates videos and images from text and image prompts, supports a large number of video effects, and can extend, upscale, and lipsync videos.

We provide full API support for following PixVerse models:

Please see the tables below for cost comparison of the web subscription used by this API versus official API subscription.

💲 Cost calculator

Subscription plans:

Pricing

Plan Monthly Credits/mo $/credit
Pro $30 6,000 $0.00500
Premium $60 15,000 $0.00400
Ultra $199 25,000 $0.00796

Billed yearly instead, for the same monthly credits:

Plan Yearly Per month $/credit
Pro $288 $24 $0.00400
Premium $576 $48 $0.00320
Ultra $1,788 $149 $0.00596

The calculator carries both billing periods. A fourth plan, Team Ultra, is priced identically to Ultra and shares its credits, discounts, and free-image list — it only adds 12 concurrent generations instead of 8 and shared workspace seats, so select Ultra for it. Basic (free) and Standard ($10/mo, 1,200 credits) sit below Pro and cannot reach any third-party model at all, which returns 412.

Video perks

Plan Native off-peak Preview mode
Pro 30% off 20% off
Premium 50% off 20% off
Ultra free 20% off

Off-peak and preview mode apply only to native PixVerse (v5, v5.5, v5.6, v5-fast, v6, pixverse-c1). Native PixVerse peak pricing is the same credits on every plan.

Third-party model discounts

There is no single third-party rate. PixVerse discounts third-party models one model at a time, and a model-specific promotion replaces the plan-wide Ultra discount rather than stacking with it.

Model Pro / Premium Ultra
seedance-2.0 40% off 64% off
seedance-2.0-fast 10% off 46% off
seedance-2.0-mini 45% off 67% off
seedance-2.5 at 1080p 30% off 44% off
seedance-2.5 at 480p / 720p — 20% off
minimax-h3 50% off 60% off
kling-o3, kling-v3, grok-imagine, grok-imagine-1.5, veo-3.1-lite, veo-3.1-standard, veo-3.1-fast, sora-2, sora-2-pro, happyhorse-1.0, gemini-omni-flash — 40% off

seedance-2.5 is the one model whose discount depends on the resolution you pick. The 30% / 44% promotion applies only when quality is 1080p — at 480p or 720p, Pro and Premium pay full rate and Ultra falls back to its standard 20%. PixVerse dates this promotion to September 17, 2026, and the minimax-h3 promotion above it to September 4, 2026.

The Seedance promotions are the reason Pro and Premium can beat Ultra on those models once Ultra’s higher $/credit is applied. They are promotional and PixVerse changes them without notice, so treat the calculator as current-as-of-sync rather than contractual.

Cost per second, in dollars

Discounts are quoted as percentages off a credit rate, which makes plans hard to compare. This is the same thing in money — the per-second cost of one generation after that plan’s discount, at the plan’s monthly $/credit. Multiply by your duration.

Model Quality Credits/sec Pro Premium Ultra
seedance-2.5 480p 35 $0.175 $0.140 $0.223
seedance-2.5 720p 75 $0.375 $0.300 $0.478
seedance-2.5 1080p 170 $0.595 $0.476 $0.758
seedance-2.0 480p 20 $0.060 $0.048 $0.057
seedance-2.0 720p 45 $0.135 $0.108 $0.129
seedance-2.0 1080p 90 $0.270 $0.216 $0.258
seedance-2.0 2160p 200 $0.600 $0.480 $0.573
seedance-2.0-fast 480p 15 $0.068 $0.054 $0.064
seedance-2.0-fast 720p 30 $0.135 $0.108 $0.129
seedance-2.0-mini 480p 8 $0.022 $0.018 $0.021
seedance-2.0-mini 720p 18 $0.050 $0.040 $0.047
minimax-h3 768p 30 $0.075 $0.060 $0.096
minimax-h3 1440p (2K) 45 $0.113 $0.090 $0.143
kling-v3 720p (Std) 20 $0.100 $0.080 $0.096
kling-v3 1080p (Pro) 25 $0.125 $0.100 $0.119
kling-v3 2160p (4K) 120 $0.600 $0.480 $0.573
kling-o3 720p (Std) 25 $0.125 $0.100 $0.119
kling-o3 1080p (Pro) 35 $0.175 $0.140 $0.167
kling-o3 2160p (4K) 120 $0.600 $0.480 $0.573
grok-imagine 480p 10 $0.050 $0.040 $0.048
grok-imagine 720p 15 $0.075 $0.060 $0.072
grok-imagine-1.5 480p 20 $0.100 $0.080 $0.096
grok-imagine-1.5 720p 40 $0.200 $0.160 $0.191
gemini-omni-flash 720p 40 $0.200 $0.160 $0.191
veo-3.1-lite 720p 15 $0.075 $0.060 $0.072
veo-3.1-lite 1080p 30 $0.150 $0.120 $0.143
veo-3.1-fast 720p 60 $0.300 $0.240 $0.287
veo-3.1-fast 1080p 60 $0.300 $0.240 $0.287
veo-3.1-fast 2160p 180 $0.900 $0.720 $0.860
veo-3.1-standard 720p 160 $0.800 $0.640 $0.764
veo-3.1-standard 1080p 160 $0.800 $0.640 $0.764
veo-3.1-standard 2160p 480 $2.400 $1.920 $2.292
sora-2 720p 20 $0.100 $0.080 $0.096
sora-2-pro 720p 60 $0.300 $0.240 $0.287
sora-2-pro 1080p 99 $0.495 $0.396 $0.473
happyhorse-1.0 720p 30 $0.150 $0.120 $0.143
happyhorse-1.0 1080p 60 $0.300 $0.240 $0.287

Premium is the cheapest plan for third-party video on every row above. It carries the same model discounts as Pro at a lower $/credit — $0.00400 against $0.00500 — so it wins on all 37 combinations. Ultra’s deeper discounts do beat Pro on 32 of them, but never beat Premium, because its $/credit is 59% higher. Pro beats Ultra on the remaining five — the three seedance-2.5 rows and both minimax-h3 rows, whose promotions favour Pro and Premium. Pick Ultra for the free native off-peak generation, the twelve free image models and 8 concurrent generations, not for third-party video pricing.

Notes on the figures above:

  • Credits/sec is the list rate before any plan discount. The dollar columns already have the discount applied.
  • Rates are monthly billing. Yearly billing is 20–25% cheaper per credit, so scale accordingly — Pro $0.00400, Premium $0.00320, Ultra $0.00596.
  • kling-o3 and kling-v3 add 40% when audio is enabled, at 720p and 1080p only. The 4K tier carries no audio surcharge.
  • veo-3.1-standard and veo-3.1-fast generate audio on every call and cannot disable it, so their surcharge is already included above.
  • veo-3.1-lite, veo-3.1-standard and veo-3.1-fast accept duration of 4, 6 or 8 only, and at 1080p only 8.
  • minimax-h3 fusion adds 10 credits per reference image above 5 — a 5-second 1440p fusion is 225 credits with up to 5 images and 265 with 9. It is the only model with an image-count term.
  • A generation is rounded up to a whole credit once, at the end. Very short clips can therefore cost a fraction of a credit more than the per-second figure implies.

Seedance fusion with a reference video is priced differently. Attaching one or more reference videos to create-fusion switches the rate to a lower per-second figure, but bills you for the output duration plus the total reference duration. For seedance-2.5 that is 21 credits/sec at 480p, 45 at 720p and 102 at 1080p, versus 35, 75 and 170 without. A reference video therefore only saves credits while it runs shorter than about two-thirds of your output — on Pro a 4-second 480p clip costs 140 credits alone, and 273 with 9 seconds of reference video attached. The calculator above has a field for this.

Free images (Relax Mode)

Plan Free image models
Pro qwen-image, nano-banana-2-lite
Premium qwen-image, nano-banana, nano-banana-2, nano-banana-2-lite, seedream-4.0
Ultra qwen-image, nano-banana, nano-banana-2, nano-banana-2-lite, nano-banana-pro, seedream-4.0, seedream-4.5, seedream-5.0-lite, seedream-5.0-pro, kling-3.0, kling-o3, gpt-image-2.0 (all 12)

Relax Mode is unmetered, not unthrottled. These models cost zero credits on the listed plans and nothing rejects a request for being too frequent, but PixVerse applies a daily volume threshold. Past it the account is moved to a slow queue rather than refused — generations still succeed and still cost nothing, they just take far longer to come back. It is visible in the response, where queue_data.slow_queue turns true, queue_data.reason reads daily_limit_exceeded, and queue_count gives the number of tasks ahead.

The threshold applies per model, not per account. An account throttled on one model keeps generating at full speed on every other one, and the busiest accounts clear 500–700 images a day across models combined. We have seen it engage on nano-banana-2, nano-banana-pro and gpt-image-2.0, most often on nano-banana-2. The point at which it engages is not fixed and varies between accounts, but as a rough guide expect a few hundred images per model per day — around 300 for nano-banana-pro and around 500 for gpt-image-2.0. We have not seen it on the remaining models, which does not mean they are unlimited, only that nobody has pushed them hard enough for it to show. The allowance resets at approximately 00:00 UTC, so a throttled account is clear again at the start of the next UTC day. PixVerse moves these thresholds without notice, so treat them as rough capacity guidance rather than a guarantee.

Sustained volume needs more than one account, because each account carries its own allowance and POST /videos/create and POST /images/create spread work across every account you have configured. Adding accounts alone is not a guarantee though — we have seen a multi-account pool throttled on the same model at the same time, because every account was working through the same daily allowance on the same model. Once a pool is in that state more accounts only buy one more allowance each, and none of them are fast.

Falling back to another model is usually the better move, because the allowances are independent per model. An account wedged on nano-banana-2 still generates on nano-banana-pro, seedream-4.5 or gpt-image-2.0 at full speed. Decide in advance which models are acceptable for your use case, watch for queue_data.slow_queue turning true on the image or video response, and move down that list rather than waiting out the queue.

Ultra’s higher $/credit rate means individual native-PixVerse generations cost more on Ultra than on Premium unless you’re saturating Premium’s monthly allowance. The calculator above factors all plan rules automatically. The official API subscription doesn’t support Off-Peak and is limited to 1/3/5 effect options. The web subscription used by this API exposes the full 900+ effect catalog.

Interactive calculator

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Other

Feature Web Official API
Upscale (POST videos/upscale) 6 cr / s ($0.024/s at Premium) n/a
Concurrent generations 5 Pro, 8 Premium / Ultra, 12 Team Ultra 5
Effects available full 900+ catalog 3

Pro+ subscription plans include unlimited image generation in Relax Mode for select models, subject to the Relax Mode throttle noted above. Ultra ($199/m) covers all 12 image models.

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