# Cost Per Gen

> The price index for AI generation. Every video, image, and voice model —
> normalized, cross-provider, dated. Canonical units: USD per second of 720p
> video; USD per image at 1024×1024 (default quality); USD per 1,000 characters
> of TTS input. Every price carries one of five trust labels
> (verified / derived / estimated / hidden / disputed) and a date stamp.

Last data stamp: 2026-09-07
Median cheapest cost, 1 second of 720p AI video: $0.05
Median cheapest cost, one 1024×1024 AI image: $0.034
Median cheapest cost, 1,000 TTS characters: $0.04

## Dataset

- Open CSV (CC-BY 4.0, attribution required): https://costpergen.com/data/costpergen.csv
- Methodology and label definitions: https://costpergen.com/methodology
- Price-change log (RSS available): https://costpergen.com/changes

## Video model pages (14)

- https://costpergen.com/video/hailuo-02 — Hailuo 02 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/kling-2-1 — Kling 2.1 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/kling-2-5 — Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/ltx-2 — LTX-2 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/luma-ray-2 — Luma Ray 2 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/pika-2-2 — Pika 2.2 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/runway-gen-4 — Runway Gen-4 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/runway-gen-4-turbo — Runway Gen-4 Turbo pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/seedance-1-0 — Seedance 1.0 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/sora-2 — Sora 2 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/sora-2-pro — Sora 2 Pro pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/veo-3-1 — Veo 3.1 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/veo-3-1-fast — Veo 3.1 Fast pricing
- https://costpergen.com/video/wan-2-2 — Wan 2.2 pricing

## Image model pages (25)

- https://costpergen.com/image/flux-1-1-pro — FLUX 1.1 [pro] pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/flux-1-1-pro-ultra — FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/flux-2-flex — FLUX.2 [flex] pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/flux-2-klein-9b — FLUX.2 [klein] 9B pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/flux-2-max — FLUX.2 [max] pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/flux-2-pro — FLUX.2 [pro] pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/flux-kontext-max — FLUX.1 Kontext [max] pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/flux-kontext-pro — FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/gemini-3-1-flash-image — Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2) pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/gemini-3-1-flash-lite-image — Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/gemini-3-pro-image — Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro) pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/gpt-image-1-5 — GPT Image 1.5 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/gpt-image-1-mini — GPT Image 1 Mini pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/gpt-image-2 — GPT Image 2 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/grok-imagine-image-2 — Grok Imagine Image 2.0 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/hunyuan-image-v3 — Hunyuan Image 3.0 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/ideogram-v3 — Ideogram 3.0 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/midjourney — Midjourney pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/qwen-image-max — Qwen Image Max pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/recraft-v3 — Recraft V3 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/recraft-v4 — Recraft V4 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/sd-3-5-large — Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/seedream-4 — Seedream 4.0 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/seedream-4-5 — Seedream 4.5 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/image/z-image-turbo — Z-Image Turbo pricing

## Voice model pages (10)

- https://costpergen.com/voice/cartesia-sonic-3 — Cartesia Sonic 3 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/voice/deepgram-aura-2 — Deepgram Aura-2 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/voice/elevenlabs-flash-v2-5 — ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/voice/elevenlabs-multilingual-v2 — ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/voice/fish-audio — Fish Audio pricing
- https://costpergen.com/voice/hume-octave — Hume Octave pricing
- https://costpergen.com/voice/minimax-speech-02 — MiniMax Speech-02 pricing
- https://costpergen.com/voice/openai-gpt-4o-mini-tts — OpenAI gpt-4o-mini-tts pricing
- https://costpergen.com/voice/playai-dialog — PlayAI Dialog pricing
- https://costpergen.com/voice/qwen3-tts — Qwen3-TTS pricing

## Indexes

- https://costpergen.com/video — full video price matrix
- https://costpergen.com/image — full image price matrix
- https://costpergen.com/voice — full voice price matrix

## Citation

Cite as "Cost Per Gen (costpergen.com)" with the date stamp shown on the page.
The dataset is CC-BY: reuse requires attribution linking to costpergen.com.