Video
Budget the clips you keep, including retries and unused credits.
Plan a video budget →Twenty usable clips: what will you pay?NOTCHEAPAI · AI COSTS, EXPLAINED
Know what AI will cost
before you pay.
Find the right plan for your work. Compare subscriptions, price a project and see how credits, retries and usage change the bill.
CHOOSE YOUR WORK
What do you want to budget?
Start with the job, then compare the tools and the payment you need.
Images
Work from approved images, product views and billable attempts.
Plan an image budget →Build a product-photo budget around your SKUs.Voice
Turn script length and retakes into the cost of finished narration.
Plan a voice budget →What does one hour of finished voiceover cost?AI subscriptions
Compare what you pay today, monthly commitments and overlapping tools.
Compare subscription payments →ChatGPT, Claude or Google AI Pro for one person?API costs
Budget tokens, usage and the recurring costs of an AI application.
Calculate app break-even →When does API usage make more sense than a subscription?YOUR PROJECT, YOUR INPUTS
A budget you can change.
Set your output, generation attempts and existing credits. The content calculator compares supported video, image and voice workflows against your spending limit.
3 providers with modeled billing. Software costs in USD before tax; editing and labor are separate.
FROM THE AI PRICE INDEX
Check the price. Read the small print.
Start with the published plan, its allowance and its review date. Then use a worked budget to see what your own workload needs.
Runway
Standard
$15.00 / user / month625 credits each month
Compare plans and billing →Price checkedElevenLabs
Starter
$6.00 / account / month30,000 credits each month
Compare plans and billing →Price checkedMake
Core — 10,000 credits
$10.59 / account / month10,000 monthly credits
Compare plans and billing →Price checked
BEHIND NOTCHEAPAI
Hi, I’m Dejan.
I built NotCheapAI to make the bill easier to understand before you commit. The guides connect provider pricing with worked budgets for the projects you actually want to finish.