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What it costs

Real bills, from the first test to the kept shot.

What the studio paid its providers to make a show in Kiju and to test the models it uses, every figure from a recorded bill. Kiju Lab is free and runs on your own keys: these are the providers’ prices, not Kiju’s.

Made in Kiju

Two episodes of Every Nine Seconds

Everything generated in the desk to find the format and make The Door and The Fog — the look, the cast sheets, the keyframes, the end frames, the motion and the voice — the tests and the set-aside takes included.

Reviews, voice design, effects and music outside the desk are not in this bill.

The episodes, and how they were made →
Generation in the desk
ScopeSpentTakes
Development: look, cast sheets, tests$0.819
Episode 1 — The Door$39.3057
Episode 2 — The Fog$30.5346
Total$70.64112

The twelve kept video takes: 105 seconds for $17.11. The rest paid for tests, comparisons and retakes.

Published production account, rounded as recorded; the sample is a selection of that work.

Seven models, judged blind

A take is not a shot.

A channel pays for every take and uses only the ones a person keeps. Seven video models, two six-second takes each from the same anime first frame, reviewed without the names: both Hailuo 3 Max takes were kept, one of the two Kling 3.0 Pro takes, nothing from the other five.

Watch the fourteen takes →

Instrument

Per take, per kept shot

Seven models, two six-second takes each from one anime first frame, judged blind. Switch the measure: what moves is what a kept shot costs.

  1. Hailuo 3 Max2 of 2 kept$0.48
  2. Wan 3.00 of 2 kept$0.51
  3. Kling 3.0 Pro1 of 2 kept$0.672
  4. Grok Imagine Video 1.50 of 2 kept$0.85
  5. Seedance 2.00 of 2 kept$0.9135
  6. FLUX.3 Video0 of 2 kept$1.02
  7. Seedance 2.50 of 2 kept$1.3969813

Every take is billed, kept or not.

The numbers, as a table
Per take, per kept shot
ModelSettingsTakesKeptSpentPer takePer kept shot
Hailuo 3 Max6 s · 768p22$0.96$0.48$0.48
Wan 3.06 s · 720p20$1.02$0.51no kept shot
Kling 3.0 Pro6 s · 720p21$1.344$0.672$1.344
Grok Imagine Video 1.56 s · 720p20$1.70$0.85no kept shot
Seedance 2.06 s · 720p20$1.827$0.9135no kept shot
FLUX.3 Video6 s · 720p20$2.04$1.02no kept shot
Seedance 2.56 s · 720p20$2.7939626$1.3969813no kept shot

Recorded bills from the seven-model run (Tin Kaiju, 2026-09-27; the first Hailuo take is from 2026-09-23). Kept shots from the blind review of 2026-09-28: both Hailuo takes and Kling’s first.

A 75-second pilot

Seventeen shots, retakes included.

After Jules Verne, made by an agent under a $15 ceiling: an animatic first, at no cost, then five sheets, twenty-five keyframes and twenty paid shots, retakes included. The voices and the music were paid in credits, not dollars.

The pilot’s bill, line by line →
Phileas Fogg in a top hat, in a London club at night, stopping a spinning globe with the tip of his umbrella.$12.120944billed$12.13, the billed amount rounded up to the cent

Before you press

What will this take cost?

The desk’s own price functions, running in this page: pick a model, a resolution and a length. The button rounds the estimate up to the cent, as the desk’s buttons do, and nothing is sent.

Instrument

Price a take

The desk’s built-in catalogue and its own functions, imported into this page. Change anything: the formula follows.

Model

The desk’s formula

  1. 1,280 × 720 px × (24 × 12 + 1) frames ÷ 1,024
  2. =260,100 tokens
  3. ×$0.0000107 a token
  4. =$2.7831
Button preview · nothing is sent

The button rounds the estimate up to the cent. An estimate, not an invoice: the provider’s own cost replaces it when it reports one.

Recorded These are the settings of a real bill: $2.78307 on October 6, 2026, through OpenRouter.

Rates from the desk’s catalogue, checked against the providers’ documentation on 2026-10-03. The desk reads OpenRouter’s rates live; here the token rate is the one the bill of 2026-10-06 shows.