The full studio from $9/mo.

Playcut starts at $9/mo (Hobby) with the full studio — every model, every feature, 500 credits. HeyGen's entry tier is Creator $29/mo (avatar-first). Synthesia Creator is $89/mo with stock avatars only and 360 videos per year. Arcads Starter is $77/mo (discounted from $110, no public pricing page, no free trial). Playcut Pro at $29/mo matches HeyGen Creator on price but ships multi-model breadth (Veo 3.1 + Nano Banana Pro + Grok video + Lyria music + Qwen voice) instead of avatar-only. Playcut Studio at $79/mo with 4 seats is $19.75 per seat — the cheapest 4-seat team plan in the AI video category.

All four tiers include every model (Veo 3.1, Nano Banana Pro, Grok Imagine, Grok Video, Qwen voice, Lyria music), 4K image resolution, no watermark, full commercial license, and credit top-up packs. The only differences are: credits per month (500 / 2,000 / 6,000 / 10,000 per seat), seat count (1 / 1 / 4 / unlimited), custom actor cap (3 / 10 / 25 / unlimited), custom voice cap (1 / 5 / 10 / unlimited), storage (25 / 100 / 300 / 500 GB), concurrent jobs (1 / 3 / 6 / 10), and queue priority (Low / Normal / High / Urgent).

Approximate retail costs at Pro tier ($0.0145/credit): Nano Banana 2 image ~23 cr (~$0.33), Nano Banana Pro flagship image ~67 cr (~$0.97), Grok budget image ~10 cr (~$0.15), Veo 3.1 premium video 160 cr/sec (~$2.32/sec), Grok Video budget 20 cr/sec (~$0.29/sec — 5× cheaper than Runway), Qwen TTS 15 cr per 1K characters, Lyria 3 music clip ~20 cr per 30s song, Actor Act 6-second clip with voice ~240 cr. Pro's 2,000 credits = ~30 flagship images, or ~100 seconds of Grok video, or ~10 seconds of Veo 3.1.

Yes — every plan includes a 7-day trial. Pick a plan, add a card, get full plan access immediately with the full credit allowance of that plan. Cancel anytime within 7 days at no charge. After day 7 the plan begins billing at its standard rate. There is no perpetual free tier in v2 — every account starts on a paid plan to ensure quality of service and prevent abuse.

Yes — one-time credit packs that never expire: Small (600 credits, $9), Medium (2,500 credits, $35), Large (5,000 credits, $65). Packs stack on top of your monthly subscription credits and persist indefinitely — use them for surge weeks (campaign launches, product drops, peak production windows) without upgrading your whole plan. Subscription credits are deducted first; pack credits draw down only after the monthly bucket is empty.

Annual billing saves 17% (2 months free): Hobby $90/yr (vs $108 monthly), Pro $290/yr (vs $348), Studio $790/yr (vs $948), Agency $1,490/seat/yr (vs $1,788). Plan features are identical between monthly and annual. Credits reset every month even on annual billing — this matches the industry standard (ChatGPT, Cursor, Midjourney all reset credits monthly on annual plans).

Studio includes 4 seats for $79/mo flat = $19.75 per seat. The next-cheapest 4-seat option is HeyGen Business at $149 + $20/seat ($227/mo for 4 seats = $56.75/seat). Synthesia Creator at $89/mo is single-seat (no team option). Runway, Pika, Luma, Hedra, ElevenLabs all charge per-seat with no built-in team plans — buying 4 seats costs $112-396/mo on those platforms. Playcut Studio at $19.75/seat is the only plan that combines team seating, shared workspace, multi-brand kits, and a 6,000-credit monthly bucket at sub-$20/seat.

Your actor IDs and saved assets remain accessible for the standard retention window after cancellation; resubscribe anytime to restore full access. Already-downloaded outputs remain yours commercially regardless of subscription status — every Playcut output is fully owned by you under our commercial-use license, with no watermark on any tier.