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AI Short Drama Cost Calculator
Budget SaaS credits, open-source GPU time, and human hours for vertical micro-drama episodes.
Fill in your parameters below and click Calculate. All math runs locally in your browser — nothing is sent to a server or LLM.
Production scope
SaaS rates
Human time
After changing any field, click Recalculate to update results.
How we calculate
Video spend ≈ shots × clip seconds × retries × $/video-second (SaaS) or GPU minutes × $/hr (open). Stills and TTS billed separately. Human hours scale down after episode 2 when character bible is reused.
Desk defaults: 12 shots, 6s/clip, 3.5 retries — from our field runbooks. Adjust to your toolchain.
Pricing assumptions as of 2026-08-30. Not a quote — verify vendor list prices.