OpenArt Pricing vs Pay Per Use: Seats or Cents

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Visual Sandbox vs OpenArt

One prices the seat. One prices the run.

In short

  • OpenArt plans run $14 to $240 a seat a month, for 4,000 to 106,000 credits.
  • Its cheapest image is one credit, so Starter reads as 'up to 4,000 images'.
  • The page does not price Nano Banana 2 or any named model in credits.
  • Credits reset monthly. Ours do not reset.

Our take. Use OpenArt for story videos and characters at volume. Use Visual Sandbox if you want a price per run and no seat.

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OpenArt logoOpenArt

OpenArt is a creator studio for video and images: 100+ models, one-click story videos, consistent characters, a Director mode and an MCP server, priced per seat.

Pricing
$14 to $240 a seat a month, in credits
Free plan
None on the pricing page
Also does
One-click stories, characters, Director

Side by side

The same 9 questions, asked of OpenArt

Visual Sandbox compared with OpenArt, question by question
What is comparedVisual SandboxOpenArt logoOpenArt
What you pay forEach generationA monthly credit plan, per seat
What the balance is inMoney. One credit is one centCredits. The cheapest image is one
Free tierNone. A $10 minimum top upNone listed
Cheapest paid tierThere is no planStarter, $14 a seat a month, or $13 billed yearly
A month you make nothing$0The plan price, per seat
The price before you runA dollar figure on every model page, before you sign inCredit totals and rough image and video counts per plan
Working as a teamNot offeredEvery plan is per seat; a Business tab exists
From the terminal or an agentA CLI, an MCP server and an API, on the same balanceAn MCP server, with 10% off MCP usage from Plus up
The catalogue37 models100+ image, video and audio models

Key takeaways

Is Visual Sandbox a good OpenArt alternative?

Where we win

No subscription, no seat
One balance, however many people or agents spend it.
A dollar price before you sign in
Nano Banana 2 reads $0.09 at 1K. Seedance 2.0 reads $0.10 a second at 480p.
The balance does not expire
No monthly reset, no add-on to keep it topped.
The same price on every door
Web, CLI, MCP server and API spend one balance at one rate.
3D and vector too
Hunyuan 3D 3.1 at $0.63 a model, Quiver Arrow at $0.25 an SVG.

Where OpenArt wins

One-click story videos
A story, a cast of consistent characters and a Director mode, in one flow.
Consistent characters
13 to 353 of them by plan, and personalised models to match.
100+ models
Image, video and audio behind one login.
An MCP server with a discount
MCP usage costs 10% less from Plus up.
Parallel generations
8 on Starter, 32 on Pro.

Worth checking

Nobody prices Nano Banana 2 here
The page gives credit totals and 'up to' counts. Per model credit costs are not on it.
Up to means the cheapest model
4,000 images on 4,000 credits is one credit an image, on whatever model costs one credit.
A seat is a seat
Two people means two plans, or one shared login the terms may not like.
Credits reset
Monthly. The $15 add-on adds 5,000 more, also monthly.
Our canvas is on a waitlist
Treat it as not shipped.

A seat or a balance

The price is on the page before the first run

This is the live price card off our Nano Banana 2 page. OpenArt sells the same kind of image inside a per seat credit plan, and does not say what one costs.

  • No account needed to read it.
  • Starter is $14 a seat for 4,000 credits. Spend them or lose them.
  • A quiet month here costs $0.

OpenArt sells seats. We sell runs.

Nano Banana 2

What one run costs, before any account

1K
$0.09 / image
2K
$0.13 / image
4K
$0.19 / image
See it on the model page

The money

What the plans buy, in OpenArt's own estimates

OpenArt does not publish per model credit costs, so this table uses the counts on its own pricing page. 'Images' means the cheapest image model.

$0.09

Visual Sandbox

Nano Banana 2 at 1K, in any month.

$0.28

OpenArt Starter, a video

$14 for about 50 videos, at full use.

$14

OpenArt, to start

Per seat, per month, 4,000 credits.

OpenArt planA seat a monthBilled yearlyCredits a monthTheir estimate
Starter$14$134,000~4,000 images or ~50 videos
Plus$34$2712,000~12,000 images or ~150 videos
Pro$56$4424,000~24,000 images or ~300 videos
Wonder$240$175106,000~106,000 images or ~1,300 videos
  • Fifty videos on 4,000 credits is 80 credits a video, about $0.28 each on Starter at full use. A five second P-Video draft costs $0.05 here; five seconds of Seedance 2.0 at 480p cost $0.50.
  • The Extra Credit add-on is $15 a month for 5,000 credits, on Plus and above.
  • Starter has no commercial use rights listed. Plus is the first plan that does.

Which one fits

Which one fits you?

Four questions. The answer names OpenArt when OpenArt is the right call.

01 of 04

Do you make story videos with a cast?

Or use both

OpenArt covers the story pipeline. We cover the odd job and the quiet month.

  1. 01

    Keep one OpenArt seat for the story videos and the characters.

  2. 02

    Run one-off images, 3D, vector and audio here, per run.

  3. 03

    Point your agent at our MCP server, where the price is the same as the web.

The call

Which one to pick

Pick Visual Sandbox when

  • You want a per job cost you can put on an invoice.
  • Several people or agents spend one balance, with no seats.
  • You want the dollar price before you sign in.
  • You want 3D and vector next to image and video.
  • You do not want another subscription.

OpenArt logoPick OpenArt when

  • You make story videos with consistent characters, often.
  • You want 100+ models behind one login and one seat.
  • You want a Director mode and one-click stories.
  • You generate enough to spend 4,000 or more credits a month.
  • You want a MCP server with a discount on agent use.

Read the price, then run it

37 models across image, video, audio, 3D and vector. Each one prints its dollar price before you sign in.

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All comparisons

Starter is $14 a seat a month, or $13 billed yearly, for 4,000 credits. Plus is $34, or $27 yearly, for 12,000. Pro is $56, or $44 yearly, for 24,000. Wonder is $240, or $175 yearly, for 106,000.