Vidu Pricing vs Pay Per Use: Plans From $10

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Visual Sandbox vs Vidu

One trained the model and sells the month. One sells the second.

In short

  • Vidu plans run $10 to $99 a month for 800 to 8,000 credits.
  • Standard buys up to 200 videos for $10, about $0.05 each at the cheapest setting.
  • Ultimate at $99 adds off-peak mode: up to 200 videos a day for no credits.
  • Vidu Q3 is their own. We do not have it.

Our take. Use Vidu for Vidu Q3 and reference-to-video at volume. Use Visual Sandbox for Veo, Seedance and Kling per second, no plan.

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Vidu logoVidu

Vidu is Shengshu's video lab: its own Vidu Q3 model, reference-to-video, an agent, templates, and an off-peak mode that makes the top plan close to unlimited.

Pricing
$10 to $99 a month, in credits
Free plan
Yes, 10 references a month
Also does
Vidu Q3, reference-to-video, off-peak mode

Side by side

The same 9 questions, asked of Vidu

Visual Sandbox compared with Vidu, question by question
What is comparedVisual SandboxVidu logoVidu
What you pay forEach generationA monthly credit plan, plus an off-peak lane on Ultimate
What the balance is inMoney. One credit is one centCredits. About 4 for the cheapest video
Free tierNone. A $10 minimum top upA Free plan with 10 references a month and login bonuses
Cheapest paid tierThere is no planStandard, $10 a month, or $8 billed yearly
A month you make nothing$0The plan price
The price before you runA dollar figure on every model page, before you sign inVideo counts per plan. No credit cost per setting
Working as a teamNot offeredNot on the pricing page
From the terminal or an agentA CLI, an MCP server and an API, on the same balanceA separate API platform
The catalogue37 modelsVidu Q3, Q2 and S. Its own models only

Key takeaways

Is Visual Sandbox a good Vidu alternative?

Where we win

No subscription
Nothing to cancel. A quiet month costs $0.
Many video models, per second
Veo 3.1 at $0.25, Seedance 2.0 from $0.10, Kling 3.0 Omni from $0.21, P-Video from $0.01.
The balance does not expire
No monthly reset.
Three doors an agent can use
The CLI, the MCP server and the API, on the same balance as the web app.
Image, 3D and audio too
Nano Banana 2 at $0.09, Hunyuan 3D 3.1 at $0.63.

Where Vidu wins

Vidu Q3, their own
Reference-to-video with many subjects, 3 to 16 second clips, 2D animation it is known for.
Cheap at the low end
Up to 200 videos for $10 on Standard, about $0.05 each at the cheapest setting.
Off-peak mode
Ultimate submits up to 200 videos a day for no credits, slower. Plus unlimited Q2 images at 1080p.
A free plan
Ten references a month and bonus credits on login.
Discounted top ups
Credit add-ons 45% to 55% off for subscribers.

Worth checking

Up to means the cheapest setting
200 videos on 800 credits is 4 credits each. Longer or sharper clips cost more, and the page does not say how much.
One family of models
Vidu Q3, Q2 and S. No Veo, Seedance or Kling.
Full use is the condition
Spend half of Standard and a video costs $0.10. Spend none and it costs $10.
Off-peak is a queue
Free clips on Ultimate wait for quiet hours.
We have no Vidu
No Vidu models here. If you want Q3, you want Vidu.

A plan or a balance

The price is on the page before the first run

This is the live price card off our Veo 3.1 page. Vidu sells its own model inside a credit plan and prints video counts rather than a cost per second.

  • No account needed to read it.
  • Vidu Standard buys up to 200 short clips a month for $10.
  • A quiet month here costs $0.

Vidu sells the month. We sell the second.

Veo 3.1

What one run costs, before any account

Audio off
$0.25/s
Audio on
$0.50/s
See it on the model page

The money

What the plans buy, in Vidu's own counts

Vidu prints 'up to' video counts per plan and no credit cost per setting, so this table stops where its page stops.

$0.25

Visual Sandbox

Veo 3.1, a second, audio off. $0.01 on P-Video in draft.

$0.05

Vidu Standard, a video

$10 for up to 200, at the cheapest setting, at full use.

$99

Vidu Ultimate, a month

8,000 credits plus up to 200 off-peak videos a day.

Vidu planA monthBilled yearlyCredits a monthTheir estimate
Free$0$0Login bonuses10 references a month
Standard$10$8800Up to 200 videos
Premium$35$284,000Up to 1,000 videos
Ultimate$99$798,000Off-peak: up to 200 videos a day
  • Ten dollars here buys 1,000 seconds of P-Video in draft, or 100 seconds of Seedance 2.0 at 480p, in any month.
  • Yearly totals are $96, $336 and $948.
  • Ultimate's off-peak lane is the closest thing in this group to unlimited video. It is also a queue.

Which one fits

Which one fits you?

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

01 of 04

Do you want Vidu Q3?

Or use both

Vidu covers its own model at volume. We cover the other models and the quiet month.

  1. 01

    Put the Vidu Q3 work on a Vidu plan.

  2. 02

    Run Veo, Seedance, Kling and P-Video here, per second.

  3. 03

    Point your agent at our MCP server, on the same balance as the web.

The call

Which one to pick

Pick Visual Sandbox when

  • You want Veo, Seedance, Kling and more, priced per second.
  • Your output is uneven and an allowance would go to waste.
  • You want an agent to generate through the CLI or the MCP server.
  • You want image, 3D, vector and audio next to video.
  • You do not want another subscription.

Vidu logoPick Vidu when

  • You want Vidu Q3 and its 2D animation.
  • You make hundreds of clips a month.
  • You can wait for off-peak hours and want them free.
  • You want reference-to-video with many subjects.
  • You want a $10 plan and a free tier to try.

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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Free gives 10 references a month. Standard is $10 a month, or $8 billed yearly, for 800 credits. Premium is $35, or $28 yearly, for 4,000. Ultimate is $99, or $79 yearly, for 8,000 plus off-peak mode.