OpenArt credits in dollars: Starter $13 to Wonder $175 per video

OpenArt's monthly plans work out to roughly $3.25 per 1,000 credits on Starter and $1.65 on Wonder, and the page's own video estimates put a clip at about $0.26 on Starter and $0.13 on Wonder. All of that is arithmetic on the numbers OpenArt prints on its pricing page, read 2026-10-03, and it assumes you use the whole allowance.

OpenArt sells credits, and the same credit buys an image or a share of a video. That makes a plan hard to compare with a wallet that bills dollars per second. The simplest fix is to divide the plan price by the credits and by the video count the page itself quotes.

What the page states

Each plan card shows a monthly price, a credit allowance, and a capacity line in the form "~N images or ~M videos". The video counts are OpenArt's estimates, not a rate card, so they do not say which video model or clip length they assume. The page also shows a discounted monthly price next to a struck-through list price and says annual billing discounts up to 27 percent without printing annual figures in the part I read.

How to read the per-video column

Take Plus. $27 divided by 150 videos is $0.18 per video, and $27 divided by 12,000 credits is $0.00225 per credit. The ratio of credits to videos is 12,000 / 150 = 80 credits per video, and the same 80 shows up on every row except Wonder, where 106,000 / 1,300 is about 81.5. So the page quotes a flat credit cost per video and the cheaper plans mostly just buy credits at a lower unit price.

The spread is the point. Starter pays $3.25 per 1,000 credits and Wonder pays $1.65, a gap of about 2.0 times for the same product. If you only need a few dozen clips a month, the plan you pick matters more than the model you pick.

Versus a per-second wallet

Sume bills video by the second at list times 1.25, with the per-model list rates in the Video Router docs. Wan 3.0 is listed at $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 per second for 480p, 720p and 1080p, so a 5-second 480p clip is 5 x $0.05 x 1.25 = $0.3125 before cent rounding. That is the same order of magnitude as OpenArt's Starter estimate, but the two are not like for like: OpenArt does not say which model or length its estimate assumes, and a plan also buys images and tools.

The practical difference is idle money. An unused OpenArt allowance is gone at the end of the month unless the plan says otherwise, while a wallet balance only moves when a job is accepted. Which one is cheaper depends on whether you reliably use the allowance.

What this does not tell you

Before you commit, run one generation and read the credit balance before and after. That single number replaces every estimate above.

• Which video model OpenArt prices its estimate against.
• How many credits a 10-second or 1080p clip costs; the page quotes counts, not a per-second rate.
• The annual price, which the page describes only as a discount of up to 27 percent.
• Whether the discounted monthly price lasts past the current promotion.