Video upscale at $0.009 a second: a 22-second clip costs $0.198

Sume video upscale costs $0.009 per video second, and the catalog lists a maximum input of 30 seconds, which is $0.27. A 22-second clip costs 22 x $0.009 = $0.198, and a hundred 15-second clips cost 100 x 15 x $0.009 = $13.50.

Price by input length

The price is linear in the input length, so each length in the table is a multiplication. Lengths above 30 seconds are over the listed input maximum, so cut longer footage into parts first.

Upscale or regenerate

Compare the cost of upscaling an existing clip with the cost of generating it again at a higher tier. Wan 3.0 for 10 seconds costs 10 x $0.0625 = $0.625 at 480p and 10 x $0.25 = $2.50 at 1080p, a difference of $1.875. Upscaling the 480p clip adds 10 x $0.009 = $0.09, for a total of $0.715. The cheaper total does not mean the same result: an upscaled clip keeps the motion and content of the original, while a 1080p generation can differ in detail. Test one clip of each before committing a batch.

If a draft is already approved, upscaling keeps exactly what you approved. If you are still choosing between takes, upscale only the winner, which costs $0.09 per 10 seconds instead of upscaling every take.

• Reserve at submit equals the full price, so a 30-second job needs $0.27 of balance.
• Upscaling 20 takes of 10 seconds is $1.80; upscaling only the one you keep is $0.09.
• Pair with Image upscale ($0.20 per image) for stills; the two are separate jobs.

Choosing when to upscale

A common order is to generate at the cheapest tier that shows the idea, approve the take, then upscale. For ten approved 12-second clips, the upscale step costs 10 x 12 x $0.009 = $1.08. Compare that with regenerating all ten on Wan 3.0 from 480p to 1080p: 10 x 12 x ($0.25 - $0.0625) = $22.50 extra.

Check the output on one clip before you run the batch, because upscaling cannot add motion the original did not have. The jobs docs describe polling with backoff; a short clip finishes sooner than a long one, but the docs give no fixed time, so do not plan around one.

Sources

Rates come from the public catalog. Job polling is in the jobs and results docs.