Launch countdown: seven daily 10-second avatar clips, priced

A seven-day launch countdown made of seven 10-second Avatar 1.0 clips, each captioned, and a recap video joining all seven costs $14.55 at standard quality, $18.82 at plus and $40.17 at max, with an existing avatar. The one-time $0.95 to create a new avatar is extra. Most of that is the avatar seconds; captions, audio extraction and the final render add $1.67 on top.

Here is the line-by-line bill, so you can swap in your own clip count or tier.

What are the line items?

Each clip is a separate Avatar 1.0 job, priced per second by tier, and the avatar video doc keeps every clip in the 4 to 60 second window, so 10 seconds is comfortably inside it. Standalone captions are a flat $0.20 per job for videos up to 60 seconds, per the video captions doc.

For the recap, Timeline 1.0 takes an audio spine plus ordered video slots and bills $0.10 per ceil(output minute). Seven 10-second clips make a 70-second video, which rounds up to 2 minutes, $0.20. The audio spine comes from audio detach at $0.01 per job, seven times, or $0.07.

What does the series cost by tier?

Avatar 1.0 rates without a product image are $0.184 per second at standard, $0.245 at plus (the default quality) and $0.55 at max, from the clone's provider-pricing package. A 10-second clip is therefore $1.84, $2.45 or $5.50.

The table adds the same $1.67 of fixed processing to each tier: captions $1.40, detach $0.07, timeline $0.20.

What changes the total?

Clip length is the biggest lever, since price is per second. A 15-second countdown at plus is $3.675 per clip, so seven clips are $25.725 before the fixed lines.

A recap longer than one minute is billed per started minute, so a 61-second render costs $0.20, the same as 120 seconds. Seven 8-second clips make 56 seconds, so the Timeline line drops to $0.10.

Skipping the recap removes $0.27: no timeline and no detach. You then post each clip on its day.

Which tier fits a countdown?

Tier is a quality choice, not a speed choice, so pick it by where the clips will be seen. The difference across seven clips is large enough to decide on its own:

• Standard at $14.55 suits small-screen daily teasers where the message matters more than polish.
• Plus at $18.82 is the default quality and adds $4.27 over standard for the whole series.
• Max at $40.17 costs $21.35 more than plus, so reserve it for the launch-day clip and run the other six at plus, which comes to $21.87 with the fixed lines included.

How do I stay inside a budget?

Timeline offers an unbilled plan call that returns billable_minutes and estimated_cost_usd_micros without creating a job, so you can check the render line before you submit. For the clips, each paid submit reserves its estimate, and a failed clip releases its hold.

Run a first clip, check the receipt, then queue the rest. If the total matters to a client, set a ceiling on the run that creates them. Prices are a read from 2026-10-03, and the API pricing page is the live source.