Veo 3 API pricing: what one 8-second clip actually costs

Every Veo 3 call through Genace costs 100 credits. That is a flat per-clip price, not a per-second one, and the reason is the next section.

Duration is locked at 8 seconds

Veo 3 does not expose a duration parameter upstream. Genace’s schema reflects that: durationSec is a literal 8, not a range. Passing anything else fails validation before the request ever leaves your machine.

durationSec: z.literal(8).default(8)

The practical consequence: there is no cheaper short-clip option. If you need three seconds of footage, you still pay for eight. Budget accordingly, or use a model that accepts a duration.

What 100 credits is in dollars

Credits are not priced linearly — the larger the pack, the lower the unit cost. So a single Veo 3 clip costs somewhere between these two figures depending on what you bought:

Pack	Price	Credits	Per credit	One Veo 3 clip
Basic	$6.90	500	$0.0138	$1.38
Standard	$14.90	1,200	$0.0124	$1.24
Premium	$34.90	3,000	$0.0116	$1.16
Enterprise	$79.90	8,000	$0.0100	$1.00

At the Enterprise tier a clip works out to $1.00 flat, or $0.125 per second of video.

Resolution halves it

720p costs 50 credits instead of 100. If you are generating drafts for review and only rendering finals at 1080p, that is a straight 50% saving on the iteration loop:

const credits = p.resolution === '720p' ? 50 : 100;

Default is 1080p, so you have to ask for 720p explicitly.

How it compares

Same provider, same credit unit, so these numbers are directly comparable:

Model	Clip length	Credits	Credits per second
Veo 3	8s (fixed)	100	12.5
Kling 2.0 Standard	5s	35	7.0
Seedance 2.0 Fast	5s	25	5.0

Veo 3 is roughly 2.5× the per-second cost of Seedance 2.0 Fast. Whether that is worth it depends entirely on your output quality bar — this page makes no claim about which looks better, only what each one costs.

What this page does not claim

These are Genace’s prices. Google’s direct pricing for Veo 3 through Vertex AI is a separate number set by Google, and it is not reproduced here because we have no way to keep a third party’s price list accurate. Check the vendor for that figure.

Models covered on this page

• Veo 3