Veo 3 Pricing — How Much Does Each Clip Cost via the API, Without a Subscription

The price of Veo 3 has two paths: the subscription (Google AI Pro / Ultra, with Flow credits) and the API, charged per clip. Through the API, on Kunavo, Veo 3.1 Lite costs $0,18+, Veo 3.1 Fast $0,36+, and Veo 3.1 Quality $1,60+ per clip at 720p — with no monthly fee and no Google Cloud project. Which option is worthwhile comes down to one division: monthly fee ÷ price per clip = break-even point.

People searching “how much does Veo 3 cost” find almost exclusively subscription-plan comparisons. That half of the answer is covered; the other — how much it costs to pay clip by clip through the API — is left blank. This page fills that half with numbers.

The two ways to pay for Veo 3

Plan prices and credit amounts change frequently, so we do not copy them here — always check Google’s official page. For comparison, all you need is the division below.

Veo 3 API pricing — per clip, by tier

The prices below come directly from the model catalog: if the price changes, the table changes with it.

The “+” means “starting at”: the amount is the minimum price per clip at 720p, and higher resolutions may cost more. The IDs remain those of the veo-3 family; the current generation shown in the table runs behind them. Billing is in dollars, deducted clip by clip from a prepaid balance.

Break-even point — monthly fee ÷ price per clip

Subscription or API: the deciding factor is the number of clips you generate per month. Convert the monthly fee to dollars and divide it by the price of the tier you use: the result is the break-even point. Below it, the API is cheaper; above it, every month, the subscription is better value. As a benchmark, here is how many clips fit into a $10 monthly fee:

Multiply by the number of times your monthly fee contains $10, and you have the break-even point for your plan. One more number is worth looking at: if the subscription credits produce fewer clips than this break-even point, the API is always cheaper. If you generate in Flow almost every day and use up the credits every month, however, staying on the subscription makes sense — especially if you use the plan’s other features.

The biggest savings — mixing tiers

The biggest reduction in cost comes from separating testing from the final version. Refine the prompt in Veo 3.1 Lite as many times as needed and run only the approved prompt in Veo 3.1 Quality. With 10 drafts and 1 final version, doing everything in Veo 3.1 Quality costs $17,60; moving the drafts to Veo 3.1 Lite costs $3,40. In the code, one word changes: the model name.

How to call it — pay attention only to the asynchronous part

Unlike text, video is an asynchronous task. POST /v1/videos first returns the task ID; then you poll GET /v1/videos/{id} until the status becomes completed or failed.

# O mínimo para gerar um clipe e esperar o resultado.
# Sem assinatura e sem projeto no Google Cloud: só uma chave.
import os, time, requests

KEY = os.environ["KUNAVO_API_KEY"]
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {KEY}"}

# 1. Envio — volta na hora com o id da tarefa (status "queued").
job = requests.post(
    "https://api.kunavo.com/v1/videos",
    headers=H,
    json={
        "model": "veo-3-lite",  # rascunhos no Lite; a versão final em "veo-3-quality"
        "prompt": "rua do Pelourinho ao entardecer, casarões coloridos, câmera avançando devagar",
        "aspect_ratio": "16:9",
    },
    timeout=60,
).json()

# 2. Geração de vídeo é assíncrona — faça polling pelo id até terminar.
while True:
    r = requests.get(
        f"https://api.kunavo.com/v1/videos/{job['id']}", headers=H, timeout=30
    ).json()
    if r["status"] in ("completed", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)

print(r["output"]["url"] if r["status"] == "completed" else r["error"])

Failed requests are not charged. Generating again because the result was not satisfactory, however, is a successful generation, and each one is charged. Response format, image-to-video, and webhooks are covered in the video API documentation (in English).

Paying from Brazil — Pix at checkout

The price is in dollars, but for those paying from Brazil, Pix appears at checkout: Stripe converts the amount and displays it in reais on the payment page itself, and you pay by QR code or by copying and pasting, without an international card. Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Link remain available. Minimum top-up of $10, prepaid wallet, balance that never expires. The step-by-step guide, screen by screen, is available in how to pay for the API with Pix.

Being honest — when this path is not suitable

Through the gateway, you can get started without a Google billing account and without a Cloud project, but you use shared capacity rather than a dedicated quota. If your volume requires a guaranteed quota or a contractual SLA, the right choice is to contract directly with Google — this page does not promise to replace that.

The complete guide, in English, is at Veo 3 API, and the comparison with the other video models is at Text-to-video API.

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