Pricing FAQ
Every generation Scenema runs (video, image, narration, voice cloning) costs credits. Your workspace has a monthly credit budget that comes with your plan. You can top up any time.
Plans
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | Credits per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 200 once, at sign up |
| Starter | $9 | $8, billed $90 a year (2 months free) | 1,000 |
| Creator | $58 | $49, billed $580 a year (2 months free) | 3,000 |
| Pro | $250 | $209, billed $2,500 a year (2 months free) | 15,000 |
Full plan comparison and feature entitlements are on the pricing page.
Credits
How many credits does the Free plan include?
The Free plan grants 200 credits when you sign up, once. Buy a credit top up whenever you need more, or upgrade to a paid plan to receive a fresh monthly credit budget.
What is a credit?
A credit is the unit Scenema bills compute in. Credits are consumed by every generation you run: video shots, keyframe images, character reference images, narration audio, voice cloning, and exports. Higher resolutions and pro-tier models cost more credits per second than the fast tier.
How much will my project cost?
The Studio shows a live credit estimate before every generation, so you always see the cost up front. Actual usage varies with resolution, video model tier (Fast vs Pro), voice model, and how many regenerations you approve per shot. Review the estimate, edit if needed, then approve.
Do credits expire?
Monthly credits are set to your plan’s allowance on each billing date, so unused monthly credits do not carry over. Purchased and promotional credits never expire. Billing explains every kind of credit.
Can I top up mid-month?
Yes, on every plan, Free included. Move the slider under Top up credits in Settings, Billing, or type any number of credits from 300 to 50,000, to see the price. The more you buy at once, the more credits each dollar buys. A plan always gives more credits for the money. Top-up credits stack on top of your monthly allowance.
Billing
Can I cancel any time?
Yes. Your subscription remains active until the end of the current billing period, and your purchased credits stay with your workspace. See Billing.
Do I keep my content if I cancel?
Yes. Projects, exported videos, generated audio, and all assets remain accessible in read-only mode. Regeneration requires an active plan or top-up credits.
Do you offer annual discounts?
Yes. Every paid plan billed yearly gets two months free: you pay ten months up front for twelve.
Can I change plans?
Yes. Upgrades take effect immediately: a new billing period starts and you pay the new price less the unused value of your current plan. Downgrades take effect at the end of the current billing period. Billing has the details and worked examples.
Refunds
Do you refund failed generations?
Yes. Any generation that fails on our side (upstream provider error, worker crash, timeout) is automatically refunded to your workspace balance. You do not have to file a ticket.
Do you refund human-decision cases?
No. Regenerations you request because you did not like the output are charged as normal. You can review the estimate before every generation and approve or edit before spending.
What Free actually includes
What can I make on the Free plan?
The Free plan opens the full Scenema app. You get the Director chat, the Audio and Video studios, every active video model, prompt and shot editing, keyframe and shot regeneration, retakes on any generation, asset versioning, and video export. Reference materials like PDFs, TXT files, images, schematics, and EPUBs work as story context for the Director.
The Free tier limits are on quantity and quality knobs, not on which parts of the app you can visit. Videos run about 30 seconds at Standard quality (768p). Narration script caps at 500 characters (about 30 seconds of narration); scripts longer than that are truncated to fit and the app prompts you to upgrade if you want the full length. You cannot upload reference images for characters or locations. Voice cloning, the Voices Studio, the Styles Studio, and the brand kit are on paid tiers.
Do Free videos have a watermark?
Yes. Every paid plan removes it.
Video generation
Which video models does each plan get?
Every plan has access to every active video model in Scenema. Plans differ on resolution and duration ceilings, not on the model catalog.
What is the video length ceiling per plan?
| Plan | Ceiling |
|---|---|
| Free | About 30 seconds |
| Starter | 5 minutes |
| Creator | 10 minutes |
| Pro | 30 minutes |
Multi-chapter stories on paid plans stitch multiple scenes together to reach the ceiling for the tier.
What is the resolution ladder?
Every project starts at Standard (768p). Pick Draft (480p) for cheaper tries, or High Definition (1080p), crisp text rendering and fine details for commercial and broadcast use, on a plan that includes it.
| Plan | Max resolution |
|---|---|
| Free | Standard (768p) |
| Starter | Standard (768p) |
| Creator | High Definition (1080p) |
| Pro | High Definition (1080p) |
The shot editor filters the resolution picker per your plan. Free users pick from the model’s lowest supported tier. Pro users pick from the model’s highest supported tier.
Can I export individual shots?
Creator and Pro plans can export the shots of a project as a ZIP, one file per shot, ready for external editing.
Text-to-speech and voice
What does narration cost?
Narration costs 15 credits per 1,000 characters of script, for every voice, in the app and through the API alike. A take is charged by its exact number of characters, rounded up to a whole credit: a 2,500 character script costs 38 credits. The Studio shows the cost of each take before you make it.
What voices are available on Free?
Every plan gets Scenema Audio, the expressive text-to-speech system with 20 or more languages. The Free tier caps the narration script at 500 characters per project (about 30 seconds of narration); over-cap scripts are truncated and the app offers an upgrade to write at full length. Paid plans lift the cap entirely.
What is voice cloning?
Voice cloning trains an AI voice from samples you upload. Once trained, the Director generates new lines in the cloned voice. Voice clone quotas grow with the tier: 1 on Starter, 10 on Creator, 25 on Pro.
What does “Bring your own voice” mean?
Paid plans let you upload your own recorded audio to use as the narration for a project. The audio you upload is the narration, no synthesis. Useful when you want your own voice in the video without training a full voice clone.
What is the Voices Studio?
A paid-only area of the app where you build, name, and manage custom voices trained from your samples. All paid plans include it.
Studios
What is the Styles Studio?
A paid-only area of the app where you build custom video styles: opinionated visual looks for a documentary series, tutorial channel, or brand ad campaign. Free users pick from the built-in Scenema styles.
What is a brand kit?
A brand kit holds a brand’s colors, type, rules and logos, and Scenema applies it to every video made with it, on top of any style. Creator includes one brand kit, and Pro includes up to ten, so a studio can keep a kit for each client. Free and Starter do not include brand kits.
What happens to my brand kits if I change plans?
Nothing is deleted. If your new plan includes fewer brand kits than your workspace has, your earliest kits keep the plan’s places and the newest ones are paused. Paused kits stay listed and you can delete them, but they are not used on videos, including videos made with them, and they cannot be edited until you upgrade. On Free and Starter every kit is paused. Upgrading brings paused kits back.
Can my team work in Scenema together?
Yes, on Creator and Pro. Your workspace becomes a team workspace: invite people by email, and everyone works on the same projects and shares the workspace’s credits. Creator holds up to 15 people, owner included, and Pro has no limit. The people you invite do not need a plan of their own. You can also create a separate workspace for each team or client; each one has its own plan and credits. See Workspaces.
API and integrations
Can I access Scenema through an API?
Not yet. MCP integration is on the roadmap and rolls out to every plan when it ships. Planned surfaces include Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, and Meta Muse.
What about sound effects and background music?
SFX and soundtrack generation are on the roadmap and will roll out to every plan.
Enterprise
Do you offer custom plans?
Yes. Studios and larger teams that need custom credit allocations, team-scale support, or invoicing terms should contact us through scenema.ai for a custom plan sized to your monthly output.