Same model.
Six bills.
WaveSpeed and fal.ai resell the same models — Seedance, Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 — per render; Higgsfield, Runway and SYNTX sell them inside a plan, in credits or tokens. Pick a model, a resolution and a length to compare one take.
One take · pay per render — a price, and nothing expires
- Longtake $0.76 your own key at the BytePlus price · €9.99/mo for the studio −60% provider promo until Sep 7 · list price $0.18 $0.39 as a 480p take upscaled to 1080p
- WaveSpeed $1.20
- fal.ai $1.52
The same take · on credits — a plan buys the pool, the cycle empties it
- Higgsfield $1.10 22 credits · on Plus $49/mo, holds 45 a month · $0.73–1.65 across plans
- Runway $3.11 200 credits · on Pro $35/mo, holds 11 a month · $1.60–3.84 across plans · resolution not stated in their table
- SYNTX $1.16 45 tokens · on VIP $44/mo, holds 37 a month · $1.16–1.90 across plans
Platform figures are their own, read off their pricing pages and generate buttons on 5 October 2026, the Veo and Kling rows on 2 October 2026. Plan prices are month-to-month, without an annual commitment. A credit costs less on a bigger plan, so the headline figure uses a middle one (Plus at $49/mo, Pro at $35/mo, VIP at $43.61/mo), and the range covers their cheapest and most expensive plans ($15/200 credits up to $129/3000 at Higgsfield, $15/625 credits up to $95/9500 at Runway, $9.41/260 tokens up to $125.40/3000 at SYNTX). Runway's table gives Seedance 2.0 Fast, Seedance 2.0 Mini and Veo 3.1 one figure each, without a resolution. Credits expire at the end of the billing cycle at Higgsfield and Runway; SYNTX tokens don't expire, but spend only while the subscription is live; on the pay-per-render side nothing expires at all. Our own figure is the provider's list price, billed to your own key — the same one the render button shows before you spend anything.
Questions
- What does a Seedance take cost per second?
- On Seedance 2.0 at 720p a take costs about $0.15 per second in BytePlus tokens ($0.76 for 5 seconds); at 480p about $0.07 per second ($0.35). On Seedance 2.5: about $0.23 per second at 720p ($1.16), $0.10 at 480p ($0.51) and $0.57 at 1080p ($2.84). Longtake bills exactly this to your own BytePlus key, plus €9.99 a month for the studio — no per-render markup.
- Why is the same model priced differently everywhere?
- Because the platforms buy the same model from the provider and resell it. fal.ai charges exactly twice the BytePlus token rate, WaveSpeed prices by the second, and Higgsfield, Runway and SYNTX wrap it in plans whose credits expire at the end of the cycle. Longtake resells nothing: the provider bills your key.
- What does the €9.99 subscription pay for?
- The studio around the render: projects, episodes and scenes, characters with locked voices, and storage for every take. Renders stay on your own key at the provider's price, and nothing you paid for expires.