# Plans and credits

Updated 2026-09-28. Web page: https://kitcut.ai/docs/plans-and-credits

KitCut is paid for in credits: one credit is one second of film. Every film uses at least 30 credits. Free accounts get 30 seconds of film a month. Standard and Pro are monthly subscriptions that give more minutes; Pro also makes films up to 8 minutes and makes them first when the service is busy.

| Plan | Price a month | Film a month | Longest film | Frame rate | Made first when busy | KitCut mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 30 seconds | 1 minute | 30 fps | no | yes |
| Standard | $12 to $319 | 2 to 60 minutes | 1 minute | 60 fps | no | no |
| Pro | $45 to $849 | 10 to 240 minutes | 8 minutes | 60 fps | yes | no |

**Free in practice:** a month's free credits (30) make one film of up to 30 seconds. Free films can be up to 1 minute, but a longer one needs bonus credits on top.

![The pricing page's three plan cards - Free, Standard and Pro - with a red frame around the Pro card.](https://kitcut.ai/docs/img/pricing.webp "kitcut.ai/pricing: pick a plan, then the minutes a month.")

**All plans make the same films with the same tools:** both looks, pictures and voice notes, characters that come back, projects, and a page for every film. Plans differ only in:
- how much film you get a month;
- how long one film can be;
- priority;
- the KitCut mark.

## Paid plans, by the minute

| Plan | Minutes a month | Price a month | Price a minute |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Standard | 2 | $12 | $6.00 |
| Standard | 5 | $29 | $5.80 |
| Standard | 10 | $56 | $5.60 |
| Standard | 20 | $109 | $5.45 |
| Standard | 40 | $215 | $5.38 |
| Standard | 60 | $319 | $5.32 |
| Pro | 10 | $45 | $4.50 |
| Pro | 20 | $85 | $4.25 |
| Pro | 40 | $159 | $3.98 |
| Pro | 80 | $299 | $3.74 |
| Pro | 120 | $439 | $3.66 |
| Pro | 240 | $849 | $3.54 |

Prices are in US dollars, billed monthly in advance by Stripe. Promotion codes are accepted at checkout.

## How credits work

- **Cost:** a film uses its length in seconds, and at least 30. A 45-second film uses 45 credits; a 10-second film uses 30.
- **Held, then charged:**
  - When a film is asked for, its credits are held (taken from the balance).
  - They are charged only when the film is finished.
- **Given back automatically** when a film fails, is stopped, is interrupted, or is refused.
- **A film with no result after 6 hours,** plus 45 seconds for every second of film, has its credits given back.
- **Order:** credits are spent from the batch that expires soonest.
- **Too few credits:** a film that needs more than the balance is refused before it starts ("This film needs m:ss of credit and you have m:ss").

## When credits arrive and expire

| Plan | When credits arrive | When they expire |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | 30 seconds every month, on the day of the month the account was made. They appear the first time the account is used in that month. | at the end of that month; they don't carry over |
| Standard, Pro | the plan's minutes, each time a monthly payment goes through | at the end of that billing month; they don't carry over |
| Bonus credits (given by KitCut) | when given | when stated; by default never |
| Invitation bonus ([Invite friends](https://kitcut.ai/docs/invite-friends.md)) | when an invited friend's first film is finished, or they subscribe | after 365 days (a subscriber's first-month boost: at the end of that paid month) |

A refund of credits whose batch has already expired arrives as a new batch that lasts to the end of the current month.

## Changing plans

- **Moving up** (a bigger plan or more minutes) applies at once. The difference is charged for the rest of the month, and the extra minutes are added in proportion.
- **Moving down or cancelling** takes effect at the end of the billing month. Credits already received stay until they expire.
- **When a subscription ends,** the account is on Free again, with a new free month from that day.
- **A failed payment** keeps the plan while Stripe retries.
- **Where to do it:**
  - change plans on the [pricing page](https://kitcut.ai/pricing);
  - update the card, see invoices, or cancel under **Manage billing** on the account page (Stripe's billing portal).
- **Refunds:** payments are not refunded, except where the law requires it.

![The account page's credit and plan cards: credits left, the plan with its minutes and longest film, and the billing month, with a red circle around the credits left.](https://kitcut.ai/docs/img/account-credits.webp "The account page shows the balance, what is held for a film being made, and what expires at renewal.")

## Priority (Pro)

- When other films are waiting, Pro films are made first at every step that waits.
- Films on the same plan are served first come, first served.
- Priority doesn't make a film faster once its turn comes.

## Inside AI assistants

Assistants connected to KitCut never show prices or plans, and never offer upgrades ([Assistants](https://kitcut.ai/docs/assistants.md)). An assistant can report the balance and the longest film the plan allows.