What ends on October 31
The last day of October lands on a Friday this year, and three video generation promotions close on exactly that day. Prices return to list, and the per-second difference looks like pocket change only until the first long project. On a two-minute clip it turns into tens of dollars, on a series of twenty clips into hundreds.
Five items follow, each with the price before and after. Run the numbers in your own dashboard: plan and resolution move the figure.
1. fal and MiniMax H3 Max Turbo: 35 percent off
MiniMax H3 Max Turbo on fal costs 1.6 cents per second at 480p, 2.6 cents at 768p and 5.2 cents at 1080p. From November 1 the same seconds run at 2.5, 4.0 and 8.0 cents, since the 35 percent discount comes off in full.
At 1080p that is a 1.5x jump. A two-minute clip, 120 seconds, costs roughly 6 dollars 25 today and 9 dollars 60 on Saturday.
Why it matters: Turbo is the fast tier for drafts and animatics, and it is the cheapest place to iterate on takes. Anyone generating dozens of versions of one shot gets the largest saving in these last days.
2. Higgsfield: Wan 3.0 and Wan 3.0 Prime at 60 percent off
The Higgsfield API keeps 60 percent off two Wan 3.0 models until October 31. The standard version lists at 5 cents per second and drops to 2 cents on the promotion. Prime runs at 6.8 cents normally and 2.7 cents discounted.
The terms cover the API, while the web app and subscriptions follow their own rules.
Why it matters: Wan 3.0 holds camera movement and long shots well, and at the promotional rate a second costs less than many fast models at list price. For testing on your own footage these are the last cheap days.
3. HeyGen Video: half price at launch
HeyGen launched Video with a 50 percent introductory discount until October 31: 1 cent per second against 2 cents.
Billing runs on the seconds of the finished clip, so a minute of talking avatar is about 60 cents cheaper today than tomorrow. Across thirty short versions for different placements the gap reaches 18 dollars.
Why it matters: HeyGen is strongest on avatars and lip sync, and those clips usually ship in batches. Checking a template, a voice and the lighting is cheaper now.
4. Kling 4.0: the in-app discount is already gone
According to a Japanese daily roundup, Kling ended its 10 percent credit discount for Pro plans and above at 00:00 Japan time on October 30, which is 18:00 Moscow time on October 29. Inside Kling itself the full price is back.
A neighbouring offer survives: Kling 4.0 on Runway Dev is 20 percent cheaper through November 30 UTC, at 12.56 and 18.8 credits per second without input video against 15.7 and 23.5.
Why it matters: searches for Kling AI video generation mostly land inside Kling, where the promotion is over. Anyone budgeting a month ahead is left comparing third-party APIs and their own deadlines.
5. What still runs into November
Genspark Media Studio keeps 50 percent off credits until November 4 at 19:00 Japan time, which is 13:00 Moscow time, for Plus, Pro, Team and Enterprise plans.
Pika H3 Flex offers 50 percent off for the first two weeks plus 15 free generations a day, with details on the Pika blog.
Vidu Q4 Preview takes 30 percent off image-to-video and reference-to-video through November 30, per the same Japanese roundup.
Why it matters: a project without a hard deadline gains a week or more from these windows. Every deadline is different and shifts, so check inside your own account: someone else's table goes stale within a day.
AI video generation: the price of a second and the price of a clip
The table answers one question only: what a second of generation costs. It does not build a project budget. Script, take selection, editing, sound and re-encoding for each placement all sit on top of those seconds, and on a ten-minute episode that work costs more than the render.
Rejects are the second layer. A usable take tends to arrive around the third attempt, and scenes with hands or continuous character motion need five or more. So multiply the per-second price by the number of attempts, and a 35 percent discount saves less than it looks.
We covered the model's own rate card separately, so Kling 4.0 pricing and what drives the credit charge is explained there in detail. For a full budget from script to delivery, there is also a breakdown of what an AI video really costs in 2026.
| Service | Now, per second | After October 31 |
|---|---|---|
| MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, 480p | 1.6 cents | 2.5 cents |
| MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, 768p | 2.6 cents | 4.0 cents |
| MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, 1080p | 5.2 cents | 8.0 cents |
| Wan 3.0 on Higgsfield | 2 cents | 5 cents |
| Wan 3.0 Prime on Higgsfield | 2.7 cents | 6.8 cents |
| HeyGen Video | 1 cent | 2 cents |
My take: how to spend the last days
First, push the drafts through now. Anything you can do at 480p or 768p is cheaper before Saturday, while the final 1080p render lands on the new price anyway.
Second, freeze your prompts. The discount expires, the wording that worked does not, and moving it to another model later costs more than saving it today.
Third, skip stockpiling credits. Monthly packs often beat the percentages that promotions shave off, and the money leaves your account immediately.
Fourth, count finished clips. Seconds in the dashboard say little about the project budget. Where a real person has to be on camera, handcrafted videos from 200 dollars give a more predictable number than an API subscription, since the price is fixed up front and does not move with the attempt count. For regular output and ad series, AI video production from one reusable template usually comes out cheaper across ten versions of a scene.
