USE CASE · FOOD
The best AI for food videos
Rates shown at each model's base tier, verified July 2026 from official vendor pricing pages and documentation. Vendors change prices without notice — see methodology.
Food video is secretly a physics benchmark: honey must flow at honey speed, steam must curl, cheese must stretch believably. That makes Sora 2 Pro the category leader — its fluid and material simulation carries the exact shots food marketing depends on. At $0.30/s and 6–8 second hero shots, a signature pour costs $2–4 per take.
Restaurants get the best economics here: a full social package (three hero shots plus ambient B-roll) lands around $25–40 against hundreds for a food videographer. One warning — appetite appeal collapses when physics fails, and food fails visibly. Keep retake budget at ×2.5 for hero shots and never publish a take you haven't watched frame by frame.
Whichever pick fits, pressure-test the budget in the calculator with your real clip counts — and remember every rate above multiplies by your retake ratio.