USE CASE · MUSIC
The best AI for music 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.
Music videos are AI video's most forgiving format — surrealism is the aesthetic, so the glitches that ruin an ad become texture here. That forgiveness changes the buy: you need volume and style range more than peak fidelity. A 3-minute video needs roughly 180 seconds of footage across 25–35 cuts; on Seedance that's ~$38 with retakes, on Gen-4.5 ~$68.
The winning workflow cuts to the track first: build the edit skeleton from the song's structure, then generate shots to fill specific durations. Generating first and cutting second wastes 30–40% of footage. If the artist appears on screen, route those shots to Kling for identity consistency and keep the abstract material on the cheaper tiers.
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.