How We Verify Prices

Every price on GenCost comes from the tool's own official pricing page, and is checked every morning before it goes live.

Every morning

  1. Read the official page. At about 06:17 Norwegian time, GenCost opens each tool's pricing page, with a real browser when the page needs one. Where a page has Monthly and Yearly tabs, both are read.
  2. Extract the plans. AI reads the plan names, the monthly price, the yearly price and the credits included. The price after any first-month deal is used, never a crossed-out "was" price.
  3. Check every number. Each price must appear on the page itself (or be a yearly total divided by 12). If it doesn't, the new price is rejected and the last confirmed price stays.
  4. Publish. The price lists, tool pages, comparison page, calculator and the prices inside every guide update by themselves.

Cost per clip

AI video tools sell credits, not seconds. GenCost works out the cost of one clip from each tool's own credits per clip for a named model and resolution (for example "Kling 3.0, 720p"), divided by the plan's price per credit. Where a tool doesn't publish its credits per clip, we show no clip cost rather than a guess, and figures from review sites are marked as not official.

Hidden costs

The "Watch out" notes (watermarks, credits that expire, intro prices, commercial-use rules) are taken from each tool's pricing page, with the source and the date they were checked.

What we don't do

  • We don't use affiliate links, and no tool pays to be listed.
  • We don't claim prices are the same in every country: tools sometimes show different prices by region. GenCost shows US dollar prices.
  • We don't hide when a price could not be checked: those tools show "Entered by hand" or the date they were last checked.

Always double-check

Prices change often. Always confirm the current price inside the tool before you buy. Found a wrong price? Email bitbooz@protonmail.com. More about the project on the About page.