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Lumaai changed how it meters Video-to-Video credits

By , Co-founder, PricingSaaS

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Lumaai began billing Video-to-Video credits by combined generated-plus-reference video length.

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What changed

Lumaai changed how it meters Video-to-Video generation: credits are now billed per second of combined generated-plus-reference video instead of generated video alone, which roughly halves the displayed per-second rate for most models, per Lumaai's pricing page on Nov 7, 2026. Seedance 2.0 at 720p moves from about 64 to 32 credits/sec, Kling 4.0 Omni from about 98 to 47, and MiniMax H3 at 768p from 56 to 28, per Lumaai's pricing page on Nov 7, 2026.

MiniMax H3 Max moved the other way: its 768p rate rose from about 73 to about 82 credits/sec and its 1080p rate from about 101 to about 110, while its 480p rate held at about 35, per Lumaai's pricing page on Nov 7, 2026. Flux 3 video rates were cut — Text/Image-to-Video fell from 60 to 50 credits/sec at HD and 102 to 80 at FHD, Video-to-Video fell from 144 to 70 at HD and 186 to 90 at FHD — and Lumaai added two new models, Kling 4.0 Flash (text/image-to-video, 32 credits/sec at 720p) and Kling 4.0 Flash Omni (text/image-to-video at 32 credits/sec, video-to-video at 21 credits/sec of combined generated-plus-reference video), per Lumaai's pricing page on Nov 7, 2026. Pulse links the MiniMax H3 Max increase and the Flux 3 cuts to a live A/B test on Lumaai's video credit rates, so those two moves may be one arm of an experiment rather than settled prices.

Why it matters

The real story for a product leader is the unit change, not the headline halving: a "credits per second" rate only means something once you know whether that second includes reference video, so treat this as a prompt to re-read the fine print on any usage-based competitor's pricing page before comparing it to your own — especially if you're building a usage-metered product and want customers to trust your own unit definitions.

The MiniMax H3 Max increase stands out inside this relabeling: Lumaai's highest-tier video model now shows higher rates even as most of the table looks cheaper. Pulse ties that increase, and the Flux 3 cuts, to a live A/B test on Lumaai's video credit rates, so treat both as provisional until the test settles. Watch whether other video-generation vendors follow Lumaai into metering by combined generated-plus-reference length, which would make raw per-second comparisons across providers even less reliable.

In context

Pulse has tracked Lumaai since Jul 20, 2026 and counted 9 real pricing changes, 8 of them in the last 90 days — most recently adding Kling 4.0 API pricing on Oct 23, 2026 and, before that, doubling Seedance video-to-video credit costs on Oct 5, 2026. Pulse groups that Seedance doubling with a live A/B test on Lumaai's video credit rates, and ties today's MiniMax H3 Max increase and Flux 3 cuts to the same test — so read today's numbers with care: the metric itself changed, and some of the rate moves may be one arm of an experiment. Lumaai is also one of the most active companies in Pulse's credits-and-usage-billing lens, where 328 of 2,705 tracked changes (12.1%) touched credit or usage billing across the companies Pulse tracks over the last 180 days — Pika cut its own Starter and Creator credit caps on Nov 6, 2026. For a product leader comparing video-generation vendors, check what a credit or a second measures on each pricing page before comparing per-unit rates across providers or against a vendor's own price history.

Common questions

How do we compare this to another vendor's per-second price?

Check whether the other vendor's "per second" already includes reference or conditioning video the way Lumaai's now does — if it only counts generated output, its rate isn't directly comparable to Lumaai's new one even when the digits look similar.

Does our actual cost per video job change, or just the quoted rate?

Not necessarily — because the billable unit grew to include reference video length, a job that uses reference footage can land close to its old cost even though the quoted per-second rate looks lower; model a real job's total credits rather than comparing headline rates.

Should we expect MiniMax H3 Max's higher rate to spread to other models?

Watch the next few updates rather than assume it: this update moved most rates down while pushing just one tier up, so a single increase inside a broader cut isn't yet a trend — recheck Lumaai's credit table after its next pricing-page change.

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