Credit calculation

The number of monthly credits you have will determine how many videos or images you can produce each month. Images always cost one credit. The credit cost of a video varies depending on the resolution, frame rate, and length of the video.

How to calculate video credit costs

To find out how much it costs to generate a video, click "Single Export" in the template editor.

The formula is as follows. A credit gives you 100 million pixels of output, with a minimum of one credit per render. A video rendered at 720p (1280 by 720) with a frame rate of 25 fps and a length of 10 seconds, is a total of 1280 * 720 * 25 * 10 pixels, or about 230 million pixels, so 2.3 credits.

To put it another way, 10,000 credits are equivalent to:
(10,000 * 100,000,000) / (1280 * 720 * 25) = 43,402 seconds ≈ 12 hours of video

Or, if you're rendering at 60 frames per second:
(10,000 * 100,000,000) / (1280 * 720 * 60) = 18,084 seconds ≈ 5 hours of video

Transcription costs

Creatomate is capable of automatically generating subtitles based on the clips included in your video. This process is known as automatic transcription, or speech-to-text.

Transcription is provided at no charge for high and medium resolution videos. Only if the transcription costs (at a rate of 10 credits per minute) are greater than the rendering credit costs will the transcription costs be used as the final credit cost. Therefore, auto-generated subtitles are free for any video starting at 720p and up (1280 by 720 at 25 fps, 13.8 credits/minute).

For insights into credit costs, use the "Single Export" feature in the template editor or refer to the API Logs page in your dashboard.

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