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Art. Stories. Create with purpose.

The creative AI industry built a slop casino.

A maze of tools. A steep learning curve. Every flashing offer pulling you toward another credit burn.

The industry’s loopSteal Ideas, then Generate Slop, then Burn Credit, then back to Steal Ideas. The cycle repeats.

More slop.
Less soul.

Flooding Youtube with copycat garbage and AI Slops.Credit consumption dressed up as creativity.

Our stance

Put your imagination in charge.

Intent, Create, RefineThree numbered stages move forward from intent through creation to refinement.01Intent02Create03Refine

Original art. A story worth telling.
A commercial with something to say.

Choose with intent

Clarity before credits

See the quality.
Know the cost.

Editorial quality assessments and configured credit costs, side by side.
Choose what serves your work before you spend.

Explore the comparisons · Methodology and evidence limits

Image

Model nameCost meterQuality meter
Ideogram 4.5NEW
9.25 cr · basisNot rated
Flux 3 ImageNEW4K
4.25 cr · basisNot rated
Qwen Image 3NEW2K
3.15 cr · basisNot rated
Grok Imagine Image 2.02K
4.25 cr · basis6/10 editorial
Nano Banana 24K
5.75 cr · basis8/10 editorial
Nano Banana 2 Lite1K
3 cr · basis4/10 editorial
GPT Image 24K
9.25 cr · basis8/10 editorial
GPT Image 2.5 Flare4K
3 cr · basis8.5/10 editorial
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst4K
3 cr · basis9/10 editorial
Flux 2 Max2K
9.25 cr · basis2.5/10 editorial
Flux 2 Pro2K
4.45 cr · basis1.5/10 editorial
Seedream 5 Lite4K
1.5 cr · basis4/10 editorial
Seedream 5 Flash2K
1.15 cr · basis7.5/10 editorial
Seedream 5 Pro2K
5.95 cr · basis9/10 editorial
Kling Image V32K
1.25 cr · basis2/10 editorial
Kling Image O34K
1.25 cr · basis2/10 editorial

Video

Model nameCost meterQuality meter
Flux 3 VideoNEW1080p
121.5 cr · basisNot rated
Ltx 2.5 ProNEW1080p
71.5 cr · basisNot rated
Ltx 2.5 FastNEW4K
54.5 cr · basisNot rated
Minimax H3NEW4K
69.863 cr · basisNot rated
Minimax H3 MaxNEW1080p
72.75 cr · basisNot rated
Kling Video V31080p
70 cr · basis4/10 editorial
Kling Video O31080p
58.5 cr · basis4/10 editorial
Grok Imagine Video720p
67.163 cr · basis6.5/10 editorial
Grok Imagine Video 1.5720p
137.7 cr · basis7/10 editorial
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite1080p
58.95 cr · basis6.5/10 editorial
Seedance 1.51080p
49.5 cr · basis6/10 editorial
Seedance 2.01080p
177.5 cr · basis8/10 editorial
Seedance 2.0 Fast720p
129.375 cr · basis7/10 editorial
Seedance 2.0 Mini720p
79.875 cr · basis7/10 editorial
Seedance 2.51080p
270 cr · basis9/10 editorial
Happy Horse 1.11080p
75 cr · basis6/10 editorial
Wan 3.01080p
83.5 cr · basis5.5/10 editorial
Wan 3.0 Prime1080p
116.5 cr · basis6/10 editorial
Gemini Omni Flash720p
124.65 cr · basis2/10 editorial
Gemini Omni Flash V1.14K
62.5 cr · basis2.5/10 editorial

Voice

Model nameCost meterQuality meter
Eleven V3Multilingual
3.4 cr · basis8/10 editorial
Eleven V4Multilingual
2.68 cr · basis8.5/10 editorial
Eleven V4 TurboMultilingual
1.4 cr · basis8.5/10 editorial

SFX

Model nameCost meterQuality meter
Eleven Text to Sound V222s
9 cr · basis7/10 editorial
Stable Audio 3 Small SFX2m
0.475 cr · basis6.5/10 editorial

Music

Model nameCost meterQuality meter
Short-Form
Lyria 2Instrumental30s
8.5 cr · basis6/10 editorial
Lyria 3Instrumental30s
3.5 cr · basis7/10 editorial
Lyria 3.5InstrumentalVocal2m
2.125 cr · basis7.5/10 editorial
Stable Audio 2.5Instrumental3m 10s
2.637 cr · basis6/10 editorial
Stable Audio 3 SmallInstrumental2m
0.475 cr · basis6.5/10 editorial
Full Length
Lyria 3 ProInstrumentalVocal3m 4s
1.092 cr · basis7/10 editorial
Music V2InstrumentalVocal10m
6.25 cr · basis8/10 editorial
Music V2.5InstrumentalVocal10m
6.25 cr · basis8.5/10 editorial
Stable Audio 3 MediumInstrumental6m 20s
0.261 cr · basis7/10 editorial

Pricing

Subscriptions

Monthly subscription plans.

Starter

$16/mo

500 AI credits/mo

  • ≈ 86 Nano Banana 2 images
  • ≈ 88 Seedream 5 Pro images
  • ≈ 13 Seedance 2.0 videos
  • ≈ 9 Seedance 2.5 videos
Get started

Growth

$32/mo

1,000 AI credits/mo

  • ≈ 173 Nano Banana 2 images
  • ≈ 176 Seedream 5 Pro images
  • ≈ 27 Seedance 2.0 videos
  • ≈ 18 Seedance 2.5 videos
Get started

Scale

$60/mo

2,000 AI credits/mo

  • ≈ 347 Nano Banana 2 images
  • ≈ 353 Seedream 5 Pro images
  • ≈ 55 Seedance 2.0 videos
  • ≈ 36 Seedance 2.5 videos
Get started

Pro

$200/mo

7,000 AI credits/mo

  • ≈ 1,217 Nano Banana 2 images
  • ≈ 1,238 Seedream 5 Pro images
  • ≈ 195 Seedance 2.0 videos
  • ≈ 127 Seedance 2.5 videos
Get started

All prices in USD. Unused subscription credits reset each month.

AI credit topup

One-time packs. Credits expire 1 year after purchase.

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More soul.

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