For AI creators & indie studios

Your AI plan buys fewer videos than it says.

See real plan capacity after re-rolls, your true cost per finished video — and the margin you actually make when clients pay.

The cost of AI production, measured

×3–5

generations burned per one usable clip

~$50

real cost per minute of finished AI video

52 sec

what $35 of video credits actually buys

GPU-hours ≠ credits ≠ characters

every tool bills in its own units

You pay sticker price for every video you tried — not just the ones you kept.

01

What your plan really buys

Finished-video capacity per month, counted after re-rolls — ×3 waste multiplier by default, not marketing numbers.

02

Plan vs actual

Live margin, cost per keeper, and waste ratio — updated as you work, not after the invoice.

03

Market rates

Stop quoting blind. See median rates for projects like yours before you set a price.

Inside the product

Video · 45s · Kling$204.00
Images · 24 · Midjourney$38.40
Voiceover · 2 min · ElevenLabs$18.00
× 3 iterations$781.20
Quote #041
Product film · 45 seconds
Production cost$781
Your price (40% margin)$1,302
Market median$1,250–1,600
Day 4 of production 18.9%
spent $577quote $781
keepers11 / 46 gens
waste ratio×4.2

On the roadmap

Where CostWatcher is headed next.

Soon

Ask your AI assistant

Connect CostWatcher over MCP and pull live plan capacity and your project costs right into Claude or ChatGPT.

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AI budget planner

Describe the deliverable, get a credit budget — tools, plans, and re-rolls priced before you burn anything.

Soon

Auto-connectors

Actual spend pulled in automatically, starting with ElevenLabs — no manual snapshots.

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Get free access to the plan capacity calculator

Drop your email now — jump into the live calculator right away, and be first in line when the full product opens. One email at launch, nothing else.

Questions, answered

Which tools are covered?

Video first — Kling, Runway, Veo, Seedance, Higgsfield, Hailuo, HeyGen and Synthesia — plus Midjourney, Nano Banana, GPT Image and Krea for images, ElevenLabs for voiceover, and Suno for music. The list keeps growing.

Where do prices come from?

A maintained, versioned price database of every tool's plans and credit rates. Every entry carries a verified-at date and a link to the official pricing page — when a platform changes pricing silently (and they do), we re-verify and version the change.

How is this different from time trackers or expense apps?

We model project economics — quotes, cost per keeper, margin — rather than logging spend after the fact. An expense app records what you spent; we show whether the project pays.