{"id":1234440,"date":"2025-02-24T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234440"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:54:23","slug":"each-second-of-googles-veo-2-ai-video-footage-will-cost-50-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234440","title":{"rendered":"Each second of Google\u2019s Veo 2 AI video footage will cost 50 cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Veo 2 model was announced <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/googles-new-ai-video-model-sucks-less-at-physics-170041204.html\"><ins>last December<\/ins><\/a>, and now we have an idea of what using it will cost. According to its <a data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/shopping.yahoo.com\/rdlw?siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=f0ffdb23-6c74-4db4-a446-b230d106701e&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL2Nsb3VkLmdvb2dsZS5jb20vdmVydGV4LWFpL2dlbmVyYXRpdmUtYWkvcHJpY2luZyN2ZW8iLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6ImYwZmZkYjIzLTZjNzQtNGRiNC1hNDQ2LWIyMzBkMTA2NzAxZSIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9jbG91ZC5nb29nbGUuY29tL3ZlcnRleC1haS9nZW5lcmF0aXZlLWFpL3ByaWNpbmcjdmVvIn0&amp;signature=AQAAAcxLKNDDMIzKDGVn7SaaQizGUpy0_IyiRJJk0tUTPkmy&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcloud.google.com%2Fvertex-ai%2Fgenerative-ai%2Fpricing%23veo\" class=\"rapid-with-clickid\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/vertex-ai\/generative-ai\/pricing#veo\"><ins>pricing page<\/ins><\/a>: 50 cents per second of footage.<\/p>\n<p>Veo 2 is presently limited to two-minute clips in up to 4K resolution \u2014\u00a0a fair sight more than the 20-second, 1080p clips generated by ChatGPT&#8217;s Sora model. It&#8217;s somewhat more difficult to compare the two on pricing as Sora uses a subscription-based approach. The staggering $200 ChatGPT Pro plan entitles a user to 500 videos per month, while the Plus plan caps things at 50 videos and hobbles the maximum quality and length to 720p and five seconds, respectively. Veo 2 users, meanwhile, just pay piecemeal whenever they choose.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Big-budget feature films cost many multiples of Veo&#8217;s pricing per second to produce, but that&#8217;s not really what the model is currently seeking or able to compete with. Google is already testing Veo 2 as a means to quickly generate backgrounds for YouTube Shorts through its <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/feed\/veo-2-dream-screen-youtube-shorts\/\"><ins>Dream Screen<\/ins><\/a> feature. It (and Sora) are also likely to take a bite out of the stock footage industry, where high-quality clips can cost <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonlight.com\/blog\/what-to-expect-from-your-stock-footage-video-project\/#:~:text=For%20budget%20context%2C%20basic%20stock,to%20create%20within%20your%20budget.\"><ins>100 times<\/ins><\/a> what a Veo 2 clip would. Of course, those clips are typically free of weird artifacts and <a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/rabbit-holes\/the-uncanny-failures-of-ai-generated-hands\"><ins>mangled hands<\/ins><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/each-second-of-googles-veo-2-ai-video-footage-will-cost-50-cents-155419146.html?src=rss<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Veo 2 model was announced last December, and now we have an idea of what using it will cost. According to its pricing page: 50 cents per second of footage. Veo 2 is presently limited to two-minute clips in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}