Freepik (Magnific), Krea, OpenArt, Leonardo, Pollo AI, LTX Studio and invideo: Which AI Video Apps Need a Subscription (November 2026)

On November 10, 2026, none of these seven apps sold video credits to someone without a plan: Freepik (now Magnific), Krea, OpenArt, Leonardo, Pollo AI, LTX Studio and invideo all start video at a monthly plan, from $9 to $20 a month, and their monthly credits expire at the end of each cycle. Several of them sell extra credits, but only to subscribers. If you make video now and then, a plan's unused credits are money lost each month; a per-clip platform charges each clip from a balance that does not expire.

This guide compares what each app charges before your first clip, whether its credits expire, commercial use, what a clip costs where the app publishes it, and which kind of maker each one suits.

A note on who wrote this: GenMagic is a per-clip platform and one of the options compared here; its prices come from its live catalog. Every other figure was read on November 10, 2026 on the app's own pricing page, help center or docs, linked in each section. Where an app's pages did not say something, this guide says "not stated" rather than guess. For the makers' own apps (Kling, Hailuo, Wan, Veo in Google's plans, Seedance in Dreamina), see AI video generators without a subscription; for the sites that do sell per clip, pay-as-you-go AI video generators compared.

Table of contents

1. The short answer
2. Side by side
3. What a clip costs where it is published
4. Freepik (Magnific)
5. Krea
6. OpenArt
7. Leonardo
8. Pollo AI
9. LTX Studio
10. invideo AI
11. Paying per clip instead
12. Which to pick
13. Questions

The short answer

• Every app starts video at a plan. The cheapest plan that makes video: Krea Basic $9 a month (selected video models only), Leonardo Essential $12, OpenArt Starter $14, LTX Studio Lite $15 (its own models only), Freepik (Magnific) Premium $20, invideo Starter $20 a seat. Pollo AI's Lite plan showed 13 euros a month for 400 credits to a visitor in Europe.
• Higgsfield works the same way: its free plan has no monthly credits, Starter is 19 euros a month for 270 credits as shown in Europe, and subscription credits expire each cycle; see Higgsfield without a subscription.
• Extra credits are for subscribers. Freepik, OpenArt, Leonardo, LTX Studio and invideo say so in their help pages; Pollo AI's add-on packs come with a paid plan; Krea sells one-time packs that expire after 90 days.
• Monthly credits expire. On their individual plans all seven reset or expire unused plan credits each cycle; Leonardo alone keeps up to three months in a rollover bank, cancelled if you cancel. Every app's rule: AI video credits that don't expire.
• Several run models GenMagic does not: Kling 4.0 is on Freepik, Krea, OpenArt, Pollo AI and invideo; Vidu and Pixverse on some.
• Per clip on GenMagic, there is no plan: Kling 3.0 Standard costs $0.19 a second at 720p, Veo 3.1 Lite $0.075 with sound, Seedance 2.0 Mini $0.05 at 480p, top-ups from $5, and top-up credit never expires.

Side by side

Prices are monthly, billed monthly; most apps charge less a month when billed yearly (for example Krea Basic $5, Leonardo Essential $10, invideo Starter $10).

What a clip costs where it is published

Most of these apps show a clip's credit price only inside the app. Where an app publishes the credits for a clip, here is that clip's cost on its cheapest plan that has the model, if every credit of the month is used:

How to read it: a plan whose credits you use up every month is often the lowest price per clip, as the Freepik and LTX rows show. The plan's price is what you pay whether you make one clip or a hundred, so a month with three clips costs the whole plan. Per clip, a month with three clips costs three clips.

Freepik (Magnific)

Full guide: Freepik (Magnific) AI video without a subscription. Freepik's AI suite now runs under the name Magnific ( pricing, plans and pricing docs). Premium is $20 a month for 20,000 credits ($14.50 a month billed yearly), Plus $45 for 45,000, Pro from $110. The Free plan has no video. Extra credit packs are sold only to Plus, Pro and Business subscribers ( extra credits), plan credits do not roll over, and the docs say extra credits are forfeited when the subscription ends. Video models named include Kling 4.0, Kling 3.0 Pro, Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1 and MiniMax H3 Max. Published clip prices include 450 credits for 5 seconds of Kling 3.0 Pro at 1080p and 2,080 credits for 4 seconds of Veo 3.1 in 4K with sound.

Krea

Full guide: Krea AI video without a subscription. Krea's Basic plan is $9 a month for 5,000 compute units with "selected video models"; all video models start at Pro, $35 a month for 20,000 units ( pricing). Units do not roll over, and one-time packs expire after 90 days. The Free plan gives 100 units a day but marks video models and a commercial license as not included. Krea also has a separate pay-per-generation API in dollars ( Krea API guide). Its video list is one of the longest: Veo 3.1, Kling up to 4.0, Seedance up to 2.5, Wan 3.0, MiniMax H3, Runway, Grok Imagine.

OpenArt

Full guide: OpenArt AI video without a subscription. OpenArt's Starter plan is $14 a month for 4,000 credits, "about 50 videos", without commercial use; commercial use starts at Plus, $34 a month ( pricing). Its help center answers "Can I buy extra credits without a subscription? No" ( help); add-ons are $15-a-month packs of 5,000 credits for Plus and above. Monthly credits do not roll over, a video costs 100 to 800+ credits depending on model and settings, and free videos carry a watermark. Models include Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Kling 4.0, Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0.

Leonardo

Full guide: Leonardo AI video without a subscription. Leonardo's Essential plan is $12 a month for 8,500 fast tokens ( pricing). Unused tokens go into a rollover bank of up to three months, which is cancelled if you cancel. Top-up tokens "can only be purchased and used with an active subscription" ( top-up tokens). The free tier gives 150 tokens a day with watermarked, public videos and no third-party models; Veo needs a paid plan. Leonardo does not publish token costs per clip. A separate pay-as-you-go API exists for developers.

Pollo AI

Full guide: Pollo AI without a subscription. Pollo AI's pricing page showed a visitor in Europe Lite at 13 euros a month for 400 credits (10.83 euros billed yearly), Pro from 25 euros for 800 and Ultra from 116 euros for 5,000, before VAT; its page data suggests prices can differ by visitor ( pricing). It publishes some clip costs: Veo 3.1 at 720p is 24 credits for 4 seconds, about 0.78 euros on Lite. Its credits FAQ says Free and Lite users must upgrade for more credits, extra credits are for Pro and Pro-Yearly subscribers, and subscription credits expire at the end of each cycle; add-on and bonus credits never expire ( credits FAQ). Watermark-free downloads need an active subscription. Refunds: within 3 days and only if no more than 50 credits were used ( refund policy). Models include Kling 4.0, Vidu Q4, Wan 3.0, Seedance 2.5, MiniMax H3 Max and Sora 2.

LTX Studio

Full guide: LTX Studio without a subscription. LTX Studio, from Lightricks, is built around its own LTX models ( pricing). Lite is $15 a month for 8,000 credits with LTX models only and personal use only; Kling and Seedance start at Standard ($35), Veo 3.1 at Pro ($125), where LTX's Veo 3.1 post gives Veo 3.1 Lite at 40 to 64 credits a second at 720p. Unused credits expire each cycle ( help), and one-time top-ups are limited to Pro++ ( help). New accounts get 800 one-time credits for LTX models.

invideo AI

Full guide: invideo AI without a subscription. invideo's Starter plan is $20 a seat a month for 400 credits with "selected models" (Seedance only as 2.0 Fast and Mini); all models start at Plus, $60 a month ( pricing). Plan credits reset monthly, also on yearly plans; extra credits need a paid plan and stop working when it ends ( extra credits). Its model price list gives Veo 3.1 at 32 to 192 credits a clip and Kling 3.0 at 10 to 252 ( video model pricing).

Paying per clip instead

On GenMagic there is no plan: you make a clip in the studio and pay for that clip from a balance you top up when you need to.

• The price before you generate, for the model, the length and the resolution you pick.
• Top-ups from $5, and top-up credit never expires; nothing renews.
• $0.50 free when you verify your email.
• Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance, Wan, Hailuo, Grok Imagine, Runway and more on one balance, and the same balance in n8n, Zapier, Make and the API.

Every video model and its price: pay-as-you-go AI video generator.

Which to pick

• You make video every week and use your whole allowance: a plan on the app whose models and editor you like. Freepik and Krea list the most models; LTX Studio and invideo add a full editor.
• You need Kling 4.0: Freepik, Krea, OpenArt, Pollo AI or invideo, or Kling's own app.
• You make a few clips a month, or a burst for one project: pay per clip, so a quiet month costs nothing.
• You need commercial use on the cheapest option: check the plan: OpenArt Starter and LTX Studio Lite do not include it.

Questions

Which AI video app lets you buy credits without a subscription? Of these seven, none sells video credits to someone without a plan, as their pages read on November 10, 2026. Krea sells one-time packs, valid 90 days, to plan holders. Per-clip platforms such as GenMagic charge each clip from a balance you top up.

Do Freepik (Magnific) credits expire? Plan credits reset every month on monthly plans and every year on yearly plans, with no rollover. Extra credits last three years but, according to Magnific's docs, are forfeited when the subscription ends.

Is Krea cheaper than Freepik for video? Krea's Basic plan is cheaper ($9 against $20) but has only selected video models; all of Krea's video models start at Pro, $35 a month. Per clip, each publishes different clips, so compare the one you make.

Can I use these apps' videos commercially? On paid plans mostly yes, but OpenArt Starter and LTX Studio Lite are personal use only, and free plans are personal use on most of them. On GenMagic, what you make is yours to use, commercially included, within each model's own terms and the law.