2026-11-11

AI short drama brief, Nov 11: video model prices per second side by side, HeyGen's new model under 2 cents a second at 768p, Kunlun says 70,000 yuan a series goes on model calls

Wednesday price table: HeyGen launched its first general-purpose video model at $0.018 a second for 768p during a launch promotion ($0.03 from December 1), and we set it beside Google's Omni 1.2 Flash and the Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0, Wan 3.0, MiniMax H3 and Veo 3.1 rates on Runway; one minute at the 720p tier costs from about $1 to $24 to generate. Kunlun Tech CEO Fang Han says a roughly 200,000-yuan AI short drama still spends 70,000 to 80,000 yuan on model calls and that about one series in 200 becomes a hit, while India's Dashverse shut its consumer app to sell production software. These bear on video model choice, per-series budgets and distribution models. Prices are list or reseller rates, company figures are self-reported, and we tested no models.