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Magic Hour exposes multiple models per endpoint. Pass the one you want in the model field, or omit it to get default, which tracks our current recommendation and changes over time. Credits are charged per generation. Video cost scales with duration, image cost with resolution and image count. Failed generations are never charged.

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Video models

Available on text to video and image to video.
default resolves to kling-3.0 on paid tiers and ltx-2.3 on the free tier. Free typically requests 480p; paid plans (Creator, Pro, Business) can request the higher resolutions a model supports, at that resolution’s credit cost. The deprecated kling-2.5-audio and veo3.1-audio values are equivalent to passing the base model with audio: true.

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Video credit costs

Credits per second of output. Multiply by your end_seconds to estimate a job. The video formula is duration × output fps × resolution multiplier. Because output fps varies by model, two models at the same resolution can cost different amounts per second.

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Legacy model values

The endpoints still accept ltx-2, kling-2.5, kling-1.6, seedance for backwards compatibility, but these are no longer recommended and are absent from the tables above. New integrations should use a documented model. AI video editor has its own roster: gemini-omni and ltx-2.3, defaulting to ltx-2.3 on the free tier and gemini-omni on paid tiers.

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Image models

Available on AI image generator and AI image editor. “From” is the cost of a single image at the model’s lowest resolution. Higher resolutions cost more, and generating multiple images multiplies the cost.

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Fixed-cost endpoints

These endpoints have a single model and a flat rate.

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AI Image Upscaler

Cost depends on style.mode and scale_factor.

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Duration-based endpoints

These charge by output length rather than per generation.
Video jobs return an estimate in credits_charged on the create response, calculated at 30fps. The final amount is corrected once the render finishes and the true frame rate is known. Read credits_charged from the get-details response for the actual charge.

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Estimating before you build

  • Credits to dollars — usage-based rates give the per-credit price for each tier, including volume discounts.
  • Cost calculator — model your monthly spend across endpoints and volumes.
  • Mock server — develop against sample responses without spending credits.
  • Free tier — 400 credits on signup plus 100 daily credits, enough to exercise every image endpoint and short video jobs.