Crayo too expensive? Work out what you are actually paying
$13 per month is Crayo's cheapest plan on the annual billing rate, measured from crayo.ai/pricing on 23 August 2026.
- What one topic returns
- One written topic becomes a finished vertical Short: the research, a written script, narration in the video's language, real archival footage with maps and charts, burned-in captions, a thumbnail and a title/description/tag package. The file downloads ready to publish, with a media credits file naming the source of every clip.
- What the money buys
- Starter is $29 a month for 400 credits, which is 20 finished Shorts at 20 credits each, about $1.45 a Short. Pro is $59 a month for 45 Shorts, about $1.31 each, or about $0.66 each at $29.50/month billed yearly, 50% off. One credit is 1 minute of video processing, so the same balance is 400 minutes of source to clip.
- What is free
- There is no free plan and no credits on signup; generation requires a paid plan. The free YouTube SEO checker scores a title, a description and keywords with no account, three checks a day.
- Rights and the download
- No export carries a watermark. You keep the rights in what you submit, and ViewMade assigns to you the rights it holds in the output; source footage, music and fonts stay under their own licences, named in the credits file. 15 research and writing tools sit beside the studio, in 7 interface languages.
Every number here is read from the plan that charges the card, checked 13 September 2026. Full detail: pricing, refunds.
Last checked
$13 per month is Crayo's cheapest plan on the annual billing rate, measured from crayo.ai/pricing on 23 August 2026. The page showed the "Annual Discount Save 30%" state, so the monthly-only rates were not visible in that read. If you are paying that number and still not getting what you expected, the useful question is not whether the price is high but what each dollar bought.
What Crayo costs
All three figures below are the annual-billing monthly equivalents, read on 23 August 2026:
| Plan | Annual billing | What the vendor lists |
|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $13 per month equivalent, $160 per year | 50 credits per month, 40 minutes of exports |
| Clipper | $27 per month equivalent, $327 per year | 150 credits per month, 2 hours of exports |
| Pro | $55 per month equivalent, $664 per year | 250 credits per month, 4 hours of exports |
The monthly-billing rates were not shown in the state of the page that was captured. If your invoice does not match these numbers, check which billing period you are on before comparing anything else.
What you get for it
The Hobby plan pairs its price with 50 credits per month and 40 minutes of monthly exports on the page's own listing. Clipper carries 150 credits and 2 hours; Pro carries 250 credits and 4 hours. These allowances are ceilings, not guarantees: any credit or export minute you do not use raises your real cost per unit above the sticker rate. The page does not publish a per-video figure, and credit consumption varies by feature, so treat the vendor's video-count claims as claims, not measurements. If your last invoice divided by fewer finished videos than the allowance implies, that gap, not the headline price, is what you are actually paying.
The same money, elsewhere
| Tool | Entry price | What that buys | Footage source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revid | $39 per month (monthly rate, measured 23 August 2026) | Hobby plan; Growth listed at $99 struck through to $39 per month with 2,000 AI credits per month | Generated |
| ViewMade | $29 per month (monthly rate, measured 22 August 2026) | Starter plan, 50 renders per month, 1080x1920 vertical output, embedded captions, title, description, tags, background music, licensed real footage plus a media credits file | Real archive footage |
| Klap | $14 per month equivalent on annual billing (measured 23 August 2026) | Basic plan, 100 clips per month | User upload |
Klap clips videos you already have, so its clip price is not comparable to a generation price. Revid generates visuals and publishes no source citation. ViewMade pulls real archive footage and ships a media credits file naming every clip's source, at $0.58 per render on Starter as of 22 August 2026.
Before you cancel
Three questions are worth answering before you act on the invoice. First, how many finished videos did last month actually produce? Divide your payment by that number and compare it against the allowance above; most subscribers never hit the cap, so their real per-unit cost is higher than the advertised one. Second, do unused credits roll over, or do they expire at the billing date? Check Crayo's own billing terms; the answer determines whether stockpiling makes sense. Third, did you pay annually? An annual plan changes both what you have already committed and what leaving now costs. None of these questions requires contacting anyone first.
<!-- faq -->Frequently asked questions
Is Crayo worth it at that price?
For someone who already films their own footage and wants automated clipping, subtitles and AI voiceover, $13 per month equivalent on annual billing is a low entry point and the export allowances are real. For someone who wanted original documentary-style content from a topic, Crayo builds on user uploads and gameplay footage rather than generating documentaries, so the fit depends entirely on which job you hired it for.
Will I lose my unused credits if I cancel?
That is defined in Crayo's own billing terms, and those terms were not part of this measurement. Read them on crayo.ai before assuming either way.
Why can I not find the monthly price anywhere?
The pricing page was read on 23 August 2026 in its default state, which displayed annual rates only. Switching the toggle on the page itself should reveal the monthly figures.
What is the cheapest way to test an alternative?
ViewMade has no free tier and no signup credit, so the smallest test is one month of Starter at $29, measured 22 August 2026. Production begins after successful payment.
Price source: crayo.ai/pricing, read directly without JavaScript execution on 23 August 2026.