AI models and video tools, compared on real prices

Pick the wrong AI model or video tool and you pay for tokens and credits that don't stretch as far as the pricing page implied. toolist.ai turns each price list into what a month of real use costs, links every number to its source, and sums up what published hands-on tests found.

Researched so far: 20 of 20 video tools and 6 AI models. How we research.

AI model prices Best-of lists

AI model comparisons

GPT-6 and Claude side by side: price per million tokens, what a month costs, and cited benchmarks. See the API price table.

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra

Anthropic vs OpenAI

Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-6 Astra

Anthropic vs OpenAI

GPT-6.1 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5

OpenAI vs Anthropic

GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI

GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Sol

OpenAI

Best of, by category

avatar video

Presenter videos from a script.

Colossyan, HeyGen, Synthesia, Vidnoz

4 tools

text to video

Clips generated from a prompt.

Higgsfield, Kling, Runway, Veo

4 tools

editors

Edit video by editing text.

CapCut, Descript, Kapwing, VEED

4 tools

clips

Short vertical clips from long video.

Opus Clip, Submagic, Vizard

3 tools

script to video

Stock footage cut to a script.

Fliki, InVideo, Pictory

3 tools

voice

Voiceover and text to speech.

ElevenLabs, Murf

2 tools

Head-to-head comparisons

Descript vs CapCut

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ElevenLabs vs Murf

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Fliki vs Pictory

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HeyGen vs Colossyan

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Kling vs Veo

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Opus Clip vs Submagic

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Pictory vs InVideo

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Runway vs Kling

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Synthesia vs HeyGen

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VEED vs Kapwing

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How we research

The same four rules on every page, so you can check any number yourself.

Read the full method
  1. 1

    Prices from the source

    We read each vendor's own pricing page and record the day we checked it.

  2. 2

    Costs you can compare

    We turn price lists into what a month of real use costs, so a cheap token or credit price can't hide a big bill.

  3. 3

    Tests from named testers

    For video tools we summarize published hands-on tests and link each one. We never claim a test we didn't run.

  4. 4

    Benchmarks with credit

    Model benchmarks come only from the provider or Artificial Analysis, with the settings they were run at.

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