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By the toolist.ai editors. Read from Pika's pricing page, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 30, 2026.
Pika pricing
Pika's cheapest paid plan is Starter at $10 a month billed monthly, or $8 a month billed yearly. On Starter, that works out to $0.286 per second of Seedance 2.5 720p video with sound if you use the whole allowance.
Free plan: No free monthly credits: Pika's Free plan has 0 credits a month ("packs only"), so generating needs a credit pack (from $25 for 1,500 credits, no subscription needed) or a paid plan. Free runs 2 video and 2 image or audio generations at a time and has no commercial licence. Pika's pricing and support pages say every plan, Free included, exports without a watermark, though the pricing page's plan data still lists watermarked outputs for Free. The Pika plugin for ChatGPT adds 250 credits after your first generation through it.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Includes | Price per second of Seedance 2.5 720p video with sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | free | free | 0 credits a month ("packs only"): buy credit packs to generate; all models, 2 video and 2 image or audio generations at a time; no commercial licence, priority queue or early access | – |
| Starter | $10 | $8 | 900 credits a month: 7 five-second Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p with sound (122 credits each), 27 Wan 3.0 clips at 720p (33 each), or about 45 five-second Pika 2.5 clips at 720p by the app's estimate (about 20 each); all models, no watermark, 2 video and 8 image or audio generations at a time; commercial licence; $96 a year billed yearly by our calculation | $0.286 |
| Creator | $35 | $28 | 3,150 credits a month: 25 five-second Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p with sound or 95 Wan 3.0 clips; commercial licence, 8 video and 32 image or audio generations at a time; $336 a year billed yearly by our calculation | $0.280 |
| Fancy | $95 | $76 | From 8,550 credits a month at $95: 70 five-second Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p with sound; a slider adds credits up to $880 a month ($704 billed yearly), with its top mark at 79k credits; unlimited parallel generations, priority queue, commercial licence, and early access to new models from $440 a month | $0.271 |
| Enterprise | not listed | not listed | Contact sales, for studios and teams: custom credits a month, all models, unlimited parallel generations, commercial licence, early access to new models and dedicated support | – |
| Credit packs | not listed | not listed | One-time top-ups on any plan, Free included, at 60 credits a dollar: $25 for 1,500, $50 for 3,000, $100 for 6,000, $200 for 12,000, $500 for 30,000 and $1,000 for 66,000 (10% extra); valid 365 days, for Pika on pika.art and Pika MCP only (not the API, the iOS app or old.pika.art) | – |
| Pika API Club | not listed | not listed | For developers: a $10 monthly membership with $10 of usage credit in the first month, then pay-as-you-go member rates for 100+ video, image, audio and language models through one API; outputs licensed for commercial use; team and enterprise plans on request | – |
Price per second of Seedance 2.5 720p video with sound is our calculation: the monthly-billing price divided by what the plan includes, assuming you use all of it. It is not a measured cost.
| Cost per finished minute | Not measured by us. Calculated from the plan: $0.286 per second of Seedance 2.5 720p video with sound on Starter. |
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Prices last checked: 2026-10-30 on Pika's pricing page.
Price history
No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 20, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.
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Before you pay
- Commercial use needs a paid plan: Pika's terms limit the service to personal, non-commercial use unless your plan allows more, and the pricing and support pages give Starter, Creator and Fancy a commercial licence but not Free. Starter gained its licence between 20 and 23 October 2026.
- What a credit buys depends on the model: on the pricing page Starter's 900 credits make 7 five-second Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p (122 credits each) or 27 Wan 3.0 clips (33 each), while the Pika 2.5 app estimates about 20 credits for a 5-second 720p clip. The pricing page gives costs for four example models only; each app shows its cost before you generate. Plan credits refresh every month (on annual plans too) and do not roll over, and top-up credits cost more: 60 a dollar against 90 a dollar on every plan billed monthly, by our calculation from the pricing page.
- Free includes no monthly credits, only paid packs. Pika's pricing and support pages say every plan, Free included, exports without a watermark, but the pricing page's own plan data still lists watermarked outputs for Free, and upgrading does not remove a watermark from videos already made.
- Subscription payments and credit packs are non-refundable, with no refund for the unused part of a billing period; cancelling keeps the plan until the period ends, then moves you to Free. Top-up credits expire 365 days after purchase. Disputes go to individual arbitration unless you opt out by email within 30 days of first registering or agreeing to the terms, whichever comes first.
- Pika's terms let it use anonymized or aggregated content, including your inputs and outputs, to train its models under a perpetual licence, unless you have a separate written agreement such as an enterprise contract. After you delete your account, Pika will make commercially reasonable efforts to keep your content out of future training, but not out of models already trained. You keep the rights to your outputs.
- Pika's own pages lag the relaunch: its Help Center still calls Pika 2.2 the latest model and describes a free Basic plan with 150 credits a month; old.pika.art still sells Basic, Standard, Pro and Fancy with the old credits; and the iOS app, last updated July 15, 2026, sells the old plans as in-app purchases at other prices (Standard $16 and Fancy $119 a month, Pro $35). Top-up credits cannot be used in the iOS app, the API or old.pika.art. The plans and prices on this page follow the current pricing page at pika.art/pricing.
- We found no published hands-on test of the relaunched Pika yet: the three cited tests cover Pika 2.0, 2.2, 1.5 and Turbo on the earlier app, and they disagree, from Tom's Guide judging Pika 2.0 better than Sora to Curious Refuge's 1.5 out of 10 for Pika 2.2. Trustpilot reviewers rate Pika 1.7 out of 5 from 73 reviews, with 2026 reviews complaining of failed generations, credits running out and trouble cancelling.
See the full Pika review and how we research.
Sources
- Pika: Pricing (plans, compare plans, what your monthly credits make, credit packs and FAQ; read from Canada and through a US reader, prices in USD) (checked 2026-10-23)
- Pika: Help & Support (billing and credits, refunds, cancelling, watermark, commercial licence) (checked 2026-10-23)
- Pika: Help Center (still describes Pika 2.2 and the earlier plans) (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika blog: Welcome to the New Pika (September 17, 2026) (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika blog (Pika Soundtrack, Music, SFX and Speech released August 18, 2026) (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika: Pika 2.5 app and FAQ (cost estimate shown in a headless Chrome) (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika: Pikaframes app and FAQ (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika: Seedance 2.5 app and FAQ (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika: Video Studio app (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika: Pikaffects app (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika: llms.txt (list of apps and models) (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika: Pika Plugin for ChatGPT (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika: Pika MCP (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika API Club (membership and FAQ) (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika Terms of Service (Mellis, Inc.) (checked 2026-10-20)
- Pika (previous interface): Subscription Pricing (checked 2026-10-20)
- App Store: Pika - AI Video (ratings, in-app purchases, version history) (checked 2026-10-20)
- Trustpilot: Pika (pika.art) (checked 2026-10-20)
- Curious Refuge: Pika 2.2, an honest AI video generator review (checked 2026-10-20)
- Cybernews: Best AI animation generators 2026 (checked 2026-10-20)
- Tom's Guide: I just put Pika 2 to the test and it's the best AI video generator yet (checked 2026-10-20)