The 7 Best AI Video Tools for Professional Motion Design (What Each Actually Costs in 2026)

You need a logo that moves, a product shot cut into a 10-second ad, and explainer scenes that match a script you already wrote. What you do not need is another homepage demo reel.

The homepages look alike. The prices only look alike. One tool sells you credits, the next sells seconds of a named model, a third charges more for 1080p than for 720p, and a fourth quietly caps how many finished videos you can export in a month. Credits, seconds and export caps are not the same unit, which is why an advertised entry price in the low double digits tells you almost nothing about what a working month actually costs. The number that decides your bill is cost per finished, exported clip, and you should be able to work it out from a tool's published pages before your card is charged.

We build MotionVid, so we make money if you subscribe. Runway includes unlimited 4K upscaling starting on its $35/month Pro plan (per its help center), while MotionVid publishes 4K exports for infographics on Pro rather than 4K video upscaling.

Full disclosure: MotionVid is our product. We built it and we make money if you subscribe, so weigh our praise against the published numbers in the comparison table above and in each tool's own section below rather than taking our word for it.

How We Evaluated

One line: we scored every tool on five weighted criteria, and we keep hands-on findings, published-pricing findings and community sentiment in three separate buckets so you always know which one you are reading.

The weights, summing to 100%:

Here is that rubric actually doing its job, run against the one tool we score: MotionVid.

Add the five weighted numbers and you land on 8.4, not a number we picked and then reverse-engineered a rubric to justify. The cost score is high because published plan prices, export caps and a published credit sizing (roughly 15 to 30 videos per 500 credits) let you build a real bill on a napkin. The two 8s in the middle are the honest middle: motion design capability and output consistency are strong but not flawless across every prompt. Delivery clarity costs a point for the same reason: export caps and resolution ceilings exist and matter once you are shipping client work, not just testing. Entry barrier scores a 9 because getting to a first usable clip does not require talking to sales.

One number needs a flag before you go further: every cost comparison in this article runs on a flat model of 60 clips at 5 seconds each. We picked it because it is the only way to put tools that bill in credits, seconds or generations on the same footing, not because it predicts what you will actually shoot. It is a simplification, and a flattering one. Our own shot mix runs longer than that flat model, and we walk through the real math, and where it pushes past a published plan ceiling, in "How To Choose" further down.

Three kinds of finding, never blended:

Hands-on. We claim hands-on results for MotionVid only, because it is the one tool we generate in daily. Its 8.4/10 is a used-it score built from the five weights above, and nothing else. No competitor in this article carries a numeric score, because we did not run controlled tests on them and we are not inventing any.

Verified from primary sources. Runway's plan prices, its credit-to-seconds conversions and its one-time free credit grant are taken from Runway's own pricing page (July 2026). Luma's plan credits and per-generation credit table are taken from Luma's pricing page (July 2026). Pika's model and app catalogue comes from Pika's own site (July 2026). MotionVid's prices come from MotionVid's pricing page (September 2026). Two gaps are worth stating plainly: we could not confirm Pika's plan prices or Kling's plan prices against a primary source, so this article quotes no price for either one, and if either tool is on your shortlist you should read their live pricing pages yourself before you commit a card.

Community sentiment. For Pika, Kling, Google Veo and After Effects we lean on published third-party coverage, flagged inline: CNET's "Best AI Video Generators of 2026" names Veo 3 by Google as its best paid pick for cinematic video; Hatch Studios' "The Best AI Tools for Motion Designers" lists Runway ML for AI video editing and VFX and Kling for realistic generation; a widely-read Reddit thread on AI motion graphics tools has creators naming Runway, Pika, Luma Dream Machine, Canva AI, Adobe Firefly and Kaiber; Zapier's "The 16 best AI video generators in 2026" says its team tested dozens. That is other people's reporting, not our measurement.

By the numbers

• 3 of the 7 tools here publish enough numbers to compute a full 60-clip month: MotionVid, Runway and Luma (competitor pages as of July 2026, ours as of September 2026).
• 1 of the 7 carries a numeric score in this article: MotionVid, at 8.4/10, because it is the only tool we use hands-on.
• 1 of Runway's 2 paid individual plans covers our 300-second example month at Gen-4 Turbo: Pro's 2,250 credits (375 seconds), not Standard's 625 credits (104 seconds), per Runway's pricing page, July 2026.
• 25 of our example creator's 60 monthly clips fit inside Luma's $30 Plus plan at 1080p: 10,000 credits divided by 400 credits per 5-second Ray3.2 generation, per Luma's pricing page, July 2026.
• 60 of 60 example clips fit Starter's 60 monthly video exports, but only roughly 15 to 30 videos fit its 500 credits by MotionVid's own sizing, so the credit pool is the ceiling that binds, per MotionVid's pricing page, September 2026.
• 2 of MotionVid's 4 plans include the developer API: Ultimate at $49/month for 1,500 credits and Creator at $249/month for 8,000, per MotionVid's pricing page, September 2026.

The Comparison

In one line: MotionVid quotes one monthly number with a published export count and credit sizing, Runway and Luma run credit meters you can price-check at the source, and the rest of the field publishes no plan price you can verify from a primary source.

Ratings are qualitative for every tool except ours, and tied to published specs. That is deliberate: a precise decimal for a tool we never ran would be a fabricated measurement.

What dragged each one down. MotionVid loses points on export ceilings. Runway loses on cost predictability, because credits convert to seconds and the same 625 credits buy 52 seconds of Gen-4.5 but 104 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo (per its pricing page, July 2026). Luma loses on price at the resolution most clients ask for. Pika, Kling and Veo lose on verifiability, which under a 30% cost-transparency weight is expensive. After Effects loses on speed and on being a different category altogether.

Second angle, how each one actually charges you and what you can verify:

1. MotionVid.ai: best for motion graphics, product ads and explainer scenes on a computable budget

In one line: MotionVid is the flat-cost pick for motion graphics and short clips generated from text, an image or a drawing, from $19/month for 500 credits and 60 monthly video exports.

What it is, plainly: a web app that turns text, images and drawings into motion. The video side covers text-to-video, image-to-video, drawing-to-video, motion graphics from text, start and end frame animation, before and after, cinema and templates. Its flagship video model is Animora, backed by Miltos. The image side includes multi-angle, which produces eight angles from a single photo, and that is an image tool rather than a video mode. Named style packs you can pick include Vox, Vox Map - Vintage, Johnny Harris, Johnny Harris Map - Modern, and the News Map set Atlas, Blueprint, Navy and Noir (verified live September 2026). Those are style names inspired by those looks; MotionVid is not affiliated with or endorsed by Vox Media or Johnny Harris.

Best for: animating a logo or product shot into a short ad, SaaS demos, ecommerce spots, and pasting a script or voiceover to get matching B-roll and infographic scenes. The shared job our paying users have is motion graphics without learning After Effects and without hiring a motion designer.

The real number. Our recurring example through this whole article is Maya, a solo creator shipping product-launch and explainer clips at roughly 60 clips a month. Starter at $19/month includes 500 credits and 60 monthly video exports. The exports cover her count, but the pricing page sizes those credits at roughly 15 to 30 videos a month, and at the same rate Pro's 800 credits ($29/month, 100 exports, plus 4K infographic exports) come to roughly 24 to 48. By that sizing her month lands on Ultimate at $49 for 1,500 credits, roughly 45 to 90 videos, which is about $0.82 per clip (per MotionVid's pricing page, September 2026).

The gotcha: there are two ceilings, not one. Credits and video exports are counted separately, and on Starter the 500 credits usually run out well before the 60 exports do. Short, simple clips may draw fewer credits than the sizing assumes, so check the credit counter on your first few generations before picking a tier. Nothing here is unlimited, and there is no lifetime purchase option.

Worth knowing if you build things: every paid plan can generate videos from Claude and other AI apps through MotionVid's MCP connector, documented at /api, while the developer API itself and bring-your-own-keys are limited to Ultimate at $49 and Creator at $249.

Where it loses. There is no published 4K upscaling for video, which Runway includes from its $35/month Pro plan. There is no keyframe timeline, so bespoke, brand-exact animation with hand-set curves is not a job this tool does. The API sits behind the $49 tier, which is a real cost for a developer evaluating on price alone. Cinematic short films are not what it is built for.

If you want the feature-by-feature detail, we wrote it up in MotionVid vs Runway and MotionVid vs After Effects.

Verdict: 8.4/10, hands-on and used daily, not a spec-sheet number. For generated motion graphics, product ads and explainer scenes on a bill you can predict to the dollar, it is our winner. For a 4K master finished in one tool, or animation a designer keyframes by hand, it is the wrong pick and we say so below.

2. Runway: consider only for effects on existing footage and in-platform 4K finishing

In one line: Runway is the model-breadth and 4K-finishing pick, priced in credits that convert to seconds of a chosen model, so your real cost moves with clip length and model choice.

What it is: a creative platform spanning generative video and image models, audio generation, an editor, and an API tier, with a named roster that includes Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Turbo, Kling 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro (per Runway's pricing page, July 2026).

Consider only for: work that starts from footage you already shot, effects-led sequences, or a 4K master you want finished inside one subscription. If your deliverable starts from a prompt, an image or a logo, that is the job MotionVid is built for and Runway's credit math only makes it harder to budget.

The real number for Maya. Sixty 5-second clips is 300 seconds of finished video. Runway's Standard plan is $15/month ($12 annual) for 625 credits, published as 104 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo, which does not cover her month. Pro is $35/month ($28 annual) for 2,250 credits, published as 375 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo, which does cover it. So Maya's month is $35, or $28 if she prepays annually, against $19 to $49 on MotionVid (per Runway's pricing page, July 2026, and MotionVid's, September 2026). Switch her to the newer Gen-4.5 and the same 2,250 credits buy only 187 seconds, so a 300-second month does not fit at that model.

The gotcha: the free tier is 125 one-time credits with 5GB of asset storage, not a monthly allowance, and quality costs seconds. The identical 625-credit Standard bucket is 104 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo or 52 seconds of Gen-4.5. Standard also caps you at 3 projects. Choose a better model mid-month and your forecast breaks.

What reviewers say elsewhere: Hatch Studios' "The Best AI Tools for Motion Designers" lists Runway ML first, framed around AI-powered video editing and VFX rather than text-driven motion graphics, and creators in a Reddit thread on AI motion graphics tools name it among the usual suspects. Community sentiment, not our result.

Verdict: strong on breadth and the honest better choice when your source material is footage or your deliverable is 4K. No numeric score, since we have not run it hands-on, and its credit-to-seconds model is the least forecastable pricing in this article. Our side-by-side is at /blog/motionvid-vs-runway-ai-video.

3. Luma Dream Machine: consider only for camera-move-led shots at 720p or below

In one line: Luma publishes the most granular per-generation pricing in this field and charges the most for the resolution most clients ask for, at $90/month for our 60-clip example at 1080p.

What it is: an AI video generator known for image-to-video and camera movement, sold on credit bundles, with a published cost-per-generation table broken out by model, action, resolution and audio.

Consider only for: shots where the camera move is the entire point, and where 720p output is acceptable. For a launch clip or an explainer scene built from text, that is MotionVid's default job and the credit math below is why.

The real number for Maya, and it is the sharpest example in this article. Luma's plans are Plus at $30/month for 10,000 credits, Pro at $90 for 40,000 and Ultra at $300 for 150,000 (per Luma's pricing page, July 2026). The same page prices a 5-second Ray3.2 generation at 100 credits in 720p and 400 credits in 1080p. So Maya's 60 clips cost 24,000 credits at 1080p, which blows past Plus and lands her on Pro at $90/month. The same 60 clips at 720p cost 6,000 credits and fit inside the $30 Plus plan. One resolution setting is the difference between $30 and $90, against $19 to $49 on MotionVid.

The gotcha: resolution multiplies, then the format multiplies again. Going from 720p to 1080p is a four-times jump per generation on Ray3.2, and the same page lists HDR at a 2x multiplier and HDR plus EXR at 3x. Video-to-video and Reframe are billed per second instead of per clip, so a few long passes cost more than a pile of short generations.

What reviewers say elsewhere: Luma Dream Machine comes up by name in the Reddit thread creators use to compare motion graphics tools, and its coverage consistently centres on cinematic camera work rather than text-driven graphics. That is community sentiment, worth reading as opinion rather than as a benchmark.

Verdict: credit where it is due, Luma publishes numbers most of this category hides, and that transparency is worth something. For a repeating month of 1080p launch and explainer clips it is the most expensive published option here, which is exactly the trade you are making for its camera work.

4. Pika: consider only for one specific effect our templates do not reproduce

In one line: Pika is a fast, multi-model social video tool whose plan prices we could not confirm from a primary source for this piece, so we quote no cost for it.

What it is: an AI video generator with a wide third-party model catalogue and task-shaped apps rather than a timeline. Its own site lists video models including MiniMax H3, Wan 3.0, Google Omni Flash and Pika 2.5, video apps including Create Video, Product Ad, Short Film, Motion Transfer and Extend Video, image tools including Create Image and Character Creator, and audio including Pika Speech alongside ElevenLabs voices (per Pika's site, July 2026). There is a developers section too.

Consider only for: a single effect you cannot get elsewhere, motion transfer and clip extension being the obvious two. A standard product ad or a social loop is a MotionVid job at a price you can compute, and our templates exist for exactly that.

The real number: we do not have one. Pika's plan tiers were not confirmable from a primary source while writing this, so rather than repeat a figure from a roundup that may be a year stale, we quote nothing. That is a gap in our research, not a claim about Pika being expensive or cheap. Do the arithmetic yourself on the live pricing page: 60 finished clips a month, at the model and resolution you would actually use, priced against MotionVid's $19 to $49 range.

The gotcha, at category level and worth confirming: in a multi-model catalogue the per-generation cost depends on which model you pick, so a price that looks fine on the house model can change sharply on the premium one. Check the model you would actually use, not the cheapest one on the list.

What reviewers say elsewhere: Pika appears in the Reddit motion graphics thread among tools creators mention, and Zapier's "The 16 best AI video generators in 2026" covers the category from its own testing. Treat both as sentiment and as a prompt to verify, not as a cost.

Verdict: quick and playful, with a genuinely broad model list. It cannot rank above a tool we can fully cost, so it stays unscored and unpriced here until you check its live page yourself. If you want it placed against the wider field instead, /blog/20-best-ai-video-generators covers more ground.

5. Kling: consider only for realistic motion in a longer single clip

In one line: Kling's reputation is lifelike motion and longer generations, and it is the one tool here this article does not put a price on.

What it is: an AI video generator discussed for realistic human and object motion. It also shows up as a selectable model inside another platform's roster, listed as Kling 3.0 on Runway's Standard plan and above (per Runway's pricing page, July 2026).

Consider only for: a single longer shot where believable physical motion is the deliverable. Text-driven graphics, logo reveals and infographic scenes are not what people reach for it for.

The real number: Kling publishes no plan price we could verify from a primary source, so this article quotes none rather than guessing at one. Check it on its own live page before you commit a client budget. Two buying routes price differently: standalone plans on Kling's own site, or credits spent on Kling 3.0 inside a Runway subscription. If you take the Runway route, the cost is Runway's credit math from section 2, not Kling's own.

The gotcha: its headline strength cuts both ways. Longer and more physically detailed generations consume more of whatever meter you are on, so "longer clips" tends to mean higher cost per clip, not better value per clip. Confirm the included duration at your target quality before you sign off on a budget.

What reviewers say elsewhere: Hatch Studios' motion designer roundup lists Kling for realistic AI video generation, and creator threads keep returning to its motion realism. That is coverage and sentiment, not a test run for this article.

Verdict: worth a trial if realistic motion is the job. Unscored and unpriced here, and outside the argument this article makes, because a tool you cannot cost before buying cannot be planned around. For where it sits among the wider field, see our roundup of the 20 best AI video generators.

6. Google Veo: consider only for cinematic fidelity where cost control comes second

In one line: Veo carries the strongest outside reputation for cinematic output in this field and the least isolable price, because access arrives bundled inside Google subscriptions rather than on a standalone plan page.

What it is: Google's generative video model, sold through Google's own products rather than as a separate creative platform with its own tiers.

Consider only for: high-fidelity cinematic shots where you accept that you cannot compute a per-clip cost. For product ads, logo animation and explainer scenes on a fixed monthly number, that is MotionVid's job.

The real number: we have no verified standalone figure, and bundling is the reason. Veo access is folded into broader Google product subscriptions, so before comparing it to MotionVid's $19 Starter plan you have to decide what share of a bundle you are attributing to video generation. That is a judgement call, not a published price, and we are not dressing ours up as data.

The gotcha: bundles hide the unit. When video generation is one feature inside a subscription you were partly buying for other reasons, the cost per finished clip becomes unknowable, which under a 30% cost-transparency weight is the single biggest mark against it here.

What reviewers say elsewhere: CNET's "Best AI Video Generators of 2026" names Veo 3 by Google as the best paid AI video generator for cinematic videos. That is CNET's conclusion from their testing, attributed as such, and it is a fair reason to look at Veo if cinematic output is genuinely your deliverable.

Verdict: a real quality contender, and honestly the one to try if you are shooting for cinematic fidelity above all. Unscored here, with no hands-on from us and no isolable per-clip price to put in the cost tables. If what you actually need is launch footage on a countable monthly budget, our AI motion graphics for a product launch breakdown works through that math on credits you can see before you spend them.

7. Adobe After Effects: consider only for keyframe-precise animation and app export pipelines

In one line: After Effects is still the benchmark for hand-tuned motion design, sold as a flat subscription where your real cost is hours rather than credits.

What it is: the industry-standard motion graphics and compositing application, and not an AI generator. It is the tool most professional motion designers already work in, and the reason "learn After Effects" is the alternative our own customers are trying to avoid.

Consider only for: animation a designer keyframes by hand, compositing work, brand-exact timing on a client's guidelines, and export pipelines that generated video cannot serve, including Lottie and app-embedded animation.

The real number: After Effects bills as a flat monthly subscription, single-app or inside Creative Cloud, with the current figure on adobe.com. What matters more is the other line item. Maya's 60 clips built by hand is a labour month, and those hours cost far more than a $19, $35 or $49 subscription. That is the trade: total control, paid for in time.

The gotcha: the learning curve is the price. Nobody ships 60 polished animated clips in their first month in After Effects, and hiring a motion designer to do it instead moves the cost from your calendar to your invoice.

What reviewers say elsewhere: School of Motion's "AI Tools for Motion Design That Are Actually Helpful" frames AI as assistance inside an existing pipeline, pointing readers at tools like Rokoko, Plask and Move.ai for motion capture rather than at anything that replaces the timeline. That matches how working designers talk about this category.

Verdict: still the winner for control and craft, and a different category from generation-priced tools, which is why it carries no numeric score. The practical setup for a lot of teams is generated base clips plus After Effects for precision finishing. Our comparison is at /blog/motionvid-vs-after-effects.

What Professional Motion Design Actually Costs

In one line: for our example creator at 60 five-second clips a month, MotionVid is $19 to $49 depending on credit draw, Runway is $35 and Luma is $90 at 1080p, and the gap widens with resolution and clip length rather than with clip count.

Maya, our recurring example, is a solo creator making product-launch and explainer clips at about 60 clips a month. Three usage levels, using only published numbers (MotionVid's Pro, Ultimate and Creator ranges are scaled from Starter's published sizing):

Crossover math, stated plainly.

MotionVid: two ceilings, credits and exports. Starter's $19 covers 60 exports, but its 500 credits are sized at roughly 15 to 30 videos; at the same rate Pro's 800 credits at $29 come to roughly 24 to 48 videos, Ultimate's 1,500 at $49 to roughly 45 to 90, and Creator's 8,000 at $249 to roughly 240 to 480 (per MotionVid's pricing page, September 2026).

Runway: on Gen-4 Turbo, Standard's 104 published seconds covers roughly 20 five-second clips, so past 20 you're paying for Pro. Past about 75 clips, Pro itself runs out and you're into the tier above it. Switch to Gen-4.5 and both thresholds roughly halve, to about 10 and 37 clips (per Runway's pricing page, July 2026).

Luma: here the crossover is resolution, not clip count. A 5-second clip runs 100 credits at 720p but 400 at 1080p, so the same Plus plan covers 100 clips at 720p and only 25 at 1080p (per Luma's pricing page, July 2026).

How To Price Any AI Video Tool Before You Buy

In one line: convert every pricing page into one number, cost per finished clip you would actually deliver, and the field sorts itself in about five minutes whether or not you ever buy from us.

This part is tool-agnostic on purpose. Four things to pull off any pricing page, in this order.

Start with the unit. Find the sentence that tells you what one generation costs, and be suspicious when there isn't one. Luma states it outright, 400 credits for a 5-second 1080p Ray3.2 clip. Runway states it indirectly, 2,250 credits equals 375 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo, so you divide. Bundled products like Veo inside a Google subscription never state it, and that is information too.

Then find the second ceiling. Credits are rarely the only limit. Our own plans cap monthly video exports at 60 on Starter and 100 on Pro, Runway's Standard caps you at 3 projects, and free tiers are often one-time grants rather than monthly allowances. A plan with plenty of credits and a low export count will bite you in week three.

Next, price the model you would really use rather than the cheapest one listed. This is where forecasts break. The same Runway credit bucket buys half as many seconds on Gen-4.5 as on Gen-4 Turbo, and the same Luma credit bucket buys a quarter as many 1080p clips as 720p ones. Pick your actual deliverable spec, then do the division.

Last, add the cost that never appears on any pricing page: your hours. A tool that needs four attempts to land a shot at $0.30 a generation is cheaper on paper and more expensive on Friday than one that lands it in two. This is also why After Effects and a subscription are not comparable numbers, and why comparing them as if they were is the most common mistake in this category.

How To Choose

In one line: pick on what your source material is and what your deliverable has to be, not on which demo reel looked best, and you will land on one tool without hedging.

One caveat the decision questions below deliberately skip: a real launch month is never 60 identical 5-second clips. Maya's actual month is 2 hero reveals at 15 seconds, 10 feature explainers at 8 seconds, 30 social loops at 5 seconds, 10 teaser countdowns at 6 seconds and 8 founder cutaways at 10 seconds. Still 60 clips, but 400 seconds of finished footage rather than the 300 a flat estimate assumes. (This is the same shot mix behind the clip counts in the cost comparison earlier: those counted clips, not the seconds sitting inside them.)

That mix is the whole argument for counting in clips. The 10 explainers alone are a sixth of her count but 80 of her 400 seconds, a fifth of the runtime, and the 10 teaser countdowns add another 60 seconds that a flat 5-second assumption never sees. At Gen-4 Turbo rates her real mix bills 400 seconds, and that is over Runway Pro's published 375, so the seconds meter pushes her past the plan. MotionVid meters credits and exports instead. Its credits vary with mode and length too, so her longer shots draw more, but there's a published sizing to plan against (roughly 15 to 30 videos per 500 credits), and at that rate her 60-clip month lands on Ultimate at $49. Price your shot mix, not your clip count.

With that in hand, answer the two questions below in order. Each one ends at a single named tool, and the first question is the one most readers of this article are actually asking.

Question one: does your work start from a prompt, an image, a logo or a script?

If the thing you hand the tool is text you wrote, a product photo, a logo file or a finished voiceover script, and what comes back is the footage itself, that is the generated-from-nothing case. MotionVid is built for exactly that input set, and the use-cases page shows the shapes it covers: logo reveals, SaaS demo scenes, script-to-B-roll explainer cuts. Your answer is MotionVid, from $19 a month for 500 credits and 60 video exports.

If instead your source is footage you already shot, or your deliverable is a 4K master that has to be finished inside one subscription rather than handed off, you are in a different job. Editing and extending real camera footage, plus finishing at 4K, is what Runway's Pro tier is priced around. Your answer is Runway at $35 a month.

Question two: does a designer have to set the timing by hand, or do you need Lottie or app-embedded export?

Some work genuinely cannot be generated. If the client note is "hold the logo two frames longer before the wordmark lands", if the brand kit specifies easing curves, or if the asset has to ship as Lottie and live inside a product screen rather than as an MP4, no generator gets you there. Your answer is After Effects, and the designer hours that come with it.

If nothing in your brief requires frame-level timing control or a Lottie file, that constraint is imaginary and you are paying for it in hours. Take the answer from question one and go generate.

Not Ready To Pay Yet? The Honest Free And Cheap Routes

In one line: you can test most of this category on close to nothing before you commit a card to anything, including us.

Runway is the one genuinely free route worth using, and the word that matters is "one-time": 125 credits with 5GB of storage is an evaluation grant, not a monthly budget, so once they're spent you're on Runway's paid ladder like everyone else.

Pika's site advertises a free way to start creating but doesn't publish plan terms clean enough to quote, so treat it as a lead rather than a number. MotionVid is monthly only, with no lifetime option at any price, and paid entry is $19/month for Starter. Read the current free terms on motionvid.ai/pricing rather than trusting a number you found in an article.

If your budget is small rather than zero, Luma's $30 Plus plan at 720p is the lowest published price for a repeating month of 60 short clips. MotionVid's $19 Starter only gets there if your clips draw fewer credits than its published sizing of roughly 15 to 30 videos; by that sizing the month is $49 on Ultimate.

Final Verdict

If the input is text, a still image or a logo and the output is motion graphics, MotionVid is the one I'd pick, starting on Starter at $19 a month for 500 credits and 60 video exports and moving up as your volume grows, without a second subscription. Footage-led edits and 4K masters belong on Runway's Standard plan, listed at $35 on their pricing page, and anything hand-keyframed or shipped as Lottie belongs in After Effects. What settles it is your own shot mix costed against those published plans.

Run yours at /pricing.

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