GoogleVeo 3.1 Lite API Pricing Per Second
Veo 3.1 Lite costs $0.0375 per second of generated video. That's 25% below the official price. Shorter clips can cost more per second: the clip-length table below has each exact price.
- Per second from
- $0.0375
- 720p
- At 720p
- $0.0375/s
- official $0.05/s
- Per minute from
- $2.25
- 720p
- Below official
- up to 25%
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Per second
Veo 3.1 Lite price per second by resolution
Our price with the official list price struck through, and what a minute of output costs.
| Resolution | Per second | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
720p | $0.0375 With a monthly plan: Pro $0.0359Max $0.0342 | $2.25 |
Monthly plans lower prices on most models (shown under each price); you can still pay as you go. Pro $499/month · Max $4,999/month.
- Official price: Google Cloud Vertex AI list price for veo-3.1-lite-generate-001 with audio ($0.05 / s at 720p, $0.08 / s at 1080p; video only $0.03 / $0.05). Verified October 18, 2026; our prices are live.
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What Veo 3.1 Lite costs for your volume
Pick a resolution and clip length and a monthly volume. Every figure is a live quote, so per-clip billing is exact.
Per month · 100 generations
19.00
$20.00 at the official price
- Per clip
- 0.19
- Per kept clip
- 0.19
- Saved per month
- $1.00
- Saved per year
- $12.00
Live prices · failed generations are free
Per clip
From per second to per clip
Every allowed clip length at 720p.
| Clip length | 720p |
|---|---|
| 4 s | $0.19 |
| 6 s | $0.29 |
| 8 s | $0.30 |
- Unit. Lite is billed per clip: 4 s and 6 s clips cost the same as 8 s. The per-second prices above are for the longest clip; the clip-length table has every exact price.
- Tasks. Text to video and image to video share the same per-second rates.
- Failed = free. Failed generations, and jobs cancelled while queued, are refunded in full.
- Price first. POST /v1/quote/google/veo-3.1-lite/text-to-video returns the exact price of any request, free.
Compare
Veo 3.1 Lite per second vs other video APIs
Every video model we offer at 720p, cheapest first — each at its lowest silent price for that resolution. Veo 3.1 Lite is number 3 of 20.
| # | Model | Tier | Audio | Per second | Official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LTX-2.5 Lightricks | 720p | Audio included | $0.0285/s | |
| 2 | PixVerse V6 PixVerse | 720p | Silent | $0.0368/s | |
| 3 | Veo 3.1 Lite Google | 720p | — | $0.0375/s | |
| 4 | Vidu Q3 Turbo Shengshu | 720p | Audio included | $0.0412/s | |
| 5 | Seedance 2.0 Mini ByteDance | 720p | Audio included | $0.0627/s | |
| 6 | Grok Imagine Video 1.5 xAI | 720p | Audio included | $0.0675/s | |
| 7 | Vidu Q4 Shengshu | 720p | Audio included | $0.0699/s | |
| 8 | Veo 3.1 Fast Google | 720p | Silent | $0.0736/s | |
| 9 | Vidu Q3 Pro Shengshu | 720p | Audio included | $0.0748/s | |
| 10 | Wan 3.0 Alibaba | 720p | Audio included | $0.0757/s |
Price per second is one input; quality, speed and features differ. Models that include audio are compared with it.
Veo 3.1 Lite is developed by Google. CheaperGen provides API access and does not own the model. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.