ShengshuVidu Q4 API Pricing Per Second
Vidu Q4 costs $0.0331–$0.2867 per second of generated video, by resolution. That's up to 27% below the official price. Billed by the second, with nothing added per request.
- Per second from
- $0.0331
- 540p
- At 720p
- $0.0699/s
- official $0.095/s
- Per minute from
- $1.99
- 540p
- Below official
- up to 27%
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Per second
Vidu Q4 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 |
|---|---|---|
540p | $0.0331 | $1.99 |
720p | $0.0699 | $4.19 |
1080p | $0.0882 | $5.30 |
2K | $0.1397 | $8.38 |
4K | $0.2867 | $17.20 |
- Official price: Vidu international API list price for viduq4-preview, platform.vidu.com/pricing at $0.005 per credit (540p 9 credits = $0.045 / s, 720p 19 = $0.095, 1080p 24 = $0.12, 2K 38 = $0.19, 4K 78 = $0.39; audio and references included). Verified October 18, 2026; our prices are live.
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What Vidu Q4 costs for your volume
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Per month · 100 generations
16.54
$22.50 at the official price
- Per clip
- 0.17
- Per kept clip
- 0.17
- Saved per month
- $5.96
- Saved per year
- $71.54
Live prices · failed generations are free
Per clip
From per second to per clip
Every common clip length at 540p, 720p, 1080p and 4K.
| Clip length | 540p | 720p | 1080p | 4K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 s | $0.10 | $0.21 | $0.27 | $0.86 |
| 5 s | $0.17 | $0.35 | $0.45 | $1.44 |
| 8 s | $0.27 | $0.56 | $0.71 | $2.30 |
| 10 s | $0.34 | $0.70 | $0.89 | $2.87 |
| 12 s | $0.40 | $0.84 | $1.06 | $3.44 |
| 15 s | $0.50 | $1.05 | $1.33 | $4.30 |
| 16 s | $0.53 | $1.12 | $1.42 | $4.59 |
- Unit. One second of generated video. A request for 3–16 s is billed for exactly that many seconds at its resolution's rate.
- Audio. Included in the per-second price.
- Tasks. Image to video and reference to video share the same per-second rates.
- No request fee. Nothing is added per request: a clip costs its seconds times the rate.
- Failed = free. Failed generations, and jobs cancelled while queued, are refunded in full.
- Price first. POST /v1/quote/shengshu/vidu-q4/image-to-video returns the exact price of any request, free.
Compare
Vidu Q4 per second vs other video APIs
Every video model we offer at 720p, cheapest first — each at its lowest silent price for that resolution. Vidu Q4 is number 7 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.
Vidu Q4 is developed by Shengshu. CheaperGen provides API access and does not own the model. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.