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Cheap text-to-video API

AI text-to-video API, for pennies a clip.

Send a prompt to one endpoint and get a short clip back. Three quality tiers from $0.30. Pay in video minutes, not a subscription, and the minutes never expire.

The cheapest text-to-video API is the one you pay for by the clip, not by the month. PixelFireman turns a text prompt into a short AI video from a single call to /v1/videos, and bills it out of a prepaid balance of video minutes priced at a flat $0.01 per minute. An Economy clip costs $0.30, Standard $0.60 and Premium $1.50. No seats, no monthly minimum, no idle spend between campaigns.

Describe the shot, pick a tier and an aspect ratio, and a ready clip comes back in seconds. Keep the Premium tier for the hero spot and run everything else on Economy, so generating hundreds of clips stays a rounding error instead of a budget meeting.

Three tiers, one call

Every tier uses the same endpoint. The difference is the fidelity and motion of the clip, and how many video minutes it draws from your balance for a roughly five-second generation:

per ~5s clip
Economy
$0.30
30 minutes
per ~5s clip
Standard
$0.60
60 minutes
per ~5s clip
Premium
$1.50
150 minutes

Minutes are drawn from your prepaid balance at $0.01 per minute. Economy for fast social and drafts, Premium for high-motion hero clips.

Pay in video minutes, never a subscription

Buy a pack of video minutes once and spend it whenever you generate. Minutes never expire, so a slow month costs you nothing and a busy month just draws down your balance a little faster.

$5
500 minutes
$20
2,000 minutes
$50
5,500 minutes
$100
12,000 minutes

One minute of video costs $0.01. Larger packs add bonus minutes. Top up with PayPal, or with crypto through PayerURL.

Any shape your platform needs

Request vertical for reels and stories, square for the in-feed grid, or landscape for ads and embeds. One parameter switches the aspect ratio, so the same prompt can ship to every placement without re-editing.

A prompt in, a short clip out, in whatever shape the platform wants.

What people build with it

Short-form reelsFresh vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts at posting speed.
Paid adsGenerate dozens of creative variants for A/B testing in minutes.
Social content enginesProgrammatic clips for every scheduled post across accounts.
Product clipsA short motion clip for every SKU, listing and category page.
App and CMS featuresDrop-in text-to-video for tools that publish at volume.
Explainers and introsQuick B-roll and animated bumpers without a studio.

Brutally simple API

Prompt in, clip URL out. Standard REST, Bearer auth, JSON both ways. For most integrations you point at one endpoint and keep building.

# prompt → video clip
curl https://pixelfireman.com/v1/videos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer pf_live_…" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt":"neon city street at night, slow dolly shot","tier":"economy","aspect":"9:16"}'

# → { "video":"https://…", "tier":"economy", "minutesUsed":30 }

Set tier to economy, standard or premium, and aspect to 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9. The response returns a clip URL and the exact minutes drawn from your balance. Built-in moderation screens every prompt.

The affordable AI video generation API for volume

If your video costs are scaling faster than your output, the problem is usually the per-clip price of a premium model you do not always need. PixelFireman gives you the cheap end of that trade on purpose: acceptable clips, generated fast, at a price that makes volume possible. Run the first draft and the throwaway variants on Economy, reserve Premium for the clips that have to shine, and pay only for the seconds you actually ship.

Questions

What is the cheapest text-to-video API?

PixelFireman is one of the cheapest. An Economy clip of about five seconds costs $0.30, Standard is $0.60 and Premium is $1.50. You pay in prepaid video minutes at $0.01 per minute with no subscription, so a short clip really does cost pennies.

How does the API work?

One REST call. POST a prompt, a tier and an aspect ratio to /v1/videos and the API returns a URL to a short generated clip. Standard Bearer auth, JSON in, JSON out, no SDK required.

What do the three tiers cost?

Economy $0.30, Standard $0.60 and Premium $1.50 for a roughly five-second clip, drawing 30, 60 and 150 minutes from your balance respectively.

Do the video minutes expire?

Never. Minutes are prepaid with no monthly lock-in. Top up when you run low and pay only for the clips you generate.

Turn a prompt into a clip in minutes.

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