Usage meters
There are two separate meters, each resetting on your monthly billing anniversary:
- Director — Filmback's in-house model, with significantly more included usage. On the free Hobby plan, the agent runs on Director alone.
- Other Models — everything else: frontier models you pick in the composer, and the render providers behind video, voice, and music generation.
Both meters display as percent used in the app. If Director usage runs past its meter, it draws from Other Models before anything bills on-demand.
Director
Director 1 is Filmback's in-house model for the work this platform is made of: screenwriting, story surgery, shot breakdowns, and the production judgment of what will actually generate well. Prices are per million tokens:
| Model | Provider | Context | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director 1 | Filmback | 1M | $0.20 | $1.20 |
Other Models — agent
When you pick a specific frontier model in the composer, usage draws from the Other Models meter at that model's rate. Prices are per million tokens:
| Model | Provider | Context | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | 400K | $7.14 | $42.86 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | 400K | $2.86 | $17.14 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | 1M | $0.29 | $1.71 |
| Fable 5 | Anthropic | 1M | $14.29 | $71.43 |
| Opus 5 | Anthropic | 500K | $7.14 | $35.71 |
| Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | 500K | $2.86 | $14.29 |
| Grok 4.6 | xAI | 500K | $2.86 | $8.57 |
Auto picks the model for each request. Usage lands on the meter of whichever model it selects, at that model's rate.
Other Models — rendering
Renders draw from the same Other Models meter. Prices are per unit of generated output:
| Model | Capability | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.5 | Video | $0.32 / second |
| MiniMax H3 | Video | $0.07 / second |
| Nano Banana 2 | Image | $0.17 / image |
| ElevenLabs Voice Design | Voice | $0.14 / 1K characters |
| Qwen3 TTS Voice Design | Voice | $0.13 / 1K characters |
| ElevenLabs TTS | Voice | $0.14 / 1K characters |
| Stable Audio 3 | Music | $0.05 / track |
Two things keep render spend sane. Batch renders show a cost dry-run before anything hits a provider — this change dirties N shots, rebuilding costs ~$X, proceed? — while small spend (chat turns, single-shot rolls, character sheets) simply meters as it goes. And approved takes are pinned: rebuilds regenerate only dirty nodes, so changing one dialogue line re-renders one shot, not the episode. Trailers and cutdowns assembled from pinned assets are nearly free.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Director | Other Models |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | Small included usage | Small included usage |
| Pro | $20 / mo | Included usage | Included usage |
| Pro+ | $60 / mo | 3x Pro | 3x Pro |
| Ultra | $200 / mo | 10x Pro | 10x Pro |
| Teams Standard | $40 / user / mo | Included usage | Included usage |
| Teams Premium | $120 / user / mo | 5x Standard | 5x Standard |
Prices are monthly; annual billing is 20% off. On Hobby the agent runs on Director alone, while rendering, character sheets, and voices draw from a small Other Models allowance. Since models have different rates, what you pick affects how quickly included usage is consumed. See Pricing for full plan details, and Enterprise for SSO, audit, mirror-out, and bring-your-own-keys.
What happens when I reach my limit?
When you exceed your included monthly usage, you can either:
- Continue on-demand — usage carries on at the same rates, billed as it accrues in $100 increments. Nothing is downgraded in quality or speed.
- Upgrade your plan — move to a higher tier for more included usage.
On-demand is off by default. You set your own monthly limit — a fixed dollar amount, unlimited, or disabled — and hitting it stops spend until you raise it. On team plans the limit is org-level and admin-set. As a hard platform safeguard, no account spends more than $2,000 per day, regardless of settings.
FAQ
Is there a credit system?
No. The meter is dollars. Cost dry-runs, the usage meters, and on-demand bills all use the same currency, so an estimate you approve is the number you're billed.
Do viewers consume usage or need a seat?
No. Viewers are free forever and review links never hit a paywall. Seats are for people who edit or spend.
Why did my episode cost cents to update?
The pin store. Approved assets are pinned against input hashes in a committed lock file; a rebuild only regenerates what your change actually touched. Your dashboard shows what incremental builds saved you each month.