USE CASE · EDUCATION
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Rates shown at each model's base tier, verified July 2026 from official vendor pricing pages and documentation. Vendors change prices without notice — see methodology.
Course creators face a volume problem no other niche has: a full course is hours of video, and production cost per module decides whether the catalog grows. AI slots in for the illustrative layer — concept visualizations, scenario footage, demonstrations — while your screen recordings and talking-head segments carry the teaching itself.
At Seedance rates, adding 60 seconds of custom visuals to every lesson in a 40-lesson course costs roughly $50–60 total — versus thousands in stock licensing or motion graphics. That's the difference between a text-slide course and a visual one at the same price point. Accuracy note for anything technical: verify generated demonstrations against reality; a physics course with wrong physics is worse than slides.
Whichever pick fits, pressure-test the budget in the calculator with your real clip counts — and remember every rate above multiplies by your retake ratio.