USE CASE · PREVIZ
The best AI for storyboarding & previz
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.
Previz inverts every normal requirement: quality barely matters, speed and cost per iteration are everything. You're answering "does this shot order work?" — and a soft, imperfect clip answers it as well as a premium one. That makes the budget tier the professional choice: Vidu's ~$0.04/s and industry-fastest generation times mean a 40-shot animatic costs under $12 and exists within the hour.
The payoff is downstream: every shot resolved in previz is a premium generation (or a shoot day) you don't waste later. Teams report the previz spend returning 5–10× in avoided premium retakes. Directors' tip: keep prompts loose at this stage — over-specified previz locks creative decisions the final generation could improve.
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.