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Veo 3.1 Fast credits per clip: 4, 6 and 8 seconds, silent and voiced, in one table
What one Veo 3.1 Fast clip costs in credits at 4, 6 and 8 seconds, silent or voiced, why a character clip always bills 8, and why 1080p costs the same as 720p.
by reeldouble · October 31, 2026 · 6 min read
Why Veo prices online never line up
Search for what a Veo 3.1 Fast clip costs and you get numbers in four different currencies. Google's own API is billed in dollars per second: about $0.10 a second at 720p and $0.12 at 1080p, so $0.80 or $0.96 for an 8-second clip (as of 2026-11-01, per the Picsart and benchlm price tables). Google Flow charges 20 Flow credits for an 8-second Fast clip. One reseller charges 10 of its own credits a second, another quotes $1.56 a clip. None of those can be lined up against each other, and none of them is the meter you pay into when you render with us.
There is also a rule almost no pricing page mentions: when you give Veo reference images of a character, the clip comes back 8 seconds long whatever length you asked for, and it is billed as 8. If you plan a recurring character on Veo and budget for 4-second shots, your budget is half what you will spend.
So this page does the narrow thing. It writes out a Veo 3.1 Fast clip on our shelf, every length it serves, from the same rate file the studio quotes from.
The rate
Veo 3.1 Fast on ReelDouble bills per second, and the price is the same at both resolutions it serves:
| audio | 720p, credits per second | 1080p, credits per second |
|---|---|---|
| voiced | 30 | 30 |
| silent | 20 | 20 |
Four rules sit behind those numbers.
Only three lengths. Veo serves 4, 6 or 8 seconds and nothing in between. Google's duration setting has three values, so the length slider stops on those three and no other. A 5-second Veo clip does not exist.
Silent is a third cheaper. Veo prices the sound separately, so switching it off takes 10 credits off every second. That is the biggest silent discount on our shelf: Kling O3 Pro saves 20% and Seedance saves nothing.
1080p costs the same as 720p. Google charges us the same for both on the Fast tier, so we charge you the same. On every other engine the higher resolution costs more.
Character clips are always 8 seconds. Veo takes up to 3 reference images of a character. When you attach them, the render is 8 seconds and the quote is for 8, even if the slider says 4.
The table: one clip, every length
| length | silent | voiced | with a character attached |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 s | 80 | 120 | 160 silent, 240 voiced |
| 6 s | 120 | 180 | 160 silent, 240 voiced |
| 8 s | 160 | 240 | 160 silent, 240 voiced |
Read the last column carefully. A 4-second voiced shot with no character is 120 credits. The same shot with your character attached is 240, because it is now an 8-second render. You get the extra 4 seconds of footage, and you can trim them in the edit, but you pay for them.
What 300 free credits buy on Veo
A free account starts with 300 credits. On Veo 3.1 Fast that is:
- one 8-second voiced clip (240), with 60 left, or
- three 4-second silent clips (240), or
- one 4-second and one 6-second voiced clip with no character (300 exactly), or
- one 8-second voiced character clip plus nothing else worth rendering.
We spend a Veo trial on one voiced character clip, because the question at the start is whether Veo holds your character and voices the line well, and only an 8-second reference render answers both.
Where Veo is the cheapest second we sell
Against the rest of our shelf, Veo wins in two places and loses in one.
| 8-second clip | silent | voiced | 1080p available |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veo 3.1 Fast | 160 | 240 | yes, same price |
| Kling O3 Pro (720p) | 192 | 240 | no |
| Seedance 2.0 (720p) | 360 | 360 | yes, 560 |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast (720p) | 400 | 400 | no |
| Seedance 2.5 (720p) | 560 | 560 | yes, 1,040 |
Silent shots. At 20 credits a second, Veo is the cheapest silent second we sell. B-roll under narration is where it earns its place.
1080p. Veo at 1080p is 240 voiced for 8 seconds. The next cheapest 1080p clip is Seedance 2.0 at 560. If a client needs 1080p and the scene fits in 8 seconds, Veo is less than half the price of anything else.
Short character shots. This is where Veo loses. A 4-second voiced shot with a locked character costs 120 on Kling O3 Pro and 240 on Veo, because of the 8-second pin. Kling also takes 5 characters in one scene to Veo's 3. For a recurring cast in quick cuts, Kling is the cheaper lock. Our Kling vs Veo comparison goes through the rest of that trade.
Budget the retake, not just the render
The number on the button is one attempt. Our working rule is to budget every shot at one and a half times its price.
| shot | one attempt | with retake allowance |
|---|---|---|
| 4 s silent b-roll | 80 | 120 |
| 6 s voiced line, no character | 180 | 270 |
| 8 s voiced character shot | 240 | 360 |
| 8 s silent character shot | 160 | 240 |
Because Veo clips are short, a miss only costs one short clip. That makes Veo a forgiving engine to experiment on: the most you can lose on a single voiced attempt is 240 credits. Our retry routine covers what to change between attempts so the second one is not a coin flip.
A worked budget: a 30-second 1080p ad
Here is a shape we build for client work: a 30-second vertical ad at 1080p, one presenter character, voiced where they speak and silent under the voiceover elsewhere.
| shot | what it is | length billed | credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | presenter hook line | 8 s, character, voiced | 240 |
| 2 | product close-up | 6 s, silent | 120 |
| 3 | product in use | 6 s, silent | 120 |
| 4 | presenter reaction | 8 s, character, silent | 160 |
| 5 | presenter call to action | 8 s, character, voiced | 240 |
| total | 36 s of footage, cut to 30 | 880 |
With the retake allowance, plan on about 1,320 credits. The three character shots give you 24 seconds of footage for perhaps 16 seconds of screen time, which is fine: the extra frames are handles for the edit. If you rendered the same ad on Seedance 2.5 at 1080p, the 30 seconds alone would be 3,900.
Read the quote before you press render
Every figure above is the figure the studio prints under the render button. Attach a character to a Veo scene and watch the quote jump to the 8-second price before anything is billed; flip the audio off and it drops by a third. When we are deciding whether a shot belongs on Veo or Kling, we set it up in the studio on both and compare the two numbers, because the cheaper engine changes with the length and the cast. The Veo 3.1 Fast guide covers what it is good at beyond the price.
Credits you buy do not expire, so a test today and the finished ad next month come out of the same balance.
FAQ
How many credits does an 8 second Veo 3.1 Fast video cost?
On ReelDouble an 8-second Veo 3.1 Fast clip costs 240 credits voiced and 160 credits silent, at either 720p or 1080p. The price is the same at both resolutions.
Why does Veo 3.1 Fast charge 8 seconds when I asked for 4?
Veo renders reference-image clips at 8 seconds only. When you attach a character on ReelDouble, the clip comes back 8 seconds long and is billed as 8: 240 credits voiced or 160 silent.
Is Veo 3.1 Fast cheaper without audio?
Yes. On ReelDouble Veo 3.1 Fast bills 20 credits a second silent and 30 voiced, so silent saves a third. That is the largest silent discount of any engine on the site.
Does 1080p cost more than 720p on Veo 3.1 Fast?
No. On ReelDouble a Veo 3.1 Fast second costs the same at 1080p as at 720p, which makes it the cheapest 1080p engine on the site for clips up to 8 seconds.
What lengths can Veo 3.1 Fast make?
Veo 3.1 Fast makes clips of 4, 6 or 8 seconds and no other lengths. On ReelDouble they cost 80, 120 and 160 credits silent, or 120, 180 and 240 voiced.
