Billing
Pricing
The API is wholesale and metered: you pay a flat price per delivered film, from a prepaid credit balance. No subscription, no per-seat fee, no charge for browsing, creating, uploading, or polling — only a delivered render costs money.
Per-delivery tiers
The tier you pass on create sets both the render recipe and the price. signature is the default.
| Tier | Price / delivery | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
standard | $12 (1200¢) | 4 clips, standard motion. |
signature | $25 (2500¢) | 6 clips, premium motion, best-of-3 song, all photos restored. Default. |
Prices are in cents
All amounts in the API are US cents (charged_cents, balance_cents, price_cents). $12 is 1200, $25 is 2500. Defaults can be overridden per environment; GET /v1/account reflects your live balance.
What's free
Everything up to the render is free — you only commit money when you deliver.
- Browsing
occasionsandsamples. - Creating and reserving a gift (
POST /v1/gifts). - Uploading photos (
POST /v1/gifts/{id}/photos). - Polling status (
GET /v1/gifts/{id}) and reading your account.
You only pay for what's delivered
The render debit is the only charge, and it is refundable: a render that is held or fails auto-refunds in full, so a charge only sticks when a film is actually delivered. See Errors for the refund model.
How to fund a key
Keys carry a prepaid credit balance. Top up in advance; each delivery debits the tier price until the balance runs low, at which point render returns 402 insufficient_credits. See Payments for the ways to add credit.
Last updated 2026-07-11.