AI-Generated Episode Costs Nearly $100: Creator Shares Budget Tips

A creator shared that producing one episode with AI costs nearly $100, recommending cheap 480p prototyping at about $2 per segment before full generation, and warned that Claude Code-driven video CLIs can mistake in-progress tasks for failures, causing duplicate submissions and wasted spend.

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