Vivix Labs Launches Real-Time Interactive Video Model W1 at $0.003/Second

Vivix Labs launched Vivix W1, a real-time interactive video generation model, on October 10, pitching it as "low cost + low latency + high quality." Pricing is $0.003 per second of output (about 18 cents per minute); a playground is live and the API is open. Multiple tech bloggers (Scobleizer, heyshrutimishra, SucceededMind, HeyZoyaKhan, and others) covered it intensively the same day with highly consistent core details.

Confirmed

• Pricing: $0.003 per second, so an 8-second video costs roughly $0.024 (HeyZoyaKhan).
• Official cost comparison: On the same $1.85 budget, Seedance 2.5 can generate only 1 video while W1 can generate several; Scobleizer relayed that a clip of the same length costs about 1/77 of a Seedance 2.5 video.
• Speed: An 8-second video is generated in about 8 seconds—essentially real time.
• Quality: In official comparison tests, its visual quality is claimed to rival leading models such as Sora.
• Availability: The playground is live and an API is available.

Why it matters

As heyshrutimishra points out, the real barrier for interactive video isn't image quality but cost: during a live experience, generation never stops and every second burns money, and historically high prices kept such products stuck at the demo stage. With per-unit pricing orders of magnitude lower, W1 brings real-time generation closer to commercial viability and could help genuinely real-time interactive video applications ship.

2026-10-10 ~ 2026-10-10 · 7 related posts

• Vivix W1 video model claims $0.003/second, 20x faster generation with comparable quality — SimplyAnnisa · 2026-10-10
• [source] Interactive video model W1 costs $0.003 per second, making real-time AI video affordable — heyshrutimishra · 2026-10-10
• [source] Vivix W1 real-time interactive video costs $0.003/sec, about 1/77th the price of Seedance clips — Scobleizer · 2026-10-10

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