AI-Generated Episode Costs ~$100: Creator Shares a Draft-First Budget Workflow
letandrewcook · x · 2026-09-14
A creator shares cost and workflow lessons from producing AI-generated episodes:
- A high-quality episode now costs close to $100 to generate
- Budget strategy: spend a tiny fraction on iterations, generate 480p drafts first to check camera, script, joins, and cues before paying for 1080p final renders
- Assuming a 5% error rate, a $300 budget yields roughly 5 standard episodes
- A replicable draft-first pipeline for keeping AI video production costs down, useful for solo creators
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