Paying $0.50 per 10 seconds for video gen APIs — when is self-hosting worth it?
Key-Lychee-913 · reddit · 2026-10-18
A Reddit user shared the costs of accessing MiniMax and other open-source video generation models via APIs and asked when self-hosting makes sense.
He currently pays roughly $0.50 per 10 seconds of generated video through an API; for comparison, Remerged is about $0.50, Fal about $0.60, and Runway about $1. He wants to know at what usage volume the setup and maintenance effort of running his own endpoint becomes cheaper than paying per-generation, and what other developers actually do.
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