Prices checked July 2026
HappyHorse-1.0 API Pricing
Three hosted routes and one self-hosted route. All prices below are list prices from the providers' own pages — when something changes, we update this page and the date above.
Cost calculator
fal list prices — $0.14/s at 720p, $0.28/s at 1080p. Pay per second, no minimums.
HappyHorse-1.0 supports 3–15 second clips
Per clip
$1.40
5s at 1080p
Per month
$140.00
100 clips
fal — official API partner
Provider page- Pricing
- $0.14/s at 720p · $0.28/s at 1080p, pay-per-second
- Endpoints
- Text-to-video, image-to-video, video editing, reference-to-video
- Duration
- 3–15 seconds per clip
- Aspect ratios
- 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4
- Audio
- Video + audio generated jointly; native lip-sync in Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French
- Live since
- April 27, 2026 — playground works without an API key
Kie.ai — third-party reseller
Provider page- Pricing
- Credit-based; markets itself as the budget option. Rates change often — check the live page before committing.
- Endpoints
- Text-to-video, image-to-video
- Caveat
- Reseller capacity and queue times can differ from the official partner under load.
Alibaba Cloud Bailian — first-party
Provider page- Pricing
- Regional (Mainland China focus); console-based billing
- Endpoints
- Text-to-video, image-to-video
- Note
- Official first-party access; the model is also demoed inside the Qwen app.
Or skip the API bill entirely
At ~$1.40 per 5-second 1080p clip, heavy workloads cross the break-even point for a dedicated GPU fast. If you generate thousands of clips a month, read the self-hosting guide and run the numbers against an H100 rental (~$2–3/hr on major clouds).
Read the self-hosting guide →