Google Veo Pricing in 2026: Flow Credits, Plans and Cost per Clip

Veo 3.1 Lite costs 10 Flow credits on Plus or Pro and 5 on Ultra, Fast costs 20 or 10, and Quality costs 100. Plus is $4.99/mo, Pro is $19.99/mo, Ultra is $99.99/mo or $199.99/mo, with 200, 1,000, 10,000, or 25,000 monthly credits. Pay the API from $0.05 a second when clips are all you need.

Google does not sell Veo as its own checkout. The bill is a Google AI plan or the Gemini API, and the plan is a bundle if Gemini sits unused. On Lite and Fast, a 4 second clip spends the same credits as a 6 or 8 second one. The short draft is the expensive habit inside Flow, because that storyboard pays the long-clip rate for a smaller file.

AIpresso data: of the 148 tools evaluated on Toolradar's AI video generation ranking, which we publish, the page itself was updated October 16, 2026. Veo on Toolradar is in that directory. Plan prices below were read in October 2026 on Google's AI plans page and Gemini's US subscriptions page. Credit costs were read the same month on Flow's credit help.

Plan	Price	Monthly Flow credits	Lite videos that pool buys
Free	$0	None. 50 credits on each day you generate, and they do not roll over	Not given a Lite rate on the credit table
Google AI Plus	$4.99/mo	200	20, at 10 credits
Google AI Pro	$19.99/mo	1,000	100, at 10 credits
Ultra, 5x Gemini limits	$99.99/mo	10,000	2,000, at the Ultra rate of 5 credits
Ultra, 20x Gemini limits	$199.99/mo	25,000	5,000, at 5 credits
Gemini API	Per second	No monthly pool	Billed in seconds, not credits

The Lite video counts above use only the monthly pool. Subscribers also receive 50 Flow credits on each day they generate, and a skipped day is not saved, so a week away does not build a reserve.

The 5x and 20x labels are Gemini usage against Pro, not a multiplier on the credit pool. The lower Ultra tier holds 10 times Pro's credits, not 5 times, and the higher tier holds 25 times Pro's pool. Buying the Gemini multiple does not buy that multiple in video. The assistant half of the same subscription is on Gemini vs ChatGPT.

How much does one Veo video cost in Flow?

Flow charges per finished video, not per click on the prompt. Google's own example is a single request that produces two videos, and each video spends its own credits. A variations habit doubles the row before you have watched either take. Check the model in the prompt settings before you run a batch, because the second output is a second bill.

Model in Flow	What it generates	Credits
Veo 3.1 Lite, lower priority	4, 6, or 8 second video, and an extend	0 for Ultra subscribers and the family plan manager. Not available to anyone else
Veo 3.1 Lite	4, 6, or 8 second video, and an extend	10 for non-Ultra subscribers, 5 for Ultra
Veo 3.1 Fast	4, 6, or 8 second video	20 for non-Ultra subscribers, 10 for Ultra
Veo 3.1 Quality	8 second video on the credit table	100 for every user
Gemini Omni Flash, 720p	4, 6, 8, or 10 second video, not an edit	7, 10, 12, or 15 by length
Gemini Omni Flash, 360p	4, 6, 8, or 10 second video, not an edit	4, 5, 6, or 7 by length
Gemini Omni Flash edit	An edit of an uploaded or generated video	40
1080p upscale	Any model	0 on Plus, Pro, and Ultra. Not available without a subscription
4K upscale	Any model	50, and only on Ultra

Lite and Fast charge the same credits at every length they offer, so generate the long length rather than a shorter clip. Quality uses one rate for every account, and that rate sits above the daily allotment, so Quality has to come out of the monthly pool. A free account, or a subscriber who has burned the month, cannot cover Quality with the daily drop.

The plan comparison grid names Omni Flash, not Veo, as the video model on every paid tier, while Flow's credit table still prices Veo 3.1 for subscribers. Gemini's subscriptions page describes Pro as a limited trial of Veo 3.1 Lite and Ultra as video generation with Veo 3.1. Read those together before you treat Pro as full Veo. The grid's video row is Omni Flash, the trial wording is Google's, and the credit table is what a generation spends.

Open Omni Flash when you need a clip longer than Veo's lengths, or when you need an edit. Veo Lite, Fast, and Quality do not offer video-to-video editing. A long Omni clip at 720p costs more credits than Veo Lite, and the 360p draft costs fewer. Flow's model help says Pro and Ultra can upscale a 360p Omni clip to 720p at no credit cost.

That help page says Fast and Quality cannot extend a clip, and every long Veo 3.1 clip has to be extended on Lite, at the Lite rate. The credit table also lists Extend on the Fast and Quality rows, at those rows' costs. Check the settings panel before you assume an extend will run.

How many videos does each Google AI plan buy?

Free is a Google account and a daily sample, enough for one experiment and a poor fit for a delivery date. The daily allotment refreshes on the first generation of the day and does not roll over, so a skipped day deletes that day's video budget. During about 2pm to 5pm UTC, video generation without a subscription can be unavailable, while images and the Flow agent still run.

Flow publishes no free-user rate for Lite or Fast. Quality sits above that daily allotment, so a free account cannot finish a Quality clip.

Plus suits a few clips beside Gemini, not a production schedule. At the non-Ultra rates the monthly pool covers the Lite count in the table, 10 Fast videos, or 2 Quality videos. That handful is a test week, not a content calendar. Assistant limits and the rest of the bundle are on our Gemini pricing page, and the product verdict is our Gemini review.

Pro is the working month of Lite for someone who will also use Gemini. Its pool covers the Lite count in the table, 50 Fast videos, or 10 Quality videos, and then the monthly credits are gone. The plans page also includes $10 in monthly Google Cloud credits, and those Cloud credits cannot be spent on a video.

Gemini's subscriptions page calls Veo 3.1 Lite on Pro a limited trial, so the Lite count is a credit budget, not uncapped Veo. A team whose default model is Quality should not stop on this tier.

Ultra is where a buyer can mistake the Gemini multiple for a video multiple, and the pools in the table are the correction. Flow's help page calls the lower tier the $100 membership and the higher tier the $200 membership. A team that lives in Quality should start at the lower membership, because Pro's Quality count is a short test, not a month. Quality fits 100 times in that lower pool and 250 times in the higher one.

A team that needs more Fast than Pro holds should price the API before either Ultra tier. Both tiers still include Gemini and storage whether or not anyone opens them.

Ultra subscribers and the family plan manager can run lower-priority Lite at 0 credits, the only Veo mode that does not spend the pool. Other family members cannot, and neither can Plus or Pro. A shared household does not inherit that free run, and Google publishes no cap on the mode.

The plans page adds $40 in monthly Cloud credits on the lower Ultra tier and $100 on the higher one, for Cloud usage rather than Flow. Family members on a Pro plan can use the AI benefits at no extra charge, and the credits are shared. Only the plan manager can buy more or change the plan, so the person making the clips may not be allowed to add budget.

What does a month of finished clips cost?

Raw generations understate the bill, because a usable clip is rarely the first one you keep. The scenario below keeps one generation in three, and that keep rate is our assumption, not a Google statistic. Length is 8 seconds, which spends the same Flow credits as the shorter Lite and Fast options. The API rows use the paid per-second rates, so on the API that length is part of the price.

Finished clips in a month	Generations at 1 in 3	Credits if this is Flow	What covers it	Bill
30 Lite clips on Plus or Pro	90	900, at 10 credits	Pro's monthly pool (1,000). Plus, at 200, does not	The Pro plan
30 Lite clips on the API, 720p	90	Not credits	Paid API, 8 seconds each	$36
30 Fast clips on Plus or Pro	90	1,800, at 20 credits	Pro holds 50 Fast videos, not 90	Pro's pool is short
30 Fast clips on the API, 720p	90	Not credits	Paid API, 8 seconds each	$72
30 Quality clips	90	9,000, at 100 credits	Ultra's lower pool (10,000). Pro holds 10 Quality videos	The lower Ultra plan
30 API Standard clips, 720p or 1080p	90	Not credits	Paid API, 8 seconds each	$288

Pro is the plan that fits a month of 30 finished Lite clips, and the API costs $36 for the same batch. Dividing the Pro plan across those kept clips is $0.67 a finished clip, and that division charges the whole subscription to video. The plan also buys Gemini and storage, so the video share is smaller if you already wanted them. Someone who bought Pro for the assistant should not use that per-clip figure.

Fifty 8 second Lite clips at 720p is where the API bill passes the Pro plan. Under that count, paying per second costs less than subscribing, before the daily allotment.

Fast costs more credits than Pro can hold, and the API price for that batch is less than the lower Ultra plan and more than Pro, which cannot cover it. If you only need Fast beyond what Pro holds, the API is the smaller bill, and Ultra would be paying for a pool you could rent by the second. If you need Quality, Pro's generations are about three kept clips at this keep rate, and the lower Ultra plan is the first pool that holds the batch.

The daily allotment is not inside those totals, and it does not accumulate across a quiet week. A Quality generation costs more than that allotment at once, so the daily bonus never covers Quality on its own. A second day's drop does not help, because the credits have to be spent together.

How much does the Veo API cost?

The Gemini API pricing page bills Veo 3.1 per second, with audio included, and every Veo row is unavailable on the free tier. A blocked video, when safety filters stop the audio, is not charged, so you do not pay for a prompt the filter silences.

Google Cloud's generative AI pricing page lists Veo, including a video-only row, and publishes no per-second list price, so the figures here are the Gemini API's.

API model	Resolution	Per second	8 second clip
Veo 3.1 Lite	720p	$0.05	$0.40
Veo 3.1 Lite	1080p	$0.08	$0.64
Veo 3.1 Fast	720p	$0.10	$0.80
Veo 3.1 Fast	1080p	$0.12	$0.96
Veo 3.1 Fast	4k	$0.30	$2.40
Veo 3.1 Standard	720p or 1080p	$0.40	$3.20
Veo 3.1 Standard	4k	$0.60	$4.80

A 4 second Lite clip at 720p costs less than the 8 second clip on the API, because the API multiplies by length and Flow does not. On the API, 1080p and 4k have to be 8 seconds, Lite has no 4k, and the Veo API docs also allow 6 seconds at 720p. Audio is always on, and each request returns one video. Flow's double output does not apply here, so a second take is a second call.

Veo 3.1, Fast, and Lite are marked Preview, so these rates are the current list, not a locked contract. API extension adds 7 seconds, up to 20 times, and it is not available on Lite. Flow does the opposite: the extend path is Lite, and it starts from an 8 second Veo 3.1 clip.

Price a shot that has to grow in the product that will actually extend it. A Lite workflow in Flow and a Lite call on the API are not the same tool.

AIpresso is the short daily brief on which AI prices moved. Get it here if you would rather not recheck three Google price lists when a Flow credit row changes.

Which costs are easy to miss?

In Flow on Lite or Fast, generate the longest length those rows allow. The shorter lengths spend the same credits, so a 4 second storyboard is the long-clip rate on a short file. On the API, shorter 720p clips are the cheap drafts, and 1080p forces the full 8 seconds. A resolution upgrade is also a length upgrade, and mixing the two products without switching that habit means paying the worse rule on each side.

A request that returns two videos spends twice the credit-table row, and Google says this outright, so a prompt that looks like one job is still two charges. Monthly Flow credits refresh at the start of the billing cycle and do not roll over, so a heavy week in the next cycle does not inherit this cycle's leftovers. The daily allotment refreshes from the first generation and expires the same way.

AI credits you buy are a third balance, separate from the monthly pool and the daily drop. Flow's help page says Plus, Pro, and Ultra can buy them in supported regions except Japan. The Google One credit help names Pro and Ultra as the plans that can buy credits for more Flow and Antigravity usage.

Neither page publishes a pack price, so the top-up cannot sit in a budget until checkout shows it. Accounts billed through Apple, Pixel Pass, or another third party cannot buy them at all.

Lower-priority Lite at 0 credits belongs to the Ultra subscriber and the family plan manager, while other family members pay Ultra's normal Lite rate. The model help lists 4, 6, and 8 second Quality clips, while the credit table prices an 8 second Quality generation and publishes no shorter price. Do not treat a short Quality clip as a discount.

1080p upscale spends nothing on Plus, Pro, and Ultra, and it is unavailable without a subscription. 4K upscale is a credit charge reserved for Ultra, so a Pro account that needs 4K has to change plans or use the API, where that clip must be 8 seconds.

When a dedicated video tool is the smaller bill

Pay for a Google AI plan when you will use Gemini and the storage, because the clips are then a slice of a subscription you already wanted. If you only wanted clips, the unused half of the bundle is still on the invoice, and a dedicated video tool can be the smaller bill because it prices the clip and nothing else.

The credit math is on Runway pricing and Kling AI pricing, and the control differences are on Kling vs Runway vs Luma. Toolradar tracks Runway and Kling AI next to Veo.

A Veo clip is a generated shot, not a hosted avatar. For a presenter who reads a script, compare HeyGen pricing and Synthesia pricing, where the bill is a person on camera rather than a generated scene. Where a generative clip fits among editors is on our best AI video generators ranking, the free video generators, the image-to-video picks, and the AI video editors. What replaced OpenAI's video app is on Sora alternatives, category counts are on AI video statistics, and the Runway verdict is our Runway review.

FAQ

How much does Google Veo cost in 2026?

There is no standalone Veo subscription, so the price is a Google AI plan or the API. In Flow, Lite is 10 credits a video on Plus or Pro and 5 credits on Ultra, Fast is 20 or 10, and Quality is 100. Lite and Fast keep that charge for a 4, 6, or 8 second clip. Plus is $4.99/mo with 200 monthly Flow credits, Pro is $19.99/mo with 1,000, and Ultra is $99.99/mo with 10,000 or $199.99/mo with 25,000.

The Gemini API has no free Veo tier and starts at $0.05 a second for Lite at 720p. Choose it when you will not use the rest of the Google bundle. These figures were read on Google's pages in October 2026.

How many Flow credits does a Veo 3.1 video use?

Flow charges per video, so one request that returns two videos costs double the row you selected, even when the prompt box looks like a single job. On Lite and Fast the credit count does not change with length.

Ultra subscribers and the family plan manager can run lower-priority Lite at 0 credits. That mode is closed to Plus, Pro, and other family members, so everyone else on a shared plan still spends the pool.

Is Google Veo free?

A free Google account receives 50 Flow credits on each day it generates, and unused credits do not roll over, so a quiet day is wasted rather than saved. Video generation without a subscription can be blocked from about 2pm to 5pm UTC, which makes a free account a poor fit for a deadline in that window.

Flow publishes no free price for Lite or Fast, Quality costs more than a day's allotment, and a free account cannot buy extra credits. Free is a sample for one experiment, not a month of clips.

Does Google AI Pro include full Veo 3.1?

Pro's monthly pool covers a heavy month of Lite and only a short run of Quality, which is a credit budget, not uncapped video. Gemini's subscriptions page calls Veo 3.1 Lite on Pro a limited trial, and reserves video generation with Veo 3.1 for Ultra. The plans comparison lists Omni Flash as the video model on Pro, not Veo.

You can spend credits at the Veo rates in Flow's table. A team that needs Quality as the default should treat Pro as the wrong stop.

Is the Gemini API cheaper than Google AI Pro for Veo?

For 8 second Lite clips at 720p, the API costs less than Pro until you pass 50 generations in the month. Above that, Pro is the smaller Lite bill before you count the rest of the bundle. The month scenario's Fast batch costs $72 on the API, Pro's pool cannot hold that many Fast videos, and the lower Ultra plan costs more than that API bill.

Quality at this volume needs the lower Ultra pool. The same count of API Standard clips at 720p or 1080p costs $288.

Do unused Google Flow credits roll over?

No. Monthly credits on Plus, Pro, and Ultra refresh at the billing date and expire if you do not spend them, so a heavy shoot in the next cycle does not inherit this cycle's leftovers. The daily credits refresh from your first generation of the day and also expire.

Credits you purchase are a separate balance and can expire on the schedule shown at purchase. Flow and Google One publish no pack price, so the top-up is not a number you can plan in advance.

What is the difference between Veo Lite, Fast, and Quality?

Lite is the credit-cheap model, and it is the only Veo 3.1 model Flow lets you use to extend an 8 second clip, so a workflow built on longer shots has to stay on Lite. Fast costs twice Lite's credits on the same plan and cannot extend, which makes it the wrong upgrade when the job is an extended shot rather than a single take.

Quality costs one flat rate for every user, and Flow's feature list says it cannot take reference images, cannot edit video, and cannot extend. The top Flow rate buys one generation with no second pass inside Veo. On the API the three names are Lite, Fast, and Standard, priced per second with audio always on, and Google does not say Flow's Quality tier and the API's Standard tier are the same model.

Louis Corneloup, founder of Dupple and Toolradar, prepared this price breakdown for people deciding whether a Google AI plan is a video budget. We read Google's AI plans page, Gemini's US subscriptions page, Flow's credit help, Flow's model help, the Google One credit help, the Gemini API pricing page, and the Veo API docs on October 17, 2026. Clip totals and the one-in-three keep rate are our arithmetic, not Google's. Publishing rules for this site are on the AIpresso about page. We recheck vendor prices monthly.

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Cite this: AIpresso, "Google Veo Pricing in 2026: Flow Credits, Plans and Cost per Clip", October 2026.

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