Cost of a short AI video clip
An 8-second clip. For Veo 3.1 that length is the length in Google's Veo guide. For Gemini Omni Flash it is this site's comparison length.
Sorted by the calculated USD amount, lowest first. A sponsored label would not move a row or change a figure. How the figures are made.
400 clips a month: AI about A$229.39 cheapest, about A$465.02 typical. By hand about 133 hours, about A$3,926.67.400 clips a month: AI about US$160.00 cheapest, about US$324.35 typical. By hand about 133 hours, about US$2,738.85.
Starting wage is the cited award minimum, not a loaded cost. Fair Work Ombudsman, Clerks—Private Sector Award 2020. A USD figure here is that AUD wage converted with the same RBA rate as the AI prices.
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Veo 3.1 Lite
Source · read 20 Oct 2026
A$0.57US$0.40
Assumptions
An 8-second clip. For Veo 3.1 that length is the length in Google's Veo guide. For Gemini Omni Flash it is this site's comparison length. Veo 3.1 Lite 720p video with audio is US$0.05 per second on the pricing page. The Veo guide says Veo 3.1 generates 8-second videos (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/veo). 8 × US$0.05 = US$0.40. The pricing page says the Veo 3.1 preview model ids, including veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview, are deprecated and shut down on 22 Oct 2026.
Formula: 8 × US$0.05.
Pricing basis
Per-second API list price (720p, with audio)
Australian business notes
The Gemini API available-regions page lists Australia among countries where the Gemini API and Google AI Studio are available. It does not describe an Australian storage or processing region. The pricing page labels paid prices as USD and does not mention GST. The AUD figure is this site's conversion, not a price Google shows in AUD. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.40 (A$0.573477). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.
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Gemini Omni Flash
Source · read 20 Oct 2026
A$1.16US$0.81
Assumptions
An 8-second clip. For Veo 3.1 that length is the length in Google's Veo guide. For Gemini Omni Flash it is this site's comparison length. The pricing page says 720p video output is 5,792 tokens per second at US$17.50 per 1M tokens, which it calls approximately US$0.10 per second. This row is 8 seconds so it matches the Veo clip length. Eight seconds is this site's comparison length, not a length the Omni Flash section fixes. Input tokens are not included. Arithmetic: 5,792 × 8 × 17.50 / 1,000,000.
Formula: 5,792 × 8 × US$17.50 / 1,000,000.
Pricing basis
Per-second video output, from the published token rate
Australian business notes
The Gemini API available-regions page lists Australia among countries where the Gemini API and Google AI Studio are available. It does not describe an Australian storage or processing region. The pricing page labels paid prices as USD and does not mention GST. The AUD figure is this site's conversion, not a price Google shows in AUD. AUD in this row is USD divided by 0.6975, the RBA United States dollar rate per Australian dollar on 2026-10-19. Australian note source.
Exact figure
Calculated total: US$0.81088 (A$1.162552). These are the unrounded totals. The figure above is a shorter reading of the same amounts.
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