Managing renders + costs

Managing renders + costs

Every stitched MP4 lives at /renders with a download link, the duration, and the per-render BYOK cost in dollars. There's no markup — what fal/ElevenLabs/etc. bill is what you see.

Per-render cost

Each shot's cost_cents is stamped at completion based on the registry's pricePerSec × duration. The /renders table sums them per project for the total.

> Heads-up: provider pricing changes. The registry is updated in > migrations; if your in-flight bill diverges from what we display, > the provider's number wins.

Per-month cost cap

Settings → Keys → each provider row has a Budget cap in dollars. When the month-to-date spend hits the cap, all further generations for that provider 402 with BudgetExceededError. Reset on the 1st.

Set it to whatever you can lose without thinking. Default: $0 (no cap). Recommended: $25 to start.

Cleanup

Renders are kept indefinitely. Delete from the table when you don't need them. Storage charges are negligible on the BYOK plan; we don't charge for storage in v2.

Why a render failed

The shot card shows the provider's error message inline (e.g. fal balance exhausted, Invalid prompt: must be < 2000 chars). For deeper failures, check the inspector's error banner — it surfaces the full provider response.