Veo
Google's video model, currently the strongest at physics, motion and native audio.
When the clip has to survive being watched twice, this is the one. Motion holds together where cheaper models fall apart.
Wrong forRapid iteration, where the cost per attempt punishes exploration.
- Best for
- The highest fidelity single clip
- Pricing
- Via Google AI plans, from $20/mo
Verified facts
- Free tier
- Gemini's free tier includes limited, variable Veo access with no confirmed fixed monthly video quota
- Entry paid plan
- Google AI Pro, $19.99/month: unlocks Veo 3.1 Fast, roughly 1,000 monthly AI/Flow credits, 8-second clips, 720p default resolution
- Bills in
- Metered in monthly AI/Flow credits bundled into the Gemini subscription (Pro: 1,000/mo; Ultra: 25,000/mo for $249.99/mo, unlocking full Veo 3.1 at 1080p/4K), not sold as a standalone product for consumers
Verified · source: cloud.google.comgemini.google
Veo has no standalone consumer pricing page (deepmind.google/technologies/veo/ is a marketing/spec page with no prices; ai.google.dev/pricing redirects to a Google OAuth login wall), but Google's Vertex AI generative-ai pricing page returns HTTP 200 with real server-rendered HTML, mentioning 'Veo' 16 times alongside per-unit dollar pricing (e.g. per-second/per-token rates like $0.000001 to $0.0000048375 ranges) embedded directly in the markup; this is the closest fetchable, dated, server-rendered pricing source for Veo as a Google Cloud API product, distinct from the consumer route. 2026-08-19 facts pass: consumer access runs through the Gemini app's Google AI Pro/Ultra subscriptions rather than a Veo-specific SKU; official pricing pages for that route were mostly blocked or 404'd, so the consumer figures below rest on aggregator consensus plus a partial fetch of gemini.google/subscriptions/, medium confidence.
Head to head
What it's actually used for
- Generates synchronised audio with the clip rather than requiring a separate pass
- Holds physical plausibility better than most rivals across motion and contact
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