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AI Video Retainer Pricing Calculator

For freelancers and small studios selling AI-made short videos to local businesses: get a price per video, a monthly retainer, your real hourly rate and a three-tier package table in under a minute.

Your numbers

Clients on retainer5

Videos per client per month8

Minutes of your time per video (generation + edit + revisions)45

Hours per week you can give this20

Target hourly rate ($/hour)

What you want to earn per hour of hands-on time.

Tool subscriptions ($/month)

Video generator, voice, editing, stock, scheduler — everything you pay monthly.

Per-video render / credit cost ($)

Revision rounds included

Each round beyond the first adds a 10% time buffer per video.

Optional add-ons (adds minutes per video, priced through the same formula)

Captions / subtitles (+5 min) Custom thumbnails (+10 min) Posting & scheduling (+10 min)

$0per video

$0retainer per client / month

$0projected monthly revenue

How the numbers are built

Cost-plus: your time at the target rate, plus tools, plus a 30% margin, rounded up to the next $5 per video.

Revenue vs. hours (share of your capacity)

Package table

Package	Videos / month	Per video	Price / month

Starter pays 10% more per video, Authority 10% less — a simple volume ladder you can adjust.

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Estimates only. The $500–2,500/month market band is a rough benchmark for local-business short-video packages (reviewed 2026-09-15), not a quote — your market, niche and quality set the real number. Not financial or legal advice. Privacy · nothing you type leaves your browser unless you email yourself a result.