Sora pricing: $1 a clip until shutdown, $0.70 on Google now

How much does Sora cost in November 2026?

Sora has no price, because OpenAI doesn't sell it at all anymore. The Sora 2 model page says it in one line: "The Sora 2 models and Videos API were shut down on September 24, 2026 and are no longer available." The app and website went first, on 26 April 2026. Here's what each ChatGPT plan costs today and what it used to get from Sora, read from OpenAI's ChatGPT pricing page on 8 November 2026. US prices, before tax:

The pricing page lists image creation on every plan, and it has no video row on any of them. OpenAI's API deprecations page shows that the Videos API, sora-2, sora-2-pro and all of their snapshots were removed on 24 September 2026, and it doesn't name a replacement. The model page is just as plain about it: "There is no one-to-one replacement API." That's worth knowing before you pay for anything. Several of the guides that rank for this search still tell you that Plus "unlocks" Sora. It doesn't.

What did Sora 2 cost per second on the API?

Sora 2 cost $0.10 a second of video at 720p, and Sora 2 Pro cost $0.30, $0.50 or $0.70 a second depending on resolution. Both rates are still printed on OpenAI's model pages, next to the shutdown notice. We read them on 8 November 2026 and multiplied each by 10 seconds, so the clips compare with Google's own 10-second estimate:

Google is the cheaper place to buy it now. Its Gemini API pricing page bills Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash video at $12.00 per million output tokens, and it puts that at "about $0.07/s at 720p," or $0.70 for 10 seconds and $1.04 for 15. That's 30% less than what Sora 2 used to cost. If you want 1080p, with upscaling, Google's estimate is $0.104 a second, while Sora 2 Pro charged $0.70 for the same thing. Runway's row comes from its pricing page. There, $15 buys "52s of Gen-4.5," so 10 seconds of it is about $2.88.

What did Sora cost inside ChatGPT Plus and Pro?

Sora came free with ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month and Pro at $200, so the price was the plan. At launch on 9 December 2024, Plus got "up to 50 videos at 480p resolution or fewer videos at 720p each month," and Pro "10 times more usage, higher resolutions and longer durations," per TV Technology. If you used all 50, that's $0.40 a video on Plus.

The Sora 2 app moved to a daily count. In October 2025 OpenAI started selling extra videos beyond "the current limit of 30 free videos per day." Business Insider reported that "Ten extra videos can be purchased for $4," which is also $0.40 a video, and that Pro users could "still generate up to 100 videos per day." Bill Peebles, who led Sora, wrote that "the economics are currently completely unsustainable." On 28 November 2025 he cut free accounts to 6 a day, and Plus and Pro kept their limits, Tom's Guide reported (read via search snippet).

Then OpenAI stopped. A spokesperson told Engadget on 24 March 2026: "We've decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API." The team that built it went off to work on world simulation for robotics. The app was gone a month later. If you want the whole timeline of the caps, it's in Sora video generation limit.

What does a month of AI video cost without Sora?

A month of short AI video costs $0 to $20 for most people now. Take a creator who makes 20 clips of 10 seconds at 720p, 200 seconds in all. Google's Flow credits page, read 8 November 2026, charges 3 credits a second for Omni Flash 1.2 at 720p, up to 10 seconds. Every account gets "50 Google Flow credits per day," and Google AI Pro adds 1,000 a month. Here's the arithmetic for that month:

The free Flow route has a few catches. The daily credits "don't roll over," Google says, so if you want to make all 20 clips in one sitting, you'll need a plan. A clip that runs to 15 seconds costs double for the last 5 seconds, and it's only on Plus, Pro or Ultra. Google AI Plus at $4.99 adds 200 credits a month, which is about six more 10-second clips. Google AI Pro limits breaks down every Flow and Gemini allowance by plan.

What does AI video cost next to the rest of your AI stack?

A typical stack of ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro and Google AI Pro costs $59.99 a month, and it's the Google plan that carries the video. We read Anthropic's pricing page on 8 November 2026, and it lists Claude Pro at "$20 if billed monthly." If you add Runway Standard for the editing, you're at $74.99. The $20 you pay for ChatGPT doesn't buy any video at all now.

Whizi, which publishes this page, puts Claude, GPT and Gemini in one chat. Powerhouse at $49.99 a month adds 500 pictures, music and Whizi Video AI, which spends 20 of the 10,000 monthly credits per clip. Each clip is about 4.8 seconds of 720p video with sound. That's shorter than one Flow clip, and Whizi has no extend, no video editing and no avatar video. Pro at $29.99 has chat and pictures, plus one free 5-second video, not a video allowance.

So here's how we'd split it. If video is the job, Google AI Pro at $19.99 is the plan to beat, and Runway is the one you keep for the editing. If you pay for two or three chat apps and only want the odd clip, one Whizi plan can take the place of the chat subscriptions. Keep Flow for anything longer than a few seconds. The cheapest way to use Claude and GPT runs the chat side of that math.