Bring your own keys, or rent the studio: choosing between $29 and $199
Two plans. One for builders who want their own bill. One for directors who want the bill to disappear.
Studio ships with two paid plans. They are designed for two different people. If you read both descriptions and feel pulled to both, you are probably Pro for now and All-in-One in three months. That is fine. The plans are reversible.
Below is the honest version of the comparison. No marketing language. The tradeoffs are real and the answer depends on what you are actually doing with the tool.
Pro · $29 per month, bring your own keys
Pro is for the user who already has accounts at Google, ElevenLabs, and the rest. You paste your keys into Studio once · Imagen, Veo, Seedance, ElevenLabs, Gemini · and the application uses them for every generation. The keys stay client-side, in your browser. Studio never sees them, never proxies them, never logs them.
What you pay Studio · $29 a month for the application, the pipeline, the identity anchors, the timeline, the render export, everything that is not raw model compute. What you pay the providers · whatever Google and the rest charge you for the generations you trigger. Those bills are direct, visible, and yours to optimise.
Pro is the right plan when you want control of the cost line, when you already have provider relationships you do not want to duplicate, or when you are testing the tool against a real workflow and need to see exactly where the money goes.
All-in-One · $199 per month, the studio runs the bill
All-in-One is the opposite shape. Generations run server-side on Studio infrastructure. You do not paste keys. You do not see provider bills. You get a generous monthly allowance that covers a working filmmaker's output · roughly fifteen to twenty short films, or two to three episodes of a series, before any overage conversation.
The plan also includes a priority queue. When the public render farm is busy, All-in-One jobs jump the line. Generation and render are both included in the $199 · no per-shot accounting, no surprise spikes when a scene needs eight regenerations to land.
All-in-One is the right plan when you are shipping films on a deadline, when you do not want to think about provider accounts, or when the cost predictability of a flat monthly bill is worth more than the savings of running keys yourself.
The honest tradeoffs
Pro is cheaper if you generate carefully. If your typical month is five short films and you know which model to call where, your Pro bill plus provider bills will land below $199. The control is real.
Pro is more expensive if you generate freely. The cost of a single Veo-heavy week can clear $250 in provider bills alone. If you find yourself regenerating shots because the first three were almost-right, All-in-One starts to look like a deal halfway through the second week.
All-in-One trades visibility for predictability. You stop seeing where the money goes shot by shot. In exchange you stop worrying about it. Some directors love this. Some hate it. Both reactions are reasonable.
Security, in plain language
On Pro, your provider keys live in your browser's encrypted storage. They never reach a Studio server. If our backend goes down tomorrow, your keys are still where you put them and your provider accounts are still yours.
On All-in-One, you have no provider keys to worry about · the relationship is entirely between you and Studio. The same security guarantees apply to your project data on both plans. Identity anchors, scripts, and renders are encrypted at rest and exportable at any time.
Either plan, the project export is the escape hatch. One click and you get the full bundle · MP4, screenplay PDF, storyboard sheet, bibles, anchors. If you ever decide to leave Studio, your work leaves with you. Nothing is locked behind our database.
Which one to pick first
If you are not sure, start on Pro. Run two films. Add up the provider bills. If they land near or above $170 per month, move to All-in-One. If they land below, stay on Pro.
If your work involves deadlines · client deliverables, festival cuts, anything that has to ship on a specific Tuesday · skip the experiment and start on All-in-One. The priority queue alone justifies the difference in a deadline week.
Both plans give you the same Studio. The pipeline is identical. The films are identical. The only thing that changes is who pays the model bill and how visible the bill is.
We expect most working filmmakers to land on All-in-One within their first quarter on the platform. Not because we are pushing them there. Because once you have shipped three or four films and your workflow has rhythm, the last thing you want to think about is which provider account is hitting its quota. The flat bill is a quiet kind of luxury.