A Kie.ai alternative: Revana and Kie.ai prices, model by model

The short answer

Revana is cheaper than Kie.ai for Seedance 2.5 at 480p, 720p and 1080p, Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Fast, Nano Banana Pro, Nano Banana 2, and GPT Image 2 at 2K and 4K, and does not charge for failed or refused jobs. The tables below list only the settings where Revana's price is lower.

• Seedance 2.5: Revana sells 1080p at $0.55 a second, 30% below Kie.ai's $0.79, and 720p at $0.25, 21% below Kie.ai's $0.315. Jobs with a video input are lower on Revana at every resolution too.
• Seedance 2.0: $0.15 a second at 720p on Revana, 27% below Kie.ai's $0.205; at 4K Revana is 20% below it.
• Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2: Revana charges $0.04 a Nano Banana Pro image at 2K, 56% below Kie.ai's $0.09, and $0.04 for Nano Banana 2 at 4K, 56% below Kie.ai's $0.09.
• Failed jobs, one key, agents: on Revana the price is held at submit and released if the job fails or the model refuses the prompt. One key covers every model, there is an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Codex, and the balance is prepaid from $10 with no subscription.

Video models: Revana and Kie.ai per second

Prices per second of output, from each model's page on Kie.ai and Revana's pricing page, checked on 28 October 2026. Kie.ai prices in credits at half a cent each; they are converted to dollars here. Settings where Revana is not lower are left out.

Image models: Revana and Kie.ai per image

Per output image, before any input image or token charges:

What a batch costs

The same batches priced on each, both ways round:

Which one fits

Kie.ai also sells text and chat models, and its price table has more than 600 rows, so it suits a team that wants one account for everything. For a model that is not in the tables above, compare the two price lists before you move it. Revana covers the main video and image models (the model catalogue lists them) and fits best when your spend is Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana or GPT Image 2, or when you want failed and refused jobs not to cost anything. Each job goes to the lowest-cost route for that model and setting and moves to another route if that one fails.

Switching from Kie.ai

Create a key on the sign-up page, add credit, and send the job to Revana instead. The model name and the input fields are in the docs; for Seedance 2.5 at 1080p the call is:

curl https://api.revana.si/v1/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REVANA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "seedance-2.5",
    "input": {
      "prompt": "A barista pours latte art in slow motion, morning light through the café window.",
      "resolution": "1080p",
      "duration": 10,
      "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
    },
    "max_cost_usd": 6
  }'

The response carries a job id; poll it, or pass a webhook, and the finished file's link comes back with cost_usd, the exact amount charged. Agents can make the same call through the MCP server, and the model catalogue lists every model and setting.

How we compared

Kie.ai's figures are from the price table on kie.ai/pricing and its model pages, such as Seedance 2.5, read on 28 October 2026. Kie.ai lists credits, at half a cent a credit. Prices sold per clip are divided by the clip length to give a price per second. Card fees, top-up fees and volume discounts are left out on both sides. The raw numbers, each with the date it was checked, are in market-prices.json.