A PiAPI alternative: Revana and PiAPI prices, model by model

The short answer

Revana is cheaper than PiAPI for Seedance 2.5 and Seedance 2.0 at every resolution, Seedance 2.0 Mini, Kling 3.0, Wan 2.6, Nano Banana Pro, Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2 and Seedream 5.0 Pro, sells 4K settings PiAPI does not, 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, 31% below PiAPI's $0.80, and 720p at $0.25, 29% below PiAPI's $0.35.
• Kling 3.0: $0.17 a second at 1080p with sound on Revana, 15% below PiAPI's $0.20.
• Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2: Revana charges $0.04 a Nano Banana Pro image at 2K, 62% below PiAPI's $0.105, and $0.03 for Nano Banana 2 at 2K, 63% below PiAPI's $0.08.
• 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 PiAPI per second

Prices per second of output, from PiAPI's API documentation and Revana's pricing page, checked on 28 October 2026. Prices PiAPI sets per clip are divided by the clip length. PiAPI's Seedance prices include sound. Settings where Revana is not lower are left out.

Image models: Revana and PiAPI per image

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

Models and settings Revana sells that PiAPI does not list

PiAPI's documentation lists no price for these:

What a batch costs

The same batches priced on each, both ways round:

Which one fits

PiAPI also sells music, 3D and other models Revana does not. For a model that is not in the tables above, compare the two price lists before you move it. Revana fits best when your spend is Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0 or Nano Banana, when you need 4K, 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 PiAPI

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

PiAPI's figures are from its API documentation, such as Seedance 2.5 and Nano Banana Pro, read on 28 October 2026. Kling 3.0 at 720p is PiAPI's std mode and at 1080p its pro mode. GPT Image 2 is PiAPI's own estimate for a 1024 by 1024 image. PiAPI bills a Seedance job with a reference video differently from Revana, so those settings are left out. 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.