Creatify Credits Explained (2026): 5 Credits per 15 Seconds, and the 2-Month Expiry

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Creatify charges 5 credits for every 15 seconds of generated video (rounded up), so a 30-second ad costs 10 credits. Revisions cost 3 credits per 15 seconds, but are free on Pro and above if you don't change the script, avatar, or voice. Monthly-plan credits expire two months after they're issued; annual Pro credits last a year. The free plan gives 10 credits a month (about two video ads). Starter is $39 a month or $19 billed annually for 100 credits; Pro starts at $99 ($49 annually) for 300 and slides to 5,000. All re-verified on Creatify's help center and pricing page on Oct 3, 2026.

Last verified

Oct 4, 2026

How we know

Desk-verified against primary sources

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Evidence used

• Per-15-second video and revision costs come from Creatify's credit-usage article (updated Aug 19, 2026), read Oct 3, 2026.
• Plan prices, credit totals, the Pro slider and the expiry tooltips were read on creatify.ai/pricing on Oct 3, 2026, with the monthly/annual toggle checked in both positions.
• The Apps-page screenshot is from ToolProven's own Creatify account, captured Oct 4, 2026.
• Three vendor inconsistencies are flagged in the article: Boreal-H3's in-app price disagrees with the Labs page, a Creatify FAQ still says 5 free credits a month where the pricing page says 10, and the pricing FAQ defines revisions differently from the help center.

How we checked this

• We quote Creatify's own help-center and pricing-page wording and link the source articles; the per-ad estimates are simple arithmetic from Creatify's per-15-second rate, labeled as such.

What a Creatify credit actually costs you

Generated video costs 5 credits per 15 seconds, rounded up. A 30-second ad is 10 credits; a 45-second one is 15. Revisions cost 3 credits per 15 seconds unless you're on Pro or above and keep the same script, avatar and voice. Agent, Ad Flow and Ad Clone runs cost a variable amount.

Creatify's core rate is straightforward once you see it: "5 credits per 15 seconds of video (rounded up)", applied to video ads, avatar videos and AI shorts. The rounding matters — a 16-second video bills as two 15-second blocks (10 credits), so trimming to fit a block boundary saves credits.

Revisions are metered separately at "3 credits per 15 seconds of video (rounded up)". The important exception: on Pro and above, "Revisions are free if you don't change the script, avatar, or voice." Change any of those three and the revision bills as a new generation. One wrinkle: the pricing-page FAQ describes this differently — manual edits are free and unlimited, and anything that re-runs the AI counts as a new generation — so treat the help-center rate as the price of an AI re-render and check the cost the app shows before confirming.

Other tools price differently. The agentic tools — Agent, Ad Flow and Ad Clone — use credits that "cannot be determined upfront", which is why the Pro plan card budgets "~2-20 credits per video ad" rather than a flat five. Creatify's own video model, Boreal-H3, launched Oct 2, 2026, and here the vendor's two price lists disagree: the Creatify Labs page bills it by the second in the Model Playground — 0.4 credits a second at 768p, 1.2 at 1088p and 2.6 at 2K — while the banner inside the app, in our own account on Oct 4, advertises Boreal as "Ad video at $0.01/sec. 1 credit a clip." Both can't be the standing rate, so check the cost the app shows before you confirm a render. The legacy Product Video tool still lists 1 credit per image, 5 credits per 15 seconds on its Aurora model and a flat 10 credits for an up-to-8-second VEO 3 clip, but Creatify is retiring it from the dashboard.

How many ads each plan really buys

At 5 credits per 15 seconds, the free plan's 10 credits make about two 15-second ads a month. Starter's 100 credits make roughly twenty — $1.95 each monthly, $0.95 billed annually. Pro's 300 credits make about sixty, and the slider runs to 5,000 credits, before any revisions eat into the total.

Translating credits into output: the free plan gives 10 credits a month, which Creatify describes as up to two video ads or twenty image ads, exported with a watermark. Starter provides 100 credits — roughly twenty 15-second ads — for $39 a month, or $19 billed annually now that annual plans advertise up to 50% off. Pro is a credit slider: 300 credits for $99 ($49 annually), 600 for $199 ($99), 1,000 for $299 ($179), 2,000 for $499 ($349) and 5,000 for $999 ($799).

Those counts assume no revisions and no agentic runs. On Starter, where revisions cost 3 credits per 15 seconds, a workflow with two revisions per ad meaningfully cuts the real number of finished ads. On Pro, same-script revisions are free, which is often the actual reason to step up from Starter rather than the raw credit increase.

One inconsistency to note if you're comparing sources: a Creatify FAQ article still says the free plan gives "5 free credits every month," while the pricing page says 10. We've used 10, matching the pricing page, but it's worth confirming on your own account. For where Creatify lands against other avatar tools overall, see our Creatify review, and for the actor-first alternative priced by the minute, Arcads vs Creatify.

The 2-month expiry and what happens when you switch plans

On monthly plans, Creatify credits expire two months after they're issued, so roughly one month carries over; annual Pro credits last a year. Unused credits survive a plan switch, but you can't leave an annual plan until fewer than 10 credits remain.

The expiry is now printed on the pricing page itself: the Starter card's tooltip says "Credits expire every 2 months", and the FAQ explains that "Unused credits are valid for 2 months, so they can be carried over to the next month." In practice that means about a month of rollover headroom. Annual Pro is the exception — its tooltip reads "Expire yearly" — which makes it the only Creatify plan that lets you bank credits for a launch month.

Switching plans is handled generously: "All unused credits from your previous plan will remain available through the new billing cycle." Leaving an annual plan is not: the pricing FAQ says "You cannot switch from an annual plan until you have less than 10 credits left." Cancelling runs through a multi-step flow that offers a free month and a Pause Plan option before it lets you go, and payments are "final and non-refundable" — so the free plan is the right place to test your real ad volume before committing.

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