What a free account includes

A free account cannot make a video. Every kind of video needs a paid plan, from $59/month. A storyboard with No animation is a video too, so it is not a free test. Signing up is free and gives you 200 credits, one time. These credits are for characters, scripts, songs and universes. They do not pay for a video.

What a free account includes

• 200 free credits, one time. New accounts get them once. They do not renew each month. Each tool uses credits, as on a paid plan.
• Characters. Make as many characters as your credits allow on the Characters page, choose their voices, and add up to 3 of your own voices.
• Scripts. Write and rewrite scripts with the same length limit as the Pro plan.
• Songs. Make and play songs up to 10 minutes long on the Songs page.
• Universes. Make your own universes. A private universe needs a paid plan.
• Ideas. Make pictures for your ideas on the Ideas page. Each picture costs credits.

What needs a paid plan

• Generating a video: a Video Story, a Music Video, an Explainer Video, an episode of a series, or a storyboard with No animation. The create page says Making the video needs a plan, from $59/month. When you select Generate Video, the Make your video window opens with the Pro plan. Select See other plans for the bigger plans. Your prompt, script and settings stay on the page. After you pay, you come back to the page to generate your video.
• The script agent.
• Downloading a song as a file.
• Buying more credits. Without a paid plan, the credits screens say To purchase more credits you need to subscribe first.
• Private universes and private videos.

A free account cannot try video generation, with or without a watermark. To see videos that other people made, open the Discover page.

The create page without a plan

You can set up a video on the create page before you pay. Without a paid plan, the page shows limits of the old free plan:

• The Fast, Pro and Ultra presets show a lock.
• The script window shows a maximum of 30 seconds.
• The price of an animated video counts only two animated shots, so it can be lower than the price on a paid plan.

A paid plan removes these limits. See How long your video can be.

If your paid plan ends

Your account is a free account again. Your credits stay on your account, but they do not unlock paid features. You cannot generate a video, buy credits or set a video to private until you get a plan again.

Videos made on the old free plan

LongStories used to have a free plan with one short video. If you made a video on it, the video stays in My Videos.

• If it has animation, only its first two shots move. The rest are still images. Its page says This video may have some scenes not animated because it was created on the free plan. See Why a video has still images.
• It is public. See Share your video.

Get a plan

To make videos, pick a plan on the Pricing page. See Compare plans and upgrade and How many credits a video costs.