Kling AI Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and Cost per Video

Kling AI pricing runs from a free Basic plan to four paid plans: Standard at $8.80 a month for 660 credits, Pro at $32.56 for 3,000, Premier at $80.96 for 8,000 and Ultra at $159.99 for 26,000, each with a discounted first month. On the current VIDEO 3.0 model a 5-second 720p clip costs 30 credits, which is $0.40 on Standard and $0.18 on Ultra before retakes.

Checked 11 October 2026 against Kling's credit cost guide and membership page, its VIDEO 3.0 and VIDEO 3.0 Omni guides, Credits Policy, API pricing table and Kling 4.0 page, plus Higgsfield's pricing page. Dollar costs per clip are our arithmetic from those figures. Kling changes plans often, so confirm in the app before you pay.

Want the answer for your own schedule? Put your clip length, resolution and retake rate into the free Kling AI credit calculator. The rest of this page explains the numbers it uses. For how Kling compares with the other persona video tools, see our AI influencer video generators ranking.

Kling AI plans and prices

Every paid Kling plan is the same product with a bigger monthly credit pool. The price per credit falls as the pool grows, and the first month is discounted on all four.

"Per 100 credits" is Kling's own figure at the monthly renewal price. On yearly billing our division gives about $1.00, $0.81, $0.76 and $0.46. All paid plans list 1080p generation, watermark removal, fast-track generation, video extension and commercial use. The free Basic plan lists none of those, no monthly credits, and output that is not for commercial use.

Kling credits cost per second, by model

Kling charges per second of video, and the rate depends on the model, the resolution, and whether the clip has native audio or a video reference.

Two things to notice. Native audio adds half again to the rate, so turn it on only for clips that speak. And feeding VIDEO 3.0 Omni a reference video doubles the silent rate, which matters if you build character elements from footage. Kling's guides give no credit rate for Kling 4.0 or 4.0 Flash; our Kling 4.0 page tracks the rollout.

Cost per video on each plan

Multiply the rate by the seconds, then by the plan's price per credit. This table does it for the clips persona accounts make most, at monthly renewal prices and one generation per clip.

One correction to Kling's own marketing. Its plan table says 660 credits is "33 720p videos", which is 20 credits each. VIDEO 3.0 charges 30 credits for a 5-second 720p clip, so on the current model Standard covers 22 of them, or five 10-second 1080p clips with audio.

How to use the Kling credit calculator

A worked example

Take an illustrative persona account that posts 20 finished 5-second 1080p clips a month without native audio and keeps one take in three.

1. One generation is 8 credits times 5 seconds: 40 credits.
2. Three tries per usable clip makes 120 credits a clip, about $1.30 on Pro.
3. Twenty clips need 2,400 credits for the month.
4. Pro's 3,000 credits cover it, with room for five more clips.
5. Standard's 660 would leave 1,740 credits to buy at 66 per $1, about $26. That makes $35 in total, more than Pro's $32.56.

The lesson generalises: the retake rate triples the sticker price, and once top-ups exceed the gap to the next plan, the bigger plan is cheaper.

Which Kling plan fits your posting volume

Pick the plan from usable clips per month, not from the credit count. This table assumes three tries per usable clip, an illustrative ratio you should replace with your own.

Read across the row for your format. A persona that posts three short clips a week needs about 13 usable clips a month, which is past Standard at any resolution and comfortably inside Pro. Daily posting with talking clips is Premier territory. Ultra is priced for teams, or for one operator running several personas from a single account.

Standard still has a job: it is the cheapest way to get 1080p, clean downloads and commercial-use terms for a month while you measure your own retake rate.

Kling API pricing by model version

Developers pay per second through resource packages instead of a membership. Kling's API pricing table lists these rates; the clip columns are our multiplication.

The older 2.6 and 2.5 Turbo models cost half as much as 3.0 at 720p, and Kling 3.0 in 4K is $0.42 a second. The table does not list Kling 4.0. A silent 5-second 720p clip on the API costs $0.42, close to the $0.40 it costs on a Standard membership.

Unlimited Kling: read the terms first

Kling does not sell an unlimited plan. Every tier on its plan table is a credit pool, including Ultra. The "unlimited Kling" you see advertised comes from platforms that resell Kling models inside their own subscriptions, and the best-known is Higgsfield.

The disclosure that matters is the window. Higgsfield's help center says unlimited means generations on listed models do not deduct credits while the access is active, that flagship models can have windows as short as seven days, and that the period runs from activation and does not restart at renewal. Its pricing page adds that unlimited usage may be slowed during busy periods. Starter, the $15 plan, lists no unlimited Kling at all.

After the window, the maths is ordinary. At Plus's monthly price a Higgsfield credit costs 4.9 cents, so a 5-second 720p Kling 3.0 clip at about 7 credits is roughly $0.34, level with Kling Pro. Choose the reseller for the other models on the balance, not for a week of free Kling.

Before you subscribe

If you are not ready to pay at all, our guide to making AI influencer videos for free shows what daily free credits elsewhere can cover. When you are, the Kling image-to-video tutorial walks through settings and prompts so fewer credits go to rejected takes.

Credits are the cheap part of a persona. The expensive part is a face that changes between clips, which wastes every plan equally. Our AI Influencers program teaches the character and reference work that brings the retake rate down.

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