Longtake
Free AI video studio — you pay the model, not a markup
What it does
Shooting is free — renders are billed by BytePlus straight to your own API key at list price. No credits, no markup, nothing expiring unused. Inside: projects, scenes and takes instead of a chat log; a voice sample pinned to a character so they sound the same in every scene; drag a box on a finished take to fix one detail; upscale, 60fps, an MCP server. €9.99/mo covers the disk and bandwidth your takes live on — without it a project stays open for a day.
A cloud AI video studio on your own API key. Free to shoot — tokens at BytePlus list price, no credits, no markup. A 5s 720p take ≈ $0.76; €9.99/mo keeps your projects.
Higgsfield, Runway and SYNTX resell the same Seedance models with their own markup on top. Here the render is billed by BytePlus , the company that made the model, straight to your key at its list price. The studio costs €9.99 a month and takes no cut of what you shoot. Six takes shot in this studio · Seedance 2.5 · 480p · 5 seconds each · $0.51 a take Those five lines are BytePlus's own token formula, run on your key. There is no sixth line where we add a percentage. Shooting is free. We sell no credits, so there is nothing of yours to expire at the end of the month. The subscription keeps the work: an unpaid project locks after a day and is deleted after a week. Attach a voice sample to a…from longtake.studio
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