Key numbers
- Candy AI Shorts: 12 tokens (about $1.20) for an episode averaging 1:09, so about $1.05 a minute.
- The free Candy episodes by themselves run to about 5.6 hours.
- Candy's 5-second Scene Videos cost 12 tokens: about $14.40 a minute of generated footage.
- Other apps keep episode prices in their own currencies behind a login, so their per-minute cost is not public yet.
How we worked it out
We measured the length of episode 1 of every open Candy series straight from the video files: the average is 1:09, with the shortest at 0:45 and the longest just under two minutes. An episode costs 12 tokens, and a token costs about ten cents when bought in packs. Twelve tokens over 1:09 gives the per-minute figure. Creators episodes cost 30 tokens for the same length, two and a half times as much.
Generated video is a different product with a different economy: Candy's Scene Video makes five seconds of the moment you are in for 12 tokens. Per minute that is far dearer than watching a series, which is why series are the cheap way to watch and generation is the expensive way to customise.
The other apps
Secrets AI (Moments), DreamGF and OurDream AI (coins and dreamcoins) and the rest do not publish what an episode costs in dollars before you sign up. aiAllure is the exception in a different way: most of its one public series costs nothing. We will add each app's per-minute cost here once we have priced it from inside.
Links marked ↗ lead to the apps themselves, and most pay us if you sign up through them. That never moves a score or a number: see how we score.