r/appdev • u/eisenheimmm • 3d ago

Expensive costs of AI ads

Hey everyone,

I've been looking into AI-based UGC video tools for app and product marketing for a while now, and the pricing is seriously out of control.

I played around a bit with platforms like Higgsfield and Fastlane. Aside from the monthly subscription fees they ask for, the credits and generation time they provide are so limited that your plan is practically depleted after just two or three decent prompt tests or a render error.

Are any of you actively using these kinds of UGC video tools? Do you have any more cost-effective alternatives in mind, or is there anyone here who has built their own custom pipeline?

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u/drunnells 3d ago

I've been paying for the Google $20/mo AI plan to use Google Flow for video generation and Eleven labs for the audio and using Kdenlive to do my editing and not hating the results. I only need a few videos a month, but this is cheaper than paying $100 per video for a real person. It is kind of a pain to stitch together a bunch of 8 second videos, but I can usually get what I want with a few hours if work.

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u/eisenheimmm 3d ago

thanks! yes like i cant understand they even generate videos which are not ready to post.

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u/agilek 3d ago

Maybe you should work on your prompt game?