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  Exactly you caught the trick - snapgen.ai is not paying Google from its pocket for your free videos. It's using YOUR free quota. Here is how they do it: Google itself gives 3 free ways: Google Flow - 50 free credits / day = ∼90 videos / month free Google Vids - 10 free Veo generations / month built into Gmail account Google Cloud new account - $300 free credits = ∼125 Veo Fast videos free The 10 monthly generations include Veo 3.1, Google's current video generation model, which can be accessed directly within the Vids editor. Google Cloud offers $300 in free credits for new accounts, which can be used for Veo 3 API calls. There is no ongoing free tier When you click "Sign in with Google" on snapgen.ai, they call Google API using YOUR Google account token . So Google thinks YOU are using your free Flow/Vids credits, not snapgen. For snapgen, cost = $0. They just give you a nicer UI on top of Google's free tier. When free quota finishes - they start charging y...

  4. fal.ai and Replicate - only for video or any AI? for developers Both are mainly for generative media , not just video. fal.ai has 1,094 models across: image-to-image 347, image-to-video 151, text-to-image 149, text-to-video 102, video-to-video 125, text-to-audio 34 Replicate has ∼200 models. Both have: FLUX, SDXL, Kling, Veo, Wan, Sora, LTX, plus audio, 3D, lip-sync. They also have some LLMs, but if you need GPT-4/Claude they don't have it. In short: Use fal.ai / Replicate when you want ready API for image/video/audio - no setup. LTX direct API -- also free to use in local server --  https://snapgen.ai/  -- gives both Kling and google veo 3.1 for free 3. What is cheapest for video - fal vs RunPod vs LTX vs Google Flow? Here is real cost for 1 minute final video : Platform Cost for 1 min 1080p How it bills RunPod Serverless Flex 4090 (self-host LTX) $0.05 - $0.60 $0.00044/sec GPU time fal.ai LTX Fast $2.4 $0.04/sec video fal.ai LTX Pro $3.6 $0.06/sec video Google Fl...