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Veo 2 Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026

A free tier reaches Veo 2 through Gemini, paid subscriptions run $19.99 to $249.99/mo, and the Vertex AI API is $0.50 per second of video.

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Veo 2 plans and pricing

High· Verified July 8, 2026

Free

Free Access

Free

Access to Gemini Advanced

Access to Veo 2 and the Flow video editor

2 TB Google cloud storage

NotebookLM Plus and creative AI tools

Gemini AI features in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet

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Plan

Veo 2 API

$0.5/request

Generate AI video from text prompts

High-quality output, up to 4K

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Plan

Google AI Pro

$19.99/mo

Access to Veo 2 model

Access to Flow editing tool

1,000 credits per month

Generate up to 50 Veo 3 Fast videos or 10 Veo 3 Quality videos per month

2TB cloud storage

Choose Google AI Pro

Plan

Google AI Ultra

$249.99/mo

Highest usage limits for Veo 2

Early access to Veo 3 model

Highest limits in Flow with 1080p video generation

Advanced camera controls

12,500 credits per month

Generate up to 625 Veo 3 Fast videos or 125 Veo 3 Quality videos per month

30TB cloud storage

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Veo 2 pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerHigh· Verified July 8, 2026

Veo 2 is billed two ways as of July 8, 2026: through the Vertex AI API at $0.50 per second of generated video, or bundled into Google's consumer subscriptions at $19.99/mo for AI Pro and $249.99/mo for AI Ultra, with a free tier that includes Veo 2 through Gemini. The API is a flat per-second rate, so the bill scales with every second you render, retries included. Worth knowing: Veo 2 is deprecated, ends June 30, 2026, and has no audio, so a new build should use the Veo 3 family.

Free AccessFree
Veo 2 API$0.50/request
Google AI Pro$19.99/mo
Google AI Ultra$249.99/mo

Run your numbers in the cost calculator: pick a plan, add your expected usage, and see the full monthly bill.

Free tier

Yes

Billing model

Freemium

Cheapest paid

$0.50/request

Annual discount

Not offered

At $0.50/mo to start, Veo 2 sits 97% below the $17/mo median across 12 ai video tools tools we track.

Veo 2 cost calculator

Veo 2 Hidden Costs & Pitfalls

What sits on top of the plan fee

The API's per-second rate is only the visible cost. Two Vertex behaviors and the shutdown date decide what you actually spend.

Per-second API billing

Vertex charges $0.50 per second of Veo 2 video, and the advanced controls like frame interpolation and camera moves bill at the same $0.50 rate. A single 30-second clip is $15, so a batch of ten test clips is $150 before you keep a single one. This is a throughput cost, not a flat fee, and it scales with every second you render.

$0.50 per second

Default multi-generation on Vertex

Vertex generates several videos per prompt by default, which quietly multiplies the bill. If the default returns four clips and you only wanted one, that 30-second prompt costs $60 instead of $15. Set the sample count to one before you run anything, or your first invoice will land well above what the per-second math suggested.

multiplies base rate

Deprecation and no audio

Veo 2 is API-only through Vertex, has no audio track, and shuts down on June 30, 2026. Anything you build on it has a hard expiry, and you will be re-platforming to Veo 3 or 3.1 anyway, where video-plus-audio starts at $0.40 per second. For a new project the honest move is to start on the successor rather than pay to build on a dead model.

end of life June 2026

The renewal jump, credit expiry and every discount worth having are in the Veo 2 true cost guide, with an email generator for negotiating team and enterprise rates.

Veo 2 Cost Analysis

Veo 2 pricing, read against its live plans and category

Checked against current plan data

Positioning

$0.50/moentry price

97% below the category median

low $0.05median $17 · n=12high $100

The gap between Google AI Pro at $19.99/mo and Ultra at $249.99/mo is the eye-catching part, and Ultra's $249.99 buys the high generation limits and 1080p output that serious work needs. The API tells a harder story: at $0.50 per second the sticker looks cheap, but the low hit rate of usable clips means the real cost per keeper runs much higher. Unless you already live in the Google Cloud stack, the retail tiers are a weak value for production video.

Cost drivers

1Multi-generation default: Vertex returns several videos per prompt unless you cap it, so expected charges can quadruple on the first run.
2Per-second scaling: costs climb at $0.50 a second, and a 30-second clip lands around $15 before retries.
3Resolution and controls lock: the top generation limits and advanced camera work sit on the $249.99/mo Ultra tier, not the standard Pro plan.

Watch-outs

The API billing has real traps. Default settings can fire off parallel generations and run up an unexpected bill, and users describe burning through budget on the many attempts it takes to get one usable clip. Veo 2 is also deprecated, with a June 30, 2026 shutdown, so it is not a model to standardize on.

Editor’s take

Casual users can experiment on the $19.99/mo AI Pro plan, but anyone touching the API should set hard budget alerts on Vertex first and cap the sample count. Given the June 2026 end of life, a new project is better off starting on Veo 3 or a live alternative like Runway than paying to build on a model that is already on its way out.

Oleh KemFounder & Lead Analyst

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 8, 2026

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