Why doesn't Arcads show its pricing publicly?

Arcads has no public pricing page: arcads.ai/pricing returns a 404 error, and plan prices are only visible after creating an account. Arcads has not stated a reason. The only first-party pricing information Arcads publishes is a help-center article listing how many credits each video type consumes, without saying what the credits cost in dollars.

How many credits does a video cost on Arcads?

Per Arcads' own help center: AI talking actor videos cost 800 credits per minute of video per actor. Veo 3.1 costs 800 credits flat per video. Sora 2 costs 240-1,200 credits. Kling 3.0 costs 176-560 credits. Kling 2.6 costs 240-400 credits. Seedance 2.0 costs 96-1,620 credits depending on resolution. Add-ons: captions 80 credits, actor replace 800 credits, upscaling 80 credits per 10 seconds.

How much is one Arcads video in dollars?

Using the reported Creator plan price of about $220/month for 16,000 credits (unofficial, since Arcads publishes no prices), one credit works out to roughly 1.4 cents. That puts a one-minute talking actor video or a Veo 3.1 video (800 credits) at roughly $11, a Kling 2.6 video at roughly $3.30-5.50, a Kling 3.0 video at roughly $2.40-7.70, and a Sora 2 video at roughly $3.30-16.50. On the reported $110 Starter plan, Arcads is reported to include about 10 videos, roughly $11 per video.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Arcads?

Yes. UGC Vids AI starts at $49/month for 5,000 credits, roughly 20 videos, with the same headline models (Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Kling 3.0, Kling 2.6, Seedance 2.0). On a like-for-like model basis, a Veo 3.1 video costs about $2.40 on UGC Vids AI's Starter plan versus roughly $11 on Arcads' reported Creator plan, and the entry price is $49 versus a reported ~$110. Arcads remains the category leader with respected output quality, so the trade-off is price and testing volume rather than model access.

Does Arcads charge extra for captions and upscaling?

Yes, per Arcads' help center these are separate credit charges: captions cost 80 credits, replacing the actor in a video costs 800 credits, and upscaling costs 80 credits per 10 seconds of video. At the reported Creator plan rate of roughly 1.4 cents per credit, that is about $1.10 for captions, $11 for an actor replace, and $1.10 per 10 seconds of upscaling, on top of the base video generation cost.

How Much Does Arcads Cost in 2026? (Real Numbers)

Quick answer: Arcads does not publish pricing. Its pricing page (arcads.ai/pricing) returns a 404, and prices only appear after you sign up. Third-party reports put plans at roughly $110/month for Starter (about 10 videos) and roughly $220/month for Creator(16,000 credits). Arcads' own help center does list credit costs per video: talking actors run 800 credits per minute per actor, Veo 3.1 is 800 credits flat, Sora 2 runs 240-1,200, Kling 3.0 runs 176-560, Kling 2.6 runs 240-400, and Seedance 2.0 runs 96-1,620 by resolution. At the reported Creator rate, that works out to roughly $11 per talking-actor minute or Veo 3.1 video. The rest of this post shows the full math.

Why you can't find Arcads pricing anywhere

Search "Arcads pricing" and you hit a wall. The URL you would expect, arcads.ai/pricing, literally returns a 404 error (checked July 2026). There is no pricing link in the site navigation. Plan prices only become visible once you create an account. Arcads has not said why.

To be fair to them: Arcads is the category leader in AI UGC, their output quality is genuinely respected by performance marketers, and hiding pricing is a common move for products that sell on quality rather than price. But if you are budgeting an ad creative stack, "sign up to find out" is not a useful answer. So here is everything that is actually knowable, with clear labels on what comes from Arcads directly versus third parties.

What Arcads' own help docs say each video costs

The one piece of pricing Arcads does publish is a help-center article (intercom.help/arcads, their first-party support docs, fetched July 2026) listing how many credits each generation type consumes. These numbers are official:

Generation type	Arcads credit cost
AI talking actor video	800 credits per minute, per actor
Veo 3.1	800 credits flat
Sora 2	240-1,200 credits
Kling 3.0	176-560 credits
Kling 2.6	240-400 credits
Seedance 2.0	96-1,620 credits (by resolution)
Captions	80 credits
Actor replace	800 credits
Upscale	80 credits per 10 seconds

Note the add-on lines. Captions, actor replacement, and upscaling are all billed separately on top of the base generation, which matters when you estimate a real per-finished-ad cost rather than a per-generation cost.

What the plans reportedly cost (unofficial)

Since Arcads publishes no dollar prices, plan pricing comes from third parties who signed up and reported what they saw. Treat these as reported, not official, and expect they may have changed:

Plan (reported)	Reported price	Reported allowance	Source
Starter	~$110/month	~10 videos	eesel.ai (June 2026), superscale.ai
Creator	~$220/month	16,000 credits	eesel.ai (June 2026), superscale.ai

The reported Starter math is simple: ~$110 for ~10 videos is roughly $11 per video. The Creator math needs the credit table, which is the next section.

The per-video math on the reported Creator plan

At the reported ~$220/month for 16,000 credits, one Arcads credit works out to roughly 1.4 cents. Combining that rate with Arcads' official credit table gives estimated dollar costs per video. The credits column is official; the dollar column depends on the reported plan price, so treat it as an estimate:

Video type	Credits (official)	Est. cost (reported rate)
Talking actor, 1 minute, 1 actor	800	~$11
Veo 3.1	800	~$11
Sora 2	240-1,200	~$3.30-16.50
Kling 3.0	176-560	~$2.40-7.70
Kling 2.6	240-400	~$3.30-5.50
Seedance 2.0	96-1,620	~$1.30-22.30
Captions (add-on)	80	~$1.10
Actor replace (add-on)	800	~$11
Upscale (add-on)	80 per 10s	~$1.10 per 10s

A realistic finished ad on Arcads, one talking-actor minute plus captions, lands around 880 credits, roughly $12 at the reported Creator rate. The 16,000-credit Creator plan covers about 18 of those per month; heavier use of Veo 3.1 or high-resolution Seedance pulls that count down.

How that compares to UGC Vids AI

UGC Vids AI's Starter plan is $49/month for 5,000 credits, roughly 20 videos, and the pricing is public. Both products run the same headline models, so a like-for-like comparison is possible. UGC Vids AI numbers below are from our live credit table; Arcads estimates use the reported ~1.4 cents/credit Creator rate:

Model	Arcads (est.)	UGC Vids AI Starter
Veo 3.1 (8s, 1080p)	~$11 (800 cr flat)	~$2.40 (245 cr)
Sora 2 (4-12s)	~$3.30-16.50	~$0.78-2.40 (80-245 cr)
Kling 3.0 (5-10s, 1080p)	~$2.40-7.70	~$2.55-5.10 (260-520 cr)
Kling 2.6 (5-10s, 1080p)	~$3.30-5.50	~$1.23-2.55 (125-260 cr)
Seedance 2.0 (5-15s, 1080p)	~$1.30-22.30	~$3.09-9.31 (315-950 cr)

Honest reading of that table: it is not a blowout on every row. Kling 3.0 is roughly comparable, and the shortest 1080p Seedance clips are cheaper on the Arcads estimate. The big gaps are Veo 3.1 (800 credits flat versus 245, more than four times the dollar cost at the reported rate), Sora 2, Kling 2.6, and above all the entry price: $49 gets you in and covers roughly 20 videos, versus a reported ~$110 for roughly 10. For hook-testing volume, that difference compounds every month.

Two caveats in Arcads' favor: their talking-actor library and actor realism are the reason they lead the category, and if your workflow is one-minute actor scripts rather than short prompt-to-video ads, their 800-credits-per-actor-minute pricing is at least straightforward. For the full feature-by-feature breakdown, see UGC Vids AI vs Arcads, or the wider field in the best AI UGC tools of 2026.

So is Arcads worth it?

Arcads makes sense when: you want the largest, most battle-tested talking-actor catalog in the category, your ads are actor-script driven rather than scene-prompt driven, and a reported ~$110-220/month is inside budget. Quality is not the question with Arcads; nobody serious disputes it.

Look elsewhere when: you are testing many hook variants per week and per-video cost is the constraint, you want Veo 3.1 or Sora 2 output without the 800-credit flat rate, or you simply refuse to buy from a company that will not show you a price before signup. MakeUGC (from $59/month with a $1 trial) and UGC Vids AI ($49/month, public pricing page) both publish their numbers.

Want the same models without the mystery pricing? UGC Vids AI starts at $49/month, every credit cost shown before you generate. Or see how we stack up against Arcads and MakeUGC directly.