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Everything is priced in credits. Your plan includes a monthly allowance; see fastdrop.io/developers for plan prices. Two rules apply everywhere, and they are the ones worth knowing before the tables:
  • Failed work costs nothing.
  • Quotes are shown before anything runs.

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Per video

Checking readiness first costs a tenth of a classify-and-transcribe run on the same video, and the footage that fails the check is the footage that would have wasted the whole run.

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Fixing a video

Fixes are priced by output duration and resolution, because that is what they cost us. Duration is billed in whole minutes, rounded up, with a minimum of one. The tier is keyed on the shortest side of the output, so a vertical 1080×1920 clip is priced as HD like its landscape twin. Turning the phone does not change the bill. Examples A fix includes the readiness check it is based on. You are not billed for that separately, and you do not need to run it yourself first.

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Failed fixes cost nothing

All three ways a fix can fail are free: the transcode failing, it never finishing, and it finishing but not passing verification. The third is the one worth calling out — if a file comes back and we cannot show it is what was prescribed, you are not charged for it, and you still get the report saying why. This is a property of the job rather than a refund you request. credits_charged on a failed fix reads 0.

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Batch processing

Batches are priced per video at the same rates, with volume discounts applied automatically. Call GET /api/v1/batch/pricing/tiers for the current ladder.

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Trying it for nothing

GET /api/v1/samples lists two videos we host that are broken on purpose. Checking and fixing those costs no credits at all — not deducted from your free tier, not deducted from anything. The quote still comes back, so you can see what the same work would cost on your own footage.

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Free tier

Signing up gives you 100 credits a month, no card required. That is 100 readiness checks, 50 classifications, or roughly 50 minutes of HD fixes.

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Checking your balance

GET /api/v1/usage returns your remaining credits and this month’s consumption by capability. Every response that costs credits reports credits_charged, so you can reconcile against your own records without trusting a running total.