Higgsfield alternatives in 2026: cheaper AI video tools for creators
Higgsfield is the AI video company everyone is talking about this week. On 11 November 2026 its chief executive, Alex Mashrabov, wrote on X: "In October we hit $1.35B." He was describing the company's annualized run rate, and it is the company's own figure. A tool that popular is not automatically the cheapest way to make your videos. This page lists what Higgsfield's pricing page showed on 12 November 2026 and four cheaper tools, each built for a different job, with prices we read on their official pages the same day.
By Fırat Papatya · Published · 7 min read
Affiliate disclosure: Kuponaut has partner links and codes with Hailuo AI, WayinVideo, Pictory and Autoclips and may earn a commission if you buy through the code pages linked below, at no extra cost to you. Kuponaut has no partner link or code with Higgsfield. Every price was read on the tool's own pricing page on 12 November 2026, in USD before tax; plans and promotions change, so check the total at checkout. We have not run our own side-by-side quality test of these tools.
What Higgsfield does and what it costs
Higgsfield is a subscription studio for AI images and video. One plan gives you credits to spend across many models: its pricing page names Seedance 2.5, Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 5.0 and GPT Image 2.6 among others, and the site menu adds its own tools such as Cinema Studio, Shorts and Ads Studio. That breadth is the reason to pay for it: you generate footage from a prompt or a reference image instead of editing video you already have.
On 12 November 2026 the pricing page showed three individual plans and an 11.11 sale that, according to the page, ends on 15 November. Starter was $15 a month on both monthly and yearly billing. Plus was $39 on monthly billing, renewing at $49, or $29 a month billed yearly. Ultra was $79 on monthly billing, renewing at $129, or $65 a month billed yearly. The page marks the yearly prices as a saving of $240 on Plus and $768 on Ultra, which puts the yearly bills at $348 and $780 (our arithmetic). Prices exclude VAT and local taxes.
Credits are what you are really buying. Starter includes 200 credits a month, which the page illustrates as 100 Nano Banana Pro images or 11 Seedance 2.0 Fast videos, and it opens selected models only. Plus includes 1,000 credits (500 images or 67 Seedance 2.5 videos) and Ultra 3,000 (1,500 images or 200 videos). At the regular $49 a month, 67 videos is about $0.73 a clip if every credit goes to video (our arithmetic). During the sale, Plus and Ultra also listed time-limited unlimited use of some models.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Credits a month | The page's examples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $15 | $15 a month | 200 | 100 Nano Banana Pro images or 11 Seedance 2.0 Fast videos |
| Plus | $39, renews at $49 | $29 a month (struck from $49) | 1,000 | 500 images or 67 Seedance 2.5 videos |
| Ultra | $79, renews at $129 | $65 a month (struck from $129) | 3,000 | 1,500 images or 200 Seedance 2.5 videos |
USD, before tax. Source: higgsfield.ai/pricing, individual plans, read 12 November 2026 during a sale the page says ends on 15 November. Business plans were not read.
Four cheaper tools, by the job you need done
Generating footage from a prompt is one job. Cutting a long video into shorts, turning a blog post into a video and running a faceless channel are different jobs, and the tools built for them charge by the source minute or by the video rather than by the model. If one of those is what you actually need, a general studio is the expensive route. The table compares the cheapest paid plan of each tool as its own pricing page showed it on 12 November 2026.
| Tool | Best for | Cheapest plan, billed monthly | Billed yearly | Free route | Kuponaut code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higgsfield | Generated images and video across many models | Starter $15 (200 credits) | Starter $15 a month; Plus $29 a month in the sale | Not listed on the pricing page | None |
| Hailuo AI | Generated clips from text or an image | Standard $10.50 (1,000 credits), shown as 30% off $14.99 | $8.40 a month ($100.80 a year) | One-time trial credits, Hailuo models only | KUPONAUT, extra 10% off the first subscription |
| WayinVideo | Long videos into short clips | Starter $15.99 (500 credits) | $5.58 a month (6,000 credits a year), shown as 65% off | Free plan, 100 one-time credits | KUPONAUT, 25% off the first payment |
| Pictory | Scripts and blog posts into video | Starter $29 (2,000 credits, 30 minutes of video) | Starter $25 a month; Professional $29.50 a month in the Black Friday offer | Free trial (our 25 Oct 2026 read) | KUPONAUT, 20% off |
| Autoclips | Automated faceless videos | Essential $29 (5,000 credits) | $17 a month ($204 a year) in the Black Friday offer | First video free, no card, watermarked | KUPONAUT, 10% off the first payment |
USD, before tax, read on each tool's own pricing page on 12 November 2026. Sale and Black Friday prices are the brands' own offers and can end without notice; the linked code pages carry the date of our last read.
Hailuo AI: the closest swap if you only want generated clips
Hailuo AI turns a text prompt or a photo into a short AI video using MiniMax's models. It is the nearest thing on this list to what most people open Higgsfield for, at a lower entry price: Standard was $10.50 a month on 12 November 2026 (shown as 30% off $14.99), or $8.40 a month billed yearly as $100.80, with 1,000 credits a month. The plan card estimates what those credits buy: about 143 seconds of 768P video with the MiniMax H3 model, or about 84 seconds at 2K. Paid plans also list access to Veo 3.1 and Sora 2 models.
Higgsfield still bundles more models and studio tools under one login, so Hailuo replaces the text-to-video and image-to-video part, not everything. Two rules to know before paying: membership credits expire each month, and Hailuo does not refund payments already made (its payment policy, read 22 October 2026). Kuponaut's partner code KUPONAUT takes an extra 10% off the first subscription purchase; it was accepted at checkout when we applied it on 4 November 2026. Every plan is on our Hailuo AI pricing page.
WayinVideo: if your raw material is long video
If you already record podcasts, streams, webinars or long YouTube videos, you do not need to generate anything. WayinVideo finds the strong moments in a long video, cuts them into vertical clips and adds animated subtitles in 100+ languages. One credit processes one minute of source video. On 12 November 2026 Starter was $15.99 a month for 500 credits, or $5.58 a month billed yearly with 6,000 credits for the year; Pro was $26.99 or $9.58, and Scale $139.99 or $69.99. The free plan gives 100 one-time credits.
Starter has moved: on 13 October 2026 we read it at $13.99 a month and $4.99 a month billed yearly. The pricing page says payments are nonrefundable and unused monthly credits do not roll over. Kuponaut's partner code KUPONAUT takes 25% off the first payment, which makes a first Starter month about $11.99 (our arithmetic). We applied it at checkout on 13 October 2026, when the yearly Scale plan went from $839.88 to $629.91. More detail is on the WayinVideo pricing page.
Pictory: if you start from a script or a blog post
Pictory builds a video from text. You paste a script or a blog URL, it picks stock footage, adds captions and an AI voice, and exports cuts for social platforms. Nothing is generated frame by frame, which is why it is priced by minutes of finished video. On 12 November 2026 Starter was $29 a month on monthly billing (2,000 credits, 30 minutes of video a month) or $25 a month billed annually. Professional was $59 on monthly billing.
The annual Professional plan carried a Black Friday offer: $29.50 a month, struck from $59, under a banner for 50% off Professional annual plans. Teams was $119 a month billed annually, struck from $199. No end date was shown. Kuponaut's partner code KUPONAUT takes 20% off; when we last applied it at checkout on 7 November 2026, the yearly Starter plan went from $300 to $240. We have not tested whether the code combines with the Black Friday price, so compare the total at checkout.
Autoclips: if you want a faceless channel that runs itself
Autoclips is content automation rather than clipping, despite the name: you give it a niche or a prompt and it writes the script, adds an AI voiceover, renders the visuals and can post to YouTube and TikTok. On 12 November 2026 Essential was $29 a month for 5,000 credits, which the page estimates at 12 to 50 videos a month depending on the style. Pro was $59 (12,000 credits) and Advanced $99 (30,000 credits).
Yearly plans were marked Black Friday, 40% off: Essential $17 a month, billed as $204 for the year. The pricing page's FAQ says the Black Friday price stays the same at each renewal, that a yearly plan is paid once while credits still arrive monthly, and that there are no refunds. The first video is free with no card and carries a watermark. Kuponaut's partner code KUPONAUT takes 10% off the first payment; it was accepted at checkout on 4 November 2026, and a reader's Advanced month went from $99 to $89.10 the same month. We have not checked it on top of the Black Friday yearly price. Every plan and top-up is on our Autoclips pricing page.
Which one should you pick?
Stay with Higgsfield if you need generated footage with a wide choice of models in one place: ad creatives, product shots, cinematic clips. If you buy during the sale, compare the two bills first: Plus is $39 and then $49 a month, or $348 for the year paid up front (our arithmetic).
Pick Hailuo AI if you only want to try text-to-video or image-to-video at the lowest monthly price. Pick WayinVideo if you already have long videos and want Shorts, Reels and TikToks out of them. Pick Pictory if you write first and need the text turned into video. Pick Autoclips if the goal is a faceless channel with as little manual work as possible.
Whichever you choose, start on monthly billing or the free route, check how many credits one real video costs you, and only then look at a yearly price. For a wider list, see our guide to the best AI video tools and the dated prices in the AI tool price index.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Higgsfield cost?
On 12 November 2026 its pricing page showed Starter at $15 a month, Plus at $39 a month renewing at $49 (or $29 a month billed yearly) and Ultra at $79 a month renewing at $129 (or $65 a month billed yearly). The page said its 11.11 sale ends on 15 November, so the sale prices may be gone when you read this.
What is the cheapest Higgsfield alternative?
It depends on the job. For generated clips, Hailuo AI Standard was $10.50 a month. For cutting long videos into shorts, WayinVideo Starter was $15.99 a month or $5.58 a month billed yearly, and it has a free plan with 100 one-time credits. Pictory Starter and Autoclips Essential were both $29 a month. All four prices were read on 12 November 2026.
Is there a Higgsfield promo code?
Kuponaut has no partner code or partner link with Higgsfield and does not list one. The discount we saw was Higgsfield's own 11.11 sale on its pricing page. For the four alternatives here the partner code is KUPONAUT; the terms differ for each tool and are listed above.
Do the KUPONAUT codes work with Black Friday prices?
Not tested. Pictory and Autoclips both showed Black Friday prices on yearly plans on 12 November 2026, and we have not checked whether the code combines with them. Enter the code at checkout and compare the total before you pay.
Related code pages
- Hailuo AI discount code — Tested at checkout November 4, 2026: Extra 10% off your first subscription purchase.
- WayinVideo discount code — Tested at checkout October 13, 2026: 25% off your first payment.
- Pictory discount code — Tested at checkout November 7, 2026: 20% off.
- Autoclips discount code — Tested at checkout November 4, 2026: 10% off on the first payment.
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